The perils of Christian mission : writing from the New World TAGS: Africa | China | Fiji | India | missions | New College Library | Syria | World Christianity Guest curator Suzi Higton writes about her current display in the Funk Reading Room case In their quest to spread the Word of God, missionaries have for centuries traversed continents …Continue reading →

Writing from the Holy Land, writing from the heart – Robert Murray McCheyne TAGS: Archives | Israel | missions | New College Library | Palestine A post from guest curator Amy Plender, PhD student, School of Divinity The theme of this month’s student led display at New College Library is diary writing, particularly diarists writing about their experience of …Continue reading →

‘W’ Collection provides a window into the world of eighteenth-century India TAGS: eighteenth-century | India | missions | New College Library | rare books One of the current Special Collections cataloguing projects at New College Library is the W4/5 section which includes works on ecclesiastical history and theology. In this collection we were pleased …Continue reading →

Global journals for World Christianity TAGS: e-journals | Korea | missions | World Christianity The University of Edinburgh subscribes to a wide range of academic journals for the School of Divinity, but we’re also active in making the most of open access journals that …Continue reading →

Mission to the Middle East : discovering collections TAGS: Archives | Church of Scotland | Israel | Jewish | missions | World Christianity This week New College Library welcomes delegates of the 2016 conference of the Yale-Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity. I’ve been discovering that New College …Continue reading →

Unique World Christianity Collections coming home to New College, Edinburgh TAGS: Africa | Archives | China | Divinity | India | missions | New College Library | Syria | World Christianity Now we’re in the in the final stages of the Centre for the Studies of World Christianity Library (CSWC) Project, we’re receiving daily deliveries of books to New College Library from the Library …Continue reading →

Missionary to the North – The Paterson Bible Collection TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Funk | missions | New College Library | rare books | russia | World Christianity In early 2014 we began work to catalogue the Paterson Bible Collection, as part of the Funk Cataloguing Projects at New College Library. This collection of over 300 Bibles in …Continue reading →

Behind the Scenes at New College Library #ILW2014 TAGS: Andrew Bonar | Church of Scotland | innovative learning week | missions | New College Edinburgh | Thomas Chalmers A guest post from Liz Louis, student on the MLitt in Museum and Gallery Studies at the University of St Andrews and volunteer at New College Library Object Strongroom. Liz …Continue reading →

New journal for World Christianity TAGS: Africa | Divinity | journals | missions | New College Library | World Christianity Recently added to the collections for Divinity at New College Library is the Journal of African Christian thought : journal of the Akrofi-Christaller Memorial Centre for Mission Research and Applied Theology. …Continue reading →

J.H. Oldham (1874-1969) : Missionary and Ecumenical Pioneer TAGS: Archives | Christianity | Church of Scotland | ecumenism | missions | New College Library | Theology & Ethics | twentieth-century | World Christianity Today, 16 May, is the anniversary of the death of J.H. Oldham. Joseph Houldsworth Oldham (1874-1969) was a missionary and pioneer of ecumenism. The organising secretary for the 1910 World …Continue reading →