A World Mission

by Robert A. Wright

Wright examines these churches' historical connections with the outside world and their newly cultivated interest in international politics. He argues that the clerical and missionary lite's vision of "a new internationalism" was burdened by essentially "Victorian" ideas of the inherent superiority of Protestant Christianity, political democracy, and Anglo-Saxon "race characteristics." Tensions between its traditional world view and the new realities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773508732
• ISBN13: 9780773508736
• Release Date: December 1991
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 352 Pages