Early Nineteenth-Century ‘Murmurings and Disputings’ in the Ultra-Ganges Missions

As messengers of a peaceful gospel, the ‘Christian soldiers’ put in charge of expanding the remit of the London Missionary Society to South-east Asia and, eventually, to South China frequently found themselves at war with each other. Based on the personal correspondence of missionaries stationed at...

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Main Author: Tiedemann, R. Gary 1941-2019 (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Edinburgh Univ. Press 2021
In: Studies in world christianity
Year: 2021, Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 232-252
IxTheo Classification:KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KBM Asia
KDD Protestant Church
RJ Mission; missiology
Further subjects:B Batavia
B Protestant Christianity
B William Milne
B Karl Gützlaff
B Robert Morrison
B Melaka
B Ultra-Ganges Missions
B Anglo-Chinese College
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