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Title Mission legacies : biographical studies of leaders of the modern missionary movement / edited by Gerald H. Anderson .. [and others]..

Publication Info. Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, [1994]
©1994

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  266.0092 M678M    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 654 pages ; 24 cm.
Series American Society of Missiology series ; no. 19
American Society of Missiology series ; no. 19.
Contents pt. 1. PROMOTERS AND INTERPRETERS. Charles Simeon, 1759-1836 : church loyalist and mission innovator / John C. Bennett -- Thomas Foxwell Buxton, 1786-1844 : missions and the remedy for African slavery / Andrew F. Walls -- Adoniram Judson Gordon, 1836-1895 : educator, preacher, and promoter of missions / Dana L. Robert -- Arthur Tappan Pierson, 1837-1911 : evangelizing the world in this generation / Dana L. Robert -- A.B. Simpson, 1843-1919 : from home missions to a world missionary movement / Gerald E. McGraw -- Frederick Franson, 1852-1908 : reaching peoples who still have not heard / Edvard Torjesen -- Pius XI, 1857-1939 : the missionary pope / Josef Metzler -- Helen B. Montgomery, 1861-1934, Lucy W. Peabody, 1861-1949 : Jesus Christ, the great emancipator of women / William H. Brackney -- Robert P. Wilder, 1863-1938 : recruiting students for world mission / James A. Patterson -- John R. Mott, 1865-1955 : architect of world mission and unity / C. Howard Hopkins -- William Owen Carver, 1868-195 4: mentor of Southern Baptist missionaries / Hugo H. Culpepper -- Ruth Rouse, 1872-1956 : missionary, student evangelist, ecumenical pioneer / Ruth Franzen -- Friedrich Schwager, 1876-1956 : trailblazing for Catholic missions and mission education / Karl Muller -- Florence Allshorn, 1888-1950 : we are made to love as stars are made to shine / Eleanor Brown -- W.A. Visser 't Hooft, 1900-1985: "no other name" / Lesslie Newbigin.
pt. 2. AFRICA. John Philip, 1775-1851 : standing for autonomy and racial equality / Andrew C. Ross -- Samuel Ajayi Crowther, 1807-1891 : foremost African Christian of the nineteenth century / Andrew F. Walls -- David Livingstone, 1813-1873 : awakening the western world to Africa / Andrew F. Walls -- H.P.S. Schreuder, 1817-1882 : friend of Mpande the Zulu chief / Olav Guttorm Myklebust -- William Wade Harris, ca. 1860-1929 : God made his souls a soul of fire / David A. Shank -- Donald Fraser, 1870-1933 : God's love and forgiveness in African terms / Jack Thompson -- Bruno Gutmann, 1876-1966 : building on clan, neighborhood, and age groups / Ernst Jaschke.
pt. 3. CHINA. W.A.P. Martin, 1827-1916 : promoting the gospel through education and science / Ralph R. Covell -- John Livingston Nevius, 1829-1893 : pioneer of three-self principles in Asia / Everett N. Hunt, Jr. -- J. Hudson Taylor, 1832-1905 : founder of the China inland mission / J. Herbert Kane -- Charlotte (Lottie) Moon, 1840-1912 : demonstrating "no greater love" / Catherine B. Allen -- Karl Ludvig Reichelt, 1877-1952 : Christian pilgrim of Tao Fong Shan / Notto R. Thelle -- T.C. Chao, 1888-1979 : scholar, teacher, gentle mystic / Winfried Gluer -- Francis X. Ford, M.M., 1892-1952 : Maryknoll pathfinder in China / Jean-Paul Wiest.
pt. 5. THEOLOGIANS AND HISTORIANS. Gustav Warneck, 1834-1910 : founder of the scholarly study of missions / Hans Kasdorf -- Roland Allen, 1868-1947 : "missionary methods" St. Paul's or ours?" / Charles Henry Long and Anne Rowthorn -- Robert Streit, 1875-1930, Johannes Dindinger, 1881-1958, and Johannes Rommerskirchen, 1899-1978 : bibliographers in the service of mission / Willi Henkel -- Joseph Schmidlin, 1876-1944 : pioneer of Catholic missiology / Karl Muller -- Pierre Charles, S.J., 1883-1954 : advocate of acculturation / Joseph Masson -- Kenneth Scott Latourette, 1884-1968 : interpreter of the expansion of Christianity / William Richey Hogg -- Johan Herman Bavinck, 1895-1964 : understanding religion in light of God's revelation / J. van den Berg -- Walter Freytag, 1899-1959 : the miracle of the church among the nations / Hans-Werner Gensichen -- Stephen Neill, 1900-1984 : unafraid to ask ultimate questions / Christopher Lamb -- R. Pierce Beaver, 1906-1987 : mission historian and builder of bridges / F. Dean Lueking.
