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		<title>Edinburgh 1910: Education as Mission</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How, did the Commission understand the nature of Christian education as an expression of Christian mission? The Report gives a three-fold answer.· Education may be conducted primarily with an evangelistic purpose, being viewed either as an attractive force to bring the youth under the influence of Christianity, or as itself as evangelising agency. · Education [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionstudygroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2260735&amp;post=51&amp;subd=missionstudygroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Significance of Edinburgh 1910</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WMC held at Edinburgh 1910 marked the end of classical Protestant missionary work for the nineteenth century and the beginning of a global evangelization movement in the twentieth. Roger Hedlund, Roots of the Great Debate in Mission: Mission in Historical and Theological Perspective (Bangalore, India: Theological Book Trust, 1997), ix<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionstudygroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2260735&amp;post=50&amp;subd=missionstudygroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Asian and African leadership in mission</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The evangelisation of the world…is not chiefly a European and American enterprise, but an Asiatic or African enterprise.” Increasingly it is the task, the Report continued, of “the Church in the Mission-field…[by] well-qualified native evangelists and leaders.” World Missionary Conference proposal in Commission one: “Carrying the Gospel to all the Non-Christian World”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionstudygroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2260735&amp;post=47&amp;subd=missionstudygroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The call for reciprocal relationship</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 06:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The commission addressed the reciprocal relationship between the Church in Christian countries and the Church in Mission-fields. “[T]he most crucial problem in relation to evangelising the world is the state of the Church in Christian countries. We are frank to concede that it is futile to talk about making Christ known in the world in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionstudygroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2260735&amp;post=48&amp;subd=missionstudygroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reaching educated Indian Youth</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 06:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most urgent need in India was a four-foldincrease of missionaries to meet the target set at the Madras Decennial Conference (1902) – one missionary to every 25,000 native Indians; and it was emphasised that missionaries needed to be intellectually trained – on par with the Indian Civil Service – to evangelise the educated Indian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionstudygroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2260735&amp;post=46&amp;subd=missionstudygroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A plea to cease the unique world opportunity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 06:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first duty of a World Missionary Conference meeting at such an auspicious time is to consider the present world situation from the point of view of making the Gospel known to all men, and to determine what should be done to accomplish this Christ-given purpose…It is earnestly hoped thatthe way may be pointed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionstudygroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2260735&amp;post=45&amp;subd=missionstudygroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commission 1: Carrying the gospel to the Non Christian World</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of the Eight Commissions at Edinburgh 1910, Commission One dealth with “Carrying the Gospel to all the Non-Christian World”. The Commission was chaired by John R Mott, General Secretary of the World’s Student Christian Federation, New York. The Report of the comission was divided into four parts. 1. The opportunity and urgency of carrying the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionstudygroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2260735&amp;post=49&amp;subd=missionstudygroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>V.S. Azariah and the Spirit of Nationalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 07:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why did V. S. Azariah speak what he did at Edinburgh 1910? Every one is a product of his social location/s. About this time,the spirit of nationalism found its expression among Indian-Christian leaders. Boyd contends, &#8221; Meanwhile a strong feeling had arisen among Indian Christians that work of evangelism should not be left to only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionstudygroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2260735&amp;post=44&amp;subd=missionstudygroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the walls of division</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Edinburgh 1910, there was a spirit of voluntarism. Any and every wall of division was taken care. Of particular interest is how Edinburgh 1910 dealt with the divisions of denominationalism. First, they did not focus on theology explicitly. Secondly,  they decided to bury their denominational identities (as far as possible). Up to the time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionstudygroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2260735&amp;post=43&amp;subd=missionstudygroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study Commissions and Edinburgh 1910</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 07:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About eight study commissions were organized for Edinburgh 1910. Among the eight, three commissions of the Edinburgh conference had a special bearing on the growth of the ecumenical movement in the global South. The first Commission was carrying the Gospel to all the Non-Christian world. The second commission, “ The Church in the Mission field” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=missionstudygroup.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2260735&amp;post=42&amp;subd=missionstudygroup&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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