George Smith

The Life of William Carey, D.D

Shoemaker and Missionary

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating account of the life of William Carey, one of the nineteenth century's pioneers of Protestant mission in India.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9781108029186
• ISBN-10: 1108029183
• Artikelnr.: 33398638

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Carey's College
2. The birth of England's foreign missions
3. India as Carey found it
4. Six years in North Bengal - missionary and indigo planter
5. The new crusade - Serampore and the Brotherhood
6. The first native converts and Christian schools
7. Calcutta and the mission centres from Delhi to Amboyna
8. Carey's family and friends
9. Professor of Sanskrit, Bengali, and Marathi
10. The Wiclif of the east - Bible translation
11. What Carey did for literature and for humanity
12. What Carey did for science - founder of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India
13. Carey's immediate influence in Great Britain and America
14. Carey as an educator - the first Christian college in the east
15. Carey's last days
Appendix
Index.