Bob Tennant

Corporate Holiness (eBook, PDF)

Pulpit Preaching and the Church of England Missionary Societies, 1760-1870

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Produktbeschreibung

Bob Tennant presents a history of the missionary work, cultures, and rhetoric of the Church of England in 1760-1870, when it was the predominant organizer of Protestant overseas missions. Through close attention to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK, founded 1699), the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG, 1701), and the Church Missionary Society (CMS, 1799) Tennant offers a systematic exploration of the complex relationship between the Societies' policies, decision-making systems, and administration, as recorded in their unpublished minute books, and the rhetorical and theological activity of their sermon literature. Thus their 'corporate holiness' is shown to be a synthesis of theology, ministry, rhetoric, administration, and methods of building public support. In the process, Tennant also offers analyses of controversies within the Church of England about questions such as the relationship of Bible to liturgy, the nature and techniques of mass education, charitable behaviour, and the processes of decision-making. Supported by statistical evidence, he offers a revisionist account of the Church's relationship to the American Revolution, the Romantic movement, and the Indian 'Mutiny'. Besides offering a critical history of his subject, Tennant also suggests a methodology for approaching a general thesis of Christian missionary societies on their own terms, theoretically separable from and avoiding the distortions and imbalances which have been imposed by the secularist imperial historiography to which they have so often been subordinated.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191662638
• Artikelnr.: 39678150

Autorenporträt

Bob Tennant is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Durham.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Church overseas in the 1760s
2: Preaching liberty: orphans, slaves and citizenship
3: The Church Missionary Society
4: The heroic phase (1): corporate redefinition and controversy
5: The heroic phase (2): missionary praxis
6: The imperial Church (1): the overseas dioceses
7: The imperial Church (2): managing the missions
8: Some mid-century crises
Conclusion
Appendices:
1: SPG Board meetings, 1751-1860: attendances by bishops
2: Anniversary preachers use of Biblical texts