The missionary movement in Christian history : studies in the transmission of faith

The missionary movement in Christian history : studies in the transmission of faith / Andrew F. Walls.

"This book brings together lectures and articles by the renowned historian of world Christianity, making them available, many for the first time, to scholars and students of world mission. While examining the many aspects that have characterized mission, indigenous Christianity, and colonialism...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walls, Andrew F. (Andrew Finlay)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books : T & T Clark, ©1996.
Series:Ebsco e-book purchased.
Subjects:
Missions > History.
Missions > Africa > History > 19th century.
Missions > Africa > History > 20th century.
Missions > Theory > History of doctrines.
Christianity and culture.
Electronic resources (E-books)
History.
Online Access:Click to view e-book
Holy Cross Note:This was purchased from Ebsco with an unlimited concurrent users license.
Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross community.
Table of Contents:
  • The gospel as prisoner and liberator of culture
  • Culture and coherence in Christian history
  • The translation principle in Christian history
  • Culture and conversion in Christian history
  • Romans one and the modern missionary movement
  • Origins of old northern and new southern Christianity
  • The evangelical revival, the missionary movement, and Africa
  • Black Europeans-White Africans: some missionary motives in West Africa
  • The challenge of the African Independent Churches: The Anabaptists of Africa?
  • Primal religious traditions in today's world
  • Structural problems in mission studies
  • Missionary vocation and the ministry: the first generation
  • The western discovery of non-western Christian art
  • The nineteenth-century missionary as scholar
  • Humane learning and the missionary movement: 'the best thinking of the heathen'
  • The domestic importance of the nineteenth-century medical missionary: 'the heavy artillery of the missionary army'
  • The American dimension of the missionary movement
  • Missionary societies and the fortunate subversion of the church
  • The old age of the missionary movement.

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