North American Foreign Missions 1810 1914

Author : Wilbert R. Shenk
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802824854

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North American Foreign Missions, 1810-1914 by Wilbert R. Shenk Pdf

The year 1810 marks the start of the North American foreign missions movement -- a movement begun with typical American enthusiasm and vigor but in need of practical grounding. This volume explores important facets of the development of North American foreign missions, paying particular attention to the role agencies like the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) played in shaping the theology, theory, and policy of evangelistic activities overseas. Written by leading experts on missions and religious history, this volume is distinguished by its focus on key events taking place at the home base rather than on happenings in the foreign mission field. In doing so, these insightful studies shed light on important yet neglected topics, including the impact of debates about slavery on foreign missions, the emergence of distinctive mission strategies for women, the role of the social gospel as a missionary ideology, and the contribution of foreign missions to the creation of a global evangelical network. Contributors: Alvyn AustinRuth Compton Brouwer, Wendy J. Diechmann Edwards, Janet F. Fishburn, Paul Harris, David W. Kling, Charles A. Maxfield III, Susan Wilds McArver, John F. Piper Jr., Dana L. Robert, Richard Lee Rogers, Wilbert R. Shenk, Carol Ann Vaughn. bThis excellent volume will command widespread attention not only for its display of scholarly expertise but for the fresh and revealing light it throws on the principal landmarks and major themes in the history of missionary expansion overseas.b -- Andrew Porter Kingbs College London

Author : American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1834
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89065737272

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Report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions by American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Pdf

Author : Foreign Missions Conference of North America
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Christian union
ISBN : OCLC:1180850858

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Conference on Co-operation and the Promotion of Unity in Foreign Missionary Work, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York January 12 and 13, 1914 by Foreign Missions Conference of North America Pdf

Author : Joel A. Carpenter,Wilbert R. Shenk
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620326428

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Earthen Vessels by Joel A. Carpenter,Wilbert R. Shenk Pdf

Contrary to popular impressions, the days of the missionary are far from over. North American churches send more missionaries than ever before, and 90 percent of them are evangelicals who are not affiliated with the mainline Protestant mission boards. The first major historical treatment of the distinctly evangelical wing of twentieth-century American missions, Earthen Vessels truly breaks new ground. Covering territory that missions histories have scarcely explored yet, the distinguished historians contributing to this volume portray the North American (including Canadian) evangelical missionary enterprise from the Student Volunteer Movement to the very recent past. The book traces the influences of premillennial eschatology, the fundamentalist-modernist controversies, the rise of independent missions and conservative denominational boards, the role of World War II and America's rise to world power, the recent development of a distinctly evangelical theology of missions, and the growing influence of the Two-Thirds World's evangelical leaders. While this volume certainly does not contain the last word on these subjects, in a number of areas it does offer very nearly the first look. With its fresh subject matter and new historical interpretations, Earthen Vessels will interest church history scholars and students, missionaries and ministers, and any others who wish to know more about American missions.

Author : Neil Thomas Proto
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780875867205

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The Rights of My People by Neil Thomas Proto Pdf

There were two battles for Hawaii's sovereignty led by Queen Liliuokalani. This book, The Rights of My People, revisits these battles - the 1893 coup d'etat and the annexation in 1898 - from a new perspective, against the backdrop of the harsh remnants of the Civil War, the missionary's disquieting view of race, and the emerging role of Hawaiian women. The Rights of My People explores the fate of the Crown lands, a quarter of the Hawaii islands, taken in the 1893 coup d'etat and contested aggressively by Liliuokalani through 1910. Woven into the story are threats of execution and assassination and the forces of bigotry, condescension, and deception she confronted. The events unfold in Honolulu, Hilo, San Francisco, Boston, and Washington, D.C. She challenged the United States before Congress repeatedly for complicity in taking the Crown lands. Finally, in the grandeur of what is now the Renwick Art Gallery, the United States Court of Claims heard and decided Liliuokalani v. United States of America.

Author : Foreign Missions Conference of North America. Committee of Reference and Counsel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Missions
ISBN : NWU:35556001606342

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Foreign Missions Year Book of North America 1919- by Foreign Missions Conference of North America. Committee of Reference and Counsel Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 843 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004429901

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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History Volume 16 North America, South-East Asia, China, Japan, and Australasia (1800-1914) by Anonim Pdf

Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History 16 is about relations between the two faiths in North America, South-East Asia, China, Japan and Australasia from 1800 to 1914. It gives descriptions, assessments and bibliographical details of all known works from this period.

