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Henry Venn - missionary statesman.
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ISBN: 0883441810 Year: 1983 Publisher: Maryknoll Orbis

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The ideal of the self-governing church
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ISBN: 9004091882 9004319832 9789004091887 9789004319837 Year: 1990 Volume: 1 Publisher: Leiden ;New York E.J. Brill

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It is part of current missiological orthodoxy that newly created churches should obtain independence from cross-cultural missionaries as soon as possible. It is not often realised that much Victorian missionary thinking shared that objective. This important new work examines the ideal of the self-governing church in the Victorian period through a study of the official mind of the Church Missionary Society. The study begins with an examination of Henry Venn's, the famous CMS Secretary, commitment to self-supporting, self-propagating and self-governing churches. Was he a lonely figure battling against the accepted wisdom of the mid-Victorian period? The author argues that he was not, and was, if anything a slightly conservative spokesman for much current wisdom. Far from his views being abandoned at his death, they were the accepted orthodoxy within CMS until the end of the century. Although they came under increasing attack in the nineties, it was not until the beginning of the twentieth century, particularly under the influence of Eugune Stock, that they were finally abandoned. The importance of this study lies not only in its ability to explain Victorian missionary development, but also because it takes on board the age-old issue of how quickly should a church become self-governing.


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Venn and Victorian bishops abroad : the missionary policies of Henry Venn and their repercussions upon the Anglican episcopate of the colonial period 1841-1872.
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ISBN: 918542403X Year: 1978 Publisher: Uppsala Swedish institute of missionary research


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Memoir of Henry Venn, B.D : prebendary of St Paul's, and Honorary Secretary of the Church Missionary Society
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ISBN: 0511695888 1108008224 Year: 2010 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Henry Venn (1796-1873) was an Anglican clergyman who, like his father & grandfather before him, was influential in the evangelical movement and campaigned for social reform, eradication of the slave trade, & better education & economic progress in the British colonies so as to enable them to become responsible for their own affairs. Venn was Secretary of the Church Missionary Society from 1841 to 1873, & alongside practical training & appointment of missionaries & ministers he spent time developing a theology of mission & principles for its practice. This book, published in its second edition in 1881, was edited by William Knight who had access to Venn's private journals & correspondence, & met Venn's niece, who provided the portrait of her uncle used as the frontispiece of the book. The appendix contains some of Venn's own accounts of his early missionary work.

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