The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910 / Brian Stanley. [print]

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 Virgin IslandsI ; A hierarchy of civilization ; Missionaries and politics ; The colonial view of missions ; The impact of the Commission Virgin IslandsI 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 Virgin IslandsII 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 Virgin IslandsII 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.

The World Missionary Conference in 1910 was a defining event in the history of world missions. Brian Stanley here presents his careful research revealing the compelling story of this turbulent, influential gathering in Edinburgh. This book is both an account of the conference itself and an examination of the Protestant missionary movement as it neared the apex of its size and influence. The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910 is an erudite and engaging summation of, in Stanley's own words, "the many-sided legacy of the Edinburgh conference, not simply for the history of the ecumenical movement but also for Christian missions and the wider field of Christian discourse on questions of race and culture."--Publisher description.

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