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Ministry to All the People? the Anglican Church in Malaysia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

W. John Roxborogh
W. John Roxborogh*
Affiliation:
Seminari Theoloji, Malaysia
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Since Independence in 1957 the Anglican Church in Malaysia has disavowed any inclination towards Malay evangelism in concert with a general climate of Christian opinion which sees such efforts as not only legally difficult, if not actually illegal following enactments in a number of states, but also politically impossible and threatening to the stability of the nation. This is the background to the claim in a Singapore Anglican history written in 1963 that ‘In the Peninsular… no missionary work among the Muslim Malays was considered and their faith always has been respected.’

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Research Article
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Studies in Church History , Volume 26: The Ministry: Clerical and Lay , 1989 , pp. 423 - 431
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1989

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