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This book traces the life of Methodist Missionary William Cross. Born in England in 1797, Cross was converted to Methodism as a young man and applied for missionary work. He served in Tonga for eight years.Losing his wife in a tragic drowning, Cross remarried in Sydney and then volunteered to lead the first Wesleyan mission to Fiji in 1835 along with David Cargill. In the next seven years until his death in 1842, Cross established Christian congregations in some of the most important Fijian chiefdoms. A particular focus of this book is the religious interaction between Fijian traditional beliefs and new Christian ideas. The book includes complete Fijian translation by Tauga Vulaono.
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A shaking of the land: William Cross and the origins of Christianity in Fiji
2005, Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific
9820203740 9789820203747
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"The three hundred islands of Fiji lie in the South Pacific Ocean, spead out like speckles of paint randomly splashed across a huge canvas of blue water...."
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"Completes Thornley's and Vulaono's bi-lingual trilogy on the first forty years of Fiji Methodism. The other books ... are The Inheritance of Hope (2000) and Exodus of the I Tankei (2002)"--P. [4] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-467) and index.
Parallel chapters in English and Fijian.
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