The World, The Flesh and the Devil

The Life and Opinions of Samuel Marsden in England and the Antipodes, 1765–1838

Andrew Sharp

• Publisher: Auckland University Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781869408121
• eBook ISBN: 9781775587088
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Australian & Oceanian History

New Zealanders know Samuel Marsden as the founder of the CMS missions that brought Christianity (and perhaps sheep) to New Zealand. Australians know him as 'the flogging parson' who established large landholdings and was dismissed from his position as magistrate for exceeding his jurisdiction. English readers know of Marsden for his key role in the history of missions and empire. In this major biography spanning research, and the subject's life, across England, New South Wales and New Zealand, Andrew Sharp tells the story of Marsden's life from the inside. Sharp focuses on revealing to modern readers the powerful evangelical lens through which Marsden understood the world. By diving deeply into key moments – the voyage out, the disputes with Macquarie, the founding of missions – Sharp gets us to reimagine the world as Marsden saw it: always under threat from the Prince of Darkness, in need of 'a bold reprover of vice', a world written in the words of the King James Bible. Andrew Sharp takes us back into the nineteenth-century world, and an evangelical mind, to reveal the past as truly a foreign country.

INDEX

Abbot, Edward 184, 186, 187, 198, 199, 252, 285

aboriginal New Hollanders 118

annual assembly of tribes 332–33, 495, 562

Brisbane’s sympathies 625, 627

British House of Commons Select Committee on Aborigines (1835–37) 728, 729, 730, 737

Church Missionary Society mission 624, 626–27, 629, 636, 661, 742, 752, 753

Clode’s work 148, 150

compared to New Zealanders 373, 374, 684, 697

education 127, 140–42, 635–36, 637, 638

and European colonisation 713

impressions of early Europeans 149–50

Irvine’s plan for Calvinist evangelical mission 553

in Johnson’s household 127–28, 317

London Missionary Society mission 594, 600, 624, 627–33, 636, 637, 638–39

Macquarie’s interest 316–18, 333, 624–25, 626

Native Institution, New South Wales 317–18, 333, 351, 562, 610, 624–25, 626, 634

Sadlier’s report to Scott 637

servants 140, 149

Tahitian missionaries’ views on evangelisation 148–49

Te Pahi’s contempt 232

Wesleyan Missionary Society mission 624, 625, 637

aboriginal New Hollanders: Marsden: aboriginals in household 140–41, 275, 317

letter to Scott on missions 633–36, 637

low estimate 683

reputation 771

responsibility for Colony’s relationships 183, 191–96, 317, 634

seminary plan 369, 370–71, 413, 600–01, 602

Sunday school teaching by Ann and Elizabeth Marsden 643

views on kind treatment 665

Aborigines’ Protecti...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: The life and opinions of Samuel Marsden
• Freight from England, 1765–1793
• A Rising Man in New South Wales, 1794–1807
• At Work in England, 1807–1809
• Tribulations and Triumphs in the Antipodes, 1810–c. 1828
• Towards a More Peaceful End, Until 1838
• Appendix Marsden’s character in the hands of others, 1838–2014
• Notes
• Selected Sources
• List of Figures
• Index
• Plates
• Copyright Page
• Backcover