Robert Moffat

Bruce Ritchie

• Publisher: Luviri Press
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9789996086564
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Religion

'This book, about the Scottish missionary Robert Moffat (1795-1883), is a completely new study of the theology, faith, piety of a missionary of the classical period of Protestant missions in southern Africa. It comprehensively analyses the factors which moulded the mindset of missionaries such as Moffat and his son-in-law David Livingstone, especially the effects of the Evangelical Revival, Scottish Calvinism, and the Scottish Enlightenment. As part of this major study, Ritchie also assesses to what extent these factors aided or hindered the missionary interaction with traditional culture and beliefs.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Copyright
• Title page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations and Contractions
• Introduction
• Time Line
• PREPARATION
• THE NATURE AND KNOWLEDGE OF GOD
• THE POWER AND PROVIDENCE OF GOD
• THE COMMONALITY OF ALL HUMANITY
• THE CENTRALITY OF JESUS CHRIST
• THE CREATION OF A CHRISTIAN CHURCH
• THE APPROACH TO MISSION
• THE VEXED QUESTION OF CIVILISATION
• Bibliography
• Appendix 1 | Brown’s Catechism
• Appendix 2 | The Sand River Convention (1852)
• Appendix 3 | Letters from the Missionary Meeting (1853)
• Appendix 4 | Reflections on his 71st Birthday
• Index
• Back cover