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 →

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 →

Women’s voices at New College Library TAGS: Church of Scotland | missionary | New College Library | Theology & Ethics | World Christianity After my last blog post which focused on the women who gave their books to support the foundation of New College Library, I’ve been thinking about some of the collections we have which …Continue reading →

Christ or Confucius, Which? TAGS: China | Divinity | New College Library | World Christianity Christ or Confucius, Which? is just one of the book titles now on display in New College Library, in honour of the conference being held on James Legge and Scottish …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 →

Chinese calligraphy on display at New College Library TAGS: China | New College Library | seventeenth-century | Special Collections | World Christianity On display in the New College Library entrance this week is the  beautiful Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting (Inglis 23). This is a classic treatise of calligraphic art on …Continue reading →

New Chinese journal at New College Library TAGS: China | Divinity | journals | New College Library | World Christianity I’m pleased to be able to say that the journal Sino-Christian Studies is now available at New College Library at Per S. Sino-Christian studies : an international journal of Bible, …Continue reading →

Chinese rare books on display for Peking University at Edinburgh Day TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | China | Chinese | Divinity | New College Library | World Christianity New College Library was part of the University of Edinburgh’s Peking at Edinburgh day on Monday 18 November with a display of Chinese items from our Special Collections. These included the beautiful …Continue reading →