Fray Servando Teresa De Mier: Writings on Ancient Christianity and Spain's Evangelism of Mexico

Author:   Gary Bowen
Publisher:   Movement Publishing
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9781513655772


Pages:   286
Publication Date:   23 March 2020
Format:   Hardback
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Fray Servando Teresa De Mier: Writings on Ancient Christianity and Spain's Evangelism of Mexico


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"Fray Servando Teresa de Mier (1763-1827) was a 31-year old ordained priest of the Catholic Dominican Order with a Doctorate of Theology, when he was invited by the Mexico City Council to offer a sermon December 12, 1794 at the Collegiate Church of Guadalupe, to honor the Virgin of Guadalupe tradition. Fray Servando Teresa de Mier: Writings on Ancient Christianity and Spain's Evangelism of Mexico translates Fray Mier's Spanish writings published in 1876 by Mexico's State of Nuevo Leon and the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon. The primary text is Fray Mier's ""Apologia,"" his defense of his Guadalupe Sermon with speeches to Mexico's First Constituent Congress. Dr. Mier states in his ""Apologia"" that his Sermon set forth two propositions: 1st that the Gospel of Jesus Christ had been preached in America centuries before Spain's conquest by Saint Thomas, whom the Indians called Santo Tomé, or Quetzacoatl in the Mexican language; and 2nd that the image of Tonantzin, Mother of the True God, given to be known to the Indians by Santo Tomé, was identical to that of the Virgin of Guadalupe. The Sermon caused Fray Mier to be accused of denying the Virgin of Guadalupe tradition, which triggered removal of his Doctor degree, Ecclesiastical suspension of his license to preach, imprisonment, exile, and Inquisitions for 27 years. Fray Mier's writings are authentic Mexican history. Sadly, it is hidden history that when cited, without research, has been called Christian myth. This is the first publication in English of Fray Mier's ""Apologia,"" in which he writes: ""If these things appear deliriums, they do not appear so much to those who have studied our antiquities."" Let's begin to study Mexican Christian antiquities!"

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Author:   Gary Bowen
Publisher:   Movement Publishing
Imprint:   Movement Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.576kg
ISBN:  

9781513655772


ISBN 10:   1513655779
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   23 March 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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The Spanish conquistadors arrived in the Americas in the late Fifteenth Century, thinking it was India. There they discovered the local inhabitants knew and worshiped Christ. Since legend said that the Apostle Thomas had gone to India, they accepted the Native Americans' beliefs and worked from them in their conversions to Catholicism. All that changed when Magellan's fleet circumnavigated the earth and Europeans realized that the Americans were an entirely different people. The conquistadors immediately began destroying all evidence of Christ's visit there -- with one notable exception: Friar Servando Teresa de Mier began his great collection of evidence that Christ did visit the Americas long before the Spanish arrived. In this book, Gary Bowen translates Fray Servando Teresa de Mier Spanish writings into English to give us a highly readable book with a full picture of Native American beliefs before the Spanish arrived. - Colleen Whitley, retired BYU Honors Adjunct Professor December 12, 1794, Fray de Mier, a young Catholic priest, gave a sermon that led him to be imprisoned in Mexico, then exiled. He lived 23 years as a refugee in Europe and in the USA before returning to Mexico at the time of Mexico's War of Independence. During these years he wrote what is called his Apologia, which is not an apology for what he said, but a legal defense. It was not published until 1856, twenty-nine years after his death. His main object in his sermon and subsequent Apologia was to defend his assertion that the people in the Americas were already Christian by the time that Columbus arrived. He writes that according to the unanimous testimony of early missionaries, monuments and vestige evidences of Christianity were found throughout the Americas. Spain's Virgin of Guadalupe was introduced by the Spanish conquistadors to replace the ancient Mexican mother of the true God, Tonantzin, thereby hastening the evangelism of the native American Christians to the European form of Christianity. Gary Bowen has done extensive research to be able to make these assertions. They are well documented and it is definitely worth your time reading, in well-translated English, the full text of Fray Mier's Apologia as contained in this book. - Deirdre Paulsen, retired BYU Honors Adjunct Professor


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