Georgina Gollock (1861-1940): Pioneering Female Missiologist
Georgina Gollock was one of the most influential women in the formative period of twentieth-century World Christianity. In my recent book and in this paper, I trace some of the areas in which she made a contribution to the advance of Christian mission. Through her extensive writing, speaking and mentoring of younger women she became a pioneer - not as an overseas missionary herself but as a female missiologist. The male missionary leaders of the period, with whom she worked, have had their stories told, but she has been something of a hidden person. Here I look at the significant leadership roles she held, largely in organisations dominated by men. She had a decisive role in the CMS and later in the ecumenical movement, notably through her editorial work from the beginning of the International Review of Missions. She was concerned to foster a sense of the world Christian movement and within that to highlight the strategic leadership of men and women in what we now call the Global South. I argue that she was essentially a Christian internationalist.
Dr Ian Randall is a Research Associate at the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide. His study of Georgina Gollock: Pioneer Female Missiologist was published earlier this year.
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