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Joseph Houldsworth Oldham (1874–1969), known as J. H. or Joe, was a Scottish missionary in India, who became a significant figure in Christian ecumenism, though never ordained in the United Free Church as he had wished. ==Life== He was the son of Lt-Col George Wingate Oldham RE (1807-1859) and Eliza 'Lillah' née Houldsworth (1845-?) born in India and brought up in Bombay until age 7, when his family returned to Scotland, living in Crieff and Edinburgh. He was a student at Trinity College, Oxford. He went to Lahore in 1897, a missionary for the Scottish YMCA, there marrying in 1898 Mary Anna Gibson Fraser (1875-1965), daughter of Sir Andrew Fraser KCSI and Agnes Whitehead née Archibald (1847-1877). He and Mary both suffered with typhoid, and returned to Scotland in 1901.〔(NSM KnowledgeBase - #8213 - Bio )〕 He became editor of the ''International Review of Missions'' in 1912, and travelled widely.〔(John Houldsworth Oldham )〕 At the end of World War I he was a secretary of the Emergency Committee of Cooperating Missions, chaired by John Mott.〔''Foreign Missions Year Book of North America, 1919'' (1919), pp. 11-2.〕 Article 438 of the Treaty of Versailles dealt with the property of German missions in territories ceded to the Allies by a mechanism of putting them in trust, and its inclusion is attributed to lobbying by Oldham.〔Clements, p. 165.〕 He was secretary of the International Missionary Council from its setting up in London in 1921 to 1938, an organisation having its roots in the 1910 World Missionary Conference in which he was heavily involved, and which he helped found and make effective (with Mott, William Paton and Abbe Livingston Warnshuis).〔(School of Oriental and African Studies Library: International Missionary Council )〕〔(Guide to the International Missionary Council Archives, 1910-1961 World Council of Churches, Geneva )〕 He promoted the 1926 founding of the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures by his efforts to gather funding.〔(Introduction | Catalogues and Resources | Information Services )〕 He then played a major role in the formation of the World Council of Churches.〔(People: St Andrew's and St George's West Church Edinburgh )〕 From 1938 to 1947 he convened ‘The Moot’, a Christian think-tank concentrating on the problem of post-war reconstruction, at weekend residential meetings several times a year. The most regular members were John Baillie, Sir Fred Clarke, T. S. Eliot, Eric Fenn, Herbert Arthur Hodges, Eleonora Iredale, Karl Mannheim, Walter Moberly, John Middleton Murry, Mary Oldham, Gilbert Shaw and Alec Vidler.〔Table of attendance, 1938 to 1944, in Roger Kojecky, ''T. S. Eliot's Social Criticism'' (1971), pp. 238-9.〕 Stefan Collini sums up the discussions as bearing "in one way or another, on the issue of cultural leadership in a modern society".〔Stefan Collini, ''Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain'' (2006), p. 319.〕 Oldham also edited the ''Christian News-Letter'' (taken over by Kathleen Bliss), for the Council of the Churches on the Christian Faith and the Common Life. It published some papers derived from the Moot.〔(AIM25 text-only browsing: Institute of Education: The Moot )〕〔(Untitled Document )〕 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「J. H. Oldham」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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