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    <title>new way of belonging</title>
    <subTitle>covenant theology, China, and the Christian Reformed Church, 1921-1951</subTitle>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Selles, Kurt D.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>W.B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2011</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2011</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xv, 272 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>The greatest strategic significance : choosing China, 1920 -- Practically virgin soil : claiming Rugao, 1921 -- A stage of illusion : early mistakes and conflicts, 1923-1927 -- The sowing period : making contact, the early 1930s -- Red letter days : planting a church, mid-1930s -- The furnace of affliction : the war years, 1937-1949 -- A real Chinese Christian church : the church in Rugao, 1950-1966.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Kurt D. Selles.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
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      <namePart>Christian Reformed Church</namePart>
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    <topic>Missions</topic>
    <geographic>China</geographic>
    <geographic>Rugao Shi</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Missions, American</topic>
    <geographic>China</geographic>
    <geographic>Rugao Shi</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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    <geographic>Rugao Shi (China)</geographic>
    <topic>Church history</topic>
    <temporal>20th century</temporal>
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  <classification authority="lcc">BV3425.R84 S45 2011</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">266/.5731510904</classification>
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      <title>Historical series of the Reformed Church in America ; no. 70</title>
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  <identifier type="isbn">9780802866622 (pbk. : alk. paper)</identifier>
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