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Of course, it is difficult to make an explicit definition because there are different expressions of Protestantism in Latin America. M\u00EDguez Bonino in his book Rostros del Protestantismo Latinoamericano (1995a) states that even though Protestants present a diversity of faces, they share core beliefs which characterize them and identify them as Evangelicals.6 He shows that all of the Latin American Evangelical churches are heirs of the Protestant Reformation of the XVI century, but he also admits that this inheritance has been re-minted in other lands and in other molds (1995a: 6).\u000AWithin this wide span of ideas, Cant\u00F3n identifies four expressions whose roots come from North American Protestantism: historic Protestantism, fundamentalist Protestantism, Pentecostalism and Neo-Pentecostalism (1998: 91). Although all of these are called Evangelicals every branch and denomination emphasizes its own ecclesiastical or denominational identity.\u000AZapata (1982) divides the Evangelical work in two big blocks: 1) The expansion of the missionary pioneers (1887-1922) which included the first missions, Presbyterians, the Central American Mission, the Friends, the Church of the Nazarene and the Methodists. He describes their mission as evangelistic impulse and development of social work. 2) He calls the second block \u2018the explosion of the evangelistic work\u2019 which can be subdivided into three periods: a) the preliminary explosion (1923-1937) which includes the origin of the Pentecostal churches, the National Evangelical Mission, the Church of God of Prophecy, Independent Evangelical Mission, the Church of God Cleveland and the Assemblies of God; b) the second Evangelical explosion (1940-1956) among which the following are the most known, the Emmanuel Foundation, the Foursquare Church, the Baptist Convention, the Lutheran Church, the Calvario Church, \u2018Misi\u00F3n Mundo Unido\u2019, the Galilee Church of\u000A6 Due to the limits of this present thesis the nature, roots, history and features of Guatemalan Protestantism cannot de discussed. The following works provide an ample panorama and details of Protestantism in Guatemala and Latin-America. See the following M\u00EDguez Bonino Rostros del Protestantismo Latinoamericano (1995a), Pablo Deiros La Historia del Cristianismo en Am\u00E9rica Latina (1992), Justo Gonzalez in Historia del Cristianismo volumen (1994) I & II, Wilton Nelson Protestantismo en Centroam\u00E9rica (1982), David Stoll Is Latin America Turning Protestant? The Politics of Evangelical Growth (1990).Virgilio Zapata on Historia de la Iglesia Evang\u00E9lica en Guatemala (1982), Virginia Garrard-Burnett Historia del Protestantismo en Guatemala (1986).\u000A 19\u000A