The Church Mission Society (Studies in the History of Christian Missions) - Hardcover

Stanley, Brian; Ward, Kevin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0700712089 ISBN 13: 9780700712083

Publisher: Routledge, 2000

Synopsis

The Church Missionary Society (now renamed the Church Mission Society) has been for most of its 200-year history the largest and most influential of the British Protestant missionary agencies. Its bicentenary in 1999 is being marked by the publication of this collection of historical and theological essays by an international team of scholars, including Lamin Sanneh, Kenneth Cragg, and Geoffrey A. Oddie. The volume contains re-assessments of the classic centenary history of the CMS by Eugene Stock and of the strategic vision of Henry Venn, one of the two architects of the Three-Self theory of the indigenous church. There are chapters on the close links between the CMS and the Basel Mission, women missionaries, and regional studies of Samuel Crowther and the Niger mission, Iran, the Middle East, New Zealand, India, and Kikuyu Christianity. The volume makes a major contribution to the growing body of literature on the indigenization of missionary traditions, and will be of interest to historians of the missionary movement and non-western Christianity, as well as theologians concerned with religious pluralism, dialogue, and Christian mission.

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Brian Stanley, Kevin Ward 

Review

'A stimulating book, helpful in considering issues which confront the church as it engages in mission at both local and national level.' - ANVIL

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0700712089
• ISBN 13: 9780700712083
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 400