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Search - An Inquiry into the Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion: of the Heathen in which the Religious State of the Different Nations of ... of Further Undertakings, are Considered.

An Inquiry into the Obligation of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathen in which the Religious State of the Different Nations of of Further Undertakings are Considered
Author: William Carey

?We must not be contented however with praying, without exerting ourselves in the use of means for the obtaining of those things we pray for.? -William Carey , Pioneer of Protestant Missions In 1792, William Carey, the Pioneer of Protestant Missions, published a short manuscript commonly known as his "Enquiry." This important and historic work ... more »contains an introduction, and five sections (i.e., chapters). In part as a result of this book, the "Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel Amongst the Heathen" first assembled in the home of Mrs. Beeby Wallis (the Widow Wallis House), Kettering, England, on October 2, 1792. In attendance were fourteen people, including William Carey, Leicester; John Ryland, Northampton; Reynold Hogg, Thrapstone; John Sutcliff, Olney; Andrew Fuller, Kettering; Abraham Greenwood, Oakham; Edward Sharman, Cottisbrook; Samuel Pearce, Birmingham; Joseph Timms, Kettering; Joshua Burton, Foxton; Thomas Blundel, Arnsby; William Heighton, Roade; John Ayres, Braybrook; and William Staughton, Bristol; the last of whom was a theological student at Bristol Academy (Bristol Baptist College), Bristol, England. ?William Carey, the English Baptist shoemaker who was far from being the first theorist of foreign missions, but became one of the most influential with the publication of his pamphlet ?An Inquiry into the Obligations of Christians in 1792. Carey is an all-seeing man with a strong sense of planetary consciousness, dividing the world into religious spheres of influence with a strong conviction that those in the non-Christian parts of the world were going to Hell when they die. Disagreeing with the majority of his fellow Christians who thought about this problem and believed that God had divided the world into religious spheres of influence for His own good reasons which should not be challenged. Carey regarded the obligations of Christians as self-evident and acted on them, sailing unofficially to Bengal, not as a bearer of imperialist culture, but as a Christian.? -Jeffrey Cox, European Missions in Contact Zones: Transformation Through Interaction in a .(Post-)Colonial World, Edited by Judith Becker, 2015 ?It is a marvelous compendium of accurate information?and impassioned appeal. It marks a distinct point of departure in this history of Christianity.? -George Smith, Short History of Christian Missions: From Abraham and Paul to Carey, Livingstone, and Duff, 1884

ISBN-13: 9781518679964
ISBN-10: 151867996X
Publication Date: 10/19/2015
Pages: 66
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