Arthur Glasser

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Background
Christianity
Protestantism
Chinese history
Missions timeline
Christianity in China
Nestorian China missions
Catholic China missions
Jesuit China missions
Protestant China missions

People
Karl Gützlaff
J. Hudson Taylor
Lammermuir Party
Lottie Moon
Timothy Richard
Jonathan Goforth
Cambridge Seven
Eric Liddell
Gladys Aylward
(more missionaries)

Missionary agencies
China Inland Mission
London Missionary Society
American Board
Church Missionary Society
US Presbyterian Mission
(more agencies)

Impact
Chinese Bible
Medical missions in China
Manchurian revival
Chinese Colleges
Chinese Hymnody
Chinese Roman Type
Cantonese Roman Type
Anti-Footbinding
Anti-Opium

Pivotal events
Taiping Rebellion
Opium Wars
Unequal Treaties
Yangzhou riot
Tianjin Massacre
Boxer Crisis
Xinhai Revolution
Chinese Civil War
WW II
People's Republic

Chinese Protestants
Liang Fa
Keuh Agong
Xi Shengmo
Sun Yat-sen
Feng Yuxiang
John Sung
Wang Mingdao
Allen Yuan
Samuel Lamb

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Dr Arthur F. Glasser (born September 10, 1914) is the Dean Emeritus of the School of Intercultural Studies at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is a missionary theologian, having spent five years of missionary service in China. That followed a short engineering career and stint as a Navy Chaplain in World War II, where his foundational spiritual training came through The Navigators.

He served in China with the China Inland Mission (now OMF International), and saw the organization go through revolutionary changes as China’s government changed and missionaries were expelled.

He became their North American Director for almost fifteen years, and during that time began his teaching career, which brought him to Fuller Seminary in 1970.

He served many years as Journal Editor and then President of the American Society of Missiology, and has been actively involved in Jewish evangelism efforts. He is one of the pioneers of developing the academic discipline of missiology and has had a broad and deep impact upon a generation of missiologists.

His book Announcing the Kingdom: The Story of God's Mission in the Bible represents a lifetime of his teaching and portrays mission as the center of God's plan and the grand unifying theme of human history.

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