Builders of the Chinese Church
Author | : G Wright Doyle |
Publisher | : Lutterworth Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2015-07-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780718844134 |
ISBN-13 | : 0718844130 |
Rating | : 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Download or read book Builders of the Chinese Church written by G Wright Doyle and published by Lutterworth Press. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1807, when the first Protestant missionary arrived in China, to the 1920s, when a new phase of growth began, thousands of missionaries and Chinese Christians laboured, often under very adverse conditions, to lay the groundwork for a solid, healthy, and self-sustaining Chinese church. Following an Introduction that sets the scene and surveys the entire period, 'Builders of the Chinese Church' contains the stories of nine leading pioneers: seven Western missionaries and two Chinese. Here wemeet Robert Morrison, the heroic translator; Liang Fa, the first Chinese evangelist; missionary-scholar James Legge; J. Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission; converted opium addict Pastor Hsi, Overcomer of Demons; Griffith John and Jonathan Goforth, both indefatigable preachers; and the idealistic advocates of education and reform, W.A.P. Martin and Timothy Richard. Readers will be inspired by their courage, devotion, and sheer perseverance in arduous work, and will gain a better understanding of the origins of the two 'branches' of today's Chinese Protestantism.