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Missionary Strategies in the New World, 1610-1690: An Intellectual History (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World)
by Catherine BallériauxThe study is an intellectual and comparative history of French, Spanish, and English missions to the native peoples of America in the seventeenth century, c. 1610–1690. It shows that missions are ideal case studies to properly understand the relationship between religion and politics in early modern Catholic and Calvinist thought. <P><P>The book aims to analyse the intellectual roots of fundamental ideas in Catholic and Calvinist missionary writings—among others idolatry, conversion, civility, and police—by examining the classical, Augustinian, neo-thomist, reformed Protestant, and contemporary European influences on their writings. Missionaries’ insistence on the necessity of reform, emphasising an experiential, practical vision of Christianity, led them to elaborate conversion strategies that encompassed not only religious, but also political and social changes. It was at the margins of empire that the essentials of Calvinist and Catholic soteriologies and political thought could be enacted and crystallised. By a careful analysis of these missiologies, the study thus argues that missionaries’ common strategies—habituation, segregation, social and political regulations—stem from a shared intellectual heritage, classical, humanist, and above all concerned with the Erasmian ideal of a reformation of manners.
Missions Begin with Blood: Suffering and Salvation in the Borderlands of New Spain (Catholic Practice in North America)
by Brandon BayneWinner, 2022 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer PrizeWhile the idea that successful missions needed Indigenous revolts and missionary deaths seems counterintuitive, this book illustrates how it became a central logic of frontier colonization in Spanish North America. Missions Begin with Blood argues that martyrdom acted as a ceremony of possession that helped Jesuits understand violence, disease, and death as ways that God inevitably worked to advance Christendom. Whether petitioning superiors for support, preparing to extirpate Native “idolatries,” or protecting their conversions from critics, Jesuits found power in their persecution and victory in their victimization. This book correlates these tales of sacrifice to deep genealogies of redemptive death in Catholic discourse and explains how martyrological idioms worked to rationalize early modern colonialism. Specifically, missionaries invoked an agricultural metaphor that reconfigured suffering into seed that, when watered by sweat and blood, would one day bring a rich harvest of Indigenous Christianity.
Missions of Mercy: Out Of Control (Missions of Mercy #2)
by Susan May WarrenEnjoy the three enthralling romantic suspense novels in the Missions of Mercy series by Susan May Warren!POINT OF NO RETURNAn American boy and a warlord’s engaged daughter have disappeared—together—in an Eastern European border country. Only one man can find them in time to prevent an international meltdown—Chet Stryker. But Chet is taken aback when he realizes the boy is the nephew of Mae Lund, Chet’s former flame. When Mae insists on rescuing her relative herself, Chet knows he has to protect her from the enemy on their trail. Yet can he protect himself from falling for Mae again?MISSION: OUT OF CONTROLBrody “Wick” Wickham is a former Green Beret turned security agent—with a 100 percent mission success rate. No way is his new assignment changing that. Even if it’s protecting a diva American rock star while she’s on tour in Europe. Except Veronica “Vonya” Wagner isn’t just a beautiful celebrity used to having her way—she’s the daughter of a U.S. Senator. And she’s hiding a dangerous secret. When Wick discovers what’s at stake, how far over the line will he go to keep them both alive?UNDERCOVER PURSUITThe only way to get security agent Luke Dekker to a wedding? An undercover mission as groomsman. He’ll bust the groom, a drug cartel heir, before anyone can say “I do.” Then Luke can escape all this love and romance nonsense—and the too pretty bridesmaid/agent assigned as his “fiancée” for the weekend. Until Luke discovers that sweet, vulnerable Scarlett Hanson isn’t his contact. Isn’t an agent. Isn’t trained for the high-stakes mission now trapping them both. And worse, Luke’s falling for her—which is not part of the assignment.Originally published in 2011
Missions to the Gaels: Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Ulster and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland 1560–1760
by Fiona A. MacDonaldThis book is an extended study, in the Post-Reformation period, of the impact of the Gaels in the west of Scotland and the north of Ireland on each other’s religious heritage. Beginning half a century before the plantation of Ulster, Missions to the Gaels illuminates the origins of the sectarian divisions in Northern Ireland. The research deals with both Protestants and Catholics, rather than treating only one denomination in isolation. The author explores the intriguing situation whereby Scottish Gaelic-speaking ministers laid the foundations of the embryonic Protestant Church in Ireland, while at the same time Irish-speaking priests were almost exclusively responsible for the reintroduction of Catholicism to the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. The range of this book extends beyond narrow ecclesiastical issues: it reveals the broader political and cultural forces that determined the Gaels’ choice of religious alignment and traces the effects of these over two centuries of turbulent change in Gaelic society.
Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa (African Studies)
by Raphael Chijioke Njoku Chima J. KoriehMissions, States, and European Expansion in Africa aims to explore the ways Christianity and colonialism acted as hegemonic or counter hegemonic forces in the making of African societies. As Western interventionist forces, Christianity and colonialism were crucial in establishing and maintaining political, cultural, and economic domination. Indeed, both elements of Africa’s encounter with the West played pivotal roles in shaping African societies during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This volume uses a wide range of perspectives to address the intersection between missions, evangelism, and colonial expansion across Africa. The contributors address several issues, including missionary collaboration with the colonizing effort of European powers; disagreements between missionaries and colonizing agents; the ways in which missionaries and colonial officials used language, imagery, and European epistemology to legitimize relations of inequality with Africans; and the ways in which both groups collaborated to transform African societies. Thus, Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa transcends the narrow boundaries that often separate the role of these two elements of European encounter to argue that missionary endeavours and official colonial actions could all be conceptualized as hegemonic institutions, in which both pursued the same civilizing mission, even if they adopted different strategies in their encounter with African societies.
Missions: Biblical Foundations and Contemporary Strategies
by Gailyn Van Rheenen“In a rapidly changing world,… the central missionary vision of the church must be constantly renewed, lest its foundations become lost in the confusion of change or its practices trapped in missionary models of the past.” In this second edition of Missions, long-time missionary Gailyn Van Rheenen revises and updates his classic text on Christian missions, laying sound theological and strategic foundations for the missionary of today and tomorrow.Van Rheenen helps renew the missionary vision by discussing areas such as:The history of Christian mission, and how it affects where we are todaySpiritual formation for God’s missionThe missionary cycleCross-cultural communicationThe character and calling of missionariesTypes of missionariesChurch maturationSelecting mission fieldsThe role of money in missionsFour levels of involvement in missionsBut Missions is more than blackboard theory. Written by a long-time missionary, it carries the conviction and insights of one who has lived his subject. Accessible to students, practitioners, and laypeople alike, Missions provides a primary go-to resource for understanding and becoming involved in the dynamic activity of world missions.
Mississippi Praying: Southern White Evangelicals and the Civil Rights Movement, 1945-1975
by Carolyn Renée DupontWinner of the 2013 Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Prize presented by the American Society of Church HistoryMississippi Praying examines the faith communities at ground-zero of the racial revolution that rocked America. This religious history of white Mississippians in the civil rights era shows how Mississippians’ intense religious commitments played critical, rather than incidental, roles in their response to the movement for black equality. During the civil rights movement and since, it has perplexed many Americans that unabashedly Christian Mississippi could also unapologetically oppress its black population. Yet, as Carolyn Renée Dupont richly details, white southerners’ evangelical religion gave them no conceptual tools for understanding segregation as a moral evil, and many believed that God had ordained the racial hierarchy. Challenging previous scholarship that depicts southern religious support for segregation as weak, Dupont shows how people of faith in Mississippi rejected the religious argument for black equality and actively supported the effort to thwart the civil rights movement. At the same time, faith motivated a small number of white Mississippians to challenge the methods and tactics of do-or-die segregationists. Racial turmoil profoundly destabilized Mississippi’s religious communities and turned them into battlegrounds over the issue of black equality. Though Mississippi’s evangelicals lost the battle to preserve segregation, they won important struggles to preserve the theology that had sustained the racial hierarchy. Ultimately, this history sheds light on the eventual rise of the religious right by elaborating the connections between the pre- and post-civil rights South.
Mist of Midnight: A Novel (The Daughters of Hampshire #1)
by Sandra ByrdIn the first of a brand-new series set in Victorian England, a young woman returns home from India after the death of her family to discover her identity and inheritance are challenged by the man who holds her future in his hands.Rebecca Ravenshaw, daughter of missionaries, spent most of her life in India. Following the death of her family in the Indian Mutiny, Rebecca returns to claim her family estate in Hampshire, England. Upon her return, people are surprised to see her...and highly suspicious. Less than a year earlier, an imposter had arrived with an Indian servant and assumed not only Rebecca's name, but her home and incomes. That pretender died within months of her arrival; the servant fled to London as the young woman was hastily buried at midnight. The locals believe that perhaps she, Rebecca, is the real imposter. Her home and her father's investments reverted to a distant relative, the darkly charming Captain Luke Whitfield, who quickly took over. Against her best intentions, Rebecca begins to fall in love with Luke, but she is forced to question his motives--does he love her or does he just want Headbourne House? If Luke is simply after the property, as everyone suspects, will she suffer a similar fate as the first "Rebecca"? A captivating Gothic love story set against a backdrop of intrigue and danger, Mist of Midnight will leave you breathless.
