Evangelism in Augustine's Confessions: Ancient Light on a Contemporary Subject

Evangelism has been a preoccupation in many mainline denominations over the past twenty years or so. On one level, this may simply have been a panic reaction to declining numbers and the feeling that evangelism is one way to "get people back to church." My own church, the Anglican Church, was not untypical in proclaiming the 1990s a Decade of Evangelism.