pt. 6. THEORISTS AND STRATEGISTS. William Taylor, 1821-1902 : entrepreneurial maverick for the indigenous church / David Bundy -- Duncan Black Macdonald, 1863-1943 : preparing missionaries for the Muslim world / J. Jermain Bodine -- Wilhelm Schmidt, S.V.D., 1864-1954 : priest, linguist, ethnologist / Louis J. Luzbetak -- Daniel Johnson Fleming, 1877-1969 : a large heart in the narrow way / Lydia Huffman Hoyle -- Maurice Leenhardt, 1878-1954 : building indigenous leadership / Marc R. Spindler -- Frank Charles Laubach, 1884-1970 : apostle to the silent billion / Peter G. Gowing -- Hendrik Kraemer, 1888-1965 : biblical realism applied to mission / Libertus A. Hoedemaker -- Donald A. McGavran, 1897-1990 : standing at the sunrise of missions / George G. Hunter III -- Jakob Jocz, 1906-1983 : "to the Jew first" : first principles of mission / Arthur F. Glasser -- Alan R. Tippett, 1911-1988 : anthropology in the service of mission / Darrell L. Whiteman.
pt. 4. SOUTHERN ASIA. William Carey, 1761-1834 : Protestant pioneer of the modern mission era / A. Christopher Smith -- Claudius Buchanan, 1766-1815 : laying the foundation for an Indian church / Wilbert R. Shenk -- Henry Martyn, 1781-1812 : scholarship in the service of mission / Clinton Bennett -- Alexander Duff, 1806-1878 : western education as preparation for the gospel / Michael A. Laird -- Thomas Valpy French, 1825-1891 : intrepid adventurer for Christ among Muslims / Vivienne Stacey -- Lewis Bevan Jones, 1880-1960 : striving to touch Muslim hearts / Clinton Bennett -- J.N. Farquhar, 1861-1929 : presenting Christ as the crown of Hinduism / Eric J. Sharpe -- Ida S. Scudder, 1870-1960 : life and health for women of India / Dorothy Clarke Wilson -- C.F. Andrews, 1871-1940 : the most trusted Englishman in India / Eric. J. Sharpe -- V.S. Azariah, 1875-1945 : exponent of indigenous mission and church unity / Carol Graham -- A.G. Hogg, 1875-1954 : the Christian message to the Hindu / Eric J. Sharpe -- E. Stanley Jones, 1884-1973 : following the Christ of the Indian road / Richard W. Taylor -- J. Waskom Pickett, 1890-1981 : social activist and evangelist of the masses / John T. Seamands -- Paul David Devanandan, 1901-1962 : the church in society and nation building / Creighton Lacy -- D.T. Niles, 1908-1970 : evangelism, the work of disrupting people's lives / Creighton Lacy.
pt. 7. ADMINISTRATORS. Henry Venn, 1796-1873 : champion of indigenous church principles / Wilbert R. Shenk -- Rufus Anderson, 1796-1880 : to evangelize, not civilize / R. Pierce Beaver -- Arthur Judson Brown, 1856-1963 : believing in the power of the sovereign land / R. Park Johnson -- Robert E. Speer, 1867-1947 : affirming the finality of Christ / H. McKennie Goodpasture -- J.H. Oldham, 1874-1969 : from "Edinburgh 1910" to the world council of churches / Kathleen Bliss -- William Paton, 1886-1943 : a finger in every godly pie / Eleanor M. Jackson -- Karl Hartenstein, 1894-1952 : missions with a focus on "the end" / Gerold Schwarz -- Norman Goodall, 1896-1985 : pilgrim in missions and ecumenism / Paul Rowntree Clifford -- Charles W. Ranson, 1903-1988 : missionary, administrator, mentor -- with a global view / James K. Mathews -- Max Warren, 1904-1977 : disciplined intercession that embraced the world / F.W. Dillistone.
Note Articles originally published in the International bulletin of missionary research.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject Missionaries -- Biography.
Added Author Anderson, Gerald H.
Added Title International bulletin of missionary research.
ISBN 0883449641
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