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They did not plan for indefinite missionary control.

Kansas City, MO: Nazarene Publishing House, 1988. Purkiser, Westlake T.Called Unto Holiness: Volume Two: The Story of the Nazarenes: The Second Twentyfive Years, 1933-1958. Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1983. Redford, M.E.The Rise of the Church of the Nazarene.

At the 2009 General Assembly the delegates voted to create a global Manual that would be streamlined in comparison to recent Manuals, consist of the Foreword, and Parts I, II, and III of the current Manual, and would also include parts of the Manual that are global in scope, retaining the universally appropriate polity and principles." The General Assembly authorised the different regions to adapt the Manual to fit specific cultural contexts and would function as a "regional Manual policy handbook."For the quadrennium starting July 2009, the General Board currently has 44 members representing the church's 15 regions, and an additional four members were elected to represent Education (2), Nazarene Youth International, and Nazarene Missions International.

The most influential theologians within the Church of the Nazarene have been Edgar P.Ellyson, author of Theological Compend (1908); A.M.Hills, author of Fundamental Christian Theology (1931); H.Orton Wiley, author of the three-volume Christian Theology (1940-1943); Mildred Bangs Wynkoop, author of A Theology of Love (1972) and Foundations of Wesleyan-Arminian Theology (1972); Richard S.Taylor; H.Ray Dunning, author of Grace, Faith & Holiness (1988), author ; and J.Kenneth Grider, author of A Wesleyan-Holiness Theology (1994).

Educational Regions for the Church of the Nazarene were first established in 1918.Districts in areas administered by the Department of World Mission are often grouped into "fields", with a field strategy co-ordinator providing strategic leadership.

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