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Allen, Roland

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1868-1947
Anglican Communion
Kenya

Christ has given the apostles a world-wide commission, embracing all the nations; but intellectually they did not understand what He meant.

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    • They found that out as they followed the impulse of the Spirit. – Roland Allen, Pentecost and the World, 1917

    Roland Allen, a young English missionary, first in North China and later in East Africa, sought to change drastically the entire colonial and paternalistic system of mission governance.

    He became a leading missionary theorist and a controversial, prophetic challenger of the existing order.

    The son of an Anglican clergyman, Allen was a graduate of St. John’s College, Oxford, and then trained at the Leeds Clergy Training School before being sent by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) to China.

    Allen was ahead of his time in his theological view