Edinburgh 1910, Africa 2010 and the evangelicals
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Authors
Fiedler, Klaus
Issue Date
2010
Type
Article
Language
en
Keywords
Edinburgh 1910 , Protestants missions
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Abstract
The most famous (and most interpreted) world mission
conference was Edinburgh 1910, at which almost all Protestant
missions participated. While some see Edinburgh 1910 as the
height of achievement, others see it as the beginning of the
decline. For the Evangelicals the issue of contention was the
ecclesiology, which identified the church as all who are
baptised, whereas the Evangelicals defined the church as those
who have a personal “living” faith. Though the Evangelicals
participated without making any fuss, it was not their
conference. While Edinburgh 1910 had its roots in the Great
Awakening of 1734, the Evangelicals had their roots in the
Holiness Revival (1859) and in the Restorationist Revival
(1828). At Edinburgh their paths met somehow, with the (then)
mainstream of the missionary movement not recognising the
Evangelical identity. A hundred years later Evangelicals make
up the majority of the missionary movement, and those great
developments fulfilling the Edinburgh vision frequently have
an Evangelical tendency and challenge the Edinburgh 1910
concept of Christian unity.
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Peer reviewed
Citation
Fiedler, K. 2010,'Edinburgh 1910, Africa 2010 and the evangelicals',
Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, vol. XXXVI, no. 2, pp. 53-71.
Publisher
Church History Society of Southern Africa
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1017-0499