Adoniram Judson: A Bicentennial Appreciation of the Pioneer American Missionary (Studies in Baptist Life and Thought)
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Overview
On February 19, 1812, Adoniram Judson, his wife Ann, and a few others set sail for the Far East from their American homeland. The launching of these missionaries by a newly formed outreach society marked the beginning of Americans formally joining the modem missions movement.
With the advent of 2012 comes recognition of the bicentennial of Judson’s departure and official start of the American missionary enterprise. This volume seeks to honor the life and mission of Judson while retelling his story for a new generation. With the occasion of the 200-year anniversary of Judson’s departure as a fitting context for such a presentation, the his- torians, theologians, and missiologists writing here under the guidance of editor Jason G. Duesing have endeavored not only to serve as Judson’s biographers of past events, but also as his interpreters of what they hope will take place in the present and future.
Contributors include Paige Patterson, Michael A. G. Haykin, Robert Caldwell, Nathan A. Finn, Candi Finch, Keith E. Eitel, Gregory A. Wills, and Daniel L. Akin.
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“Here are two theological themes that were foundational to Carey’s thought and mission. First, the death of Christ for sinners was the Christian’s only plea with regard to salvation when he stood in the presence of a holy God at the final judgment. Second, the ultimate goal of the Christian life was the glory of God. Carey felt that he had not made the latter uppermost throughout his life, hence his comfort in the former.” (source)
“Hyper-Calvinists in this period maintained that because the unsaved could not respond to the call of Christ in the preaching of the gospel without the enablement of God, then it was not their responsibility to repent and believe; consequently, pastors had no duty to exhort the lost to come to Christ.” (source)
“The shape of Judson’s cross-cultural ministry, though, would have been completely different without another central figure in this missionary movement, namely, William Carey (1761−1834), who has often been described as ‘the Father of modern missions.” (source)
“Together, Rice and Judson played a key role in uniting American Baptists and mobilizing them for foreign missions.” (source)
“By Judson’s day disinterested benevolence had become a standard theme of New Divinity preaching and piety.” (source)
- Title: Adoniram Judson: A Bicentennial Appreciation of the Pioneer American Missionary
- Author: Jason G. Duesing
- Series: Studies in Baptist Life and Thought
- Publisher: B&H
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2012
- Pages: 181
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: Baptists › Missions--Burma--Biography; Missionaries; Missionaries › United States--Biography; Judson, Adoniram › Foreign missions--Missionaries
- ISBNs: 9781087790541, 9781433678363, 9781433677656, 1433678365, 1433677652, 1087790549
- Resource ID: LLS:9781433678363
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:51:46Z