Author Allen Roland

e confirmed by a trip to India in 1910 and by later research in Canada and East Africa. It is with this background that Allen wrote his book Missionary Methods which was first published in 1912. It has been suggested that his thought was influenced in part by the earlier primitivist writings of Anthony Norris Groves and by the Brethren movement . Allen’s approach to Mission strategy for indigenous Churches is based on the study of Saint Paul’s missionary methods as he is convinced that in them can be found the solution to most of the difficulties of the day. He believed it was the recognition of the church as a local entity and trust in the Holy Spirit’s indwelling within the converts and churches which was the mark of Paul’s success. In contrast was Allen’s belief that the people of his day were unable to entrust their converts to the Holy Spirit and instead relied in His work through them. His views became increasingly influential, though Allen himself became disillusioned with the established churches. He spent the last years of his life in Kenya, establishing a reclusive church of his own devising, centred on an idiosyncratic family rite. Allen died in Nairobi.[1] Gladys Aylward · Pearl Buck · Jonathan Goforth · Karl Gützlaff · Eric Liddell · Robert S. Maclay · Lottie Moon · Timothy Richard · Cambridge Seven · Hudson Taylor · CIM · LMS · ABCFM · CMS · M.E.M ·