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041 _aeng
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_b.W26 1996
100 _aWalls, Andrew F.
245 4 _aThe Missionary Movement in Christian History :
_bStudies in the Transmission of Faith /
_cAndrew F. Walls
260 _aMaryknoll, N.Y. :
_bOrbis Books,
_c1996
300 _axix, 266 p.
_b;
_c23 cm.
505 _aThe 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.
650 _aMissions—Africa—History—19th century.Missions—Africa—History—20th century.Missions—Theory—History of doctrines.
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