Historical Sketches of Foreign Missions
Overview
This volume was published at the pivot point of Adventist mission development. By 1886 the young church had been in the foreign mission business for a dozen years, yet it had only four missions (three in Europe and one in Australia/New Zealand), and those four were just moving beyond infancy stage. By late 1886 the Adventists were becoming ever more committed to foreign missions. Historical Sketches contains the first book-length document on missions, and represents a valuable historical record of the denomination’s early work. It also contains revealing reports from a variety of authors, including Ellen G. White, on the strategies developed to further those missions and a call for expanded mission work in the future. Historical Sketches is both a summary of Adventism’s missiological past and a pointer and appeal to the future.
Top Highlights
“Global Mission, however, shifted the denomination’s eyes away from those comfortable statistics and toward a new way of looking at denominational mission accountability. Rather than focusing on nations, Global Mission focuses attention on the fact that the Adventist message is to go to ‘every kindred, and tongue, and people.’ That approach is much less comforting.” (Page xxv)
“being a missionary in the early twenty-first century means serving in a place other than one’s native land” (Page xxii)
“‘to establish an Adventist presence in each’ of the ‘untouched groups of 1 million people before A.D. 2000” (Page xxv)
“the SDAs were committed to bringing them the last warning [i.e., the distinctively Adventist doctrines” (Page xvi)
“The open door missiology had been set forth in principle by Ellen White in November 1848 when she” (Page ix)
- Title: Historical Sketches of Foreign Missions
- Author: George R. Knight
- Series: Adventist Classic Library
- Publisher: Andrews University Press
- Print Publication Date: 2005
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Seventh-day Adventists › Missions--History
- ISBNs: 1883925517, 9781883925512
- Resource ID: LLS:HSTSKTFRGMSNS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:39:39Z