| Description |
xi, 246 pages 24 cm |
| Series |
Studies in the history of Christian missions |
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Studies in the history of Christian missions.
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| Contents |
1. Christian Missions and the Englightenment: A Reevaluation / Brian Stanley -- 2. The Eighteenth-Century Protestant Missionary Awakening in Its European Context / Andrew F. Walls -- 3. The British Raj and the Awakening of the Evangelical Conscience: The Ambiguities of Religious Establishment and Toleration, 1698-1833 / Penny Carson -- 4. Patterns of Conversion in Early Evangelical History and Overseas Mission Experience / D. Bruce Hindmarsh -- 5. Ethnology and Theology: Nineteenth-Century Mission Dilemmas in the South Pacific / Jane Samson -- 6. Civilization or Christianity? The Scottish Debate on Mission Methods, 1750-1835 / Ian Douglas Maxwell -- 7. "Civilizing the African": The Scottish Mission to the Xhosa, 1821-64 / Natasha Erlank -- 8. Christianity and Civilization in English Evangelical Mission Thought, 1792-1857 / Brian Stanley -- 9. Upholding Orthodoxy in Missionary Encounters: A Theological Perspective / Daniel W. Hardy |
| Summary |
"Christian Missions and the Englightenment concentrates on British Protestant missions and the formative role of the Scottish Enlightenment on such topics as education and the relationship between "conversion" and "civilization." After discussing the problematic nature of all attempts to define the Enlightenment, the book breaks new ground by setting the British missionary awakening in the context of its continental European predecessor. It includes regional studies of missions in India, the Cape Colony, and the South Pacific, as well as analyses of debates in Scotland and England over whether missionaries should first seek to "civilize" or whether conversion to Christianity offered the only sure route to "civilization." The volume concludes with a theological perspective on what it may mean to uphold Christian orthodoxy in mission encounters in an age no longer bounded by the horizons of modernity."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Missions - Theory - History of doctrines - 18th century |
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Protestant Chruches - Great Britain - Missions - History - 18th century |
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Protestant Churches - Scotland - Missions - History - 18th century |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-239) and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-239) and index |
| Subject |
Enlightenment.
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Protestant churches -- Missions -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century.
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Missions -- Theory -- History of doctrines -- 18th century.
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Protestant churches -- Missions -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century.
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| Author |
Stanley, Brian, 1953-
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| LC no. |
2001018479 |
| ISBN |
0700715592 |
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0802839029 |
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