Author: William Clifford HoldenPublisher:
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Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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A Brief History of Methodism
Author: William Clifford HoldenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Methodist Church
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
A Short History of Methodism
Author: John Wesley BoswellPublisher:
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Category : Methodism
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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William Taylor and the Mapping of the Methodist Missionary Tradition
Author: Douglas D. TzanPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1498559093
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
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.
Fortress Commentary on the Bible
Author: Margaret AymerPublisher: Fortress Press
ISBN: 1451489552
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1472
Book Description
The Fortress Commentary on the New Testament presents a balanced synthesis of current scholarship. The contributors bring a rich diversity of perspectives to the task of connecting solid historical critical analysis of Scripture with sensitivity to theological, cultural, and interpretive issues arising in our encounter with the text. The volume includes introductory articles, section introductions, and individual book articles that explore key sense units through three lenses: • The Text in Its Ancient Context • The Text in the Interpretive Tradition • The Text in Contemporary Discussion Comprehensive and useful for preaching, teaching, and research.
A History of Christian Missions in South Africa
Author: Johannes Du PlessisPublisher:
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Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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The history of...Methodism
Author: Abel STEVENSAn Age of Hubris
Author: Timothy KeeganPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813949181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
An Age of Hubris is the first comprehensive overview of the impact of missionary enterprise on the Xhosa chiefdoms of South Africa in the first half of the nineteenth century, chronicling a world punctuated by war and millenarian eruptions, and the steady encroachment of settler land hunger and colonial hegemony. With it, Timothy Keegan contributes new approaches to Xhosa history and, most important, a new dimension to the much-trodden but still vital topic of the impact—cultural, social, and political—of missionary activity among African peoples. The most significant historical works on the Xhosa have either become dated, foreground imperial-colonial history, or remain heavily theoretical in nature. In contrast, Keegan draws fruitfully on the rich Africanist comparative and anthropological literature now available, as well as extant primary sources, to foreground the Xhosa themselves in this crucial work. In so doing, he highlights the ways in which Africans utilized new ideas, resources, and practices to make sense of, react to, and resist the forces of colonial dispossession confronting them, emphasizing missionary frustration and African agency.
Livelihoods and Landscapes
Author: Paulus Gerardus Maria HebinckPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004161694
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Focussing on the past history and present day life of the people in two villages in the central Eastern Cape, South Africa, the book provides a vivid but detailed and insightful account of the transformation of rural society and economy since colonisation.
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Author: Black Methodists and White Supremacy in South Africa
Author: Daryl M. BaliaPublisher:
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Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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