The Church Mission Society and World Christianity, 1799-1999 (Studies in the History of Christian Missions)
Contributors: Kevin Ward (Editor); Brian Stanley (Editor)
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: August 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780802838759
Subjects: Missions & Missionary Work; Theory; History of doctrines; Missions; Biography / Autobiography; Religious; Religion; 20th century; Christian Ministry - Missions; 19th century; Church Missionary Society; History
First sentence: When Eugene Stock came to write his great history of the Church Missionary Society in 1899, he was faced with an arduous task, but one that did not seem to offer insuperable problems of organization or presentation.
Description: "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.