Nothing but Christ Rufus Anderson and the Ideology of Protestant Foreign Missions

by Harris, Paul William

• ISBN13: 9780195131727
• ISBN10: 019513172X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book examines the career of Rufus Anderson, the central figure in the formation and implementation of missionary ideology in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from 1832 to 1866, Anderson effectively set the terms of debate on missionary policy on both sides of the Atlantic and indeed long after his death. In telling his story, Harris also speaks to basic questions in nineteenth-century American history and in the relationship between American culture and the cultures of what later came to be known as the third world.

Author Biography

Paul W. Harris is Professor of History and Department Chair at Moorhead State University in Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Rufus Anderson and the Historiography of Missions	3	(10)
Indian Missions and the Puritan Legacy	10	(14)
Self-Denial and Civilization	24	(14)
Educational Ends and Means	38	(21)
Hard Times	59	(18)
The Abolitionist Attack	77	(19)
The Powers That Be	96	(16)
To Ordain Pastors over Them	112	(21)
The Deputation to India	133	(20)
Into History	153	(12)
Notes	165	(32)
Index	197