Christian Reformed Churches in Argentina: a recent history

The history of evangelical Christianity in Argentina is as old as the country itself. Several Reformed communities settled in Buenos Aires and various cities and towns of the interior; this history, recorded through numerous studies, shows different views and facets of the complex and nuanced historical reality. Concerning recent decades, several historiographical problems mentioned in the introduction can be perceived. The work is divided into the following parts. First, the history of evangelism as it is seen by its main agents belonging to different denominations, such as Jose Miguez Bonino, Beatriz Melano Couch, Gabriel Vaccaro, Emilio Monti and others. It includes a contentious issue: the attitude towards the conquest and the colonization of America. The second area is the history of ecumenism, as it was developed by Reformed theologians in the decades of 1960-1990, especially in the ISEDET Institute of Buenos Aires. The third theme is the period of dispersion of the ecumenical movement in the last two decades and the growth of new Reformed currents, with contrary ideas to those of the Historic Churches; this is especially Pentecostalism. Recent statistics on the Reformed Churches are included.