Mistaken Bride (Irish Brides #2)
by Renee RyanSecond in the series of three Irish sisters who travel to America for adventure—and love—from the author of The Wedding Journey and A Baby Between Them.When William Black’s mail-order bride fails to appear at the Boston docks, he’s relieved when beautiful, vibrant Bridget Murphy steps in. However, she has a surprise in store. She will be a temporary nanny to his young twins . . . but she will not marry without love.Faith Glen, Massachusetts, is worlds away from the poverty Bridget knew in Ireland. And William Black couldn’t be more different from her faithless ex-fiancé. Yet that integrity Bridget so admires binds William to a promise that could keep them apart forever. In this new land of opportunity, does she dare to wish for a happy ending?
Mistaken Identity
by Doug Dane&“Before I was born, I was set up for abuse.&” So begins the story of Doug Dane, who suffered years of physical and sexual abuse that left him broken, scarred, and unable to form healthy relationships. At the age of thirty-five, headed for a second divorce in four years, Doug realized that he was living like a rat trapped in a maze—anxious, desperate, making the same wrong turns over and over again in a futile search for peace. That moment was the catalyst for beginning a journey to freedom, a journey that would take him through years of self-discovery through which he found the simple truth: You are not who other people say you are. You are free to form your own identity, free from the guilt and shame of the past. You are worthy of more! Doug felt there had to be a better way. He spent years trying to find it but discovered the better way wasn&’t that hard and it didn&’t have to take so long. Mistaken Identity is a pathway to personal freedom that can happen fast if you&’ll let it. Here you will find— 30 simple life lessons that begin your journey to breaking free. Affirming truths that liberate you from guilt and shame. Easy, practical steps you can take right now to let go of your past and begin feeling better about yourself. Take the advice given here. Experience the transformation that is waiting for you.
Mistaken Identity
by Shirlee MccoyTHE WRONG TARGET When Trinity Miller's attacked by a man who mistakenly believes she's Mason Gains's girlfriend, the reclusive prosthetic maker is forced from seclusion to rescue her. And he soon learns someone's determined to get information on one of his clients-information they're willing to kill for. Now the former army pilot has to find a way to take down the men on their trail...and make sure Trinity survives. When Trinity arrived at Mason's isolated home to convince him to help her friend's son, her plans didn't include going on the run with him. But Trinity must work with Mason to outwit their pursuers...or risk losing both their lives.
Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope
by Don Van Ryn Susie Van Ryn Newell Cerak Colleen Cerak Whitney Cerak Mark TabbThis true story is a shocking case of mistaken identity that stunned the country and made national news. Would it destroy a family? Shatter their faith? Push two families into bitterness, resentment, and guilt? This is an unprecedented account of two traumatized families who describe their ordeal and explore the bond sustaining and uniting them as they deal with their bizarre reversal of life lost and life found. And join Whitney Cerak, the sole surviving student, as she comes to terms with her new identity, forever altered, yet on the brink of new beginnings.
Mistaken Identity: Two Families, One Survivor, Unwavering Hope
by Newell, Colleen Cerak Don & Van RynA grief reversed. A hope deferred. Mistaken Identity tells the unprecedented story of Laura Van Ryn and Whitney Cerak: one buried under the wrong name, and the other in a coma being cared for by the wrong family.Five lives were lost in a tragic car accident, and the sole survivor was rushed to the hospital, where she remained in a coma for five weeks. Everyone believed that Laura Van Ryn was in a coma, and that Whitney Cerak had died in the crash—until Whitney woke up. This shocking case of mistaken identity stunned the country and made national news. Would it destroy a family? Shatter their faith? Push two families into bitterness, resentment, and guilt? In Mistaken Identity, the Van Ryn family and the Cerek family describe their ordeal and explore the bond sustaining and uniting them as they deal with their bizarre reversal of life lost and life found. Mistaken Identity weaves a complex tale of honesty, vulnerability, loss, hope, faith, and love in the face of one of the strangest twists of circumstances imaginable.
Mistaken Mountain Abduction
by Shannon RedmonTracking a kidnapper leads to a deadly pursuit After her twin is abducted and mistaken for her, former army helicopter pilot Aggie Newton must move fast. She has to find her sister and figure out why&’s she&’s become a target—even if it means working with her ex. But Detective Bronson Young knows these criminals will do anything to stop their investigation. Can they dodge deadly attacks long enough to save Aggie&’s sister and expose the kidnappers?From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.
