Watchman Nee, Chinese Christianity and the Global Search for the Primitive Church.
This article will examine aspects of Watchman Nee's interactions with British churches and missions during the 1920s and 1930s. It will argue that, rather than simply appropriating and adapting Christianity for a Chinese context, as has been claimed, a more complex exchange was taking place. In part...
| Publicado en: | Studies in World Christianity Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 125 - 148 |
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Edinburgh University Press
Aug2016
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