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Collection Title: Venn, Henry: Collection
Dates: 1835-1873
Identification: CFT00043
Creator:
Venn, H. (Henry), 1725-1797
Physical Description: 3.00
Language of Materials:
English
Repository:
David Allan Hubbard Library Archives
135 N. Oakland Avenue
Pasadena, CA, 91182-0002
URL: http://library.fuller.edu/archives/
Email: archives@fuller.edu
Phone: (626) 584-5311
Fax: (626) 584-5613
Henry Venn (February 10, 1796 - January 13, 1873) was honorary secretary of the Church Missionary Society from 1841 to 1873.
He was an early exponent of the principles of indigenous Christian mission leadership.
Venn and Rufus Anderson of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions were the first to use the term "indigenous
church" in the mid-nineteenth century. They wrote about the necessity for creating churches in the mission field that were
self-supporting, self-governing, and self-propagating (Venn used the term "self-extending"). Venn is quoted by Wilbert Shenk,
among others, as encouraging the "euthanasia of missions," meaning that missionaries should be considered temporary workers
and not permanent.
This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
Church Missionary Society
Shenk, Wilbert R.
Venn, H. (Henry), 1725-1797
Indigenous church administration
The Gift of Wilbert Shenk
Scholarly use within parameters of copyright law.
Supervised use only.
This collection consists of thirteen bound volumes of Church Missionary Society correspondence by Clerical Secretary Henry
Venn, from 1835 to 1873, including Indexes; and photocopies of the Collected Writings of Henry Venn in nine bound volumes.