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1904 – European Christian Mission was founded in Estonia by J.P. Raud. Today it is known as European Christian Mission International. 1905 – Gunnerius Tollefsen is converted at a Salvation Army meeting under the preaching of Samuel Logan Brengle.
The ACMS recovered after the war and established a number of standing committees and service boards l, including the Christian Women's Board of Missions in 1874, a planning committee for the Foreign Christian Missionary Society in 1874, a Committee on Church Extension in 1883, a Board of Negro Education and Evangelization in 1890, a Board of ...
Peter Parker – missionary and doctor in 19th-century China; Ellen M. Stone - missionary, teacher, author remembered for the Miss Stone Affair; Arthur Henderson Smith – missionary and author, more than 50 years in China; Betsey Stockton – missionary to Hawaii; a freed slave who was one of the first American single women to go on a foreign ...
A Concise History of the Christian World Mission, Baker, 1982; Latourette, Kenneth Scott. A History of the Expansion of Christianity, 7 volumes, (1938–45), the most detailed scholarly history; MacCulloch, Diarmaid. Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years (2009) Moreau, A. Scott, David Burnett, Charles Edward van Engen and Harold A. Netland.
The Church Mission Society (CMS), formerly known as the Church Missionary Society, [1] is a British Anglican mission society working with Christians around the world. Founded in 1799, [2] [3] CMS has attracted over nine thousand men and women to serve as mission partners during its 200-year history. The society has also given its name "CMS" to ...
The history of the missions of the Society of Jesus or Jesuits in Ming and Qing China stands as one of the notable events in the early history of relations between China and the Western world, as well as a prominent example of relations between two cultures and belief systems in the pre-modern age.
Much Catholic missionary work has undergone a profound change since the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), and has become explicitly conscious of the dangers of cultural imperialism or economic exploitation. Contemporary Christian missionaries try to observe the principles of inculturation in their missionary work.
Broadly speaking, missiology is "an interdisciplinary field of inquiry into Christian mission or missions that utilizes theological, historical, and various social scientific methods." [ 2 ] It has historically focused on the missionary and evangelistic work of Protestant and Catholic denominations from Europe and North America into other ...