Missionaries should seek shared goals with Africans rather than attacking their beliefs

Evidence

Instead of engaging against these beliefs in a purely negative and necessarily sterile struggle, it is necessary to be patient and to start again with them the research of what could be the life, the intense, strong and total life, in order to examine later on the true means to reach it. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 715

Categorization

• DEFINE: States Tempels’ methodological stance: dialogue-positive evangelization rather than confrontation.
• XREF: connects to: Historic mission can be justified as intrinsic, not mystical, teleology