Title: Earthen Vessels and Transcendent Power: American Presbyterians in China, 1837-1952 (American Society of Missiology Series)
Author: Brown, G. Thompson
Publisher: Orbis Books
Publication Date: 1997-11-01
ISBN: 1570751501
Type: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Jacket condition: None as issued
Notes: Solid copy with unmarked text. Light spotting (foxing) on top edge of closed pages. Cover has light bumps to corners and spine ends. Binding is tight and square; no creases to spine.
About the Book
A compelling, comprehensive work of mission history that traces the story of American Presbyterian missions in China from their establishment in 1837 until the last missionary was released from prison and repatriated in 1952. This book has been acclaimed by Samuel Hugh Moffett, dean of historians of Christianity in Asia, as a penetrating work that offers and accurate, lively perspective on a group of missionaries that epitomize American protestant involvement in mission in China.
Browns book arrives as scholars reassess the legacy of Christian mission, long dismissed as an embarrassing ancillary of colonialism. Brown acknowledges the ambiguity of the missionaries' legacy, but also shows how these "earthen vessels" became concrete manifestations of God's transcendent love in their many enterprises. Their works run the gamut from preaching and pastoral work, to famine relief and agricultural development, from higher education to caring for orphans.
With detailed maps, a select bibliography and lists of both Presbyterian institutions and the missionaries who staffed them for more than a century, Earthen Vessels and Transcendent Power is an indispensable work for China scholars, historians of mission and the American Presbyterian church, and all those concerned with the encounter of Christianity and China.
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