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A NEW TYPOLOGY OF PROTESTANT MISSIONS

A NEW TYPOLOGY OF PROTESTANT MISSIONS A N E W T Y P O L O G Y O F P R O T E S T A N T M I S S I O N S M.R. Spindler L Endless Fragmentation All protestant churches and denominations, or nearly all of them, have had or still have their own foreign missions. New churches have come into existence, sometimes very close to the original denominations, sometimes also very original ones. Privileged relations have been established between associated churches here and elsewhere, according to their spiritual families. New missionary (or post-missionary!) relations nowadays are seldom developing between churches that do not belong to the same family. The reformed keep to themselves, so do the baptists and so on. Each time therefore knowledge of other protestant movements remains superficial and often unbalanced. Thus it is very well possible for a European church to know (for example) an associated church in Cameroon, while at the same time being quite unable to locate this Cameroonian church within the fold of protestantism in Cameroon. As a new phenomenon everywhere new protestant denominations are seen to develop, sometimes planted by missionaries trained in the United States or more often come http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Exchange Brill

A NEW TYPOLOGY OF PROTESTANT MISSIONS

Spindler, M.R.
Exchange , Volume 20 (1): 56 – Jan 1, 1991
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© 1991 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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A N E W T Y P O L O G Y O F P R O T E S T A N T M I S S I O N S M.R. Spindler L Endless Fragmentation All protestant churches and denominations, or nearly all of them, have had or still have their own foreign missions. New churches have come into existence, sometimes very close to the original denominations, sometimes also very original ones. Privileged relations have been established between associated churches here and elsewhere, according to their spiritual families. New missionary (or post-missionary!) relations nowadays are seldom developing between churches that do not belong to the same family. The reformed keep to themselves, so do the baptists and so on. Each time therefore knowledge of other protestant movements remains superficial and often unbalanced. Thus it is very well possible for a European church to know (for example) an associated church in Cameroon, while at the same time being quite unable to locate this Cameroonian church within the fold of protestantism in Cameroon. As a new phenomenon everywhere new protestant denominations are seen to develop, sometimes planted by missionaries trained in the United States or more often come

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