Missionary Principles : and Practice

Roland Allen

ISBN 10: 0718891708 / ISBN 13: 9780718891701

Published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd Aug 2006, 2006

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Neuware - A classic critique of conventional missionary principles that remains highly relevant for those involved in the Church's mission today. First published in 1913, Missionary Principles is a classic textbook by genre, but in its controversial evaluation of the Church's missionary theories, it is by no means wholly traditional. At the centre of this discursive study, Allen asserts the distinction which needs to be made in missionary aims between the extension of the Church and the preaching of Jesus Christ. The book is divided into four major chapters, entitled: The Impulse, The Hope, The Means and The Reaction. The impulse, hope and means of missionary work can all be embodied by Jesus Christ, who is viewed as the source, the end and the worker. It is always with this objective in mind that Allen guides the reader through Christ's wishes as to how the Word should be spread. In the final chapter, Allen examines the results of believing in the Holy Spirit's inspiration and the effects this has on the missionary's understanding of moral purpose and motive of missions, both at home and overseas. 'It is not the same thing to seek the manifestation of Christ in the growth of the Church, and [.] the effect of that upon all missionary work is most profound.'Extract from Chapter Two.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Missionary Principles : and Practice
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd Aug 2006
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0718891708
• ISBN 13: 9780718891701
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 216W x 140H x 7D millimeters 216 millimeters width by 140 millimeters height by 7 millimeters depth
• Weight: 136 grams

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Synopsis

A classic critique of conventional missionary principles that remains highly relevant for those involved in the Church's mission today.

First published in 1913, Missionary Principles is a classic textbook by genre, but in its controversial evaluation of the Church's missionary theories, it is by no means wholly traditional. At the centre of this discursive study, Allen asserts the distinction which needs to be made in missionary aims between the extension of the Church and the preaching of Jesus Christ. The book is divided into four major chapters, entitled: The Impulse, The Hope, The Means and The Reaction. The impulse, hope and means of missionary work can all be embodied by Jesus Christ, who is viewed as the source, the end and the worker. It is always with this objective in mind that Allen guides the reader through Christ's wishes as to how the Word should be spread. In the final chapter, Allen examines the results of believing in the Holy Spirit's inspiration and the effects this has on the missionary's understanding of moral purpose and motive of missions, both at home and overseas.

'It is not the same thing to seek the manifestation of Christ in the growth of the Church, and [...] the effect of that upon all missionary work is most profound.'
Extract from Chapter Two.

About the Author

Brian Stanley is professor of world Christianity and director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World at University of Edinburgh School of Divinity. An international authority on the missionary movement, he is the author of The History of the Baptist Missionary Society, 1792-1992 and The Bible and the Flag: Protestant Missions and British Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.