This article is a reconstruction and amplification of an address delivered at the
43rd Annual Meeting of the Lutheran Foreign Missions Conference of North
America. James A. Scherer is Dean of the School of Missions at the Lutheran
School of Theology at Chicago, located in Maywood, Illinois. –Editor.
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1.
Cf. AllenR., Missionary Methods: St.
Paul's or Ours? (1912) and The Spontaneous
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2.
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A listing of A. Schlatter's
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Cf. KählerM., Angewandte Dogmen; dogmatische
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The evidence for this view is found
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A useful survey and critique of
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