Author: Miron WinslowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A Sketch of Missions, Or, History of the Principal Attempts to Propagate Christianity Among the Heathen
Author: Miron WinslowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A Sketch of Missions, Or, History of the Principal Attempts to Propagate Christianity Among the Heathen
Author: Miron WinslowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Panoplist, and Missionary Magazine
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
The Panoplist, and Missionary Herald
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description
Vols. for Jan. 1819-Dec. 1820 include a section called: Missionary herald.
I Am a Pilgrim, a Traveler, a Stranger
Author: John HubersPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498282997
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
In this book--part biography, part critical analysis--John Hubers introduces us to a man whose pioneering ministry in the Ottoman Empire has gone largely unnoticed since his memoir was penned in 1828, three years after his death in Beirut, by a seminary colleague. His name was Pliny Fisk, and he belonged to a cadre of New England seminary students whose evangelical Calvinism led them to believe that God was opening up a new chapter in the life of the Church that included an aggressive evangelism outside the borders of Christendom. Fisk and his friend Levi Parsons joined that effort in 1819 when they became the first American missionaries sent to the Ottoman Empire by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Hubers's intent is to show the complexity of Fisk's character while examining the impact his move to the Middle East made on his perceptions of the religious other. As such, this volume joins a growing body of literature aimed at providing critical, historical, and religious context to the often checkered history of relations between American Christians and Western Asian peoples.
A Supreme Desire to Please Him
Author: E.D. BurnsPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1498280269
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Adoniram Judson was not only a historic figurehead in the first wave of foreign missionaries from the United States and a hero in his own day, but his story still wins the admiration of Christians even today. Though numerous biographies have been written to retell his life story in every ensuing generation, until now no single volume has sought to comprehensively synthesize and analyze the features of his theology and spiritual life. His vision of spirituality and religion certainly contained degrees of classic evangelical piety, yet his spirituality was fundamentally rooted in and ruled by a mixture of asceticism and New Divinity theology. Judson's renowned fortitude emerged out of a peculiar missionary spirituality that was bibliocentric, ascetic, heavenly minded, and Christocentric. The center of Adoniram Judson's spirituality was a heavenly minded, self-denying submission to the sovereign will of God, motivated by an affectionate desire to please Christ through obedience to his final command revealed in the Scriptures. Unveiling the heart of his missionary spirituality, Judson himself asked, "What, then, is the prominent, all-constraining impulse that should urge us to make sacrifices in this cause?" And he answered thus: "A supreme desire to please him is the grand motive that should animate Christians in their missionary efforts."
The Christian Spectator
Author: The Quarterly Christian Spectator
Author: The Role of the American Board in the World
Author: Clifford PutneyPublisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1610976401
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was the country's first creator of overseas Christian missions. Founded in 1810 and supported by a coalition of Calvinist denominations, the ABCFM established the first American missions in India, China, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and many other places. It was America's largest missionary organization in the nineteenth century, and its influence was immense. Its missionaries established the first Western schools and hospitals in many parts of the world, and they successfully promoted women's rights and other ideals from the Enlightenment. They also transformed oral languages such as Zulu, Hawaiian, and Cherokee into written form, and they preserved many elements of premodern cultures (albeit not always intentionally). The contributors to this book provide valuable insights on the work of the ABCFM (which exists today under a different name). Some of the contributors profile the lives of notable ABCFM missionaries, others focus on ideological shifts within the Board, and still others chronicle the Board's role in historic events, including the Opium Wars, the colonization of Hawai'i, and the Armenian Genocide. From reading this book, people will come to understand why the ABCFM is widely viewed as America's most historically significant missionary organization. Table of Contents: Illustrations Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction The 1810 Formation of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions --Douglas K. Showalter The Great Debate: The American Board and the Doctrine of Future Probation --Sharon A. Taylor Commercial Philanthropy: ABCFM Missionaries and the American Opium Trade --Timothy Mason Roberts American Board Schools in Turkey --Dorothy Birge Keller and Robert S. Keller Dr. Ruth A. Parmelee and the Changing Role of Near East Missionaries in Early Twentieth Century Turkey --Virginia A. Metaxas From Brimstone to the World's Fair: A Century of 'Modern Missions' as Seen through the American Hume Missionary Family in Bombay --Alice C. Hunsberger David Abeel, Missionary Wanderer in China and Southeast Asia; With Special Emphasis on His Visit with Walter Henry Medhurst in Batavia, January-June 1831 --Thomas G. Oey Japanese Evangelists, American Board Missionaries, and Protestant Growth in Early Meiji Japan: A Case Study of the Annaka Kyokai --Hamish Ion Nellie J. Arnott, Angola Mission Teacher, and the Culture of the ABCFM on Its Hundredth Anniversary --Ann Ellis Pullen and Sarah Ruffing Robbins The International Institute in Spain: Alice Gordon Gulick and Her Legacy --Stephen K. Ault Early Nineteenth Century Missionaries to Hawai'i and the Salary Dispute --Paul T. Burlin Titus Coan: 'Apostle to the Sandwich Islands' --Donald Philip Corr Christianity Builds a Nest in Hawai'i --Regina Pfeiffer 'We will banish the polluted thing from our houses': Missionaries, Drinking, and Temperance in the Sandwich Islands --Jennifer Fish Kashay Domesticity Abroad: Work and Family in the Sandwich Islands Mission, 1820-1840 --Char Miller Afterword For Heaven's Sake --Char Miller Subject/Name Index
Expect Great Things
Author: Marvin J. NewellPublisher: William Carey Publishing
ISBN: 0878086889
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Expect Great Things is the most comprehensive collection of mission quotes, contemporary and classical, ever compiled in one book. Here you will find over 700 of the best mission quotes ever uttered by Great Commission Christians—250 different authors from Adoniram Judson to John Piper, from J. Hudson Taylor to David Platt. Read them for personal encouragement! Paste them on your website, blog, or other social media. Tweet them to a friend. Include them in sermons, speeches, newsletters, and lesson plans. Pass them on to others to encourage them along their way to Great Commission familiarity and commitment.