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1 online resource (311 pages) |
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Studies in Christian Mission Ser. ; v. 1 |
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Studies in Christian Mission Ser
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THE IDEAL OF THE SELF-GOVERNING CHURCH; CONTENTS; Notes on Presentation; Abbreviations; Introduction; Acknowledgements; I The Ideal Defined: Henry Venn and the Emergence of the Independent Native Church as a Controlling Objective; The Forties: Objectives Defined; The Fifties: Objectives Refined; The Sixties: Objectives Confined; II The Ideal Expanded: Henry Wright and the Problems of the Seventies; James Johnson and the Native Pastorate in Sierra Leone and Lagos; South India, Native Church Councils and Bishops; The Ceylon Controversy and the CMS |
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West Africa: James Johnson and Bishop Samuel CrowtherIII The Ideal Threatened: CMS Policy in the Eighties; Compromise in Ceylon; Native Church Councils in Bengal; Native Church Councils in the Punjab and Sindh; The CMS and the Nippon Sei-Kokwai; James Johnson and the Yoruba Episcopate; The Parent Committee and the Niger, 1882-1888; Conclusion; IV The Ideal Undermined: The Niger, CMS and Indigenous Church Government, 1889-1894; G.W. Brooke and Changes in Direction; Confrontation and Compromise, February 1890-January 1891; Challenged by African and European Missionaries |
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The PC and the African Niger ChurchThe PC and the European Niger Missionaries; Securing a CMS Mission on the Niger; Conclusion; V The Ideal Replaced: Self-Government and a Native Episcopate Re-examined, 1895-1910; The Secretariat and Tinnevelly; The Centenary Review Committee and the Native Church; Redefining Native Church Organization; A Historical Retrospect; VI Ideals Compromised: CMS Policy towards the Niger and Uganda, 1894-1909; Defensiveness on the Niger; The Reassertion of CMS Influence, 1894-1898; The Elevation of James Johnson to the Episcopate |
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Retaining a Decisive Role for Mission in the Church of UgandaPre-1901 Memorandum Negotiations; Post-1901 Memorandum Negotiations; VII The Ideals in Retrospect; Appendix: Statistics of CMS Missionaries, ""Native"" Workers, including Clergy and Communicants, by Decades; Bibliography; Index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Venn, Henry, 1796-1873.
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| SUBJECT |
Venn, Henry, 1796-1873 fast |
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Church Missionary Society -- History -- 19th century
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Church Missionary Society fast |
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Indigenous church administration -- History -- 19th century
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Missions -- Theory -- History of doctrines -- 19th century
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Indigenous church administration
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Missions -- Theory -- History of doctrines
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004319837 |
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9004319832 |
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