Table of Contents

Introduction The Sierra Leone Mission: Survey of a Laboratory Henry Venn's Scheme and the Sierra Leone Option State of Transition Planting the Seed: An African Ministry The Formation of a Native Pastorate Problems of Growth Growing Problems Ethiopianism: A Counterquest for Identity and Independence The African Vision Managing the Euthanasia New Possibilities, Old Problems The Challenge of Independence Summary Appendix Bibliography

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Examines the pivotal role African agents, influences, and reactions played in transforming a mission into a national autonomous church.

About the Author

JEHU HANCILES is Associate Professor of Mission History and Globalization, at the School of World Mission, Fuller Theological Seminary. He has published widely in the areas of African Christianty and Missions.

Reviews

"...Jehu J. Hanciles illustrates how the members of the Anglican church in his native Sierra Leone reacted to the application of Venn's policy, and describes the profound racial and ecclesiastical crises it provoked. He also details its contribution to the pan-African "Ethioplanism" movement which was to become influential in the African dispora. Moreover this stimulating, scholarly and critical work by one of the leading younger West African historians makes an important contribution to the now burgeoning discipline missiology" Christopher Fyfe, Reader in African History (retired), University of Edinburgh "Euthanasia of a Mission brings full circle studies of the remarkable Henry Venn, foremost British missionary leader in the nineteenth century. By concentrating on the impact of Venn's policies and administrative initiatives on the ground--both for the missionary and the local church--Dr. Hanciles lays bare the dynamic and often troubled relations among the several parties. At once a visionary thinker and a forceful administrator, Venn helped unleash forces that contributed to the economic, social, and political development of West African societies. This groundbreaking study gives us a fresh angle from which to understand the modern missionary process that was still in process of formation when Venn launched his famous Native Pastorate Experiment in 1860." Wilbert R. Shenk, Paul E. Pierson Professor of Mission History and Contemporary Culture, Fuller Theologian Seminary, Pasadena, California