RARE! Irish Church Missionary Society Max Warren Hand Signed FDC From 1952

  
"Church Missionary Society" Max Warren Signed First Day Cover Dated 1952. Dun Laoghaire, Ireland, of Irish missionary parents, Warren spent his early. After schooling in England, he studied at Cambridge - history.

At Jesus College and theology at Ridley Hall. As a student, he was a member of.

The Hausa Band, whose members committed themselves to evangelizing Muslims in. However, less than a year after arriving at Zaria with CMS in. 1927, he contracted tubercular iritis and had to be invalided home. Physical and mental recuperation, ordination, and youth ministry in Winchester.

As general secretary of CMS from 1942 to 1963, Warren foresaw. And interpreted the decolonization period, played a major role in mission. Conferences, acted as international adviser to Archbishop Geoffrey Fisher, and.

Educated the Christian public through the monthly. From 1963 to 1973 Warren was canon and subdean of Westminster Abbey, London.

Strategic organizer behind ecclesiastical and political scenes, an external. Examiner for Cambridge University, a valued counselor to key people in public.

Life as well as to young mission scholars, he received a constant stream of. Visitors from all over the world. He was elected an honorary fellow of Jesus. A trained and perceptive historian, Warren stressed. God's involvement in the whole of history and God's action among peoples.

Circulation of about 14,000. In it he interpreted current missiological books. And reflected vividly and theologically of key issues of the day, drawing on. His regular personal correspondence with missionaries.

And politicians as well as by missionaries and bishops, he saw himself as on a watchtower. Like his favorite prophet, Habakkuk. Averse to bureaucracy and centralizing. Control and delighting in flexible initiatives, his writings stressed personal. Relationship as the heart of mission and the importance of the voluntary. Warren edited the Christian Presence series and gave two.

Stimulating series of lectures in the Faculty of Divinity, Cambridge. University, which were published as. Other major missiological works include. (1951), which was an early exposition of holistic. Addresses given to South African clergy; and the final affirmation that summed.

I Believe in the Great Commission. Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions. Anderson (New York: Macmillan Reference USA, 1998), 719. Anderson, by permission of Mamillan Reference USA, New York, NY.