William Taylor And The Mapping Of The Methodist Missionary Tradition

Author : Douglas D. Tzan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498559096

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William Taylor and the Mapping of the Methodist Missionary Tradition by Douglas D. Tzan Pdf

This book is the first critical biography of William Taylor, a nineteenth-century American missionary who worked on six continents. Following Taylor’s global odyssey, the volume maps the contours of the Methodist missionary tradition and illumines key historical foundations of contemporary world Christianity. A work of social history that places a leading Methodist missionary in the foreground, this narrative illustrates distinctive aspects and tensions within Methodist missions such as the importance of doctrines like universal atonement and entire sanctification, a deeply pragmatic orientation rooted in God’s providence, an embrace of both entrepreneurial initiatives and networked connection, and the use of revivalism for missionary outreach and leadership development. A Virginia native, Taylor became a Methodist preacher and missionary in California. This volume provides an important narrative account of Taylor’s career as an itinerant revivalist and popular author, in which he toured the eastern United States, the British Isles, and Australasia. Taylor’s participation in the South African revival made him an evangelical celebrity. The author also follows Taylor’s important visits to India and South America, where he initiated new Methodist missions in those contexts and pioneered the concept of “tentmaking” missions. In 1884, Taylor was elected missionary bishop of Africa by his church. By the end of his life, Taylor had recruited or inspired hundreds of Methodists to become foreign missionaries.

Author : Clive Murray Norris,Joseph W. Cunningham
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000928228

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The Routledge Companion to John Wesley by Clive Murray Norris,Joseph W. Cunningham Pdf

The Routledge Companion to John Wesley provides an overview of the work and ideas of one of the principal founders of Methodism, John Wesley (1703-91). Wesley remains highly influential, especially within the worldwide Methodist movement of some eighty million people. As a preacher and religious reformer his efforts led to the rise of a global Protestant movement, but the wide-ranging topics addressed in his writings also suggest a mind steeped in the intellectual developments of the North Atlantic, early modern world. His numerous publications cover not only theology but ethics, history, aesthetics, politics, human rights, health and wellbeing, cosmology and ecology. This volume places Wesley within his eighteenth-century context, analyzes his contribution to thought across his multiple interests, and assesses his continuing relevance today. It contains essays by an international team of scholars, drawn from within the Methodist tradition and beyond. This is a valuable reference particularly for scholars of Methodist Studies, theology, church history and religious history.

Author : Filipe Maia
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666793482

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Decolonizing Wesleyan Theology by Filipe Maia Pdf

What can movements for decolonization teach Wesleyan theology? This book faces this question to show that decolonial voices are reshaping the contours of Methodist and Wesleyan traditions. Contributors to this volume include theologians, pastors, and leaders in the Global South who are leading the people called Methodists to encounter the tradition anew in the radical spirit of decolonization.

Author : Charles Yrigoyen Jr.,Susan E. Warrick
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780810865464

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Historical Dictionary of Methodism by Charles Yrigoyen Jr.,Susan E. Warrick Pdf

In 2003, Methodists celebrated the 300th anniversary of the birth of their founder, John Wesley. Today, there are more than 300 Methodist denominations in 140 nations. Covering the activities of this group that plays an important role in the ecumenical movement through its many social and charitable activities in world affairs, this book offers more than 400 entries that describe important events, doctrines, and the church founders, leaders, and other prominent figures who have made notable contributions. It also includes: a list of commonly used acronyms, chronology of historical events, introductory essay on the history of Methodism, 15-page black-and-white photo spread, bibliography, listing of important libraries and depositories of Methodist materials. The impressive list of contributors includes more than 60 specialists who are academics, administrators, pastors, and theologians.

Author : William Taylor
Publisher : Pietist and Wesleyan Studies
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Evangelistic work
ISBN : IND:30000127998247

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Lessons of Infinite Advantage by William Taylor Pdf

In this book, William Taylor tells in his own words the story of a foundational episode in his life. Following his trial ministry as a Methodist circuit rider in his home state of Virginia and his service of pastorates in the historic North Baltimore Conference, William Taylor (1821-1902) was commissioned as a missionary to California at the beginning of the Gold Rush Era. His subsequent "seven years of street preaching in San Francisco" set the stage for a half-century missionary career during which Taylor championed self-supporting missions to every populated continent, funded by the publication of his widely-read books. Despite his prolific writing, none of Taylor's publications reveal the personal dimensions of his struggles or the day-by-day development of his missionary perspective. This early chapter in Taylor's career emerges for the first time with the publication of his journal, privately held by family members for over a century. The substantial journal chronicles five of Taylor's seven enterprising years (1849-1856) in San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, and the surrounding area, while offering a rich, first-person account of contemporary events written in Taylor's fine, narrative style. With this journal, readers may trace the genesis of Taylor's approach to self-supporting missions, including the development of his thinking on fund raising and his skepticism toward the possibility of a Christian use of money. A scholarly introduction, footnotes, and appendixes, together with several images, set Taylor's California experiences in historical context, while clarifying and explaining the journal's rhetoric, holiness doctrine, missionary strategies, and oblique references.

Author : Diana Junio
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004341760

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Patriotic Cooperation by Diana Junio Pdf

In Patriotic Cooperation, Diana Junio offers an account of a series of substantial social programs through collaboration between the Nationalist government and the Church of Christ in China that would be carried out by an organization known as the Border Service Department.

