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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. ==Edinburgh 1910== Major Protestant denominations and missionary societies, predominantly from North America and Northern Europe, sent 1,200 representatives to Edinburgh, Scotland. Delegation was based on the annual expenditure of the missionary societies; one hundred additional special delegates were appointed by the British, Continental, and American Executive Committees. No Eastern Orthodox or Roman Catholic missionary organisations were invited. Lord Balfour, of the Church of Scotland, a former Unionist cabinet minister, was the President of the World Missionary Conference. American John R. Mott, an American Methodist layperson and leader of both the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions and the World Student Christian Federation, chaired its proceedings. The main organiser was Joseph Oldham, a leader in the Student Christian Movement. The conference was held in the Assembly Hall of the United Free Church of Scotland. Before the conference convened, eight assigned commissions, each with twenty members, conducted two years of research on their assigned topic. Each commission produced a single volume report, which was distributed to all of the delegates before they headed to Scotland and discussed at the assembly during the Conference. The Eight Commissions and their date of presentation at the Conference are as follows: # Carrying the Gospel to all the Non-Christian World (June 15, 1910) # The Church in the Mission Field (June 16, 1910) # Education in Relation to the Christianization of National Life (Jun 17, 1910) # Missionary Message in Relation to the Non-Christian World (June 18, 1910) # The Preparation of Missionaries (June 22, 1910) # The Home Base of Missions (June 23, 1910) # Missions and Governments (June 20, 1910) # Co-Operation and the Promotion of Unity (June 21, 1910) A ninth volume, containing the proceedings and major speeches, was published after the conclusion of the Conference. The spirit of the Conference was driven by the watchword of the Protestant Christian Missionary community at the time: "The Evangelization of the World in This Generation." Thus, sentiments of obligation and urgency drove many of the commission reports, discussions and speeches at the Conference. A call to unity among Protestant missionaries was also a common desire expressed at the Conference, although no common liturgy was celebrated among the delegates while in Edinburgh. In his 1947 book ''What Must the Church Do?'', Robert S. Bilheimer used the phrase "New Reformation" to refer to the ecumenical movement that resulted from the conference, and this usage became commonplace thereafter. 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「1910 World Missionary Conference」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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