Mistaken Twin Target (Range River Bounty Hunters #3)
by Jenna NightA case of mistaken identity. A bounty hunter to the rescue. Taken by men who think she&’s her identical twin, Charlotte Halstead finds herself staring down the barrel of a gun. Thanks to bounty hunter Wade Fast Horse, she escapes their clutches, but she&’s not safe for long. Her twin sister suddenly goes missing, and someone wants Charlotte dead. Wade is her only hope for survival, but can they find Charlotte&’s sister before the killer finds them?From Love Inspired Suspense: Courage. Danger. Faith.Range River Bounty Hunters Book 1: Abduction in the DarkBook 2: Fugitive AmbushBook 3: Mistaken Twin Target
Mistaken Twin: Distress Signal Mistaken Twin No Safe Place (Love Insp Susp True Lp Trade Ser.)
by Jodie BaileyDrawn out of hiding…and marked for deathWhen someone attacks her at her shop, Jenna Clark knows her secret identity has been compromised. The killer she’s been hiding from has found her…or has he? Police officer Wyatt Stephens vows to protect her, but he doesn’t trust that she’s telling him the whole truth. Is the killer after Jenna, or has he mistaken her for her dead twin?
Mistaken for His Amish Bride: An Uplifting Inspirational Romance (North Country Amish #6)
by Patricia DavidsShe&’s not the woman he thinks she is…in this novel by USA TODAY bestselling author Patricia Davids. Falling for a fiancé she doesn&’t remember… Traveling to Maine in search of family, Mari Kemp is injured in an accident—and ends up with amnesia. Mistakenly believing she&’s the fiancée he&’s been exchanging letters with, wheelwright Asher Fisher will do anything to help Mari recover her memories. He&’s kind, caring—maybe even her perfect match. But she&’ll need to remember the past before she can see their future.From Love Inspired: Uplifting stories of faith, forgiveness and hope.North Country Amish Book 1: Shelter from the StormBook 2: The Amish Teacher's DilemmaBook 3: A Haven for ChristmasBook 4: Someone to TrustBook 5: An Amish Mother for His TwinsBook 6: Mistaken for His Amish Bride
Mistaken for the Mob
by Ginny AikenDEATH AND THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEMBeing mistaken for a gangster and accused of a series of murders she didn't commit was hardly the quiet life Maryanne Wellborn expected as a Philadelphia librarian. Who would have thought volunteering at her father's retirement home would be so complicated?When handsome but determined FBI agent J. Z. Prophet takes the case, Maryanne can tell he's prepared to bring her down - or die trying. But then the real mob gets involved, and the situation turns deadly. . . .
Mistaken: First Impressions Are Never What They Seem
by Karen BarnettSince booze and prohibition have made criminals out of every man in her world, Laurie Burke resolves to find at least one honorable man to fill her life. Convinced that handsome newcomer Daniel Shepherd is connected with her brother's rum-running gang, Laurie quickly scratches his name off her list. Daniel has mixed feelings about returning to the dirty mill town of his youth, but grudgingly agrees to manage his grandfather's drug store until a replacement can be found. The moment he meets Laurie on the windswept bluff overlooking the beach, he knows that if he can earn her love, he might have a reason to stay. But when Laurie pushes him away--for none other than Federal Agent Samuel Brown--Daniel wonders if Laurie really is the upstanding woman he thought her to be. The Strait of Juan de Fuca, just off the beaches of Port Angeles, Washington, was treacherous water for reckless rum-runners--and the agents who tried to catch them. So when she realizes her brother is in danger, romance is the last thing on Laurie's mind. Yet the people she believes she can trust, may not be so honorable after all.
