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Article Excerpt
Dana L. Robert (ed.), Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History, 1706-1914, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, Grand Rapids, Michigan/Cambridge, UK, 2008, 304pp.
As Christianity enters the twenty-first century, the church and its mission studies stand at a critical juncture. This volume of essays, Converting Colonialism: Visions and Realities in Mission History 1706-1914, is an important guide to what is at stake. The following question can be asked: "Since the Christian landscape has changed rapidly from the northern hemisphere to the South, can the churches become the communion that will accommodate the voices and cries of these new Christians from the global South for the sake of carrying on the missio Dei?"
In this volume, leading experts in different fields of modern history, with expertise in various geographic areas, examine the relationship between missionaries and 18th and 19th century European colonialism, and between indigenous...
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