237:(1938), and many more. She loved Muslims and writing about them, she developed specific materials for Muslim readers which included biographies about different missionaries who worked among Muslims. Many of her writings have helped youth deal with the stress of modern living and she saw her writings as a form of service in which she conducted with high standards, dedicated research and true objectivity. "Padwick's long career as missionary and missiologist bridges the gap between the female writers and strategists of the women's missionary movement and the contemporary female missiologists and mission strategists." "All that she wrote, she wrote out of a profound and missionary commitment to Christ as Christianity receives Him."
173:. She believed literature was a great evangelistic tool. "After looking very carefully at the different positions from which it would now be possible to serve the Moslem world by means of Christian literature, and after much prayer, I have come to the deliberate conclusion that it is as a C.M.S literature missionary, if C.M.S. will have me, that I want the privilege of serving. For both on a general view and on a detailed examination, it seems to me that God calls us now to strengthen the Cairo literature department of C.M.S (CMS 3)" But when she offered to work overseas with C.M.S., she was rejected because of ill health.
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consumed her for more than twenty years. She gained respect through friends and learned from everyone and this book is now a valuable compendium of Muslim spirituality. "Muslim
Devotions, it may be truly said, is a worthy expression of Christian initiative and at the same time a comprehensive index to Muslim liturgy: It is a gesture of imagination inspired by one faith towards the inner genius of another." "She attained a patient kinship with Muslim norms and themes and made their world her own." She also stated, "for it is in knowing that we are known."
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Maiden Newton close to the heart of the Hardy country of Wessex. Somewhere in between this time she was first nursed at
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in 1910 for a visit and fell in love with the Middle East. Near the end of her life she then lived with her sister Joy in
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within the University of London. Padwick also studied Greek and pedagogy and was a student of Oriental studies of the
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