The nature of the influence of the European Enlightenment on the beliefs and practices of the Protestant missionaries who went to Asia, Africa, and the Pacific from the mid-eighteenth century onwards is attracting increasing interest and debate among scholars from a wide variety of disciplines. The late South African missiologist David Bosch claimed in his classic work Transforming Mission that the entire modern missionary enterprise is, to a very real extent, a child of the Enlightenment. The present volume, however, is the first to subject such a claim to detailed historical examination. Christian Missions and the Enlightenment concentrates on British Protestant missions and the formative role of the Scottish Enlightenment on such topics as education and the relationship between conversion and civilization. After discussing the problematic nature of all attempts to define the Enlightenment, the book breaks new ground by setting the British missionary awakening in the context of its continental European predecessor. It includes regional studies of missions in India, the Cape Colony, and the South Pacific, as well as analyses of debates in Scotland and England over whether missionaries should first seek to civilize or whether conversion to Christianity offered the only sure route to civilization. The volume concludes with a theological perspective on what it may mean to uphold Christian orthodoxy in mission encounters in an age no longer bounded by the horizons of modernity. Written by a team of renowned and emerging scholars, this book is destined to make an important contribution to the debate over what place remains for a universal Christian mission to a world that has repudiated the assumptions of European superiority and progress inherent to the Enlightenment.
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The theme of this volume is embedded in the language that is conventionally applied to the past two hundred years of Christian missionary activity. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
evangelical conversion narrative, western islanders, missionary consciousness, missionary encounters, evangelical public, mission theory, theological orthodoxy, introspective conscience, missionary movement, mission thought, theological criteria, evangelical missionaries, mission method, evangelical party, missionary society, evangelical revival, mission teachers Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Church of Scotland, Scottish Enlightenment, South Africa, New Zealand, John Ross, General Assembly, Sierra Leone, New Hebrides, Alexander Duff, Thomas Chalmers, Messengers of Grace, Samuel Marsden, London Missionary Society, Native American, New York, David Brainerd, North America, Civilizing the African, Early Evangelical History, Jonathan Edwards, Patterns of Conversion, George Hill, North Atlantic, Upholding Orthodoxy, British India New!
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Church of Scotland, Scottish Enlightenment, South Africa, New Zealand, John Ross, General Assembly, Sierra Leone, New Hebrides, Alexander Duff, Thomas Chalmers, Messengers of Grace, Samuel Marsden, London Missionary Society, Native American, New York, David Brainerd, North America, Civilizing the African, Early Evangelical History, Jonathan Edwards, Patterns of Conversion, George Hill, North Atlantic, Upholding Orthodoxy, British India New!
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- The Imperial Horizons of British Protestant Missions, 1880-1914 (Studies in the History of Christian Missions) by Andrew Porter in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Front Matter (3)
- Nature and the Godly Empire: Science and Evangelical Mission in the Pacific, 1795-1850 (Cambridge Social and Cultural Histories) by Sujit Sivasundaram in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Missions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire (Studies in the History of Christian Missions) by Brian Stanley in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility (Early American Studies) by Laura M. Stevens in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-Cultural Communication Since 1500 by Mr. Robert Eric Frykenberg in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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