Christian Mission in the Twentieth Century

Offering an essential historical overview of the chief developments in Christian mission, this should become a standard textbook.

Timothy Yates (Author)

9780521565073, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 26 April 1996

292 pages
21.6 x 14 x 1.7 cm, 0.385 kg

'… a very helpful reference work'. Themelois Volume 23:1

As writing and specialist studies on Christian mission have proliferated, there has been a growing need for a single-volume overview of developments in this century. This widely-acclaimed book gives historical focus and perspective to mission by concentrating on the leading figures of each decade, beginning with the leading up to the Edinburgh Conference of 1910 and including treatment of the other great missionary conferences. German mission theory between the wars (1918–1939) is addressed, as are the writings of Roland Allen and D. J. Fleming. In Part II (1940–1990) the responses to the religious pluralism of the modern world, Hindu, Buddhist, Jew, and Muslim, which emerged before the conferences of 1939, are pursued through the writings of figures such as Stephen Neill and Kenneth Cragg, the documents of Vatican II, and the Lausanne Conference of 1974, concluding with the varied responses of writers such as John Hick and Leslie Newbigin.

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Part I. 1900–1940: Introduction
1. Mission as expansion 1900–1910
2. Mission as the church of a people (Volkskirche) 1910–1920
3. Mission appraised (1): 1920–1940
4. Mission appraised (2): 1920–1940
Part II. 1940–1990: Preface to Part II
5. Mission as presence and dialogue 1950–1960
6. Mission as proclamation, dialogue and liberation 1960–1970
7. Mission as proclamation and church growth 1970–1980
8. Pluralism and enlightenment 1980–1990
Appendix
Select bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: History of religion [HRAX]