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In: Volume 1 Dawn of Ecumenism | Part II. Prehistory: The Challenges of Modernity previous chapter 1 Introduction In the seventh chapter of her 1954 history of the ecumenical movement, Ruth Rouse noted two starting points to what she called “the modern ecumenical movement”: the Grindelwald Conferences and the scm.1 According to Rouse, this interdenominational Protestant movement, in which she herself worked, produced the main leaders of the ecumenical movement of the 20th century. She also showed that the American Methodist John Raleigh Mott w…

In: Volume 1 Dawn of Ecumenism | Part III. Beginnings: Movements Become a Movement previous chapter 1 From Gestation to Birth The emergence of the imc from the Edinburgh 1910 wmc was like the birth that comes at the end of a long gestation period.1 The subtitle of William Richey Hogg’s classic history of the imc is revealing: A History of the International Missionary Council and Its Nineteenth-Century Background.2 After tentative beginnings in the 18th century, the Western Protestant missionary movement truly came into its own from 1800, leading Kenneth Scott La…

In: Volume 1 Dawn of Ecumenism | Part I. Preamble: Long Term Issues previous chapter 1 Communion and Otherness: The Knots in an Ancient Problem Any attempt to address the question of church unity in a theologically rigorous way leads to a discussion of the relationship between unity and diversity within the church itself. A glance at ecclesiastical history would be enough to show how crucial this has been in the course of the centuries. During the apostolic period, the issue dominated the debate on the acceptance of Gen…

In: Volume 1 Dawn of Ecumenism | Part II. Prehistory: The Challenges of Modernity previous chapter 1 Introduction The American Social Gospel was one of the movements for Christian socialism and social Christianity that swept across England, continental Europe, and North America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. However, even though it was an example of historic international trend, it was utterly distinct within this phenomenon for the American Social Gospel was a cultural earthquake that could be called…

In: Volume 1 Dawn of Ecumenism | Part III. Beginnings: Movements Become a Movement previous chapter 1 Brent: Missionary Bishop When, on June 14, 1910, at the age of 48, Charles Henry Brent set foot in the meeting room of the United Free Church of Scotland, where the wmc of Edinburgh was to take place, he already boasted of moderate international fame, nine years of experience as missionary bishop in the Philippines, and several articles in The New York Times recounting his successes in converting the peoples of Southeast Asia along with the war he was waging against the tr…

In: Volume 1 Dawn of Ecumenism | Part II. Prehistory: The Challenges of Modernity previous chapter 1 Introduction Considered purely in terms of its 19th-century political and social influence, Slavophilism as a major force in 19th-century Russian life was rather short-lived. The two most notable Slavophiles, Aleksey Stepanovich Khomyakov (1804–1860) and Ivan Vasilyevich Kireyevsky (1806–1856), both died relatively young. Konstantin Sergeyevich Aksakov (1817–1860), another of the original Slavophiles who had met r…

In: Volume 1 Dawn of Ecumenism | Part I. Preamble: Long Term Issues previous chapter Strictly defined as the attempt to bring separated Christians together in order to restore the unity that has been lost over time, ecumenism barely goes back any further than the beginning of the 20th century, when it becomes one of the most significant religious phenomena. Indeed, the word and the reality appeared during the years from 1910 to 1920 in the Anglican and Protestant worlds in Europe and the United States, designa…

In: Volume 1 Dawn of Ecumenism | Part I. Preamble: Long Term Issues previous chapter 1 Introduction In his preface to Les défis de la modernité, which he edited for Jean-Marie Mayeur’s Histoire du Christianisme, the master of French religious historiography Bernard Plongeron asserted that no diachronic synthesis or reconstruction of the Christian experience can avoid dealing with certain “hot spots”1 in the history of the churches, even when it is not tempted to be an histoire événementielle and when it permits itself to go beyond the usual sphere of institutional histor…

In: Volume 1 Dawn of Ecumenism | Part II. Prehistory: The Challenges of Modernity previous chapter 1 Birth of the Oxford Movement John Henry Newman has been commonly acknowledged as the leader, if not the main inspiration for that religious revival within the Church of England from the early 1830s onwards known as the Oxford or Tractarian Movement. Normative beliefs are shaped by particular historical contexts and circumstances and the Oxford Movement was no exception to this rule. The Movement’s origins partly lay i…