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The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910 : (Record no. 77796)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 0060535377
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number BV2390.W68 2009
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 270.2092 B STA
100 10 - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Stanley, Brian, 1953-
9 (RLIN) 178375
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910 :
Remainder of title A New Biography /
Statement of responsibility, etc by Brian Stanley, 1953-
260 0# - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Grand Rapids, Mich. :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2009
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xxii, 352 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE
Title Studies In The History Of Christian Missions
9 (RLIN) 178377
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
9 (RLIN) 178379
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Christian Living -- Holiness
9 (RLIN) 178381
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Biograghy -- Augustine
9 (RLIN) 178383
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo -- Theologian
9 (RLIN) 178385
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Christian Tradition -- Augustine
9 (RLIN) 178387
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Man of God -- Augustine
9 (RLIN) 178389
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element World Missionary Conference (1910 : Edinburgh, Scotland
9 (RLIN) 178391
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Missions -- Congresses.
9 (RLIN) 178393
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