The Missionary Movement from the West: A Biography from Birth to Old Age Walls Andrew F.
The Missionary Movement from the West: A Biography from Birth to Old Age Walls Andrew F. A long-awaited culmination of scholarship by a pioneer of missiology and global ChristianityThe history of the…
Specifikacia The Missionary Movement from the West: A Biography from Birth to Old Age Walls Andrew F.
The Missionary Movement from the West: A Biography from Birth to Old Age Walls Andrew F.
A long-awaited culmination of scholarship by a pioneer of missiology and global ChristianityThe history of the missions is complex and fraught. Highly esteemed scholar Andrew Walls explores every facet of the movement, including its history, theory, and future.Walls locates the birth of the Protestant missionary movement in the West with the Puritans and Pietists and their efforts to convert the Native Americans they displaced. Though modern missions began with European colonialism, the outcome was a largely non-Western global Christianity.
Missionaries must live on another culture's terms, and their goal--the establishment of churches of every nation--depends on accepting new, indigenous Christians as equals. Tracing the movement into the twentieth century, Walls shows how colonialism and missionary work turned out to be essentially incompatible. Now that Christianity