Name/Title
The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910 by Brian StanleyDescription
Visions of the kingdom : Edinburgh 1910 and the history of Christianity.Expectations of a new age ;An evangelical crusade founded on 'the science of missions' ;Edinburgh 1910 in retrospect ;Edinburgh 1910 and the history of ecumenism ;A representative conference? ;Christianity on the cusp of transfiguration --Origins and preparations.The 'Third Ecumenical Missionary Conference' ;J.H. Oldham and George Robson make their presence felt ;Deciding on the model for Edinburgh 1910 ;Broadening the base of planning ;Shaping the eight commissions ;The central advisory committee and its secretary ;Changing the title of the conference ;The inclusion of national Christians and the exclusion of faith and order ;Oldham gets to work ;The financing of the conference --Carrying the Gospel to all the world? : defining the limits of Christendom.A mission to all humanity? ;Commission I and the problem of statistics ;The conference hangs in the balance ;Oldham in New York ;Resolving the hard cases ;The Anglican position clarified ;Evangelical reactions ;Negotiations with the Archbishop of Canterbury ;The unity of Christendom preserved, but at what price? --The conference in session.Conference logistics ;The opening of the conference ;The assembly hall of the United Free Church of Scotland ;The conference programme ;The conduct of debate ;The spirituality of the conference --'Give us friends!' : the voice of the 'younger' churches.The non-Western presence at Edinburgh ;The virtual absence of Africa ;The missionary societies and indigenous representation at Edinburgh ;Cheng Jingyi and the call for a united church in China ;Christianity and the national spirit : four voices from Japan--Harada Tasuku, Honda Yoitsu, Ibuka Kajinosuke, and Chiba Yugoro ;Yun Ch'iho and Christian nationalism in Korea ;V.S. Azariah and the challenge of inter-cultural friendship ;Pleas for an Asian theology --The church of the three selves.A church-centric conference ;The three-self principle : rhetoric and reality ;Church organization and the 'native mind' ;The remuneration of national workers ;Failures in self-support ;Issues of Christian nurture and discipleship ;Theology and spiritual life --The aims of mission education : cultural 'accommodation' and the Catholicity of Christianity.The brief composition and mode of operation of Commission III ;The American reception of the British drafts of the Commission III Report ;An Anglophone perspective ;Defining the purposes of mission education ;Education as a form of evangelism ;Education as a strategy for a three-self church ;Education as the diffusion of Christian influence ;Education as the key to Catholicity ;The legacy of the Commission III Report ;Appendix : Commission III questionnaire --Fulfilment and challenge : Christianity and the world faiths.Previous scholarship on Commission IV ;The membership of Commission IV ;The theology and religious perspective of Commission IV ;The relation of Hinduism to Christianity ;T.E. Slater and the case for concentration on 'higher Hinduism' ;The influence of Alfred George Hogg ;The relation of Islam to Christianity ;The religions of Japan and China ;'Animistic' religions and the neglect of Africa ;Assessing Edinburgh's theology of fulfilment --Missions, empire, and the hierarchy of civilization.Missions and governments : the membership of Commission VII ;A hierarchy of civilization ;Missionaries and politics ;The colonial view of missions ;The impact of the Commission VII Report ;Appendix A : British questionnaire ;Appendix B : American questionnaire --Missionary co-operation : its limits and implications.The dilemma of Edinburgh : missionary co-operation or the promotion of Christian unity? ;Existing instruments of missionary co-operation ;The German proposal for an International Missionary Commission ;The Commission VIII meeting of 21-23 December 1909 ;The American circular letter ;British hesitations overcome : Walter H. Frere, John H. Ritson, and the birth of the idea of the continuation committee ;The Commission VIII debate and the creation of the continuation committee --The legacy of Edinburgh 1910.Missionary perceptions of east, west, and south ;Race and culture ;The pursuit of church union in Asia ;The role of women in mission ;New patterns of missionary study and training ;Co-operation in mission : new initiatives in Britain ;Western ecclesiastical divisions and the changing contours of world Christianity.
xxii, 352 p., [10] p. of plates :ill. ;24 cm.Book Details
Author
Stanley, BrianDate Published
2009Publication Subjects
Missions--Congresses.Call No.
BV2390.W68 2009ISBN
9780802863607 (pbk. : alk. paper), 0802863604 (pbk. : alk. paper)LCCN
2008046918Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-341) and index.