The Church Mission Society and World Christianity, 1799-1999

by Ward, Kevin; Stanley, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780802838759
• ISBN10: 0802838758
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Summary

This volume marking the bicentenary of the Church Mission Society not only recounts the history of a major mission institution but also provides significant discussion about the meaning of mission and the expansion of Christianity worldwide. Written by a team of contributors from five continents, these essays throw light on the practice of cross-cultural mission in our contemporary world, making this book of value to anyone who is concerned with mission strategies today.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Diana K. Witts
Acknowledgments	xi
Contributors	xiii
List of Illustrations	xv
Abbreviations	xvii
Introduction	1	(14)
Kevin Ward
PART 1 THE CMS: HISTORICAL AND THEOLOGICAL THEMES
``Taking Stock'': The Church Missionary Society and Its Historians	15	(28)
Kevin Ward
The Church Missionary Society and the Basel Mission: An Early Experiment in Inter-European Cooperation	43	(23)
Paul Jenkins
The Role of Women in the Church Missionary Society, 1799-1917	66	(25)
Jocelyn Murray
CMS Women Missionaries in Persia: Perceptions of Muslim Women and Islam, 1884-1934	91	(29)
Guli Francis-Dehqani
Being Made Disciples --- The Middle East	120	(27)
Kenneth Cragg
PART 2 MISSION AND THE INDIGENOUS CHURCH
``Not Transplanting'': Henry Venn's Strategic Vision	147	(26)
Peter Williams
The CMS and the African Transformation: Samuel Ajayi Crowther and the Opening of Nigeria	173	(25)
Lamin Sanneh
Culture and Ecclesiology: The Church Missionary Society and New Zealand	198	(30)
Allan K. Davidson
India: Missionaries, Conversion, and Change	228	(26)
Geoffrey A. Oddie
The Role of Kikuyu Christians in Developing a Self-Consciously African Anglicanism	254	(31)
John Karanja
PART 3 CHANGING PERSPECTIVES ON MISSION IN BRITAIN
Mission and the Meeting of Faiths: The Theologies of Max Warren and John V. Taylor	285	(34)
Graham Kings
CMS and Mission in Britain: The Evolution of a Policy	319	(25)
John Clark
Afterword: The CMS and the Separation of Anglicanism from ``Englishness''	344	(9)
Brian Stanley
Bibliography of Printed Sources	353	(20)
Index	373