Pentecost of the Hills in Taiwan: The Christian Faith Among the Original InhabitantsHope Publishing House, 1998 - 302 pagine The people movement to Christ among the original inhabitants (formerly called the "mountain tribes") of Taiwan has been called a "Twentieth Century Miracle." From 1929 to 1960 about 50% of the eleven different groups of Malayo-Polynesian peoples became Protestant Christians "Pentecost of the Hills" utilizes history,politics, sociology, anthropology and missiology to tell their story for the first time. This is not a missionary account--it relates how God raised up local leaders to do the major work of evangelism and nurture. |
Sommario
What Do These Stories Mean? | 33 |
1 | 50 |
33 | 64 |
Japanese Pressure Brings Pentecost 19291945 | 162 |
Freedom Brings Full Harvest 19451996 | 184 |
Chapter 8 | 207 |
Chapter 9 | 232 |
Crises of Faith | 254 |
Bibliography | 281 |
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