Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?

Allen, Roland

ISBN 10: 0802810012 / ISBN 13: 9780802810014

Editore: Wm. B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, 1972

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Ex-library (church) copy with normal markings and attachments. Some minor text markings - underlining and/or margin notes on three pages - vii, 43 and 98. Binding is tight and solid. Edge wear creasing to spine from opening, thumb cease to front cover also. Spine scuffs; otherwise, copy is bright and clean. Foreword by Bishop Lesslie Newbigin, publisher's foreword by Kenneth G. Grubbs ated Dec., 1960. Author's preface forn 2ns edition dated Jan., 1927. 179 pages including Bible references index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Religion & Theology; ISBN: 0802810012. ISBN/EAN: 9780802810014. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 1561003897. As stated, 6th printing of American edition dated Aug., 1972.

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• Titolo: Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?
• Editore: Wm. B. Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
• Data di pubblicazione: 1972
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0802810012
• ISBN 13: 9780802810014
• Rilegatura: Softcover
• Condizione: Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Religion & Theology

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Riassunto

This study of Paul's missionary work focuses not on the apostle's doctrine or character but on the method by which he accomplished his task. Throughout, Allen compares Paul's methods to modern missionary methods; he concludes by suggesting some ways the apostolic method might be usefully employed today.

L'autore

Roland Allen (1868–1947) was an English missionary. He was born in Bristol, England, the son of an Anglican priest; but was orphaned early in life. He trained for ministry at Oxford and became a priest in 1893. Allen spent two periods in Northern China working for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. The first from 1895 to 1900 ended due to the Boxer Rebellion, during which Allen was forced to flee to the British Legation in Beijing. He was chaplain to community throughout much of the siege. After a period back in England, he returned to North China in 1902, but was forced home due to illness. These early experiences led him to a radical reassessment of his own vocation and the theology and missionary methods of the Western churches. Allen became an early advocate of establishing churches which from the beginning would be self-supporting, self-propagating, and self-governing, adapted to local conditions and not merely imitations of Western Christianity. These views were confirmed by a trip to India in 1910 and by later research in Canada and East Africa. It is with this background that Allen wrote his book Missionary Methods which was first published in 1912. Allen’s approach to Mission strategy for indigenous churches is based on the study of Saint Paul’s missionary methods as he is convinced that in them can be found the solution to most of the difficulties of the day. He believed it was the recognition of the church as a local entity and trust in the Holy Spirit’s indwelling within the converts and churches which was the mark of Paul’s success. In contrast was Allen’s belief that the people of his day were unable to entrust their converts to the Holy Spirit and instead relied in His work through them. His views became increasingly influential, though Allen himself became disillusioned with the established churches. He spent the last years of his life in Kenya, establishing a reclusive church of his own devising, centered on an idiosyncratic family rite. Allen died in Nairobi. His funeral was conducted by the Bishop of Mombasa and his gravestone can be found in Nairobi's City Park. A simple stone cross with the inscription on the pedestal reads: "ROLAND ALLEN, CLERK IN HOLY ORDERS, 1868-1947, I AM THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE SAITH THE LORD"