Author: Albert Edward Thompson
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Category : Missions to Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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A Century of Jewish Missions
Author: Albert Edward Thompson
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Category : Missions to Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Publisher:
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Category : Missions to Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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A Century of Jewish Missons [sic]
Author: Albert Edward Thompson
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Nineteen Centuries of Missions
Author: Frances Ann Rousseau Scudder (Mrs.", "William W. Scudder)
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 258
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Mission and Conversion
Author: Martin Goodman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book tackles a central problem of comparative religious history: proselytizing by Jews and pagans in the ancient world, and the origins of missions in the early Church. Why did some individuals in the first four centuries of the Christian era believe it desirable to persuade outsiders to join their religious group, while others did not? In this book, the author offers a new hypothesis about the origins of Christian proselytizing, arguing that mission is not an inherent religious instinct, that in antiquity it was found only sporadically among Jews and pagans, and that even Christians rarely stressed its importance in the early centuries. Much of the book focusses on the history of Judaism in late antiquity. Dr Goodman makes a detailed and radical re-evaluation of the evidence for Jewish missionary attitudes in the late Second Temple and Talmudic periods, questioning many commonly held assumptions, in particular the view that Jews proselytized energetically in the first century CE. This leads him on to take issue with the common notion that the early Christian mission to the gentiles imitated or competed with contemporary Jews. Finally, the author puts forward some novel suggestions as to how the Jewish background to Christianity may nonetheless have contributed to the enthusiastic adoption of universal proselytizing by some followers of Jesus in the apostolic age.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book tackles a central problem of comparative religious history: proselytizing by Jews and pagans in the ancient world, and the origins of missions in the early Church. Why did some individuals in the first four centuries of the Christian era believe it desirable to persuade outsiders to join their religious group, while others did not? In this book, the author offers a new hypothesis about the origins of Christian proselytizing, arguing that mission is not an inherent religious instinct, that in antiquity it was found only sporadically among Jews and pagans, and that even Christians rarely stressed its importance in the early centuries. Much of the book focusses on the history of Judaism in late antiquity. Dr Goodman makes a detailed and radical re-evaluation of the evidence for Jewish missionary attitudes in the late Second Temple and Talmudic periods, questioning many commonly held assumptions, in particular the view that Jews proselytized energetically in the first century CE. This leads him on to take issue with the common notion that the early Christian mission to the gentiles imitated or competed with contemporary Jews. Finally, the author puts forward some novel suggestions as to how the Jewish background to Christianity may nonetheless have contributed to the enthusiastic adoption of universal proselytizing by some followers of Jesus in the apostolic age.
The Encyclopedia of Missions
Author: Edwin Munsell Bliss
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 876
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Nineteen Centuries of Missions
Author: Frances Ann Rousseau Scudder
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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"This brief history of missions has been primarily prepared for the use of graded Sunday-schools."--Preface
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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"This brief history of missions has been primarily prepared for the use of graded Sunday-schools."--Preface
the Progress of World Wide Missions
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Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Languages : en
Pages : 420
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Evangelizing the Chosen People
Author: Yaakov Ariel
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860530
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
With this book, Yaakov Ariel offers the first comprehensive history of Protestant evangelization of Jews in America to the present day. Based on unprecedented research in missionary archives as well as Jewish writings, the book analyzes the theology and activities of both the missions and the converts and describes the reactions of the Jewish community, which in turn helped to shape the evangelical activity directed toward it. Ariel delineates three successive waves of evangelism, the first directed toward poor Jewish immigrants, the second toward American-born Jews trying to assimilate, and the third toward Jewish baby boomers influenced by the counterculture of the Vietnam War era. After World War II, the missionary impulse became almost exclusively the realm of conservative evangelicals, as the more liberal segments of American Christianity took the path of interfaith dialogue. As Ariel shows, these missionary efforts have profoundly influenced Christian-Jewish relations. Jews have seen the missionary movement as a continuation of attempts to delegitimize Judaism and to do away with Jews through assimilation or annihilation. But to conservative evangelical Christians, who support the State of Israel, evangelizing Jews is a manifestation of goodwill toward them.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807860530
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
With this book, Yaakov Ariel offers the first comprehensive history of Protestant evangelization of Jews in America to the present day. Based on unprecedented research in missionary archives as well as Jewish writings, the book analyzes the theology and activities of both the missions and the converts and describes the reactions of the Jewish community, which in turn helped to shape the evangelical activity directed toward it. Ariel delineates three successive waves of evangelism, the first directed toward poor Jewish immigrants, the second toward American-born Jews trying to assimilate, and the third toward Jewish baby boomers influenced by the counterculture of the Vietnam War era. After World War II, the missionary impulse became almost exclusively the realm of conservative evangelicals, as the more liberal segments of American Christianity took the path of interfaith dialogue. As Ariel shows, these missionary efforts have profoundly influenced Christian-Jewish relations. Jews have seen the missionary movement as a continuation of attempts to delegitimize Judaism and to do away with Jews through assimilation or annihilation. But to conservative evangelical Christians, who support the State of Israel, evangelizing Jews is a manifestation of goodwill toward them.
Early Christian Mission: Jesus and the Twelve
Author: Eckhard J. Schnabel
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
In a two-volume work, Eckhard J. Schnabel offers a comprehensive and defiinitive examination of the first century of missionary expansion--from Jesus to the last of the apostles.--From publisher's description.
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 968
Book Description
In a two-volume work, Eckhard J. Schnabel offers a comprehensive and defiinitive examination of the first century of missionary expansion--from Jesus to the last of the apostles.--From publisher's description.
The Progress of World-wide Missions
Author: Robert Hall Glover
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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Publisher:
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Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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