Format:
1 Online-Ressource (235 pages)
ISBN:
9780718840129
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0718840127
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0718840054
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9780718840051
Series Statement:
Roland Allen Library
Content:
No one was more radically critical of the ministry and the inherited Church policy that surrounds it than Roland Allen (1868-1949), whose prophetic writings constantly challenge the whole mission of the Christian Church, and many of his most important essays are collected here along with contributions about him. After studying at Oxford, his clerical training was in Leeds. He went as a missionary to China for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG), where he stayed for twenty years. His experience convinced him that missionary methods needed changing, and that St Paul had more to offer than contemporary practice, and in particular that ministry should be centred in the laity. These ideas, unpopular at the time, have grown in importance, and Roland Allen's influence is now greater than at any time. In this volume, Paton, with the co-operation of Grubb and King, has written on the central concerns of Allen's life and how his witness gave rise to many fruitful enterprises in different parts of the world. Many new writings of Allen's are included in the volume, and Grubb tells the story of the Survey Application Trust which, for over half a century played a formative and pioneering part in the mission of the church. This title adds a lot of new information and throws fresh light on the modern history of many Christian enterprises, and extends current debate over the role of the laity
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Front cover; Other titles by Roland Allen available from The Lutterworth Press; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part 1: Roland Allen -- A Biographical and Theological Essay by David M. Paton; Part 2: A Church Policy for North China by Roland Allen; Part 3: The Story of the Survey Application Trust by Kenneth G. Grubb; Part 4: The Voluntary Clergy; i. Letters to and from Roland AlIen; ii. Diary of a Visit in South India; iii. A Correspondence with the Bishop of Assam between June 13, 1925 and September 20, 1928; Part 5: Last Years in East Africa by Noel Q. King.
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Part 6: Voces Populi de Parabolis Christi by Ronald Allen Preface; The Good Samaritan; Part 7: The Family Rite; Publications; Back cover.
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English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Allen, Roland Reform of the Ministry : A Study in the Work of Roland Allen Havertown : Lutterworth Press, ©2012 ISBN 9780718891039
Language:
English
Author information:
Allen, Roland 1869-1947
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