North American Thought on the Fundamental Principles of Missions During the Twentieth Century

North American thinking and writing in missions have in general been characterized by immediate practicality. Missionaries, administrators, and professors of missions have been chiefly concerned with strategy and tactics, with methods and techniques, with program promotion and education of the church members. Scholars have devoted their attention principally to the analysis of successive current situations and trends and the interpretation of their significance for the mission. Getting something done well in order to meet a pressing need has appeared more important than a study of the theological presuppositions or implications of the action

Action (physics) · Business · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Order (exchange) · Political science · Presupposition · Promotion (chess) · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Pentecostalism and Christianity Studies · Philosophy · Religion, Society, and Development

• Human Nature and its Remaking

  H G Townsend, William Ernest Hocking•The Philosophical Review•1919

  Incluir item

• The Cross Above the Crescent 1

  Open Access•Robert E Speer•The Muslim World•1942

  Incluir item