Author : Richard B. Steele
Publisher : Pietist and Wesleyan Studies
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:39015053162247

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"Heart Religion" in the Methodist Tradition and Related Movements by Richard B. Steele Pdf

These 11 essays trace the development of religions of the heart, especially in the United States. They trace the historical, social, and cultural dimensions of the German Pietists, the African-American tradition, the Holiness movement, and the experiences of women in American Methodism. They also consider the state of heart religion today, centering the discussion on issues like preaching, education, the passions, faith and grace, and orthopathy. Contributors include ministers, philosophers, theologians, and behavioral scientists. c. Book News Inc.

Author : William Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1953855733

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Seven Years' Street Preaching in San Francisco, California by William Taylor Pdf

Author : Margaret Reeson
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781921862984

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Pacific Missionary George Brown 1835-1917 by Margaret Reeson Pdf

George Brown (1835-1917) was many things during his long life; leader in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Australasia, explorer, linguist, political activist, apologist for the missionary enterprise, amateur anthropologist, writer, constant traveller, collector of artefacts, photographer and stirrer. He saw himself, at heart, as a missionary. The islands of the Pacific Ocean were the scene of his endeavours, with extended periods lived in Samoa and the New Britain region of todays Papua New Guinea, followed by repeated visits to Tonga, Fiji, the Milne Bay region of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. It could be argued that while he was a missionary in the Pacific region he was not a pacific missionary. Brown gained unwanted notoriety for involvement in a violent confrontation at one point in his career, and lived through conflict in many contexts but he also frequently worked as a peace maker. Policies he helped shape on issues such as church union, indigenous leadership, representation by lay people and a wider role for women continue to influence Uniting Church in Australia and churches in the Pacific region. His name is still remembered with honour in several parts of the Pacific. Browns marriage to Sarah Lydia Wallis, daughter of pioneer missionaries to New Zealand, was long and rich. Each strengthened the other and they stand side by side in this account.

Author : Goodsil Filley Arms
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1331477158

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History of the William Taylor by Goodsil Filley Arms Pdf

Excerpt from History of the William Taylor: Self-Supporting Missions in South America William taylor has never received the full measure of recognition that was his due. That wonder-working man, whose evangelistic tours left literally trails of fire in Australia, in South Africa, and in India, undertook also to carry the gospel to South America. Leaving New York with but little money and no knowledge of the Spanish language, he achieved the amazing record of traversing the Isthmus of Panama, and then, sailing down the west coast, he left behind him a series of schools wholly self-supporting. These schools, through varied experiences, have since come to be the centers of evangelistic influences and are to-day the strategic points of Methodist work all along the west coast of South America. 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 Hempton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300106145

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Methodism by David Hempton Pdf

Hempton explores the rise of Methodism from its unpromising origins as a religious society within the Church of England in the 1730s to a major international religious movement by the 1880s.

Author : George Gillanders Findlay,William West Holdsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Camp meetings
ISBN : UCAL:$B485014

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The History of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society by George Gillanders Findlay,William West Holdsworth Pdf

Author : John Haywood Paul
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:28013131

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The Soul Digger by John Haywood Paul Pdf

Author : Jean Usher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041007993

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William Duncan of Metlakatla by Jean Usher Pdf

"Duncan, William, lay missionary to the TSIMSHIAN (b at Bishop Burton, Eng 1832; d in Alaska 30 Aug 1918). Trained as a schoolmaster by the Church Missionary Society, Duncan came in 1858 to Fort Simpson, British Columbia. In 1862, during a devastating smallpox epidemic, he led several hundred natives to Metlakatla Pass sites, an ancestral Tsimshian village. Following in part the native [Aboriginal] church policy of Henry Venn, Secretary of CMS, he created a utopian Christian Indian settlement whose success and material prosperity attracted the Northwest Coast Indians. Duncan's ideas and methods were widely imitated and he received international recognition. But the division within the Anglican Church at Victoria brought a new bishop to Metlakatla, who challenged Duncan's authority, his reluctance to offer communion to converts and his emphasis on secular progress. A bitter schism divided the village and in 1887 Duncan and many Tsimshian created a second and independent Christian utopia at New Metlakatla, Annette Island, Alaska."--Canadian Encyclopedia.

Author : John Wigger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199741250

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American Saint by John Wigger Pdf

English-born Francis Asbury was one of the most important religious leaders in American history. Asbury single-handedly guided the creation of the American Methodist church, which became the largest Protestant denomination in nineteenth-century America, and laid the foundation of the Holiness and Pentecostal movements that flourish today. John Wigger has written the definitive biography of Asbury and, by extension, a revealing interpretation of the early years of the Methodist movement in America. Asbury emerges here as not merely an influential religious leader, but a fascinating character, who lived an extraordinary life. His cultural sensitivity was matched only by his ability to organize. His life of prayer and voluntary poverty were legendary, as was his generosity to the poor. He had a remarkable ability to connect with ordinary people, and he met with thousands of them as he crisscrossed the nation, riding more than one hundred and thirty thousand miles between his arrival in America in 1771 and his death in 1816. Indeed Wigger notes that Asbury was more recognized face-to-face than any other American of his day, including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.