Christian Missions and the Enlightenment

Addresses the nature of the influence of the European Enlightenment on the beliefs and practice of the Protestant missionaries who went to Asia and Africa from the mid-eighteenth century onwards, particularly British missions and the formative role of the Scottish Enlightenment on their thinking.

Chapter One Christian Missions and the Enlightenment: A Reevaluation, Brian Stanley; Chapter TWO The Eighteenth-Century Protestant Missionary Awakening in Its European Context, Andrew F. Walls; Chapter THREE The British Raj and the Awakening of the Evangelical Conscience: The Ambiguities of Religious Establishment and Toleration, 1698–1833, Penny Carson; Chapter FOUR Patterns of Conversion in Early Evangelical History and Overseas Mission Experience, D. Bruce Hindmarsh; Chapter FIVE Ethnology and Theology: Nineteenth-Century Mission Dilemmas in the South Pacific, Jane Samson; Chapter SIX Civilization or Christianity? The Scottish Debate on Mission Methods, 1750–1835, Ian Douglas Maxwell; Chapter SEVEN “Civilizing the African”: The Scottish Mission to the Xhosay 1821–64, Natasha Erlank; Chapter EIGHT Christianity and Civilization in English Evangelical Mission Thought, 1792—1857, Brian Stanley; Chapter NINE Upholding Orthodoxy in Missionary Encounters: A Theological Perspective, Daniel W. Hardy;

Brian Stanley