01768nam a2200169Ia 4500 240426s9999 xx 000 0 und d 97815707505951570750599 eng BV2100 .W26 1996 Walls, Andrew F. The Missionary Movement in Christian History : Studies in the Transmission of Faith / Andrew F. Walls Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, 1996 xix, 266 p. ; 23 cm. The gospel as prisoner and liberator of culture -- Culture and coherence in Christian history -- The translation principle in Christian history -- Culture and conversion in Christian history -- Romans one and the modern missionary movement -- Origins of old northern and new southern Christianity -- The evangelical revival, the missionary movement, and Africa -- Black Europeans-White Africans: some missionary motives in West Africa -- The challenge of the African Independent Churches: The Anabaptists of Africa? -- Primal religious traditions in today's world -- Structural problems in mission studies -- Missionary vocation and the ministry: the first generation -- The western discovery of non-western Christian art -- The nineteenth-century missionary as scholar -- Humane learning and the missionary movement: 'the best thinking of the heathen' -- The domestic importance of the nineteenth-century medical missionary: 'the heavy artillery of the missionary army' -- The American dimension of the missionary movement -- Missionary societies and the fortunate subversion of the church -- The old age of the missionary movement. Missions—Africa—History—19th century.Missions—Africa—History—20th century.Missions—Theory—History of doctrines. 0 0 0 0 GETS GETS GEN 2024-04-26 0 BV2100 .W26 1996 00033666 2024-04-26 16:26:45 2024-04-26 BK 52794 52794