Author : Burton St. John
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0656520779

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Foreign Missions Year Book of North America, 1919 (Classic Reprint) by Burton St. John Pdf

Excerpt from Foreign Missions Year Book of North America, 1919 The Foreign Missions Year Book of North America is issued to meet an oft expressed need for a volume which would bring together annually, for mention at least, the chief events and the main developments that have marked the missionary movement during the year. Recognizing the need for such a volume, the Foreign Missions Confer ence of North America at its meeting at Garden City in January, 1918, committed the question, with power, to the Committee of Reference and Counsel. After due investiga tion, this Committee charged its sub Committee on the Missionary Research Library in collaboration with the Director of the Statistical Bureau, Mr. Burton St. John, to prepare and issue such a volume. The present volume admittedly falls far short of the ideals of its editors. The fact that it is the first of the series, with all that this involves of unavoidable experiment; the further fact that the absorbing claims Of war service limited greatly the time which its editors could contribute to this labor of love; and, finally, the necessity of limiting the volume to certain dimensions of size because Of cost, - these all serve to explain limitations and imperfections, even deliberate omissions, which another year may help to remedy. The aim has been a world - wide survey of all of the main foreign missionary events and developments Of the year 1918. Yet, while world-wide in its outlook, the survey is intended to preserve an American viewpoint, emphasizing such facts as affect more vitally North American missionary interests and activities. Furthermore the desire to make the volume readable and to avoid the impression of a mere enumeration of events, has mad it necessary to sacrifice the mention of many most interesting although minor missionary events. As the volume went to press the first Of December, events Of that month could not be included. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : David J. Endres
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608990719

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American Crusade by David J. Endres Pdf

Perhaps no era in Christian history since the time of the apostles presented a greater challenge to the spread of faith than the twentieth century. The First World War in particular resulted in nearly disastrous losses for the world mission movement. Christian countries were engaged in fratricidal conflict, missionaries were forced to return to their homelands, and traditional sources of mission funding dried up.In response to the missions crisis, American Catholic youth devoted themselves to a program of "prayer, study, and sacrifice"--the Catholic Students' Mission Crusade. Beginning with less than fifty members, the movement grew to over one million youth, and worked to foster support for missionaries in the field, promote missionary vocations, and educate youth about the needs of the church throughout the world. In the course of their "crusade," the movement's youth were exposed the complexities and challenges of diverse religious, political, and cultural worlds, including illiteracy in rural America, communism in China and Eastern Europe, and famine and disease in sub-Saharan Africa. In light of this experience, as well as the Second Vatican Council's reformulation of the Catholic Church's approach to missions, by the late 1960s the movement began to question its goal of converting the world, leading to the Crusade's crisis of faith and eventually to its disbanding.By exploring the fascinating story of the Catholic Students' Mission Crusade, this study offers new insights into the growth of the church amidst contemporary obstacles and historically non-Christian cultures, providing a bridge to understanding the current challenges to Christian globalization.

Author : Kealani Cook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107195899

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Return to Kahiki by Kealani Cook Pdf

An important new analysis of Native Hawaiian efforts to construct relationships with other Oceanic peoples as missionaries, diplomats, and tourists.

Author : Gary Scott Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1613 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9798216046851

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American Religious History [3 volumes] by Gary Scott Smith Pdf

A mix of thematic essays, reference entries, and primary source documents covering the role of religion in American history and life from the colonial era to the present. Often controversial, religion has been an important force in shaping American culture. Religious convictions strongly influenced colonial and state governments as well as the United States as a new republic. Religious teachings, values, and practices deeply affected political structures and policies, economic ideology and practice, educational institutions and instruction, social norms and customs, marriage, and family life. By analyzing religion's interaction with American culture and prominent religious leaders and ideologies, this reference helps readers to better understand many fascinating, often controversial, religious leaders, ideas, events, and topics. The work is organized in three volumes devoted to particular periods. Volume one includes a chronology highlighting key events related to religion in American history and an introduction that overviews religion in America during the period covered by the volume, and roughly 10 essays that explore significant themes. These essays are followed by approximately 120 alphabetically arranged reference entries providing objective, fundamental information about topics related to religion in America. Each volume presents nearly 50 primary source documents, each introduced by a contextualizing headnote. A selected, general bibliography closes volume three.

