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Author Walls, Andrew F. (Andrew Finlay)

Title The missionary movement in Christian history : studies in the transmission of faith / Andrew F. Walls.

Publication Info. Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books ; Edinburgh : T&T Clark, [1996]
©1996

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  266.009 W215M    Check Shelf
Description xix, 266 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The gospel as prisoner and liberator of culture -- Culture and coherence in Christian history -- The translation principle in Christian history -- Culture and conversion in Christian history -- Romans one and the modern missionary movement -- Origins of old northern and new southern Christianity -- The evangelical revival, the missionary movement, and Africa -- Black Europeans-White Africans: some missionary motives in West Africa -- The challenge of the African Independent Churches: The Anabaptists of Africa? -- Primal religious traditions in today's world -- Structural problems in mission studies -- Missionary vocation and the ministry: the first generation -- The western discovery of non-western Christian art -- The nineteenth-century missionary as scholar -- Humane learning and the missionary movement: 'the best thinking of the heathen' -- The domestic importance of the nineteenth-century medical missionary: 'the heavy artillery of the missionary army' -- The American dimension of the missionary movement -- Missionary societies and the fortunate subversion of the church -- The old age of the missionary movement.
Subject Missions -- History.
Missions -- Africa -- History -- 19th century.
Missions -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Missions -- Theory -- History of doctrines.
Christianity and culture.
Other Form: Online version: Walls, Andrew F. (Andrew Finlay) Missionary movement in Christian history. Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books ; Edinburgh : T&T Clark, c1996 (OCoLC)605216669
ISBN 1570750599 alkaline paper
9781570750595 alkaline paper
0567085155 (T&T Clark)
9780567085153 (T&T Clark)
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