2010 Documents
Documents and papers of the Edinburgh 2010 Conference will be uploaded as soon as possible. Many more documents, prepared by the decentralised study process (2002-2010) and other contributors can be found at the bottom of this page, and on the study process sections.
Edinburgh 2010: Witnessing to Christ Today, 2-6 June 2010
Wednesday 2 June
EVENING OPENING PRAYER 20:00-21:30hrs
Thursday 3 June
OPENING CELEBRATION 9:00-11:00hrs
OPENING PLENARY: 'MISSION IN LONG PERSPECTIVE' 11:00-13:00hrs
Theme 5: Forms of Missionary Engagement
WELCOME BY THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT 19:00-20:00hrs
Friday 4 June
PLENARY 2, 'MISSION WORLDWIDE' 11:00-13:00hrs
PARALLEL SESSIONS
Theme 4: Mission and Power
PLENARY 3
Sunday 6 June
Documents and Papers 2002-2010
Documents prepared by the study process (2002-2010) and other contributors. More documents can be found on the study process sections:
[2010] Edinburgh 1910 Revisited - Give Us Friends!
Papers of the 16th annual Centre for Mission Studies Consultation held at the Union Biblical Seminary, Pune (13-15 January 2010) have been published by the Asian Trading Corporation. More information on the book edited by Frampton F. Fox can be found here. By kind permission of the authors papers of the consultation can be downloaded by clicking on the titles below:
Jacob: Foreword
Aleaz: Witnessing Christ in the Company of Hindus
Cho: Towards a Partner Relationship between WCC and Lausanne
Doss: Contextualising Missionary Engagement
Haldar: Towards Convergence of Ecumenism and Evangelicalism in Post-Edinburgh-1910 Era
Hrangkhuma: Integrating Mission in Theological Education
Kumar: Mission and Postmodernity, Neocolonialism and Globalization
Marak: Developing Mission Curriculum in Theological Education to Impact the Local Churches for Mission in India Today
Matam: Salvation - Present, Future and its Link to Conversion, Baptism, and Particiption in the Sacramental Life of the Church
Mohol: Edinburgh 1910: Roots and Fruits! A Story of Missionaries who Brought the Gospel to Berar and Founded UBS
Pierard: The Ecumenical Movement and the Missionary Movement: You Can't Have One Without the Other
Ponraj: Christian Mission Among Other Faiths
Ramachandran: Christian Communities in Contemporary Context
Sahayadoss: Prospects and Challenges that Engulf Christian Missions in a Postmodern Context
Schuster: Edinburgh 1910 and Beyond: Mission in Unity. Historical, Theological and Practical Reflections
[2010] Mission 1910-2010. Edinburgh 1910 challenges today's understanding of mission
The Theological Commission of the Association of Protestant Churches and Missions (EMW) has published a series of articles concerned with mission in the 21st century. Articles are in German and available as free download from the EMW website. For further information click here.
[2010] Edinburgh 1910 and Edinburgh 2010: Different Theological Worldviews
Paper given by Kirsteen Kim, Edinburgh 2010 Study Process Coordinator, at the Henry Martyn Seminar, 27th January 2010 at Westminster College, Cambridge, is now available as PDF download or audio file from the Henry Martyn Centre website.
[2010] Edinburgh to Tambaram
Paper submitted by Professor Joshua Kalapati, Madras Christian College and published in the journal Dharma Deepika in its special January 2010 issue on Edinburgh 2010. Download (Word file) here.
[2009] Melbourne Conference
A wide group of Australian church and mission bodies gathered on 2-3 October 2009 in two locations in Melbourne for celebration and reflection on Christian mission and ecumenism over the last 100 years. For more information on the event, 'Towards 2010: Witnessing to Christ Today', click here. An article on the conference, 'Australia looks towards Edinburgh 2010', was written by Peter Ridell. It first appeared in Evangelicals now, a monthly Christian newspaper published in the Uk and distributed worldwide. The article is available as PDF download with kind permission of the publisher.
Papers presented at the conference include 'From Edinburgh 1910 to Melbourne 2010: Witnessing to Christ Today' by Ross Langmead, and 'Christian Mission among other Faiths' by David Claydon.
[2009] On the Way outside the Gate
A theological reflection on mission by Rev. Dr. Lee Hong Jung, published in ccanews of the Christian Conference of Asia in an issue on 'Mission and Missionaries (Sep 2009, p. 4-6). The ccanews can be downloaded here.
