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Paul Steffen, Missionsbeginn in Neuguinea. Die Anfänge der Rheinischen, Neuendettelsauer und Steyler Missionsarbeit in Neuguinea, Nettetal: Steyler Verlag, 1995, 312 pp., ISBN 3-8050-0351-X

Paul Steffen, Missionsbeginn in Neuguinea. Die Anfänge der Rheinischen, Neuendettelsauer und... In 1886 the Neuendettelsauer Mission from the Lutheran Church of Bavaria, South-Germany, started its work in the Northeast of present-day Papua New Guinea. The interdenominational Rheinische Mission followed in 1887 and the Catholic Steyler Society of the Divine Word in 1895. The history of these three initiatives is studied in one volume and even put under the same formal schedule: principal settlements, schools, language problems, translations, missionary enterprises (mostly large-scale coconut plantations), liturgical services, personnel, expatriate and local, relations to other missions. On the basis of library and archival research Steffen gives the details of a thorough and extremely successful organization to spread the new faith for this area, introducing at the same time literacy, hygiene, a culture of living in settle- ments, while surviving several political changes in the period until 1940. The similarities between the three German organizations were so great, that Steffen even could not find major differences. The content of the new faith brought by the mission, is not the subject of this detailed, well documented but rather for- mal and dry book.-Karel Steenbrink Short Notes Martien E. Brinkman, Progress in Unity? Ffty Years of Theology within the World Council of Churches 1945-1995. Louvain/Grand http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Exchange Brill

Paul Steffen, Missionsbeginn in Neuguinea. Die Anfänge der Rheinischen, Neuendettelsauer und Steyler Missionsarbeit in Neuguinea, Nettetal: Steyler Verlag, 1995, 312 pp., ISBN 3-8050-0351-X

Exchange , Volume 24 (2): 4 – Jan 1, 1995
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In 1886 the Neuendettelsauer Mission from the Lutheran Church of Bavaria, South-Germany, started its work in the Northeast of present-day Papua New Guinea. The interdenominational Rheinische Mission followed in 1887 and the Catholic Steyler Society of the Divine Word in 1895. The history of these three initiatives is studied in one volume and even put under the same formal schedule: principal settlements, schools, language problems, translations, missionary enterprises (mostly large-scale coconut plantations), liturgical services, personnel, expatriate and local, relations to other missions. On the basis of library and archival research Steffen gives the details of a thorough and extremely successful organization to spread the new faith for this area, introducing at the same time literacy, hygiene, a culture of living in settle- ments, while surviving several political changes in the period until 1940. The similarities between the three German organizations were so great, that Steffen even could not find major differences. The content of the new faith brought by the mission, is not the subject of this detailed, well documented but rather for- mal and dry book.-Karel Steenbrink Short Notes Martien E. Brinkman, Progress in Unity? Ffty Years of Theology within the World Council of Churches 1945-1995. Louvain/Grand

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