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The International Association for Mission Studies (IAMS) is an international, inter-confessional and interdisciplinary professional society for the scholarly study of Christian mission and its impact in the world and the related field of intercultural theology. IAMS convenes international and regional conferences, facilitates collaborative study groups researching in mission studies, and publishes the journal ''Mission Studies''. IAMS members include some 50 corporate members and more than 400 individual scholars of a range of academic disciplines and Christian traditions around the world who actively research on the historical and contemporary theory, practice, and impact of Christian mission in diverse social, economic and political environments. The International Association for Mission Studies is a global forum for the scholarly study of Christian witness and its impact in the world. There are numerous other institutions dealing with mission studies, and they are mostly local centers for the study of mission; IAMS, on the other hand, “associates” most of these institutions and missiologists with the global missiological forum and the worldwide research in mission studies. ==History== The IAMS was founded in 1972, but the impulse dated from the vision of the late Olav G. Myklebust, then director of the Egede Institute in Oslo. In 1951 Myklebust produced a thirty-five-page proposal entitled “An International Institute of Scientific Missionary Research.” He looked to “the establishment of an international association of missiologists (and others engaged in the scholarly study of mission) that from time to time would convene international conferences for the discussion of missionary subjects in a strictly scientific spirit and would publish a scholarly review of high standard.”〔Anderson Gerald H., Roxborogh John, Prior John M., Grundmann Christoffer H. (2012). Witness to World Christianity: The International Association for Mission Studies, 1972-2012. Overseas Ministries Study Center Publications, New Haven, Connecticut, 1.〕 In 1955 “a memorandum on an international organization for the scholarly study of the Christian world mission and the history and problems of the younger churches” was discussed in Hamburg. Eleven years later in the same city the possibility of creating “a larger meeting of European missiologists which might lead to the creation of a worldwide interconfessional missiological society” was again discussed.〔Anderson Gerald H., Roxborogh John, Prior John M., Grundmann Christoffer H. (2012). Witness to World Christianity: The International Association for Mission Studies, 1972-2012. Overseas Ministries Study Center Publications, New Haven, Connecticut, 2-3.〕 A European consultation on mission studies held at the Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham, England, in April 1968 brought things closer, but the decisive turning point was in Oslo in 1970 at a second European conference on mission studies when 74 participants from different denominations, countries and continents decided that an organization would be established.〔Johannes Verkuyl (1978), Contemporary Missiology : An Introduction. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 87.〕 As a result, the first IAMS conference was held in 1972. IAMS links individual scholars and missiological associations from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific together with “North America, Germany, the United Kingdom and Ireland, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, South Africa, India and elsewhere.”〔Scherer, James A. (2003). "Missiology." In Encyclopedia of Christianity, 3, 557. Grand Rapids Mich.; William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.〕 IAMS is now “a broadly ecumenical body including Roman Catholics, Orthodox, conciliar and evangelical Protestants, and members of the Pentecostal, charismatic and Independent churches.”〔John S. Pobee, (2002). “International Association for Mission Studies.” In Nicolas Lossky, et al, eds. Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement. 2nd ed. Geneva, Switzerland; WCC Publications, 589.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「International Association for Mission Studies」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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