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27 de jun. de 2018 · Alexander Duff. The Scottish Presbyterian missionary Alexander Duff (1806-1878) was a pioneer of Christian education in India and a foremost leader of the world missionary movement of his day. Alexander Duff was born in Moulin on April 25, 1806, into a pious family. He was a brilliant student at St. Andrews University.
2 de mar. de 2021 · Duff (1806–1878) was the first foreign missionary of the Church of Scotland and a leading figure in promoting Christian education in India. Duff pioneered what he called 'downward filter theory' which centred on educating India's upper caste through English in the hope that this elite group would then take responsibility for the evangelisation and modernisation of South Asia.
18 de ago. de 2017 · Duff found that Brahmins and other caste Hindus who could. afford to do so co-operated with each other to form small one-teacher schools of their own, classes being held in the home of one of the. 1 Alexander Duff, India and Indian Missions, pp. 530-33, 2nd Edition, Edinburgh, 1840. I6o.
Today, Alexander Duff is largely forgotten, his memory eclipsed by his younger contemporary, David Livingston. Yet when Duff died in 1878, the Times contained a long obituary, Prime Minister Gladstone eulogised him and Scotland mourned as a nation that had lost its noblest son. Few then would have thought it possible that Duff would ever be ...
13 de feb. de 2017 · Alexander Duff, born at Auchnahyle in the parish of Moulin, Perthshire, was the first Church of Scotland missionary to go to India. He studied arts and theology at the University of St Andrews before being ordained in 1829. The foreign mission committee of the Church of Scotland’s general assembly invited Duff to be their first….
10 de oct. de 2018 · Duff, Alexander, 1806-1878, Missions -- India Publisher New York : Baptist Board of Education, Dept. of Missionary Education Collection columbiamrlpamphlets; ColumbiaUniversityLibraries; americana Contributor Columbia University Libraries Language English
DUFF, ALEXANDER, D.D., LL.D. (1806–1878), missionary, was born at Auchnahyle in the parish of Moulin, Perthshire, 26 April 1806. In his boyhood he came under deep religious impressions, and in his course of study in arts and theology at the university of St. Andrews was much influenced by Chalmers, then professor of moral philosophy.
