North American foreign missions, 1810-1914 : theology, theory, and policy / edited by Wilbert R. Shenk. [print]

"The majority of the chapters ... were originally delivered at two consultations of the North Atlantic Missiology Project (NAMP) which took place at the University of Wisconsin--Madison in November 1997 and Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California, in March 1998"--General editors' preface.

The new divinity and the origins of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions David W. Kling -- "A bright and new constellation" : millennial narratives and the origins of American foreign missions Richard Lee Rogers -- Denominationalism and democracy : ecclesiastical issues underlying Rufus Anderson's Three self program Paul Harris -- The 1845 organic sin debate : slavery, sin, and the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Charles A. Maxfield III -- Evangelist or homemaker? : mission strategies of early nineteenth-century missionary wives in Burma and Hawaii Dana L. Robert -- "The salvation of souls" and the "salvation of the Republic of Liberia" : denominational conflict and racial diversity in antebellum Presbyterian foreign missions Susan Wilds McArver -- Forging an ideology for American missions : Josiah Strong and manifest destiny Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards -- Canadian Presbyterians and India missions, 1877-1914 : the policy and politics of "women's work for women" / Ruth Compton Brouwer -- The social gospel as missionary ideology Janet F. Fishburn -- Missionary returns and cultural conversions in Alabama and Shandong : the latter years of Madam Gao (Martha Foster Crawford) / Carol Ann Vaughn -- The development of the missionary ideas of Robert E. Speer John F. Piper, Jr. -- Only connect : the China Inland Mission and transatlantic evangelicalism Alvyn Austin.

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