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Indigenous church mission theory - Definition

Related Words: Atavistic, Autochthonous, Born, Congenital, Constitutional, Endemic, Genetic, Hereditary, Homegrown, Inbred, Incarnate, Inherited, Instinctive, Local, Natal, Native

Henry Venn (1796 - 1873) and Rufus Anderson (1796 - 1880) were contemporaries and the modern pioneers of indigenous church mission theory. They defined an indigenous church as one that is

  • self-supporting
  • self-governing and
  • self-propagating

Roland Allen attempted to reapply these principles to the missions of his day, the early 1900s.

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