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The Edinburgh 1910 World Missionary Conference was the most famous
missions conference in modern church history. A century later, five
conferences on five continents displayed the landscape of global
mission at the dawn of the third millennium: Tokyo 2010, Edinburgh
2010, Cape Town 2010, 2010Boston, and CLADE V (San Jose, 2012).
These five events provide a window into the state of world
Christianity and contemporary missiology. Missiologist Allen Yeh,
the only person to attend all five conferences, chronicles the
recent history of world mission through the lenses of these
landmark events. He assesses the legacy of Edinburgh 1910 and the
development of world Christianity in the following century. Whereas
Edinburgh 1910 symbolized Christendom's mission "from the West to
the rest," the conferences of 2010-12 demonstrate the new realities
of polycentric and polydirectional mission-from everyone to
everywhere. Yeh's accounts of the conferences highlight the crucial
missiological issues of our era: evangelism, frontier missions,
ecumenism, unengaged and post-Christian populations,
reconciliation, postmodernities, contextualization,
postcolonialism, migration, and more. What emerges is a portrait of
a contemporary global Christian mission that encompasses every
continent, embodying good news for all nations.
Description: William Carey, often dubbed ""The Father of Modern
Missions,"" and Adoniram Judson, America's first intercontinental
missionary, were pioneers whose missions overlapped in chronology,
geography, and purpose. However, rarely are they both featured in
the same volume or compared and contrasted. Here we have unique
material by some of the world's leading experts (such as Timothy
George and Michael Haykin) on these two giants of missionary
history, with perspectives on these men in ways never seen before.
Especially relevant to this current age of World Christianity are
the perspectives from India and Burma, the lands which received
these men for their missionary enterprise. About the
Contributor(s): Allen Yeh is Associate Professor of Intercultural
Studies and Missiology at Biola University near Los Angeles,
California. He is the co-author of Routes and Radishes and Other
Things to Talk About at the Evangelical Crossroads (2010). Chris
Chun is Associate Professor of Church History at Golden Gate
Baptist Theological Seminary near San Francisco, California. He is
the author of The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards in the Theology of
Andrew Fuller (2012).
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