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A Good Neighbor Policy of the XVI Century: The Spanish Missionaries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 December 2015

David Rubio O.S.A.
David Rubio O.S.A.*
Affiliation:
The Catholic University of America
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I Dedicate this article to the so-called Indigenists and Apristas, who, perhaps with very good intentions, preach the return to Indian primitivism. They advocate this, in the first place, without ever having lived the life of the Indian and secondly, with complete forgetfulness that the only thing that made men of the Indians was the doctrine of the gospel of Christ and that the only ones who understood the Indians were the Catholic missionaries.

I also want to emphasize the long and special preparation the missionaries underwent before attempting the conversion of millions of Indians, a fact which has not been stressed sufficiently in the works dedicated to this subject.

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Research Article
Information
The Americas , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , July 1944 , pp. 67 - 78
Copyright
Copyright © Academy of American Franciscan History 1945

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