By Revd Pritchard John
ISBN-10: 1138247510
ISBN-13: 9781138247512
ISBN-10: 1472409140
ISBN-13: 9781472409140
The 20th century observed the awesome progress of Christianity in a lot of the worldwide south, the transformation of challenge fields into self-governing church buildings, schemes of church union (some profitable, others abortive), evolving attitudes to different faiths and important Christian engagement with problems with racial justice and international poverty. This publication examines the contribution of the Methodist Missionary Society (and its predecessors sooner than 1932) to those world-changing pursuits, from the extraordinary mass conversions in south-west China and west Africa early within the century to the talk over offers to liberation activities within the Nineteen Seventies and 1980s.
Pritchard strains the MMS contribution to schooling, healthiness care, rural improvement and social welfare and describes the management of the Societies and the choice and education of applicants for missionary carrier. this can be a ground-breaking examine of Methodist out of the country venture within the 20th century, the way it adjusted to altering conditions - together with the pressured withdrawals from China and Burma - and constructed new tasks and partnerships, together with its global Church in Britain programme which introduced missionaries from the more youthful church buildings to serve in Britain and Ireland.
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