The Kingdom of Character: The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 1886–1926
Ebook
The Unseen Heroes of the Global Missionary Movement
The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions was a Protestant missionary recruiting organization. Launched in the late nineteenth century, it played an indispensable role in the creation of the modern missionary movement. While it was influenced by the optimism and expansiveness that characterized Americans at the turn of the century, it also mirrored the period's provincialism and ethnocentrism.
The Kingdom of Character provides a thorough history of the Student Volunteer Movement (SVM), exposing both its strengths and weaknesses. Parker highlights how these student leaders addressed issues such as gender roles, the social impact of World War I, and various internal controversies, while emphasizing an American middle-class worldview that stressed the Victorian idea of character in their hope to spread the gospel around the world.
The Kingdom of Character is a great read for those interested in the creation of the modern missionary movement.
Illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1- The Mount Hermon One Hundred
Chapter 2- The Masculinization of Christianity
Chapter 3- Women in the Missions Movement
Chapter 4- "The Evangelization of the World in This Generation"
Chapter 5- Creating a World Movement
Chapter 6- Education for a Moral Crusade
Chapter 7- The Social Gospel and the Great War
Chapter 8- From Foreign Missions to World Missions
Chapter 9- "...In This Generation"
Epilogue
Endnotes
Selected Bibliography
Index
This is an indispensable resource for understanding an important part of the modern missions movement.
-Wilbert R. Shenk, PhD, Former Professor, School of Intercultural Studies, Fuller Theological Seminary
Parker's thematic coverage is thorough and insightful, with balanced attention paid to the spiritual grounding of the movement, women and minorities, the ephemeral records, ...and analysis of the SVM quadrennial conventions. (IBMR)
-Dana L. Robert, Co-founder, Center for Global Christianity and Missions
This is a book that at the minimum belongs in every seminary library and on the shelf of everyone teaching mission history and theology.
-James J. Stamoolis, DThel, Author, Three Views on Eastern Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism
- Title: The Kingdom of Character: The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 1886–1926
- Author: Michael Parker
- Publisher: William Carey Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2008
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781645081555, 9780878085187, 0878085181, 1645081559
- Resource ID: LLS:9781645081555
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-09-20T00:06:37Z