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Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977.

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Collection 298 Papers of Howard E. Thomas

 Collection
Identifier: CN 298
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Howard E. Thomas in which he describes his family background, Christian life and growth, education at Stony Brook School and Wheaton College, missionary work with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions among lepers of the Tai-Lu people along the Burmese border in southwestern China, internment by the Japanese in Thailand, contextualization of the gospel, expulsion from the area by the Chinese army involved in opium trade. Description of Stony Brook School...
Dates: Created: 1946-1985

Collection 299 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Thomas

 Collection
Identifier: CN 299
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Ruth M. Thomas about her family and religious background, conversion, recollections of Billy Sunday's campaign in Scranton, PA in 1914, her education at Wheaton College, call to foreign missions, work as a missionary nurse with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in a rehabilitation program of a leper colony in southwestern China along the Burmese border among the Tai-Lu people, language study, worship and use of music, an anti-opium campaign, and a...
Dates: Created: 1985

Collection 416 Oral History Interviews with Benjamin L. Armstrong

 Collection
Identifier: CN 416
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Benjamin Leighton Armstrong in which he describes his family, particularly his father (Benjamin Leighton Armstrong Sr.) and grandfather (Benjamin Franklin Armstrong), his own conversion and spiritual growth, education at Nyack Bible College, New York University, Union Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, religious radio and television, Samuel Shoemaker, Paul Tillich, missions in the Christian and Missionary Alliance church, Voice of Tangiers and Trans World...
Dates: Created: 1989

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Christianity and culture. 2
Church and social problems -- China. 2
Church and social problems. 2
Drug traffic 2
Drug traffic -- China. 2
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Evangelistic work -- United States. 2
Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 2
Indigenous church administration 2
Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
Language in missionary work. 2
Leprosy -- China. 2
Leprosy. 2
Medical care 2
Medical care -- China. 2
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 2
Missionaries. 2
Missions -- China. 2
Missions, Medical -- China. 2
Missions, Medical. 2
Opium trade 2
Opium trade -- China. 2
Rural missions -- China. 2
Rural missions. 2
Tai (Southeast Asian people) 2
Tribes -- China. 2
Tribes. 2
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. -- Missions. 2
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 2
World War, 1939-1945. 2
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
China -- History. 1
Christianity and culture -- United States. 1
Church and state -- United States. 1
Church and state. 1
Church growth. 1
Cooperative societies 1
Cooperative societies -- China. 1
Drug addictions 1
Drug addictions -- China. 1
Electric church. 1
Evangelicalism -- Political activity. 1
Evangelicalism -- Relations -- Judaism. 1
Evangelicalism -- United States. 1
Evangelicalism. 1
Evangelistic work -- China. 1
Evangelists 1
Evangelists -- United States. 1
Liberalism (Religion) 1
Mass media in missionary work. 1
Mass media in religion -- Congresses. 1
Mass media in religion. 1
Missionaries -- Training of. 1
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 1
Missions to Buddhists -- China. 1
Missions to Buddhists. 1
Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 1
Organizational change. 1
Presbyterians -- United States. 1
Presidents 1
Presidents -- United States -- Election -- 1988. 1
Presidents -- United States -- Election. 1
Presidents -- United States. 1
Radio in missionary work. 1
Radio in religion. 1
Smallpox 1
Smallpox -- China. 1
Television in religion -- United States. 1
Television in religion. 1
Theology 1
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 1
Theology -- Study and teaching -- United States. 1
United States -- Foreign relations -- Israel. 1
United States -- Foreign relations. 1
United States -- Politics and government. 1
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 1
Women 1
Women -- Religious life. 1
Women missionaries. 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 1
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