Buddle, Richard S.  1941- <br/><br/>
Capability Buddle :  kauwhau e fakamaama ki te Maori (preaching enlightenment to the Maori) : an historical narrative of Rev Thomas Buddle (1812-1883) Wesleyan Methodist missionary / 
by Richard S. Buddle. 
 - Second edition. 
 - 322 pages :  illustrations ;  27 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-321). 
<br/><br/>The first steps -- In the beginning -- Religious enlightenment -- Enter Homo Sapiens -- Buddle identites 17/18c -- Rev. T. Buddle's ancestry -- Matthew the cordwainer -- The path to ordination -- Thomas prepares -- The missionary movement -- Bristol to south Africa & Van Dieman's Land -- The known unknowns -- Destination Aotearoa/NZ -- Hobart to Hokianga -- Kawhia-Waingaro-Waipa -- Who was Mrs B? -- Understanding Thomas -- Overland to Taupo -- Letters 'home' -- The treaty -- The New Zealand wars -- The new nation -- Christianity's next era? -- Age of enlightenment -- Epilogue -- Rev. Buddle addtn. reference -- Buddle inter alia. 
<br/><br/> "There may come a time when you ponder life's most searching question 'Why am I here?' In Rev. Thomas Buddle's case it was a calling from God. The defining moment came in a letter from the Wesleyan Mission Home [Office] in London dated July 11, 1839. It was an invitation to sail on the missionary ship Triton to the most distant land in the world ... New Zealand. In 1840 Thomas and his wife Sarah had already established their first home and Mission Station at Te Kopua near the Waipa River."--Book jacket. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Buddle, Thomas 1812-1883 <br/>Buddle, Sarah 1813-1884 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Wesleyan Methodist Church--Missions--New Zealand<br/>Wesleyan Methodist Church--Clergy--Biography<br/>Methodist Church of New Zealand--History
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Māori (New Zealand people)--Missions--History<br/>Missionaries--New Zealand<br/>Mihinare<br/>Kōrero nehe