English Particular Baptists organize the Baptist Missionary Society at Kettering and send William Carey to India; the society begins the modern Protestant missionary movement, and Carey's Enquiry supplies its argument.
The Event
- Date
- 1792 (exact)
- Era
- Modern; Standard ecumenical periodization
- Location
- Kettering; today Kettering, England
- Traditions
- Christianity
- Streams
- Baptist
- Key figures
- William Carey, Andrew Fuller
- Key texts
- An Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to Use Means for the Conversion of the Heathens (1792)
Primary Sources
- William Carey, Enquiry (1792)
Secondary Sources
- González, The Story of Christianity, vols. 1–2 (Harper, 2010)
- MacCulloch, A History of Christianity (Allen Lane, 2009)
Provenance: HIST-0075; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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