Author : William Herbert Perry Faunce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Missions
ISBN : UCAL:B4748547

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The Social Aspects of Foreign Missions by William Herbert Perry Faunce Pdf

Author : John Blevins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351127486

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Christianity’s Role in United States Global Health and Development Policy by John Blevins Pdf

In recent years, the role of religion in influencing international health policy and health services provision has been seen as increasingly important. This book provides a social history of the relationship between religion and America's international health policy and practice from the latter 19th century to the present. The book demonstrates that the fields of religion and public health have distinct moral frameworks, each with their own rationales, assumptions, and motivations. While these two frameworks share significant synergies, substantial tensions also exist, which are negotiated in political contexts. The book traces the origins of religion’s influence on public health to the Progressive Era in the latter half of the 19th century, examines tensions that arose in the first half of the 20th century, describes the divorce between religion and international health from the 1940s through the 1980s, identifies the sources of the renewed interest in the relationship between religion and international health, and anticipates the future contours of religion and international health in light of contemporary political and economic forces.While the influence of religion on international health practice and policy in the United States serves as the focus of the book, the effects of US policies on international health policies in general are also explored in depth, especially in the book’s later chapters. This ambitious study of religion’s social history in the United States over the last 150 years will be of interest to researchers in global health, politics, religion and development studies.

Author : Mark J. Englund-Krieger
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781630878788

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The Presbyterian Mission Enterprise by Mark J. Englund-Krieger Pdf

American Presbyterians have a remarkable heritage of foreign mission work. While today the mission and ministry of the Presbyterian Church and all of mainline Protestantism is in a time of reformation and deep change, it is vital to remember this heritage of world mission. The Presbyterian Mission Enterprise tells this story by highlighting significant mission leaders through the ages. Our story includes Francis Makemie, a colonial-era missionary pastor and church planter who gathered with colleagues to form the first Presbytery in 1706. Tough, old-school Presbyterians like Ashbel Green insisted on a distinctive Presbyterian mission effort, and Presbyterians were among those who heard the call exemplified by William Carey to take the gospel to the whole world. This vision beckoned Walter Lowrie into leadership, and Presbyterians joined the great missionary movement. Robert Speer was a driving force behind this growing movement, negotiating a moderate path through bitter conflicts. After the traumas of World War II, John Coventry Smith worked to reconfigure and redirect the mission enterprise. Now, in an era marked by fragmentation and realignment, leaders like Clifton Kirkpatrick and Hunter Farrell work to continue the Presbyterian mission enterprise as a vital piece of the way forward. Our heritage guides our future.

Author : Thomas S. Kidd
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691186191

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American Christians and Islam by Thomas S. Kidd Pdf

In the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks, many of America's Christian evangelicals have denounced Islam as a "demonic" and inherently violent religion, provoking frustration among other Christian conservatives who wish to present a more appealing message to the world's Muslims. Yet as Thomas Kidd reveals in this sobering book, the conflicted views expressed by today's evangelicals have deep roots in American history. Tracing Islam's role in the popular imagination of American Christians from the colonial period to today, Kidd demonstrates that Protestant evangelicals have viewed Islam as a global threat--while also actively seeking to convert Muslims to the Christian faith--since the nation's founding. He shows how accounts of "Mahometan" despotism and lurid stories of European enslavement by Barbary pirates fueled early evangelicals' fears concerning Islam, and describes the growing conservatism of American missions to Muslim lands up through the post-World War II era. Kidd exposes American Christians' anxieties about an internal Islamic threat from groups like the Nation of Islam in the 1960s and America's immigrant Muslim population today, and he demonstrates why Islam has become central to evangelical "end-times" narratives. Pointing to many evangelicals' unwillingness to acknowledge Islam's theological commonalities with Christianity and their continued portrayal of Islam as an "evil" and false religion, Kidd explains why Christians themselves are ironically to blame for the failure of evangelism in the Muslim world. American Christians and Islam is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the causes of the mounting tensions between Christians and Muslims today.