Abstract
July 2007 Alan Kreider is Associate Professor of Church History and Mission, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Indiana. For twenty-six years he was a missionary in England with the Mennonite Board of Missions. He is the author of The Change of Conversion and the Origin of Christendom (Trinity Press International, 1999) and editor of The Origins of Christendom in the West (Continuum, 2001). “V and mission” is a massive topic. Although we could approach the topic by studying Patrick in the West or the Church of the East (the so-called Nestorian Church) in the Far East, I concentrate here on violence and mission in the part of the “ecclesiastical cartography” that is best charted—the Roman Empire.1 What happened in the Roman world in the fourth and fifth centuries in violence and mission has had immense consequences for the subsequent history of the Christian church throughout the world, which I believe has specific lessons for us today.
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