Timothy Yates is Canon Emeritus of Derby Cathedral and an Honorary Fellow of St. John's College, Durham, England. His other books include The Expansion of Christianity and Christian Mission in the Twentieth Century.
Religious Studies Review
"This careful, systematic account provides an overview of early
missionary activity among the indigenous M?ori of New Zealand. . .
. Well written." Bibliographia Missionaria
"A well-researched study of an important period of New Zealand
history." Charles W. Forman
-- Yale Divinity School
"In this book Timothy Yates throws fresh light on an important, but
little known, part of Christian mission history. His work is to be
warmly welcomed." Allan Davidson
-- University of Auckland
"Conversion of the Māori and the impact of missionary Christianity
in New Zealand have been matters of considerable debate among
historians. Timothy Yates provides a careful analysis of these
areas and offers carefully nuanced insights into these complex
issues, taking particular note of indigenous initiatives." Missions
Today
"Informative, inspiring and invigorating, especially in this age of
diminished interest in missionary outreach. As such it is a must
read for everyone, especially missionaries and those aspiring to be
missionaries." Journal of Ecclesiastical History
"Yates has provided a nuanced overview of the English Protestant
and French Roman Catholic missionaries to the Māori in New
Zealand." Anvil
"A welcome addition to Eerdmans' Study in the History of Christian
Missions series, a growing resource for the missiologist and
mission historian. . . . This perceptive summary of the missionary
contribution has meaning far beyond the New Zealand contexts and it
is to be hoped that other scholars will seek to use and to test
this important new insight in their own exploration of mission case
studies from other parts of the world." Anglican and Episcopal
History
"Timothy Yates' Conversion of the Maori joins the recent move
toward synthesis -- toward a more complicated, and accurate,
understanding of missionary motivation and effort. A docent of
mission studies at the University of Uppsala (Sweden), Yates shows
us that some missionaries were courageous idealists, and some were
misfits looking for a place of power in the world. Some
missionaries disliked the people among whom they worked, and some
came to admire them. Some missionaries held themselves to the high
standards they preached to others, and others, far from home, lived
double lives. . . . The Conversion of the Maori is written in
straight-forward prose that relies more on reportage than on
thoughtful analysis. But this does not mitigate its usefulness as
an introduction to what is an inherently interesting story." Social
Sciences & Missions
"In this book Yates has entered, perhaps rather bravely, into a
long-running set of debates over the nature of Maori conversion to
Christianity in the first half of the nineteenth century. In the
process he has made a useful contribution to the `basket of
knowledge.'"
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