Making evangelical missionaries 1789-1858
Subtitle: the social background, motives and training of the British Protestant missionaries to India
By: Stuart Piggin
Contributors: Bogue, David, 1750-1825; Buck, Charles, 1771-1815; Smith, Sydney, 1771-1845
Series: Evangelicals & society from 1750 -- 2; Evangelicals & society from 1750 -- 2.
Publisher: Sutton Courtenay Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: [Abingdon, Oxfordshire]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
Subjects: Evangelicalism; Registers; Missionaries; British Missions; History
Notes: Includes a list of missionaries to India recruited in Britain, 1789-1858.

Includes reprints of: Letter 1794 [called Missionary appeal on t.p.] / David Bogue. Originally printed as: To the evangelical dissenters who practice infant baptism. Evangelical magazine, 1794, p. 378-380 -- Sermon 1800 [called Philanthropic movements on t.p.] / Charles Buck. Originally printed as p. 24-41 of: Close of the eighteenth century improved. 2nd ed. London, 1816 -- Methodism and missions, 1808 [called Evangelical missionaries on t.p.] / Sydney Smith. Originally printed as p. 169-181 of: Indian missions. Edinburgh review, 1808.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-317) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The missionary movement in recent study, a preliminary survey; title: Social and economic influences on missionary candidates; title: The religious experience of prospective missionaries; title: The moderation of Calvinism in the churches; title: Home missions, ecumenism, & condemnation of idolatry; title: Missionary motives; title: Training: Congregationalists & Baptists; title: Training: Anglicans & Wesleyans; title: Training: Presbyterians; title: Training in teaching, medicine & Indian languages; title: Conclusion: Workmen who need not be ashamed; title: Appendices:; title: 1. Missionaries to India, 1789-1858; title: Missionary society secretaries, 1789-1858; title: Questions to LMS applicants; title: Theological training institutions c. 1780-c.1860; title: E.P. Thompson on Methodism.