The Church Mission Society

by Stanley, Brian; Ward, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9780700712083
• ISBN10: 0700712089
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-02-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Church Mission Society (CMS) has been one of the most influential Protestant mission agencies ever. Founded in 1799 as the Church Missionary Society, it combined evangelical zeal with a loyalty to the doctrines and disciplines of the Church of England. Through the work of the CMS, vibrant Anglican churches have come into being in such diverse places as New Zealand, India, Nigeria, and East Africa.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Contributors	p. xiii
List of Illustrations	p. xv
Abbreviations	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
The CMS: Historical and Theological Themes
"Taking Stock": The Church Missionary Society and Its Historians	p. 15
The Church Missionary Society and the Basel Mission: An Early Experiment in Inter-European Cooperation	p. 43
The Role of Women in the Church Missionary Society, 1799-1917	p. 66
CMS Women Missionaries in Persia: Perceptions of Muslim Women and Islam, 1884-1934	p. 91
Being Made Disciples -- The Middle East	p. 120
Mission and the Indigenous Church
"Not Transplanting": Henry Venn's Strategic Vision	p. 147
The CMS and the African Transformation: Samuel Ajayi Crowther and the Opening of Nigeria	p. 173
Culture and Ecclesiology: The Church Missionary Society and New Zealand	p. 198
India: Missionaries, Conversion, and Change	p. 228
The Role of Kikuyu Christians in Developing a Self-Consciously African Anglicanism	p. 254
Changing Perspectives on Mission in Britain
Mission and the Meeting of Faiths: The Theologies of Max Warren and John V. Taylor	p. 285
CMS and Mission in Britain: The Evolution of a Policy	p. 319
Afterword: The CMS and the Separation of Anglicanism from "Englishness"	p. 344
Bibliography of Printed Sources	p. 353
Index	p. 373
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