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The Church Mission Society and world Christianity, 1799-1999 / edited by Kevin Ward and Brian Stanley - Grand Rapid : Michigan : William B. Eedman publishing publishing company, c 2000 - xviii, 382 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm - Studies in the history of Christian missions . - Studies in the history of Christian missions .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-372) and index

Taking stock : the Church Missionary Society and its historians / Church Missionary Society and the Basel Mission / Role of women in the Church Missionary Society, 1799-1917 / CMS women missionaries in Persia / Being made disciples, the Middle East / Not transplanting : Henry Venn's strategic vision / CMS and the African transformation / Culture and ecclesiology / India : missionaries, conversion, and change / Role of Kikuyu Christians in developing a self-consciously African Anglicanism / Mission and the meetiing of faiths / CMS and mission in Britain / Kevin Ward -- Paul Jenkins -- Jocelyn Murray -- Guli Francis-Dehqani -- Kenneth Cragg -- Peter Williams -- Lamin Sanneh -- Allan K. Davidson -- Geoffrey A. Oddie -- John Karanja -- Graham Kings -- John Clark

"This volume, published to mark the bicentenary of the Church Mission Society, explores how an Anglican and originally English expression of Christianity took root in non-Western soil and developed a life of its own. Among other things, the book tells the harrowing story of CMS endeavors to spread the gospel in the Islamic Middle East and analyzes the immense but often-forgotten contributions of women and German Lutherans to the early history of the Society."--BOOK JACKET

ISBN: 0802838758 0802846793 0700712089

LCCN: 99041460

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Church Missionary Society--History

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Missions--Theory--History of doctrines--19th century
Missions--Theory--History of doctrines--20th century

LC Class. No.: BV2500 / .C48 2000

Dewey Class. No.: ARCH FRBC 266.3 W256C