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Pitfalls of trained incapacity : the unintended effects of integral missionary training in the Basel Mission on its early work in Ghana (1828-1840)
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- Creator
- Birgit Herppich ; foreword by Wilbert R. Shenk
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- JSTOR ebooks
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, United Kingdom : James Clarke & Co., 2016
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xii, 372 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780227905883, 0227905881, 0227176219
- OCLC
- ocn983784788
- Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Fuller Theological Seminary, 2013 under title: Trained incapacity : a critical examination of Basel missionary preparation and early engagement in Ghana, 1828-1840.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-372).
- Introduction: Integral missionary training and the Basel Mission -- Part I. The community of practice of the Basel Mission Training Institute. A learning community shaped by German Pietism -- A shared vision of Christian foreign mission -- Diverse participants with a shared practice -- Part II. Indications for trained incapacity in the beginnings of the Basel Mission in Ghana. The African context and the early Basel Mission (1828-1831) -- Andreas Riis's pioneering (1832-1840) -- Early failures at mission work (1836-1840) -- Conclusion: Pitfalls of trained incapacity in integral missionary training