Converting souls across cultural borders: Dutch Calvinism and early modern missionary enterprises*
Converting souls across cultural borders: Dutch Calvinism and early modern missionary enterprises*
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跨越文化边界改变灵魂：荷兰加尔文主义和早期现代传教事业*
DOI：
10.1017/s1740022813000041
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发表时间：
2013
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
C. Parker
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作者：
C. Parker
摘要这项研究集中在亚洲和欧洲的荷兰加尔文主义者(改革新教徒)之间关于如何对很少或根本不接触新教基督教的人进行洗礼和圣餐的争论。历史学家倾向于将这些冲突视为加尔文主义僵化的证据，以及新教和非欧洲社会之间的不相容。然而，在基督教化的全球模式下考察时，很明显，加尔文主义者与罗马天主教传教士在试图跨越文化边界使人皈依方面有许多共同之处。在早期的现代传教计划中，所有传教士都必须就通融与正统之间的内在矛盾进行谈判。许多传教士边疆的加尔文教徒和他们的天主教同行一样，不顾宗教中心地区当局的反对，选择了融合策略。
Abstract This study focuses on disputes among Dutch Calvinists (Reformed Protestants) in Asia and in Europe over how to administer the sacraments of baptism and communion to people with little or no exposure to Protestant Christianity. Historians have tended to view these conflicts as evidence of Calvinist rigidity and the incompatibility between Protestantism and non-European societies. When examined within global patterns of Christianization, however, it becomes clear that Calvinists had much in common with Roman Catholic missionaries in trying to convert people across cultural borders. All missionaries had to negotiate the inherent tensions between accommodation and orthodoxy in early modern missionary programmes. Many Calvinists on the missionary frontier, like their Catholic counterparts, opted for syncretistic strategies over objections from authorities in their religious heartland.