Misterios de la Unción: Tú no estás limitado a tus propias habilidades humanas
by Benny HinnNO, TÚ NO ESTÁS LIMITADO A TUS PROPIAS HABILIDADES HUMANAS ¿Cómo es posible que algunos ministros, cuyas vidas —tanto en lo personal como en lo espiritual— están secas y en ruinas, actúen todavía bajo la unción y continúen ministrando con poder? El pastor Benny Hinn se planteó esta cuestión durante una temporada de prueba que atravesó. Su búsqueda lo llevó a entender, profundamente, tres tipos de unción que yacen en las Escrituras: la unción que está dentro de ti (1 Juan 2:27), la unción que está sobre ti (Hechos 18) y la unción global, que edifica y destruye naciones (Isaías 10:27). En este libro, Hinn explora esos tres tipos de unción, relata historias personales de cosas que aprendió de la mano de Kathryn Kuhlman y Oral Roberts, además de proporcionar ejemplos bíblicos e históricos que ilustran sus enseñanzas. En esta obra descubrirás... • Cómo detectar si la unción dentro de ti se está debilitando o ha desaparecido • La bendición —y los peligros— que pueden surgir cuando Dios comienza a usarte • Cuándo eres más vulnerable a un ataque demoníaco y qué hacer al respecto • Qué impide la unción en tu vida y tu ministerio, y qué la aumenta • El impacto de la unción en el mundo y cómo la experimentará la iglesia en mayor medida
Misterios inexplicables del cielo y la tierra: Claves bíblicas de nuestro mundo y del más allá
by Ron PhillipsLas obras del Señor son grandes, estudiadas por todos los que tienen placer en ellas. (Salmos 111:2) La Escritura indica claramente que hasta el mismo orden creativo grita como testigo de Dios. Salmos 19:1 dice que "los cielos cuentan la gloria de Dios, Y el firmamento anuncia la obra de sus manos". Las vastas extensiones del espacio ultraterrestre gritan la gloria de Dios. Los radiotelescopios están recogiendo sonidos de más allá de nuestra galaxia. Toda la creación es una sinfonía divina. Por otra parte, la escritura dice que "la verdad brotará de la tierra ..." (Salmos 85:11). El misterio enorme e inexplicable de la tierra clama por nuestra inspección y estudio. Viajemos más allá del tiempo, para analizar temas tales como: el arca del pacto, Melquisedec, Sodoma y Gomorra, los gigantes, Cristo, el anticristo, el rapto, la plenitud espiritual y otros misterios!
Mistletoe And Mayhem: Horrific Tales for the Holidays
by Richard N. Dalby[from inside flaps] "Martha Pym said that she had never seen a ghost and that she would very much like to do so, "particularly at Christmas, for you can laugh as you like, that is the correct time to see a ghost." So begins Marjorie Bowen's story, The Crown Derby Plate, which is guaranteed to send shivers down your spine. Martha Pym is right, Christmas is the time to curl up by the fire with a collection of stories designed to make your flesh creep. Some are new stories, specially commissioned for this volume, such as Basil Copper's chilling, Wish You Were Here, in which the postman delivers messages from beyond the grave. The author of Psycho, Robert Bloch, contributes The Night Before Christmas, a powerful tale not to be read by those of a nervous disposition. Others are by firm favourites such as Nigel Kneale, author of the classic, Quatermass. His story, The Stocking, tells of a Christmas visit from the furry, green-eyed, slithery, Minkeys. W. W. Jacobs, the master of the hair-raising short story, is represented by Jem Bundler, one of his most compelling tales of terror. From another time and another place comes Sabine Baring Gould's Mustapha, set in Egypt, which tells of a man tricked into damnation. A wide range of stories are included in Horror for Christmas from the cosily creepy to the truly horrific to make a treat for Christmas no-one will want to miss."
Mistletoe Courtship
by Janet Tronstad Sara MitchellLove is in the air this Christmas with two heartwarming holiday storiesChristmas Bells for Dry Creek by Janet TronstadThe holiday season brings quite a surprise for Virginia Parker. Her former boss, Colter Wells, is back in Dry Creek--with a newly discovered daughter who needs some female guidance. But can one motherless little girl--and the two adults bonded to her and to each other--make up a perfect family?The Christmas Secret by Sara MitchellClara Penrose's bluestocking ways have branded her a spinster among Virginia's elite. Yet a reunion with Dr. Ethan Harcourt rekindles feelings Clara thought long lost. Her second chance finally here, Clara needs only to catch the good doctor under the mistletoe!
Mistletoe Courtship: Christmas Bells for Dry Creek / The Christmas Secret
by Janet Tronstad Sara MitchellLove is in the air this Christmas with two heartwarming holiday stories by Janet Tronstad and Sara Mitchell. The holiday season brings quite a surprise for Virginia Parker. Her former boss, Colter Wells, is back in Dry Creek with a newly discovered daughter who needs some female guidance. Can one motherless little girl--and the two adults bonded to her and to each other--make up a perfect family? Clara Penrose's bluestocking ways have branded her a spinster among Virginia's elite. Yet a reunion with Dr. Ethan Harcourt rekindles feelings Clara thought long lost. Her second chance finally here, Clara needs only to catch the good doctor under the mistletoe!