Missionary primitivism and Chinese modernity : the brethren in twentieth-century China /

Missionary primitivism and Chinese modernity : the brethren in twentieth-century China /

In Missionary Primitivism and Chinese Modernity: the Brethren in Twentieth-Century China, David Woodbridge offers an account of a little-known Protestant missionary group. Often depicted as extreme and marginal, the Brethren were in fact an influential force within modern evangelicalism. They sought...

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Main Author: Woodbridge, David (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Series: Studies in Christian Mission; volume54.
Studies in Christian Mission Online, Supplement 2018, ISBN: 9789004363939.

Subjects:

Open Brethren > Missions > China.
Missions > China.
Plymouth Brethren > Missions > China.
Primitivism > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Christianity > Influence.
China > Church history.

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Call Number: BV3415.2 .W66 2019

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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Sources
  • Introduction
  • Living by Faith: Brethren Missionaries in the Modern World
  • 'So Far from This Land as China': the Primitivism of Watchman Nee
  • 'To the Uttermost Part': Reginald Sturt and the Evangelisation of the Mongols
  • Primitivism and Politics: the Echoes of Service Mission to Tibet
  • Missionary Primitivism versus Chinese Modernity: Fallout from the Withdrawal from China
  • Conclusion
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography
  • Index.