[2009] Baptists and other Christian Churches in the first half of the 20th Century
Brian Talbot, 2009. The paper was presented at this year's International Conference On Baptist Studies, V in Melbourne, Australia. It is available as PDF download with kind permission of the author. Brian Talbot also contributed a brief overview 'Why Celebrate Edinburgh 1910'.
[2009] Unreached peoples
Dr. Malcolm Hunter, founder director of the Nomadic Peoples Network explains frankly why he is surprised that 'the challenge of unreached peoples' does not appear to be high on the agenda of Edinburgh 2010 in a statement which is available here (MS Word doc).
[2009] Bangalore Consultation
Edinburgh 2010 Theme 2 'Christian mission among other faiths' was the theme for the conference organised and hosted by the United Theological College, Bangalore on 17-19 July 2009, which was also critical of that theme. The papers presented are now, by kind permission of the authors, available here.
[2009] Hamburg meeting of Theme 2 Christian Mission Among Other Faiths
The draft position papers submitted for the meeting of Theme 2 Christian Mission Among Other Faiths on 17-19 August in Hamburg, Germany may be downloaded as MS Word files by kind permission of the authors. Papers are available here.
[2009] West Africa consultation on 'African spirituality, Christian mission and discipleship'
West African leaders met at the Akrofi-Christaller Institute for Theology, Mission and Culture in Ghana on 23-25 March 2009 to discuss 'African spirituality, Christian mission and discipleship'. The consultation, which also feeds into the research for Edinburgh study theme 9, was organised by Rev. Prof. J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu of Trinity Theological Seminary, Ghana. Emeritus Prof. J.H. Kwabena Nketia, Rt Rev. Dr. Cyril Okorocha, Rev. Prof. Isaac Deji Ayagboyin and other distinguished people presented papers and case studies. Many of these are available here.
[2009] Consultation on 'Mission spirituality and authentic discipleship', Seoul
Papers presented at the consultation on 'Mission spirituality and authentic discipleship' organised by Edinburgh 2010 Study Theme 9, led by Dr. Wonsuk Ma and Dr. Cathy Ross, and held at Youngnak Presbyterian Church, Seoul, South Korea on 22-24 March 2009 are now available for download at this link.
[2009] Lausanne Theology Working Group: The Whole Church
The Theology Working Group of the Lausanne Movement is busy preparing for Lausanne III in Cape Town, South Africa in October 2010. The group is studying each part of the phrase 'The whole Church taking the whole Gospel to the whole world'.
The papers of the consultation on 'The whole Gospel', Chiangmai, Thailand, February 2008 are now published in the Evangelical Review of Theology 33/1 (Jan 2009).
With the permission of Dr. Chris Wright, who coordinates the Group, their reflections on 'The Whole Church' in their meeting in Panama on 26-30 January 2009 are made available by pdf file here.
[2008] From Edinburgh to Achimota
Dr. Nico Botha, Nico of the University of South Africa, and President of the South African Missiological Society (SAMS) has contributed the following article looking a developments in mission thinking 'From Edinburgh to Achimota'. The paper was first published in the journal Studia Historiae Ecclesiaticae in 2008, and it is made available here by kind permission of the editor, Professor Christina Landman.
Download MSWord file here.
[2007] Will We Correct the Edinburgh Error?
David Hesselgrave, 2007. The article is attached here and is reprinted with permission from Southwestern Journal of Theology, 49.2 (2007): 121-49 [full version available online at http://www.baptisttheology.org/journal.cfm]. Download as a pdf file here.
[2007] A Case of Thorough Preparation: D.S. Cairns, Commission IV and the Missionaries' Returns
A paper by Timothy Yates © 2007. Download pdf file here.
[2006] International Bulletin of Missionary Research 30:4, Oct 2006
In October 2006 a special issue of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research examined the impact of the Edinburgh Missionary Conference of 1910 and the prospects of celebration and study in 2010. It is available here for download by kind permission of the editor. Articles of particular interest:
Jonathon J. Bonk, Edinburgh 1910: Friendship and the Boundaries of Christendom
Brian Stanley, Defining the Boundaries of Christendom: The Two Worlds of the World Missionary Conference, 1910
Kenneth R. Ross, The Centenary of Edinburgh 1910: Its Possibilities
Download pdf file here.
[2002-2007] Towards 2010 project
Between 2002 and 2007, 'Towards 2010' hosted a seminar series reflecting on each of the Commissions of Edinburgh 1910 from contemporary perspectives from around the world. 'Towards 2010' was initiated by Dr Ken Ross, supported by the Church of Scotland and the University of Edinburgh. The record of these events can be found here.
