| Methodists and Their Missionary Societies, 2-Volume Set Contributor(s): Pritchard, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1472409175 ISBN-13: 9781472409171 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $202.95 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2014 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Methodist - History | Modern - 20th Century |
| Physical Information: (3.49 lbs) 684 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Methodism played an important part in the spread of Christianity from its European heartlands to the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Pacific. From John Wesley's initial reluctance, via haphazard ventures and over-ambitious targets, a well-organized and supported Wesleyan Society developed. Smaller branches of British Methodism undertook their own foreign missions. This book offers an account of the overseas mission activity of British and Irish Methodists, its roots and fruits. John Pritchard explores many aspects of mission, ranging from Labrador to New Zealand and from Sierra Leone to Sri Lanka, from open air preaching to political engagement, from the isolation of early pioneers to the creation of self-governing churches. Tracing the nineteenth-century missionary work of the Churches with Wesleyan roots which went on to unite in 1932, Pritchard explores the shifting theologies and attitudes of missionaries who crossed cultural and geographical frontiers as well as those at home who sent and supported them. Necessarily selective in the personalities and events it describes, this book offers a comprehensive overview of a world-changing movement - a story packed with heroism, mistakes, achievements, frustrations, arguments, personalities, rascals and saints. |