Patrick: A Missionary in the Early Church

[Lecture 1]
Introduction. [The video starts 4½ minutes into the introduction.]

The days in which Patrick lived.
Roman civilisation collapsing.
Extracting Patrick from much myth surrounding him.
His two extant writings.
The two phases of the early church.
Patrick's capture, conversion and escape.
His subsequent desire to take the gospel to the Irish.
Opposition and success.
The changing attitude to mission in the rest of the church.