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A new vision for missions : William Cameron Townsend, the Wycliffe Bible translators, and the culture of early evangelical faith missions, 1896-1945 /
Cam Townsend is known as the visionary founder of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) and the Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT). Townsend revolutionized Protestant missions by emphasizing that missionaries needed to learn the language of the people to whom they were sent. This title features th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Note to Reader; 1. In Which Townsend Drops Out of College and Decides to Be a Missionary for a Year, 1896-1917; 2. In Which Townsend Shares His Faith, Battles Roman Catholics, and Learns about Indians, 1917-1918; 3. In Which the Reader Learns a Great Deal about Evangelicals and Faith Missions, While Townsend Takes a Wife, Builds a Cornstalk House, and Meets Some Important People, 1919-1921; 4. In Which the Central American Mission Finds Trouble, Trouble Everywhere and Dr. Becker Makes a Brief but Memorable Appearance, 1922-1924
- 5. In Which Council Members Sail to Guatemala to Save the Mission, Mrs. Townsend Makes Some Practical Suggestions, and R. D. Smith Has Some Surprise Visitors, 1925-19286. In Which Townsend Makes Everyone Nervous with Another Wild Idea and R. D. Smith Has a Nightmare, 1929-1932; 7. In Which Townsend Mixes Science with Faith, Writes an Audacious Letter, and Recruits a Few Geniuses along with More Than a Few Girls, 1933-1945; 8. In Which Townsend Goes Pioneering, Makes Some Strange Bedfellows, and Starts an Odd New Mission, 1935-1945
- Epilogue: In Which Townsend Decides Catholics Are Okay After All and the Reader Gets a Glimpse of the FutureNotes; Bibliography; Index