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    surprising. Peoples’ perspectives change which in turn can change their sense of identity. In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart Mr. Brown was sent out to Africa with one mission‚ to convert and colonize Nigeria. However‚ unlike most others Mr. Brown is a missionary that is full of compassion and love for the Ibo people. While in Umuofia‚ Mr. Brown gains knowledge about the Ibo people’s culture and beliefs‚ tries to protect them‚ and is sad when he has to leave them‚ which is evidence

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    breaking larger groups into small groups in order to gain dominance over them. On the other hand‚ robbing Indonesia of its resources and freedom wasn’t their only goal. Besides the Soldiers and Explorers there were also missionaries that tagged along with them. These few missionaries wanted to spread God’s word to Indonesia by persuading the natives to believe In Jesus.(seputarpendidikan.com) The Dutch left a lot of influence in terms of politics‚ religion and economy and has not faded away even after

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    by arranging information from the many accounts written by various travellers who may have happened upon an out of the ordinary culture. In this way the theories they produced have very little concrete evidence to back them up‚ as travellers‚ missionaries and other sources had very little anthropological experience. The next generation of anthropologists including Hadden‚ Seligman and Rivers‚ did move a step closer to real fieldwork. By travelling to the country that concerned their area of study

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    positions of the Reformers and the era in which premillennialism emerged anew in the evangelical context. And strategic biblical arguments for the premillennial belief will be brought forward. Finally‚ the potential impact of amillennialism on the missionary mandate will be examined‚ and the propensity of amillennialism toward liberalism and evolution will be explored. I. Definitions A. Millennialism can be described as the belief that there will be righteous rule of 1‚000 years on this earth:

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    the novel “Things Fall Apart”‚ colonialism is greatly expressed towards the end of part two and all throughout part three. The way the novel goes about it is through Christian missionaries‚ who then‚ later in the book‚ try to completely take control and dominate their culture. I personally believe in Christians missionaries‚ but in “Things Fall Apart”‚ the way they went about it was wrong. Christians can discuss people’s relationship with god without completely bashing other religions. I agree more

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    was mainly in the hands of missionaries. Had it not been for the missionaries‚ primary and secondary education could have 129 delayed much longer coming to Zambia than was the case. So Zambia owes a great deal from the early missionaries for its educational system. The mis- sionaries laid the foundation on which Zambia continued to build. Discuss- ing educational development in Zambia without mentioning the missionar- ies is incomplete. However‚ the role of missionaries in development of Zambia

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    report was that he was captured by the Xiongnu and this woman helped him escape. He traveled to the western tribes to make an alliance but they refused. Missionaries usually made religious contacts. The missionaries’ main goal was to spread their religion so more people convert. Examples of religious contact by missionaries are buddhist missionaries. They traveled all throughout Southeast Asia‚ settled there for a while‚ and successfully converted a lot of people into Buddhism. The Asian countries’

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    where he converted Gentiles. This helped make Christianity a universal religion (missions‚ journeys) Through Paul’s writings and missionary Journeys to the communities of Antioch‚ Galatians‚ Romans‚ Philippians and many more he was able to establish Christianity as a separate entity from Judaism for the first time through Paul’s dedication to writings and his missionary Journeys he was able to establish some of the earliest Christian communities seen as their own entity‚ separate from Judaism for

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    ng inki e th m a got into o. It n it ag tu r ears I’ll 16 y day is e e th . On wrot ents I em Mov bo ut a . . . bo ok THE CONTINUING MINISTRY OF THE APOSTLE n d iso IN THE CHURCH’S MISSION e Ad Stev 2011 et une nts.n 15 J eme .mo v www A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of The School of Theology Fuller Theological Seminary In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Ministry by Stephen B. Addison October‚ 1995 A Basis for the Continuing Ministry of The Apostle

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    Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. The book follows the life of an Igbo clan before Christian missionaries imperialize the natives. When the missionaries come‚ they begin to dominate the indigenous people and the African culture begins to fall apart. Even though the Christians helps bring education and new careers to the Africans‚ it also destroys their customs and freedom. Achebe’s Things

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