Henry Venn (Church Missionary Society)
- Henry Venn (Church Missionary Society)
Henry Venn (February 10, 1796 - January 13, 1873), was honorary secretary of the Church Missionary Society from 1841 to 1873. He expounded the basic principles of indigenous Christian missions later addressed and made widespread by the Lausanne Congress of 1974.
Venn and Rufus Anderson of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions were the first to use the term "indigenous church" in the mid-nineteenth century. They wrote about the necessity for creating churches in the missions field that were self-supporting, self-governing, and self-propagating (Venn used the term "self-extending"). [Citation
last =Terry
first =John Mark
contribution = Indigenous Churches
year =2000
title =Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions
editor-last =Moreau
editor-first =A. Scott
pages =483-485
place=Grand Rapids, MI
publisher = Baker Books] Venn is often quoted as encouraging the "euthanasia of missions," which meant that missionaries were to be considered temporary workers and not permanent. [cite journal
last = Shenk
first = Wilbert R.
title =Henry Venn's legacy
journal =Occasional Bulletin of Missionary Research
volume =1
issue =2
pages =16–19
date = 1977]
References
See also
* Henry Venn (Clapham Sect)
* Rufus Anderson
* John Livingstone Nevius
* Three-Self Patriotic Movement
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