- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: T.& T.Clark Ltd; 1st Edition edition (1 Oct 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0567086909
- ISBN-13: 978-0567086907
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.6 x 2.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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J.H. Oldham is one of the greatest pioneers of ecumenism in the 20th century. Sections relate to Oldham''s time as a missionary in India, his role as secretary of the World missionary Conference and his role in the Life and Work movement.'
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Keith Clements, an ordained minister of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, has been general secretary of the Conference of European churches since 1997, and is an ecumenical body based in Geneva, Strasbourg and Brussels.
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This is much more than a biography. J H Oldham is the Father of the Ecumenical Movement and it is impossible to tell his story without recounting the way in which churches and missionary societies all over the world were growing closer together throughout the whole of the 20th century, going back before the Edinburgh Conference, 1910, until his death in1969. Oldham was a major player in it all.
But it is also about much more than the churches. For Oldham every issue in society or international relations called for the challenge of the gospel, be it education, race relations, women's suffrage, colonialism or economics. During a short period working in India around 1900 he set himself too build bridges between the Indian and missionary communities because foreignness was a hindrance to evangelism and he knew only too well that what the Indians wanted most was friends and love.
He may have spent his working life in the ecclesiastical institutions but his eyes were always on secular horizons and his greatest disappointments were when the institutions became more interested in themselves than in the world they were there to serve.
Clements is to be congratulated on his achievement. Brilliantly written. Compulsive reading. Every Christian professional should take it seriously. No theological library can afford to be without it.
Alec Gilmore University of Sussex
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This is much more than a biography. J H Oldham is the Father of the Ecumenical Movement and it is impossible to tell his story without recounting the way in which churches and missionary societies all over the world were growing closer together throughout the whole of the 20th century, going back before the Edinburgh Conference, 1910, until his death in1969. Oldham was a major player in it all.
But it is also about much more than the churches. For Oldham every issue in society or international relations called for the challenge of the gospel, be it education, race relations, women's suffrage, colonialism or economics. During a short period working in India around 1900 he set himself too build bridges between the Indian and missionary communities because foreignness was a hindrance to evangelism and he knew only too well that what the Indians wanted most was friends and love.
He may have spent his working life in the ecclesiastical institutions but his eyes were always on secular horizons and his greatest disappointments were when the institutions became more interested in themselves than in the world they were there to serve.
Clements is to be congratulated on his achievement. Brilliantly written. Compulsive reading. Every Christian professional should take it seriously. No theological library can afford to be without it.
Alec Gilmore University of Sussex
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