Henry Martyn Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812
Henry Martyn Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812

Author: Smith George

Publisher: Hardpress Publishing

Published: 2016-06-23

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 9781318997756

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British Protestant Missions and the Conversion of Europe, 1600–1900
British Protestant Missions and the Conversion of Europe, 1600–1900

Author: Simone Maghenzani

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-09-14

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0429516843

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This book is the first account of British Protestant conversion initiatives directed towards continental Europe between 1600 and 1900. Continental Europe was considered a missionary land—another periphery of the world, whose centre was imperial Britain. British missions to Europe were informed by religious experiments in America, Africa, and Asia, rendering these offensives against Europe a true form of "imaginary colonialism". British Protestant missionaries often understood themselves to be at the forefront of a civilising project directed at Catholics (and sometimes even at other Protestants). Their mission was further reinforced by Britain becoming a land of compassionate refuge for European dissenters and exiles. This book engages with the myth of International Protestantism, questioning its early origins and its narrative of transnational belonging, while also interrogating Britain as an imagined Protestant land of hope and glory. In the history of western Christianities, "converting Europe" had a role that has not been adequately investigated. This is the story of the attempted, and ultimately failed, effort to convert a continent.

Henry Martyn
Henry Martyn

Author: GEORGE. SMITH

Publisher:

Published: 2020-06-15

Total Pages: 468

ISBN-13: 9781847021205

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Henry Martyn (1781-1812) was an Anglican priest and missionary to the peoples of India and Persia. Born in Truro, Cornwall, he attended St John's College, Cambridge and after being ordained a priest in the Church of England he became a chaplain for the British East India Company. He arrived in India in April 1806 where he preached and studied linguistics, later translating the whole of the New Testament into Urdu, Persian and Judaeo-Persic. He also translated the Pslams into Persian and the Book of Common Prayer into Urdu. From India, he set out for Bushire, Shiraz, Isfahan, and then on to Tabriz where he had hoped to present his translation of the New Testament to the Shah. On his return journey to England in 1812 he was seized with fever, and unable to continue further was forced to stop in Tokat, although the plague was raging there. He wrote his final diary entry on October 6, 1812 and died ten days later. Martyn is remembered for his courage, selflessness, and religious devotion. His love for Lydia Grenfell, who he had hoped would join him in India as his wife, is well-documented in his diary and surviving letters to her, which are quoted in George Smith's lengthy biography, first published in 1892, as are extracts from Lydia's own diary. The biography makes extensive use of Martyn's papers and private letters, now held at Westminster College, Cambridge, and draws on reminiscences of his associates. Smith was a Scottish historian and geographer who spent his working life in India, moving to Calcutta in 1855 where he became successively Fellow of the University and their Examiner, editor of the Calcutta Review, and from 1860 official India correspondent for the Times newspaper in Britain. By the 1870s he had returned to Scotland where he was editor of the journal Friends of India, Secretary of the United Free Church of Scotland, and Vice President of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society. Smith was the author of several biographies of religious figures and missionaries to India, and also books on Indian politics and geography.

Henry Martyn (1781-1812), Scholar and Missionary to India and Persia
Henry Martyn (1781-1812), Scholar and Missionary to India and Persia

Author: John R. C. Martyn

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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This biography of Henry Martyn, the linguist, scholar and missionary to India and Persia in the 19th century, presents the facts of his life as objectively as possible. The text draws on Henry's journals and letters as well as the work of contemporary biographers.