Jullus Richter and the Scientific Study of Christian Missions in Germany

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Does an article on the writings and advocacy of Professor Julius Richter qualify for inclusion in our series on the great missiologists of the Church? Some see him as just a popularizer of missions; others dismiss him too readily on other grounds. Indeed, we also (here on the North American island in the enlightened 1970s) are scandalized by his unabashed colonialism and German nationalism. And yet, as a prominent missionary ecumenist, he deliberately resisted the negativism toward mission that characterized his turbulent times, and helped to close the gaping wounds that World War I inflicted on German missionary outreach. As “the protégé of Gustav Warneck, the founder of the science of missions, Richter … became the real leader of German missiology” after Warneck's death in 1910.

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