Bob Tennant
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199567850
- eISBN:
- 9780191747366
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199567850.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
This chapter surveys the missiology and administration of the SPG in the second half of the eighteenth century. It identifies Joseph Butler as the chief philosophical source of the Society’s doctrine ...
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This chapter surveys the missiology and administration of the SPG in the second half of the eighteenth century. It identifies Joseph Butler as the chief philosophical source of the Society’s doctrine and policy, explores competing definitions of the term ‘missionary’ (characterized as ‘ambassador’ and ‘herald’), with special reference to episcopal charges and the Book of Common Prayer’s ordination service. It discusses theories of conversion, acculturation, and routes out of slavery, using sermons by William Warburton and Richard Terrick as contrasting exemplars. It analyses the SPG’s policy and decision-making processes, including the contribution of the bishops and successive Archbishops of Canterbury. It describes the effect of the American War of Independence on the missions, society income, and policy.Less
This chapter surveys the missiology and administration of the SPG in the second half of the eighteenth century. It identifies Joseph Butler as the chief philosophical source of the Society’s doctrine and policy, explores competing definitions of the term ‘missionary’ (characterized as ‘ambassador’ and ‘herald’), with special reference to episcopal charges and the Book of Common Prayer’s ordination service. It discusses theories of conversion, acculturation, and routes out of slavery, using sermons by William Warburton and Richard Terrick as contrasting exemplars. It analyses the SPG’s policy and decision-making processes, including the contribution of the bishops and successive Archbishops of Canterbury. It describes the effect of the American War of Independence on the missions, society income, and policy.
