Calvin and World Mission
Subtitle
Essays
Subject
World Mission Theology
Description
At the end of the ‘Calvin-Year’, in which Christians all over the world celebrate Calvin’s 500 birthday, this book emphasizes Calvin’s role for establishing a Protestant mission theology which later led to a worldwide expansion of Protestant Christianity. The book presents major articles on the topic through 125 years of history and from different viewpoints from 1882 to 2002. Some of the articles discuss Calvin and his writings and thinking on mission alone. Some add the question, what kind of mission has been organized from Geneva during Calvin's time, because Calvin did not only speak about evangelism and mission, but also helped establish it in reality, even though on a quite small scale compared to later centuries. Some articles go further, and follow the students and followers of Calvin and their relation to mission through history. Thus sometimes the wider topic of ‘Calvinism and Mission’ is included. This book has not been edited to defend ‘Calvinism’ and its dogmatic system. This has even from Calvinism’s own firm position to be done on exegetical grounds. Nevertheless some of the authors wrote their articles as a defence of Calvinism or at least as very convinced Calvinists. Others write more from a neutral point of view as historical researchers.
Content
1. Schirrmacher: Introduction
2. McFetridge: Calvinism as an Evangelizing Force (1882)
3. Schlatter: Calvin und die Mission (1909)
4. Kochs: Calvin und die Mission (1909)
5. Pfisterer: Der Missionsgedanke bei Kalvin (1934)
6. Edwards: Calvin and Missions (1936)
7. Zwemer: Calvinism and the Missionary Enterprise (1950)
8. Van der Berg: Calvin’s Missionary Message: Some Remarks about the relation between Calvinism and Missions (1950)
9. Chaney: The Missionary Dynamic in the Theology of John Calvin (1964)
10. Clowney: The Missionary Flame of Reformed Theology (1976)
11. Pogson: Calvin’s Missionary Thought and Practice (1990)
12. Nicholls: The Theology of William Carey (1993)
13. Hulse: John Calvin and his Missionary Enterprise (1998)
14. Van Neste: John Calvin on Evangelism and Missions (1998)
15. James, III: Calvin the Evangelist
16. Beeke: John Calvin – Teacher and Practitioner of Evangelism (2001)
17. Simmons: John Calvin and Missions: A Historical Study (2002)
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Posted : 2012-05-27 00:47:05 GMT
Author/Authors : Thomas Schirrmacher
Publishers : VTR Publications
ISBN Number : 978-3-941750-20-3

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Publication Date : 2009