Description
The article discusses the impact of the European Enlightenment on Protestant missionaries who traveled to Asia and Africa in the mid-18th century. It focuses on British missions and the influence of the Scottish Enlightenment on their beliefs and practices.
Addresses the nature of the influence of the European Enlightenment on the beliefs and practice of the Protestant missionaries who went to Asia and Africa from the mid-eighteenth century onwards, particularly British missions and the formative role of the Scottish Enlightenment on their thinking.