Heinrich Coerper: Sein Leben und die Anfänge der Liebenzeller Mission Interkulturalität und Religion, Band 9

Bernd Brandl

Heinrich Coerper (1863–1936) is known as the founding director of the Liebenzeller Mission, the German branch of the China Inland Mission. Less well-known is the prominent role he played in the German Pietism of his day due to his connections with leading representatives of the holiness, healing and evangelistic movements. This has now been demonstrated for the first time, on the basis of comprehensive research into the sources, by the Bad Liebenzell missiologist Bernd Brandl. A shadow is cast on Coerper’s Christian character and extensive ministry by his uncritical patriotic attitude to the politics of his day.