In Anglicanism, Empire and Missions Rowan Strong offers fresh insights into Christian missions, illuminating both large-scale movements and smaller, local initiatives. Tracing the origins of Anglican missions back to the foundation of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in 1701, the work explores their evolutionfrom a transatlantic context in the eighteenth century to a truly global presence within the expanding British Empire of the nineteenth century. Contemporary Anglophone mission historiography has often overlooked Anglican missionary endeavours during this period, instead privileging the activism of Evangelical missions. This volume redresses the balance, revealing the far-reaching influence of Anglican mission leaders and societies and restoring their rightful place in the broader history of Christian missions.
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Introduction: Anglicanism in the Globalising Nineteenth Century
1 Continuity and Change in Anglican Missionary Theology: Thomas Bray to the
World Missionary Conference
1Bray and the Importance of Religious Knowledge
2Bray and the Transforming Religious Knowledge Paradigm
3An Enlightenment Mission
4Anglican Continuity Educational Mission and the 1910 World Missionary
Conference
5Anglican Discontinuity: Attitudes toward Tribal Peoples
6Liturgy Rather than Education and Reason
2 Anglican Imperialism and the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in
Foreign Parts 17011714
3 Conservative Anglican Reformism: High Church Involvement in the East India
Companys Charter Renewal 18121813
1Introduction
2High Church Engagement with India
3Initiating SPCK Involvement in the Charter Renewal Campaign
4SPCK Campaign Initiatives
5SPCK, India, and High Church Reformism
4 A New Global Paradigm for Anglicanism: the Colonial Bishoprics Fund
18401841
5 Church and State in Western Australia 18271857
6 High-Church Slum Ministry in Glasgow 18451851
7 The Oxford Movement and the British Empire
8 Bishop George Selwyn of New Zealand and the British Empire
1Selwyn and the Imperial Network
2Personal Connections
3Edward Coleridge and the Eton Connection
4Ecclesiastical Connections
5The Cross-Colonial Connection
6The Connection with W. E. Gladstone
7Colonial and Imperial Networks
8From the Colonial Periphery to the Imperial Centre
9 High Church and Evangelical Anglicans in Colonial New Zealand
10 The Scottish Episcopal Church and the Nineteenth-Century Expansion of
Anglicanism
1Historiography
2Mission in Scotland
3Africa
4British and Local Peoples in the Episcopalian African Mission
5The Chanda Mission in India
6Conclusions
11 Anglo-Catholic Missions in Nineteenth-Century India
1The Oxford Movement and Mission
2The Historiography of Anglo-Catholic Missions
3The 1869 Twelve Day Mission to London
4Fr Benson and the 1869 Mission to London
5Edward Pusey, Fr Benson, and SSJE Mission
6Fr Benson and the SSJE Missions to India
7Nilkanth/Nehemiah Goreh and the SSJE Mission
8The Indore Mission
9The Significance of the SSJE Missions
Bibliography
Index
Rowan Strong, Emeritus Professor of Church History, Murdoch University, and Professor of Church History, Wollaston Theological College, University of Divinity, Australia, has published extensively on Anglicanism and the British Empire, including Victorian Christianity & Emigrant Voyages to British Colonies c.1840-c.1914 (2017).
