Strengths + Weaknesses of 19th Century Missionary Outreach
- Created by: MaureenG
- Created on: 31-05-18 14:03
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- Strengths + Weaknesses of 19thC Missions
- Weaknesses
- Colonisation or Evangelising?
- Anglicans: Christian colleges that educated future leaders in India.
- Boarding schools promoting Western values. Separating children from family tradition.
- Western
- Early missionaries not always respect cultures
- David Livingstone: commerce would bring Africans to Christ
- Importance of building and living in houses
- Huge attitude that they were uncivilised
- Encouraged to abandon culture and tribal practices
- Colonisation or Evangelising?
- Strengths
- Desire to spread Gospel
- Phillip: an evangelical awakening of 19thC
- God had created one human race that should share one faith
- developed respect and preserving culture
- SMA, Verona & White Fathers cared for orphaned children
- Adapted to culture by learning language and carrying out customs
- White Fathers supplied Bibles in African dialects.
- This promoted literacy among the people
- They trained the locals so they could carry on the good works
- White Fathers supplied Bibles in African dialects.
- Adapted to culture by learning language and carrying out customs
- SMA, Verona & White Fathers cared for orphaned children
- Abolition of slavery
- David Livingstone: explorer and missionary with London Missionary Society.
- Dual approach: freeing and converting
- William Carey: Indian mission both worked to free the people
- David Livingstone: explorer and missionary with London Missionary Society.
- Shortage of clergy
- Contribution meant rapid increase in vocations
- Finke & Starke: "without imports, hard to imagine how churches would have met their staffing needs.
- Mid 1800s 59% of priests in NY were Irish born
- Desire to spread Gospel
- Weaknesses
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