THE IDEAL OF THE SELF-GOVERNING CHURCH

CONTENTS

Notes on Presentation

Abbreviations

Introduction

Acknowledgements

I The Ideal Defined: Henry Venn and the Emergence of the Independent Native Church as a Controlling Objective

The Forties: Objectives Defined

The Fifties: Objectives Refined

The Sixties: Objectives Confined

II The Ideal Expanded: Henry Wright and the Problems of the Seventies

James Johnson and the Native Pastorate in Sierra Leone and Lagos

South India, Native Church Councils and Bishops

The Ceylon Controversy and the CMS

West Africa: James Johnson and Bishop Samuel Crowther

III The Ideal Threatened: CMS Policy in the Eighties

Compromise in Ceylon

Native Church Councils in Bengal

Native Church Councils in the Punjab and Sindh

The CMS and the Nippon Sei-Kokwai

James Johnson and the Yoruba Episcopate

The Parent Committee and the Niger, 1882-1888

Conclusion

IV The Ideal Undermined: The Niger, CMS and Indigenous Church Government, 1889-1894

G.W. Brooke and Changes in Direction

Confrontation and Compromise, February 1890-January 1891

Challenged by African and European Missionaries

The PC and the African Niger Church

The PC and the European Niger Missionaries

Securing a CMS Mission on the Niger

Conclusion

V The Ideal Replaced: Self-Government and a Native Episcopate Re-examined, 1895-1910

The Secretariat and Tinnevelly

The Centenary Review Committee and the Native Church

Redefining Native Church Organization

A Historical Retrospect

VI Ideals Compromised: CMS Policy towards the Niger and Uganda, 1894-1909

Defensiveness on the Niger

The Reassertion of CMS Influence, 1894-1898

The Elevation of James Johnson to the Episcopate

Retaining a Decisive Role for Mission in the Church of Uganda

Pre-1901 Memorandum Negotiations

Post-1901 Memorandum Negotiations

VII The Ideals in Retrospect

Appendix: Statistics of CMS Missionaries, "Native" Workers, including Clergy and Communicants, by Decades

Bibliography

Index