Alan Tippett
Alan Richard Tippett was a
missiologist, and anthropologist
.
Life
Tippett was an Australian missionary to the Fiji Islands for more than 20 years, and an academic in the United States.[1]
Born 9 November 1911 in
Victoria
.
With his young family, he worked as a missionary with the Fijian Methodist Church from 1941 to 1961.
He was a professor at
Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of Oregon in 1964 and taught part-time in the Institute of Church Growth, Fuller Theological Seminary
.
Tippett also served as professor of Missionary Anthropology at Fuller Theological Seminary's School of World Mission in Pasadena, California.[3]
In the spring of 1965, an invitation was extended to him and Donald McGavran to move the Institute of Church Growth to Pasadena, where the school would become another satellite school to the Fuller Theological Seminary.[4]
The faculty was expanded to include such
church growth. As church growth ideas matured, they were incorporated by McGavran into the basic textbook of the movement, Understanding Church Growth (Eerdmans), published in 1970.[5] Tippett authored over 500 pieces of literary work as part of his contributions to missions and he helped pioneer the theory as well as practice of missiological anthropology.[6]
In 1977 he retired to
Canberra, Australia, where he died 16 September 1988.[2]
Books
- Tippett, A.R., 1954, The Christian (Fiji 1835–1867), Auckland Institute and Museum, Auckland.
- Tippett, A.R., 1967, Solomon Islands Christianity: a study in growth and obstruction, Lutterworth Press, London.[7]
- Tippett, A.R., 1970. Church Growth and the Word of God, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids.
- Tippett, A.R., 1971, People Movements in Southern Polynesia, Moody Press, Chicago.
- Tippett, A.R., 1973, Aspects of Pacific Ethnohistory, William Carey Library, Pasadena, CA.
- Tippett, A.R., 1977, The Deep Sea Canoe: Third World Missionaries in the William Carey Library, Pasadena, CA.
- Tippett, A.R., 1987, Introduction to Missiology, William Carey Library, Pasadena, CA
References
- ^ Alan Tippett Biography.
- ^ a b Charles H. Kraft, TIPPETT Alan Richard (1911-1988) Archived 2014-03-08 at the Wayback Machine.
- St Marks Theological Library, Canberra.
- ^ "Give the Winds a Mighty Voice - Daniel Fuller - Chapter 9". The Evangelical Christian Library. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
- ^ "Recent Developments in Church Growth Understandings". Galaxie Software. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
- ISBN 9781725272224.
- ^ Alan Tippett in By David Hilliard, God's Gentlemen: A History of the Melanesian Mission, 1849-1942.
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