A New Vision for Missions : William Cameron Townsend, The Wycliffe Bible Translators, and the Culture of Early Evangelical Faith Missions, 1917-1945.

Cam Townsend is known as the visionary founder of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) and the Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT). Townsend revolutionized Protestant missions by emphasizing that missionaries needed to learn the language of the people to whom they were sent. This title features th...

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Main Author: Svelmoe, William Lawrence
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2008.
Series:Religion and American Culture.
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505 0 |a Contents; List of Illustrations; Note to Reader; 1. In Which Townsend Drops Out of College and Decides to Be a Missionary for a Year, 18961917; 2. In Which Townsend Shares His Faith, Battles Roman Catholics, and Learns about Indians, 19171918; 3. In Which the Reader Learns a Great Deal about Evangelicals and Faith Missions, While Townsend Takes a Wife, Builds a Cornstalk House, and Meets Some Important People, 19191921; 4. In Which the Central American Mission Finds Trouble, Trouble Everywhere and Dr. Becker Makes a Brief but Memorable Appearance, 19221924. 
505 8 |a 5. In Which Council Members Sail to Guatemala to Save the Mission, Mrs. Townsend Makes Some Practical Suggestions, and R.D. Smith Has Some Surprise Visitors, 192519286. In Which Townsend Makes Everyone Nervous with Another Wild Idea and R.D. Smith Has a Nightmare, 19291932; 7. In Which Townsend Mixes Science with Faith, Writes an Audacious Letter, and Recruits a Few Geniuses along with More Than a Few Girls, 19331945; 8. In Which. 
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