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Global Missions Bibliography
Taiwan (Formosa)
BEGINNINGS
1951 Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church (AUG - LCA - ELCA)
1951 Lutheran Free Church (LFC - TALC - ELCA)
1952 Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELC - TALC - ELCA)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bly, Stella, and Solveig Swendseid. American Lutheran Women in World Mission: an Oral History and Archives Project. Minneapolis: The American Lutheran Church, Division for World Mission and Inter-Church Cooperation, 1987.

Narrator: Stella Bly, ELC/TALC missionary to Taiwan, 1952-1968.

Christianity in Taiwan: A Profile. Taipei, Taiwan: Overseas Crusades, Inc. 1974. 34pp.

Brief description of Christian churches in Taiwan, including both Protestant and Roman Catholic.

Ditmanson, Joyce, and Fern Gudmestad. American Lutheran Church Women in World Mission: an Oral History and Archives Project. Minneapolis: The American Lutheran Church, Division for World Mission and Inter-Church Cooperation, 1989.

Narrator: Joyce Ditmanson, LFC/TALC missionary to Taiwan, 1956-1981.

Erickson, Lenorah, and Fern Gudmestad. American Lutheran Church Women in World Mission: an Oral History and Archives Project. Minneapolis: The American Lutheran Church, Division for World Mission and Inter-Church Cooperation, 1987.

Narrator: Lenorah Erickson, LFC/TALC missionary to Taiwan, 1951-1973.

Jones, Clara J. Christ Calls the Chinese: the Taiwan Story. Taipei, Taiwan: Dixon Press, [197?] 124 pp.

History of Lutheran work in north Taiwan, with emphasis on The Lutheran Student Center in Taipei, Taiwan.

Jones, Clara J. and Ethel Akins. Ten Years in Taiwan: The Lutheran Story. Taiwan: [T.L.M.], 1961. 185pp.

History of Lutheran mission work in Taiwan (Formosa): "The story of how the Word of God has worked through the Lutheran witness over a period of ten years, 1951-1961."

Taiwan Lutheran Theological Seminary Graduating Class Annual, 1961. N.p.: n.d. 40pp.

English and Chinese languages.
Location: ELCA Archives, Chicago - uncatalogued item

 

 

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
Gates, Alan F. "Church Growth in Taiwan." master's thesis, Fuller Theological Seminary, 1966. 251 pp.

Growth of churches in Taiwan from 1622-1965, including Lutheran church. Analysis of social structures in urban and rural Taiwan.

Swanson, Allen J. "A Comparative Study of Independent and Mainline Church in Taiwan." master's thesis, Fuller Theological Seminary, 1968. 426 pp.

Study of independency in four mainline churches of Taiwan: Presbyterian, Southern Baptist, Assemblies of God and the Taiwan Lutheran Church.

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