A new vision for missions : William Cameron Townsend, the Wycliffe Bible translators, and the culture of early evangelical faith missions, 1896-1945 / William Lawrence Svelmoe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Svelmoe, William Lawrence.

Series:

Religion and American culture (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)

Religion & American Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wycliffe Bible Translators.

Summer Institute of Linguistics.

Townsend, William Cameron, 1896-1982.

Townsend, William Cameron.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Cam" Townsend is rightly known as the visionary founder of the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) and the Wycliffe Bible Translators. This joint effort is now the largest Protestant mission organization in the world, a mission which has dramatically changed the culture of what used to be known as faith missions. Townsend revolutionized Protestant missions by emphasizing that missionaries needed to learn the language of the people to whom they were sent and to live among them in order to understand their communities. His system stressed training the missionaries

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Note to Reader; 1. In Which Townsend Drops Out of College and Decides to Be a Missionary for a Year, 1896-1917; 2. In Which Townsend Shares His Faith, Battles Roman Catholics, and Learns about Indians, 1917-1918; 3. In Which the Reader Learns a Great Deal about Evangelicals and Faith Missions, While Townsend Takes a Wife, Builds a Cornstalk House, and Meets Some Important People, 1919-1921; 4. In Which the Central American Mission Finds Trouble, Trouble Everywhere and Dr. Becker Makes a Brief but Memorable Appearance, 1922-1924

5. In Which Council Members Sail to Guatemala to Save the Mission, Mrs. Townsend Makes Some Practical Suggestions, and R. D. Smith Has Some Surprise Visitors, 1925-19286. In Which Townsend Makes Everyone Nervous with Another Wild Idea and R. D. Smith Has a Nightmare, 1929-1932; 7. In Which Townsend Mixes Science with Faith, Writes an Audacious Letter, and Recruits a Few Geniuses along with More Than a Few Girls, 1933-1945; 8. In Which Townsend Goes Pioneering, Makes Some Strange Bedfellows, and Starts an Odd New Mission, 1935-1945

Epilogue: In Which Townsend Decides Catholics Are Okay After All and the Reader Gets a Glimpse of the FutureNotes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-361) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8065-5

OCLC:

609844520