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Methodists and their Missionary Societies 1760-1900 (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Methodists and their Missionary Societies 1760-1900 (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Routledge Methodist Studies Series
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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, together with a
companion volume on the 20th century, 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.
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