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Pitfalls of Trained Incapacity: The Unintended Effects of Integral Missionary Training in the Basel Mission on Its Early Work in Ghana (1828–1840). American Society of Missiology Monograph Series vol. 26. Eugene, Oregon, usa, Pickwick Publications, 2016. Pp. viii + 372. $44.00.Birgit Herppich provides an excellent case study for those interested in the history of Christian missionary work. Herppich is an adjunct professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, and she currently works with wec (Worldwide Evangelization for Christ) International, an interdenominational church-planting missions agency. She is a native of Germany and served as a missionary in Ghana for eight years. These factors, coupled with her research interests, qualify her for this unique study. Herppich “advance[s] the thesis that the Basel Missionary Training Institute constituted a ‘community of practice’ which produced various levels of ‘trained incapacity’ in the missionaries it sent to foreign lands” (4). A community of practice is a group of people engaged in a process of collective learning within a shared domain of endeavor (i.e., they share a passion for something and learn how to do it better through mutual interaction). Trained incapacity is a term from sociological studies that refers to “a situation in which education, training, and
Mission Studies – Brill
Published: May 2, 2017
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