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Missionary Zeal And Institutional Control

Organizational Contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast, 1828-1917

  • Paperback
  • 296 pages
  • Publisher: Eerdmans Publishing Company
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.6 cm

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For historians and missionaries interested in mission work

Uncovers the contradictions in Basel Mission's methods

You will gain insights into effective evangelism strategies

This book explores the successes and struggles of the Basel Mission in West Africa.

In the historical literature on mission, this book stands out for its detailed examination of the organizational dynamics that gave shape - and brought enduring success - to the Evangelical Missionary Society at Basel. A first-rate account of the early Basel Mission on the Gold Coast of West Africa (present-day Ghana), this volume takes readers inside the mission itself, revealing its dynamic, though sometimes contradictory, methods of motivation and discipline and how they impacted effective evangelism both at home and abroad. Working from archival records, Jon Miller details the collaboration across class lines that made the mission possible, and he shows how basic pietist beliefs about authority and obedience were the source of both the mission's strengths and its most serious internal weaknesses. Also included are two dozen photographs, a foreword by Richard V. Pierard, and an afterword by Paul Jenkins.
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  • Title

    Missionary Zeal And Institutional Control

  • Author

    Jon Miller (assistant Professor, Department Of Philosophy, Queen\'s University)

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Eerdmans Publishing Company

  • Published

    February 2003

  • Weight

    418g

  • Page Count

    296

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780802860859

  • ISBN-10

    0802860850

  • Eden Code

    1122729