A sketch of missions ; or history of the principal attempts to propagate Christianity among the heathen / Miron Winslow, 1789-1864

The cross-cultural process in Christian history : studies in the transmission and appropriation of faith / Andrew F. Walls

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A history of the expansion of Christianity reconsidered : assessing Christian progress and decline -- Christianity in the non-Western world : a study in the serial nature of Christian expansion -- From Christendom to world Christianity : missions and the demographic transformation of the church -- The Ephesian moment : at a crossroads in Christian history -- Africa in Christian history : retrospect and prospect -- African Christianity in the history of religions -- Africa as the theatre of Christian engagement with Islam in the nineteenth century -- Samuel Ajayi Crowther (1807-1891) : patterns of African Christianity in the nineteenth century -- The significance of Harry Sawyerr -- Carrying the white man's burden : some British views of the national vocation in the imperial era -- The Protestant missionary awakening in its European context -- The missionary movement : a lay fiefdom? -- The multiple conversions of Timothy Richard : a paradigm of missionary experience -- The Scottish missionary diaspora -- Missiologist of the road : David Jacobus Bosch (1929-1992).

Walls shows how the demographic transformation of the church has brought us to a new "Ephesian moment." The church is challenged as never before to become one global body with its many cultural and ethnic members contributing their gifts. Former patterns of domination need to be superseded. His seer's eyes probe beneath the surface to bring the readerinsights into Pentecostalism, African traditional religion, and the ironic ways in which the Western missionary movement often accomplished things--both for good and for ill--that its agents never dreamed of.

Introduction / Guy Poirier, Marie-Christine Gomez-Géraud et François Paré -- Stratégie missionnaire et casuistique: le sens du relatif dans la culture jésuite (XVI-XVII siècles) / Frédéric Tinguely -- Rabelais en Huronie: les paroles gelées, dégelées, regelées / Claude La Charité -- Confutatio alcorani et édification: les relations des missionnaires jésuites dans l'empire ottoman au XVII siècle / Laubna Khayati -- Un jésuite à la Chine: le pére Alexandre de Rhodes entre récit de pélerinage et mission / Anne-Sophie de Franceschi -- Le cicéronainisme jésuite: un pont entre l'Est et l'Ouest / Robert A. Maryks -- Le tropisme du martyre dans les relations jésuites en Nouvelle-France / Frank Lestringant -- Les 'morts précieuses' dans les écrits des jésuites de la Nouvelle-France: usages, valeurs et temporalité / Isabelle Lachance -- 'Nous avons esté fait un spectacel aux yeux du monde': performance, texte et création des martyrs au Canada, 1642-1652 / Timothy G. Pearson -- Réecritures hagiographiques: Jean-Joseph Surin et Mathias Tanner, lecteurs des relations jésuites de la Nouvelle-France / Adrien Paschoud -- Les relations du père Jean de Brébeuf en Huronie: écriture missionnaire et ethnographie / Yvon Le Bras -- Le discours missionnaire comme scénographie d'un échange imaginaire entre serviteurs du Christ et Indiens d'Amérique / Marie-Christine Pioffet -- Les livres que les missionnaires de la compagnie de Jésus ont apportés avec eux en Nouvelle-France écrire l'histoire d'une bibliothèque jésuite / Johanne Biron -- Écriture de mission, mission de l'écriture: la correspondance de Marie de l'Incarnation / Nathalie Freidel -- Enquête au Labrador / Pierre Berthiaume -- La Chine et la Nouvelle-France comme laboratoire du savoir: l'impasse du figurisme et la stratégie missionnaire jésuite / Andreas Motsch -- Nouveaux mondes (Mexique, Inde) et premières lettres missionnaires imprimées en langue française, 1532-1545 / Vincent Masse -- De la place de l'anecdote dans l'écriture missionnaire du XVI siécles: le modèle de saint François Xavier / Jean-Paul Bachelot -- De la lettre à la littérature? la légende des proto-martyrs japonais / Marie-Christine Gomez-Géraud -- Les récits de Jacques de Bourges au Siam et de Philippe Avril en Sibérie: deux explorateurs missionnaires en quête de la Chine / Ronald S. Love -- Le groupe de recherche sur les lettres du Japon / Guy Poirier et Hanna Wells.

The missionary movement in Christian history : studies in the transmission of faith / Andrew F. Walls

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The gospel as prisoner and liberator of culture -- Culture and coherence in Christian history -- The translation principle in Christian history -- Culture and conversion in Christian history -- Romans one and the modern missionary movement -- Origins of old northern and new southern Christianity -- The evangelical revival, the missionary movement, and Africa -- Black Europeans-White Africans: some missionary motives in West Africa -- The challenge of the African Independent Churches: The Anabaptists of Africa? -- Primal religious traditions in today's world -- Structural problems in mission studies -- Missionary vocation and the ministry: the first generation -- The western discovery of non-western Christian art -- The nineteenth-century missionary as scholar -- Humane learning and the missionary movement: 'the best thinking of the heathen' -- The domestic importance of the nineteenth-century medical missionary: 'the heavy artillery of the missionary army' -- The American dimension of the missionary movement -- Missionary societies and the fortunate subversion of the church -- The old age of the missionary movement.

"This book brings together lectures and articles by the renowned historian of world Christianity, making them available, many for the first time, to scholars and students of world mission. While examining the many aspects that have characterized mission, indigenous Christianity, and colonialism in modern Africa, The Missionary Movement in Christian History has a far broader reach. Essays such as "The Gospel as the Prisoner and Liberator of Culture" reveal the paradoxes of the Christian movement as a whole in discussing how different primitive Mediterranean Christianity is from early Catholicism, from Celtic monasticism, from Reformation Protestantism, and from Nigerian Spirit Christianity." "Andrew Walls shows how the central question for Christianity has always been one of identity in many different forms, a phenomenon revealed at each stage of its history by the missionary movement. What this means for theology, however, has hardly been explored. This is the subtext of Walls' work, providing extraordinary insights and successful counters to secular critiques of world Christianity."--Jacket.

two copies in JPW collection

Nos missionaries : patriotes et savants / par A.-A. Fauvel.