Assessing the 1910 Edinburgh Conference in the Context of the Ecumenical Movement

INTRODUCTION

1. BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT.
1.1. Meaning of the word ‘Ecumenical’.
1.2. Four General Council of the Church.
1.2.1. Council of Nicaea 325
1.2.2. Council of Constantinople I 381
1.2.3. Council of Ephesus 431
1.2.4. Council of Chalcedon 451
1.3. The Evangelical Alliance in 1846 in London.
1.4. William Carey Proposal for Missionary Conference.
1.5. World Missionary Conference in 1910 Edinburgh.

2. MISSIONARY CONFERENCE 1910 EDINBURGH AND ITS RESULT.
2.1. Life and Work.
2.1.1. First Universal Christian on Life and Work at Stockholm in 1925
2.1.2. Second Conference at Oxford 1953
2.2. Faith and Order.
2.2.1. First Christian Conference on Faith an Order Conference at Lausanne in 1927
2.2.2. Faith and Order Conference at Edinburgh in 1937

3. UNIFICATION OF LIFE AND WORK AND FAITH AND ORDER.
3.1. Representatives of the Life and Work and the Faith and Order met in London in 1937.
3.2. Meeting at Utrecht 1938 made its Constitution.

4. FORMATION OF THE WORLD COUNCIL OF CHURCHES AND ITS ROLE.
4.1. The first World Council of Churches held at Amsterdam 1948.
4.2. The second Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Evanston.
4.3. The third Assembly of World Council of Churches at New Delhi, 1961.
4.4. The fourth assembly of World Council of Churches at Uppsala at 1968.
4.5. Fifth Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Nairobi in 1975.
4.6. Sixth Assembly of the World Council of Churches Vancouver in 1983.
4.7. The Seventh Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Canberra in 1991.
4.8. The Eight Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Harare in 1998.
4.9. The Ninth assembly of World Council of Churches at Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2006.

5. REGIONAL ECUMENICAL CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS WORD
ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT

6. ROMAN CATHOLIC ATTITUDE TOWARDS ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT.

7. EVANGELICAL ATTITUTE TOWARD ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT.

8. EFFECTS AND IMPLICATION.

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

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