Research Catalog

Title

The kingdom of character : the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 1886-1926 / by Michael Parker.

Author

Parker, Michael, 1957-

Publication

Pasadena, Calif. : William Carey Library Publishers, c2008.

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Details

Description

xvi, 312 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Subject

• College students in missionary work > History > 19th century
• College students in missionary work > History > 20th century
• Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions > History

Note

• Originally published: Lanham, Md. : American Society of Missiology : University Press of America, 1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [249-295] and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Mount Hermon one hundred -- Moody and the YMCA -- Mount Hermon -- Launching a movement -- Organizational structures -- The volunteers -- The masculinization of Christianity -- Jesus and the development of manly character -- Manliness and the business ethos -- The holiness movement -- Women in the missions movement -- The YWCA -- The role of women in missions -- A social gospel for women -- Women in the SVM -- the evangelization of the world in this generation -- The theology behind the watchword -- The crisis -- The volunteer appeal -- The watchword controversy -- Motts arguments for missions -- Creating a world movement -- Trail blazing -- Creating the WSCF -- The significance of the WSCF -- Education for a moral crusade -- The education department -- Model missionaries -- Mission lands -- Comparative studies -- Looking to the future -- The social gospel and the great war -- The student movement and the social gospel -- The social gospel and the SVM -- The student movements attitude towards the war -- The Northfield Volunteer Conference, 1918 -- Taking stock -- From foreign missions to world missions -- Des Moines convention -- A turbulent half decade -- The WSCF enters the modern era -- The Indianapolis Convention -- Embracing world missions -- In this generation -- Change in the student Christian world -- Attacks on the SVM leadership -- Sharp-Baker scandal reorganization.

ISBN

9780878085187

LCCN

^^2007030394

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library