Nothing but Christ: Rufus Anderson and the Ideology of Protestant Foreign Missions

by Paul William Harris

Overview

This book examines the career of Rufus Anderson, the central figure in the formation and implementation of missionary ideology in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Corresponding Secretary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from 1832 to 1866, Anderson effectively set the terms of debate on missionary policy on both sides of the Atlantic and indeed long after his death. In telling his story, Harris also speaks to basic questions in nineteenth-century American history and in the relationship between American culture and the cultures of what later came to be known as the third world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195131727
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/06/2000
Series:	Religion in America
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	9.24(w) x 6.40(h) x 0.84(d)
Lexile:	1620L (what's this?)

About the Author

Moorhead State University

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Indian Missions and the Puritan Legacy2. Self-Denial and Civilization3. Educational Ends and Means4. Hard Times5. The Abolitionist Attack6. The Powers that Be7. To Ordain Paster Over Them8. The Deputation to India9. Into History