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Article: Fishing in the neighbor's pond: mission and proselytism in Eastern Europe.
- Article from:
- International Bulletin of Missionary Research
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
- Author:
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A good way to describe the situation in Eastern Europe today is to say that yesterday's dreams have turned into today's nightmares.(1) This holds true not only in politics and economy but also in church life. One need not be an expert in Eastern European Christianity to know that at the very center of the religious turmoil are the issues of mission and proselytism. What precisely is the problem? One way to put it is to say that what Protestants (mainly of the evangelical kind) consider to be legitimate mission Catholics and Orthodox (whom I will refer to as established churches) consider to be illegitimate and culturally damaging proselytism.
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