organizational contradictions in the Basel Mission on the Gold Coast, 1828-1917 Miller, Jon Additional Author mixed material bibliography Michigan W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co. c2003 monographic en English

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xx, 258 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. This book is about the Basel Mission in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) before the First World War. Miller reconstructs the backgrounds and motivations of the mission's participants and describes the organizational structure that shaped their activities at home and abroad. He then traces some serious and recurrent internal problems to the commitment to difficult Pietist beliefs about authority and obedience. The organization survived those troubles and its impact on Ghana continued to grow, because the same biblical worldview that demanded extreme discipline also prepared the members of the mission community to sustain their efforts. Ghana 266.436670802860850(pbk.) Transformatio Library Bandung Theological Seminary 266.436 67 Mil m E07004390 Non Fiction 266.436 67 Mil m Missionary_zeal_and_institutional_control.jpg 17772 2002-07-22 00:00:00 2026-04-08 17:31:28 machine generated