Author: Rufus Anderson
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Author: Rufus Anderson
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Category : Congragational churches in the United States
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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Author: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
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Languages : en
Pages : 748

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Author: American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Meeting
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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Author: Emily Conroy-Krutz
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 150177400X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Missionary Diplomacy illuminates the crucial place of religion in nineteenth-century American diplomacy. From the 1810s through the 1920s, Protestant missionaries positioned themselves as key experts in the development of American relations in Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Middle East. Missionaries served as consuls, translators, and occasional trouble-makers who forced the State Department to take actions it otherwise would have avoided. Yet as decades passed, more Americans began to question the propriety of missionaries' power. Were missionaries serving the interests of American diplomacy? Or were they creating unnecessary problems? As Emily Conroy-Krutz demonstrates, they were doing both. Across the century, missionaries forced the government to articulate new conceptions of the rights of US citizens abroad and of the role of the US as an engine of humanitarianism and religious freedom. By the time the US entered the first world war, missionary diplomacy had for nearly a century created the conditions for some Americans to embrace a vision of their country as an internationally engaged world power. Missionary Diplomacy exposes the longstanding influence of evangelical missions on the shape of American foreign relations.

Author: John Haskell Hewitt
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Category : Missionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 702

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Author: Daniel H Bays
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817356401
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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This collection of 15 essays provides a fully developed account of the domestic significance of foreign missions from the 19th century through the Vietnam War. U.S. and Canadian missions to China, South America, Africa, and the Middle East have, it shows, transformed the identity and purposes of their mother countries in important ways.

Author: Jared Sparks
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Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.

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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 492

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Vols. for 1828-1934 contain the Proceedings at large of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.

Author: Wilbert R. Shenk
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN: 9780802824851
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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The year 1810 marks the start of the North American foreign missions movement -- a movement begun with typical American enthusiasm and vigor but in need of practical grounding. This volume explores important facets of the development of North American foreign missions, paying particular attention to the role agencies like the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) played in shaping the theology, theory, and policy of evangelistic activities overseas. Written by leading experts on missions and religious history, this volume is distinguished by its focus on key events taking place at the home base rather than on happenings in the foreign mission field. In doing so, these insightful studies shed light on important yet neglected topics, including the impact of debates about slavery on foreign missions, the emergence of distinctive mission strategies for women, the role of the social gospel as a missionary ideology, and the contribution of foreign missions to the creation of a global evangelical network. Contributors: Alvyn AustinRuth Compton Brouwer, Wendy J. Diechmann Edwards, Janet F. Fishburn, Paul Harris, David W. Kling, Charles A. Maxfield III, Susan Wilds McArver, John F. Piper Jr., Dana L. Robert, Richard Lee Rogers, Wilbert R. Shenk, Carol Ann Vaughn. bThis excellent volume will command widespread attention not only for its display of scholarly expertise but for the fresh and revealing light it throws on the principal landmarks and major themes in the history of missionary expansion overseas.b -- Andrew Porter Kingbs College London