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001 2008046918
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035 $a(OCoLC)ocn262878975
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050 00 $aBV2390$b.W68 2009
100 1 $aStanley, Brian,$d1953-
245 14 $aThe World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910 /$cBrian Stanley.
260 $aGrand Rapids, Mich. :$bWilliam B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.,$c2009.
300 $axxii, 352 p., [10] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aStudies in the history of Christian missions
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 325-341) and index.
505 00 $tVisions of the kingdom : Edinburgh 1910 and the history of Christianity --$tExpectations of a new age --$tAn evangelical crusade founded on 'the science of missions' --$tEdinburgh 1910 in retrospect --$tEdinburgh 1910 and the history of ecumenism --$tA representative conference? --$tChristianity on the cusp of transfiguration --$tOrigins and preparations --$tThe 'third Ecumenical Missionary Conference' --$tJ.H. Oldham and George Robson make their presence felt --$tDeciding on the model for Edinburgh 1910 --$tBroadening the base of planning --$tShaping the eight commissions --$tThe central advisory committee and its secretary --$tChanging the title of the conference --$tThe inclusion of national Christians and the exclusion of faith and order --$tOldham gets to work --$tThe financing of the conference --$tCarrying the Gospel to all the world? : defining the limits of Christendom --$tA mission to all humanity? --$tCommission I and the problem of statistics --$tThe conference hangs in the balance --$tOldham in New York --$tResolving the hard cases --$tThe Anglican position clarified --$tEvangelical reactions --$tNegotiations with the Archbishop of Canterbury --$tThe unity of Christendom preserved, but at what price? --$tThe conference in session --$tConference logistics --$tThe opening of the conference --$tThe assembly hall of the United Free Church of Scotland --$tThe conference programme --$tThe conduct of debate --$tThe spirituality of the conference --$t'Give us friends!' : the voice of the 'younger' churches --$tThe non-western presence at Edinburgh --$tThe virtual absence of Africa --$tThe missionary societies and indigenous representation at Edinburgh --$tCheng Jingyi and the call for a united church in China --$tChristianity and the national spirit : four voices from Japan--Harada Tasuku, Honda Yoitsu, Ibuka Kajinosuke, and Chiba Yugoro --$tYun Ch'iho and Christian nationalism in Korea --$tV.S. Azariah and the challenge of inter-cultural friendship --$tPleas for an Asian theology --$tThe church of the three selves --$tA church-centric conference --$tThe three-self principle : rhetoric and reality --$tChurch organization and the 'native mind' --$tThe remuneration of national workers --$tFailures in self-support --$tIssues of Christian nurture and discipleship --$tTheology and spiritual life --$tThe aims of mission education : cultural 'accommodation' and the Catholicity of Christianity --$tThe brief composition and mode of operation of Commission III --$tThe American reception of the British drafts of the Commission III Report --$tAn anglophone perspective --$tDefining the purposes of mission education --$tEducation as a form of evangelism --$tEducation as a strategy for a three-self church --$tEducation as the diffusion of Christian influence --$tEducation as the key to Catholicity --$tThe legacy of the Commission III Report --$tAppendix: Commission III questionnaire --$tFulfilment and challenge : Christianity and the world faiths --$tPrevious scholarship on Commission IV --$tThe membership of Commission IV --$tThe theology and religious perspective of Commission IV --$tThe relation of Hinduism to Christianity --$tT.E. Slater and the case for concentration on 'higher Hinduism' --$tThe influence of Alfred George Hogg --$tThe relation of Islam to Christianity --$tThe religions of Japan and China --$t'Animistic' religions and the neglect of Africa --$tAssessing Edinburgh's theology of fulfilment --$tMissions, empire and the hierarchy of civilization --$tMissions and governments : the membership of Commission VII --$tA hierarchy of civilization --$tMissionaries and politics --$tThe colonial view of missions --$tThe impact of the Commission VII Report --$tAppendix A: British questionnaire --$tAppendix B: American questionnaire --$tMissionary co-operation : its limits and implications --$tThe dilemma of Edinburgh : missionary co-operation or the promotion of Christian unity? --$tExisting instruments of missionary co-operation --$tThe German proposal for an International Missionary Commission --$tThe Commission VIII meeting of 21-23 December 1909 --$tThe American circular letter --$tBritish hesitations overcome : Walter H. Frere, John H. Ritson, and the birth of the idea of the continuation committee --$tThe Commission VIII debate and the creation of the continuation committee --$tThe legacy of Edinburgh 1910 --$tMissionary perceptions of east, west, and south --$tRace and culture --$tThe pursuit of church union in Asia --$tThe role of women in mission --$tNew patterns of missionary study and training --$tCo-operation in mission : new initiatives in Britain --$tWestern ecclesiastical divisions and the changing contours of world Christianity.
611 20 $aWorld Missionary Conference$d(1910 :$cEdinburgh, Scotland)
650 0 $aMissions$vCongresses.
830 0 $aStudies in the history of Christian missions.