124th Annual Meeting (January 7-10, 2010): Reflections on Mission History in Recognition of the Bicentennial of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

Reflections on Mission History in Recognition of the Bicentennial of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

American Society of Church History 6

Friday, January 8, 2010: 9:30 AM-11:30 AM

Columbia 1 (Marriott)

Chair:

Barbara Brown Zikmund, Wesley Theological Seminary

Papers:

The Parable of the Mustard Seed: Metaphor and Policy in Nineteenth-Century Missions
Paul W. Harris, Minnesota State University at Moorhead

Samuel John Mills and "his poor African brethren": The Overlapping Origins of the American Board and the American Colonization Society
David W. Wills, Amherst College

"O That My Mouth May Be Opened": Missionaries, Gender, and Language in Early Nineteenth-Century Hawai'i
Jennifer Fish Kashay, Colorado State University at Fort Collins

Comment:

Barbara Brown Zikmund, Wesley Theological Seminary

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