Cultural Differences between Churches on Coming to Faith

Authors

  • Juhani Ensio Tuovinen Senior Research Fellow, Graeme Clark Research Institute Director of Teaching and Learning, Tabor Adelaide

Keywords:

church, coming to faith, culture, empirical research

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Published

2015-05-18

Issue

No. 1 (2015)

Section

Peer Reviewed Articles

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