The Origins of Australian Protestant Missions: Evangelical Visions

Abstract

Significant players in the settlement of Australia were evangelicals withan elaborate missionary vision and the motivation to seize opportunitiesto "gospelise" the world, including the Pacific. This paper locates theorigins of the Australian Protestant missionary movement within the visionwhich Jonathan Edwards had for Terra Australis and Hollandia Nova, thegrowing confidence eighteenth-century evangelicals had in the gospel asthe engine for the renovation of the world, and their understanding ofAustralia as a strategic base for missions to the Pacific. Show more