Abstract/Sommario: James W. C. Dougall (1896-1980)was for 20 years the secretary of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, beginning soon after the end of the Second World War. A theme to which he returned again and again is the primacy of evangelism and personal conversion. For him education was at the heart of Mission. Dougall's African experience left him impressed with the need of indigenization of the faith. While recognizing that, in the future, missionaries would go not to establish the ...; [Leggi tutto...]
James W. C. Dougall (1896-1980)was for 20 years the secretary of the Church of Scotland Foreign Mission Committee, beginning soon after the end of the Second World War. A theme to which he returned again and again is the primacy of evangelism and personal conversion. For him education was at the heart of Mission. Dougall's African experience left him impressed with the need of indigenization of the faith. While recognizing that, in the future, missionaries would go not to establish their own missions but rather to serve the indigenous church, he sustained the missionary vocation