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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Part 1. The transmission of Christian faith. World Christianity and the early church -- Origen, the father of mission studies -- Worldviews and Christian conversion -- Toward a theology of migration -- Globalization and the study of Christian history -- Part 2. Africa in Christian thought and history. The cost of discipleship : the witness of the African church -- A Christian experiment : the early Sierra Leone colony -- Christianity and the language issue : the early years of Protestant missions in West Africa -- The discovery of "African traditional religion" and its impact on religious studies -- Kwame Bediako and Christian scholarship in Africa -- Part 3. The missionary movement and the West. Missions and the English novel -- World parish to world church: John and Charles Wesley on home and oversea mission -- Missions and historical memory : Jonathan Edwards and David Brainerd -- Distinguished visitors : Tiyo Soga and Behari Lal Singh: in Europe and at home -- Western Christians in China : a chapter in a long history -- Building to last : Harold Turner and the study of religion -- Conclusion: The future of missiology : missiology as vocation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Christianity.
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Christianity. |
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Church history.
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Church history. |
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Missions -- History.
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Missions. |
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History. |
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RELIGION / Christian Church / History. |
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RELIGION / Christianity / History. |
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11.59 church history, history of doctrine: other. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Gornik, Mark R., editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Walls, Andrew F. (Andrew Finlay). Crossing cultural frontiers. Maryknoll : Orbis Books, 2017 9781626982581 (DLC) 2017014252 |
| ISBN |
1608337235 ) |
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9781608337231 (electronic book) |
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9781626982581 (paperback) |
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