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Salt & Light
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The Salt & Light family of churches is one of the apostolic networks that came into being in Britain in the late 1960s and 1970s, most of them with a radical Restorationist emphasis (Walker 1998, 38–41, 51–64, 129–171; Trudinger 1982: 38–41, 51–64, 129–171). The charismatic movement had started to impact the historic denominations, including a small Baptist church in Basingstoke, England, led by former London police officer Barney Coombs. Meanwhile, 50 miles north in the Oxfordshire town of Witney, a youth …

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Rolles, David, “Salt & Light”, in: Brill's Encyclopedia of Global Pentecostalism Online, Edited by: Michael Wilkinson, Connie Au, Jörg Haustein, Todd M. Johnson. Consulted online on 25 September 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-3807_EGPO_COM_044895>
First published online: 2019
First print edition: 20201204



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