Evangelism

Tormod Engelsviken,Notto R Thelle,Knut Edvard Larsen's A Passion for China: Norwegian Mission to China until 1949 PDF

By Tormod Engelsviken,Notto R Thelle,Knut Edvard Larsen

Protestant Western project to China seeing that Robert Morrison arrived in Macao in 1807 till Mao Zedong’s Communist revolution 1949 has been debatable, no longer least in China. while the missionaries after 1949 have been expelled from China, the respectable chinese language historical past didn't go away them a lot honour. They have been considered as lackeys of Western imperialism propagating a faith that was once “feudal superstition” and which might finally disappear in a Communist society. but, this present day the view of the missionaries is altering in chinese language historiography. This e-book is an try to current a few elements of the many-faceted Norwegian Protestant undertaking to China in the course of the 60 years from approximately 1890 to 1949. one of the topics which are handled within the ten chapters are the heritage of missionaries and their motivation for undertaking to China, the private dating among the missionaries and the chinese language, missionary contributions to contextual chinese language preaching, liturgy and hymns, missionaries as tools of revival, and social justice and women’s rights. The booklet can be a tribute to the entire women and men who gave their lives to the project to China and to the hundreds of thousands of Christians of China who've continued in the course of challenging occasions till today.

Show description

Read Online or Download A Passion for China: Norwegian Mission to China until 1949 PDF

Similar evangelism books

Download e-book for kindle: Prophet's Handbook by Paula A. Price Ph.D.

The Prophet's guide info the jobs and tasks of the prophetic within the church and obviously explains its necessity. As an quintessential reference, this complete textual content is someth no church chief could be without.

Download PDF by Hans-Gerd Krabbe: Lesepredigten »außer der Reihe«: Für anlass- und

PrädikantInnen und LektorInnen finden in diesem Band fertige Lesepredigten zu wichtigen Themen und besonderen Anlässen – eine echte replacement für die, die nicht (immer) der Perikopenordnung folgen wollen. LektorInnen sind gehalten, nach Vorlagen zu predigen; die ausführlicher ausgebildeten PrädikantInnen müssen dies nicht tun, tun es aber gern.

How Christian Volunteers Can Respond to Disasters: Lessons by Jonathan E. Wilson PDF

After the big tsunami of 2011 hit the Pacific coast of Japan, the island confronted its maximum predicament because the finish of global warfare II. this can be the tale of the way the tiny Christian minority in Japan have been, within the phrases of worldwide Evangelical Alliance international Ambassador Brian Stiller, "punching above their weight", mobilizing hundreds of thousands of volunteers and thousands of greenbacks of reduction to ratings of devastated groups.

Download e-book for iPad: Millennial Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares: The Cold War by Angela M. Lahr

The spiritual correct got here to prominence within the early Eighties, however it used to be born in the course of the early chilly battle. Evangelical leaders like Billy Graham, pushed by means of a fierce competition to communism, led evangelicals out of the political barren region they might inhabited because the Scopes trial and right into a even more lively engagement with the $64000 problems with the day.

Extra resources for A Passion for China: Norwegian Mission to China until 1949

Sample text

Download PDF sample

A Passion for China: Norwegian Mission to China until 1949 by Tormod Engelsviken,Notto R Thelle,Knut Edvard Larsen


by Jason
4.5

Rated 4.84 of 5 – based on 15 votes