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Thomas, Howard E.,

 Person

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Collection 278: Elisabeth Elliot Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 278
Scope and Contents Correspondence, slides, clippings, publicity releases, reviews, manuscripts, films, video and audio tapes relating to Elisabeth Elliot's careers as a missionary in Ecuador, author, teacher and speaker. The collection is particularly rich in material relating to the so-called "Auca Incident" and Elliot's own work the Waorani, whose enemies called them the "Auca," as well as her lectures on the Biblical view of the roles of men and women, dealing with suffering, and personal holiness, among...
Dates: Created: 1926-2010; Majority of material found within 1938-2010

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

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Christian life. 2
Church and social problems -- China. 2
Church and social problems. 2
Conversion. 2
Drug traffic 2
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Drug traffic -- China. 2
Evangelistic work. 2
Golden Triangle (Southeast Asia) 2
Indigenous church administration 2
Indigenous church administration -- China. 2
Leprosy -- China. 2
Leprosy. 2
Medical care 2
Medical care -- China. 2
Missionaries -- Training of. 2
Missions -- China. 2
Missions, Medical -- China. 2
Missions, Medical. 2
Opium trade 2
Opium trade -- China. 2
Presbyterians. 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
Women 2
Women -- Religious life. 2
Women missionaries. 2
Authors and publishers. 1
Authors and readers -- United States. 1
Bible -- Translating. 1
Child rearing -- Religious aspects -- Christianity 1
Children of missionaries. 1
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 1
China -- History. 1
Christmas. 1
Church work with single people 1
College students -- Religious life -- Illinois -- Wheaton. 1
College students -- Religious life. 1
College students. 1
Colorado Indians (Ecuador) 1
Cooperative societies 1
Cooperative societies -- China. 1
Drug addictions 1
Drug addictions -- China. 1
Evangelicalism -- 20th century. 1
Evangelicalism -- United States. 1
Evangelistic work -- China. 1
Evangelistic work -- Ecuador. 1
Evangelistic work -- United States. 1
Feminist theology 1
Gateway to Joy (Radio program) 1
Holiness -- Biblical teaching. 1
Huao (Language) 1
Huao Indians. 1
Loneliness -- Religious aspects -- Christianity 1
Marriage. 1
Men -- Sexual behavior. 1
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 1
Missions -- Ecuador. 1
Missions -- Peru. 1
Missions -- South America. 1
Missions to Buddhists -- China. 1
Missions to Buddhists. 1
Missions. 1
Modernist-fundamentalist controversy. 1
New York World's Fair (1939-1940) 1
Nuer (African people). 1
Quechua Indians. 1
Quechua language. 1
Sex role -- United States. 1
Shadow of the almighty. 1
Smallpox 1
Smallpox -- China. 1
Suffering 1
Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. 1
These strange ashes. 1
Through gates of splendor. 1
Translating and interpreting. 1
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Employees. 1
Women -- Sexual behavior. 1
Women authors, American. 1
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. 1
World War, 1939-1945. 1
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