Name: Missionary Zeal And Institutional Control
SKU: 9780802860859
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Missionary Zeal And Institutional Control

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In the historical literature on mission, this book stands out for its detailed examination of the of the organization dynamics that gave shape-and brought enduring success-to the Evangelical Missionary Scoiety at Basel. A first-rate account of the early Basel Mission on the Gold Coast of West Africa (present-day Ghana), this volume takes readers inside the mission itself, revealing its dynamic, though sometimes contradictory, methods of motivation and discipline and how they impacted effective evangelism both at home and abroad. Working from archival records, Jon Miller details the collaboration across class lines that made the mission possible, and he shows how basic pietist beliefs about authority and obedience were the source of both the mission’s strengths and its most serious internal weaknesses. Also included are two dozen photographs, a foreword by Richard V. Pierard, and an afterword by Paul Jenkins.

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SKU (ISBN): 9780802860859
ISBN10: 0802860850
Jon Miller | Editor: R. E. Frykenberg | Editor: Brian Stanely
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: February 2003
Studies In The History Of Christian Missions
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.

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