Our Word and Work for Missions
Our word and work for missions : a series of papers treating of principles and ideas relative to Christian missions including matters of historic statement, and a presentation of some of the conditions, needs, and opportunity of mission work in home fields and in foreign lands : prepared with special reference to the Universalist Church
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By the 1890s Universalists faced a pointed question: what does a church that denies endless punishment want with missions? Rugg's papers answer it, setting out the principles and methods of Universalist missionary work at home and abroad — including the young mission to Japan, begun in 1890 — and arguing that a gospel of universal hope has more reason to travel, not less. A window on the denomination's self-questioning as it tried to become a missionary church.
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| Author | Rugg, Henry Warren |
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| Published | 1894 |
| Publisher | Boston : Universalist Publishing House |
| Subjects | Missions; Missions -- Japan |
| OCLC | 6743480 on WorldCat |
| Section | Denominational Life & Guides |