The ideal of the self-governing church : a study in Victorian missionary strategy /

The ideal of the self-governing church : a study in Victorian missionary strategy /

It is part of current missiological orthodoxy that newly created churches should obtain independence from cross-cultural missionaries as soon as possible. It is not often realised that much Victorian missionary thinking shared that objective. This important new work examines the ideal of the self-go...

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Main Author: Williams, C. Peter.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; New York : E.J. Brill, 1990.

Series: Studies in Christian Mission 1.
Studies in Christian Mission Online, ISBN: 9789004322295.

Subjects:

Venn, Henry, > 1796-1873.
Church Missionary Society > History > 19th century.
Church Missionary Society.
1800 - 1899
Indigenous church administration > History > 19th century.
Missions > Theory > History of doctrines > 19th century.
Indigenous church administration.
Missions > Theory > History of doctrines.
History.

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Call Number: BV2082.I5 W54 1990

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material
  • THE IDEAL DEFINED: HENRY VENN AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE INDEPENDENT NATIVE CHURCH AS A CONTROLLING OBJECTIVE
  • THE IDEAL EXPANDED: HENRY WRIGHT AND THE PROBLEMS OF THE SEVENTIES
  • THE IDEAL THREATENED: CMS POLICY IN THE EIGHTIES
  • THE IDEAL UNDERMINED: THE NIGER, CMS AND INDIGENOUS CHURCH GOVERNMENT, 1889-1894
  • THE IDEAL REPLACED: SELF-GOVERNMENT AND A NATIVE EPISCOPATE RE-EXAMINED, 1895-1910
  • IDEALS COMPROMISED: CMS POLICY TOWARDS THE NIGER AND UGANDA, 1894-1909
  • THE IDEALS IN RETROSPECT
  • APPENDIX: STATISTIES OF CMS MISSIONARIES, "NATIVE" WORKERS, INCLUDING CLERGY AND COMMUNIEANTS, BY DEEADES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX.