TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stanley,Brian
TI  - The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910
T2  - Studies in the history of Christian missions
SN  - 9780802863607 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - BV2390.W68 2009 17921
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Grand Rapids, Mich.
PB  - William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.
KW  - World Missionary Conference
KW  - (1910
KW  - Edinburgh, Scotland)
KW  - Missions
KW  - Congresses
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-341) and index; 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
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