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The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910
2009, William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
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Table of Contents

Visions of the kingdom : Edinburgh 1910 and thehistory 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
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
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 Isam 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
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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Grand Rapids, Mich
Series
Studies in the history of Christian missions

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
266.009/041
Library of Congress
BV2390 .W68 2009, BV2390.W68 2009

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
352

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OL22684741M
ISBN 13
9780802863607
LCCN
2008046918
OCLC/WorldCat
262878975
Goodreads
6741736

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