ABSTRACT
Risking simplification, the change came about because of a collision of world views. For the early evangelical missionaries, encounter between faiths was about confrontation between mutually exclusive truth claims. To search for the holy in the religious ‘other’ or to subordinate doctrinal differences for the sake of harmony were simply not on their agenda. The message they carried – humanity’s sinfulness, the need for repentance and God’s saving grace through Jesus Christ – held within it, they believed, an absolute imperative to reject any alternative world view.
