Dominican missionary strategy separated demolishing error from expounding truth

Evidence

Martí did produce a diptych of texts for the evangelization of Muslims: De seta Machometi (composed before 1257) and the Explanatio symboli apostolorum (written in 1257). The differences between the two texts reflect the two phases of mission, according to the Dominican strategy: the De seta Machometi furnishes missionaries with arguments with which to attack Islam; and the Explanatio symboli apostolorum, with an explication of the truth of Christianity. First destroy error, then expound truth. — John V. Tolan, Saracens, 1193

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to other proselytizing two-phase strategies in the reader’s knowledge, e.g. the law merchant’s phase model or LDS missionary two-phase approach. — connects to: St Francis’s Rule institutionalised silent witness as a missionary method