Ecumenical ChristianityJerusalem Meeting of the International Missionary Council.

1930 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 302-303
Author(s):  
A. G. Baker
1963 ◽  
Vol os-14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
H. Richard Niebuhr

This article represents a paper prepared under the direction of the Research Committee of the Division of Foreign Missions of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. and presented in April, 1951, as part of the American preparatory study on The Missionary Obligation of the Church”, the theme of the Enlarged Meeting of the International Missionary Council in Willingen. Germany, in 1952 So far as we know, it has never been published. It is presented now because of its intrinsic value and because it is as timely as it was a decade ago, if not more so. Un his death in 1962, Dr. Niebuh was for many years Professor of Theology and Christian Ethics in the Yale University Divinary School. The article is published with the kind permission of Mrs. H. Richard Niebuhr.


Exchange ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-205
Author(s):  
Deanna Ferree Womack

This essay situates the 1928 meeting of the International Missionary Council (imc) in Jerusalem in the historical context of British Mandate Palestine. Mission historians represent this conference as a turning point in the ecumenical missionary movement because delegates rejected Euro-centrism and demonstrated openness to partnerships with members of other faiths. Beyond the gates of the conference grounds where British soldiers stood guard, however, Palestinian Muslims and Christians expressed a different view of this gathering in the city of God. Arabic newspapers covered the widespread protests against the meeting, but imc publications gave little attention to this local response. Blinded by the inspiring Biblical scenery below, John Mott and other imc leaders failed to exhibit the sort of cultural sensitivity many delegates advocated behind the closed doors of their hilltop conference.


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