Three Centuries of Mission
The United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel 1701-2000
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2000
480 pages
978-1-4411-3552-0 (ISBN)
Description
A new and expansive official history of the USPG commissioned to mark the tercentenary in 2001. The first half tells a compelling global story from the mission to the Americas in the 18th century, through the North China Mission in the late 19th century to today's Social Development Programme in Bangladesh. There is a particular focus on the post-1945 period of decolonization, development and dialogue with other religions. The second half is a collection of essays that give a wide range of themes and perspective from a history of missionary wives by Deborah Kirkwood to a discussion of the evolving role of the church in Zambia by Musonda Mwamba.Three Centuries of Mission emphasizes the key instrumentality of the USPG in the emergence of a worldwide network of Churches in the Anglican Communion and their significance in the world at the beginning of the new century.
Reviews / Votes
"Britain's oldest missionary society, the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel celebrates its three-hundredth birthday this year. This beautifully illustrated history is a worthy birthday present."--Theology, Sept/Oct 2001 Reviewed in the International Bulletin of Missionary Research Highlights: "Not to be pigeonholed as an institutional history, this volume is a multi-layered essay on the relationships of mission, Western empires, and American, African, and Asian Christianity....[a] masterly account...a thought-provoking study...Anyone seriously interested in the missionary movement from the West should explore it." "'Buy one, get one free' applies to this exciting book of mission history as well as to supermarket offers. Daniel O'Connor's amazing two-year project of reshaping and updating the 300-year history of the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (part 1) is complemented by 14 perceptive essays by international scholars from various geographical and topical perspectives (part 2). The shape of the book thus combines the 'modern' advantages of one creative mind...with the 'postmodern' diversity of various authors".--Yes (Church Mission Society Magazine) April-June 2001 "This exceedingly well-planned and well-written book provides fascinating accounts of how the first specifically mission organization of the Church of England responsed to the dual task of serving white colonialists in the British Empire as well as forming missions among the indigenous peoples of America, Australia, Africa, South Asia, and beyond." --James A. Bergquist, Missiology: An International Review, April 2002More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-3552-0 (9781441135520)
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Daniel O'Connor
Three Centuries of Mission
The United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel 1701-2000
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11/2000
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
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Person
The Reverend Dr. Daniel O'Connor is Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is now retired after a career in the Church and in teaching. He is a former lecturer at St Stephen's, Delhi University, India.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Foreword
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part 1: The Society in changing times
- Section 1: The eighteenth century
- Prologue: a global perspective
- 1 The mission of an Ancient Regime Church
- 2 Thomas Bray's Apostolic Charity
- 3 Orthodox clergy, schoolmasters, two creditable white women and a surgeon
- 4 Red, black and white - the Society in mission
- Section 2: The nineteenth century
- 5 Greater Britain
- 6 The nineteenth-century Society
- 7 Mission in Greater Britain and beyond
- 8 'Our own hard study'
- Section 3: 1900-47
- 9 The Society 1900-47
- 10 'Atheists of empire'
- 11 'The new Tao'
- Section 4: 1947-2000
- 12 Decolonization
- 13 First, Second and Third Worlds
- 14 A new relationship
- 15 The Society's missionaries
- 16 The Society, the societies and the Church of England
- 17 The College of the Ascension
- 18 Ecumenism, theology and Third World theologies
- 19 Religions and dialogue
- 20 Regional issues: Latin America
- 21 Regional issues: Southern Africa
- 22 Regional issues: the United Kingdom and Ireland
- Epilogue: a Church in mission
- Part 2: Perspectives
- 1 Anglican mission among the Mohawk
- 2 Concurrence without compliance: SPG and the Barbadian plantations, 1710-1834
- 3 Parsons and pedagogues: the SPG adventure in American education
- 4 The SPG and the impact of conversion in nineteenth-century Tirunelveli
- 5 Supporting a colonial bishop and patriot: William Grant Broughton and the Society
- 6 Anglican tradition and mission: sources for mission methodology in the nineteenth-century Pacific
- 7 Wives of missionaries working with the Society
- 8 Building a home-grown Church
- 9 From medicine chest to mission hospitals: the early history of the Delhi Medical Mission for women and children
- 10 An archbishop for Greater Britain: Bishop Montgomery, missionary imperialism and the SPG, 1897-1915
- 11 Arthur Shearly Cripps
- 12 'Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands to God': the Order of Ethiopia and the Church of the Province of Southern Africa, 1899-1999
- 13 The evolving role of the Church: the case of democratization in Zambia
- 14 The Anglican Church in Ghana and the SPG
- Select bibliography
- Index
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