God's Gentlemen: A History of the Melanesian Mission, 1849–1942
David Hilliard
May 2013 · University of Queensland Press
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342
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About this ebook
Originally published in 1978, God’s Gentlemen remains the only detached and detailed historical analysis of the work of the Melanesian Mission, which grew out of the personal vision of George Selwyn, the first bishop of the Church of England in New Zealand. Starting with its New Zealand beginnings and its Norfolk Island years from 1867 to 1920, the book follows the Mission’s shift of headquarters to the Solomon Islands and beyond through the beginning of World War II. Based on a wide range of sources, God’s Gentlemen is the inner history of the slow growth of an important and genuinely Melanesian church.
About the author
David Hilliard is an associate professor in the School of International Studies at Flinders University in Adelaide. He is an expert on the history of the Anglican church in Australia from 1945 to the present as well as on the secularization of modern life. Hilliard is an associate editor of the Journal of Religious History, an advisory editor of Anglican & Episcopal History, and a member of the international advisory board for the Journal of Ecclesiastical History.
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