The Search for the Primitive Church and the End of the CMS Mission of Help to Travancore, ca. 1830-1840
This article demonstrates that the rhetoric of returning to the primitive church was a significant motivating factor in evangelical Protestant missions in the early nineteenth century. This language is apparent across denominational agencies and geographical locations. I will demonstrate that it was...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
International bulletin of mission research
Year: 2025, Volume: 49, Issue: 1, Pages: 52-61 |
| Further subjects: | B
Church Missionary Society
B Ecumenism B Primitive Christianity B Unity for Mission B Evangelicalism |
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| Summary: | This article demonstrates that the rhetoric of returning to the primitive church was a significant motivating factor in evangelical Protestant missions in the early nineteenth century. This language is apparent across denominational agencies and geographical locations. I will demonstrate that it was a particularly strong motivating factor in the Church Missionary Society’s ”Mission of Help” to the Syrian Christians of Travancore. Yet a combination of ecclesiastical and political factors served to thwart this mission endeavor and raises abiding questions regarding the usefulness of such language in mission motivation. |
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| ISSN: | 2396-9407 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International bulletin of mission research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/23969393241288771 |
