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The 1910 World Missionary Conference, or the Edinburgh Missionary Conference, was held on 14 to 23 June 1910. Some have seen it as both the culmination of nineteenth-century Protestant Christian missions and the formal beginning of the modern Protestant Christian ecumenical movement , after a sequence of interdenominational meetings that can be ...
The 1910 World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh, has been seen as the culmination of nineteenth-century Protestant Christian missions. The missionary drive began to decline after the First World War, although the Church of Scotland continued to attach importance to its efforts.
1910 – Edinburgh Missionary Conference held in Scotland, presided over by John Mott, beginning modern Protestant ecumenical cooperation in missions [91] 1910 – Edinburgh Missionary Conference launches modern missions movement and modern ecumenical movement; 5-point statement of the Presbyterian General Assembly, also used by Fundamentalists
He is also currently the chief editor of the academic journal Studies in World Christianity [4] and part of the editorial board of The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. [5] Along with Robert Eric Frykenberg, Stanley is co-editor of the Studies in the History of Christian Missions book series from the William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. [6]
The first conference of Yale-Edinburgh Group was held in Yale in 1992. Beginning as an informal group of scholars invited by Lamin Sanneh, D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity, and Andrew Walls, Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World (Now renamed as the Centre for the Study of World Christianity), the group gradually grew over the ...
1898–1900: Ecumenical Missionary Conference, New York—member Executive Committee; Chairman—Hospitality Committee. 1901–1902: world trip to Asian missions. 1909: made world trip. 1910: World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, Scotland—member Executive Committee; Chairman, American Section; member of Continuation Committee for 16 years.
A continuation committee was established following the 1910 World Missionary Conference held in Edinburgh, which culminated in the creation of the International Missionary Council in 1921 in London. Like the Edinburgh conference, it was created to continue ecumenical efforts towards Christian mission through a series of meetings: [3] 1928 in ...
In 1862, at a missionary conference held at Lahore, Valentine first raised the suggestion of a medical missionary training institution in Agra. [5] While in Jeypore on 29 December 1869, Valentine wrote to the directors of the Edinburgh Medical Missionary Society to appeal to them about his plans for the Agra Medical Missionary Training ...