Krabbendam Saving the Overlooked Continent

American Protestant Missions in Western Europe, 1940-1975
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-94-6166-365-8
Verlag: Leuven University Press
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How American
Protestant missionaries created a new worldwide religious network

Among a wide spectrum of American Protestants, the
horrors of World War II triggered grave concern for Europe’s religious future.
They promptly mobilised resources to revive Europe’s Christian foundation. Saving the Overlooked Continent reconstructs
this surprising redirection of Western missions. For the first time, Europe
became the recipient of America’s missionary enterprise.

The American missionary impulse matched the military, economic, and political
programs of the U.S., all of which positioned the United States to become
Europe’s dominant partner and point of cultural reference. One result was the
importation of the internal conflicts that vexed American Protestants –
theological tensions between modernists and traditionalists, and organisational
competition between established churches and independent parachurch
associations. Europe was offered a new slate of options that sparked civic and
ecclesiastical responses.

But behind these
contending religious networks lay a considerable overlap of goals and means
based on a shared missionary trajectory. By the mid-1960s, most Protestant American
agencies admitted that the expectation of a religious revival had been too
optimistic despite their initiatives having led to an integration of Europe in
the global evangelical network. The agencies reconsidered their assumptions and
redefined their strategies. The initial opposition between inclusive and
exclusive approaches abated, and the path opened to a sustained cooperation
among once-fierce opponents.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Krabbendam, Hans

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Missionswissenschaft, Missionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Missionierung und Konvertierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgementsIntroduction
Discover!Emerging Religious Interest in Europe, 1780-1940
Expect!Wartime Prospects for Postwar Europe
Organize!Competition for Europe in the 1940s
To Work!Outreach in Europe, 1940s and 1950s
Meet the Europeans!Cooperation and Reconsideration in the 1960s
Let Go!Integration in the 1970s
ConclusionAbbreviationsBibliographyIndex of names, places and organizationsColophon

Über Autor(innen)

Krabbendam, Hans
Hans Krabbendam is director of the Catholic Documentation Centre at the Radboud University and scholar of U.S. religious history.