Methodists and their Missionary Societies 1900-1996
Author:   John Pritchard ,  Professor William Gibson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   New edition
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9781472409140


Pages:   366
Publication Date:   10 January 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   John Pritchard ,  Professor William Gibson
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9781472409140


ISBN 10:   1472409140
Pages:   366
Publication Date:   10 January 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword; Preface; A new century: high hopes and ill omens; Changing patterns of missionary life; 20th century martyrs; Life at the mission house; Nurturing support; Mass movments and group conversions; Mens sana in corpore sano; Life-long learning; Vocation, selection, preparation; Methodist Union; Wider union: achievements and failures; Christian mission and the faith of others; The world at war; Autonomy and indigenization; Forced withdrawals and new beginnings; Do all the good you can; New name, new mood, new emphases; Struggles for justice; Moving on; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

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'I think this is an excellent volume ... The title alone makes this an essential text for anyone interested in the Methodist missionary movement. It is meant to be the definitive word on the subject, and I think it achieves this...' MET Connexion


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John Pritchard was the General Secretary, Methodist Church Overseas Division (MMS) from 1991 to 1996, having previously served as its Africa Secretary. He had been a missionary with the Methodist Church in Cote d'Ivoire - then a District of the British Methodist Conference - from 1966 to 1975, and was Secretary of the committee which drafted its constitution as an autonomous Church. In the 1970s he edited Urban Africa, a quarterly magazine published by the All Africa Conference of Churches. He chaired the interdenominational Friends of the Church in China for six years from 2000 and convened the Methodist Missionary History Project from its inception in 1994.

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