1910년 에딘버러 선교대회의 상황과 선교적 의미 = A Study on the contextand the missionary meaning to Edinburgh Missionary Conference in 1910

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This paper aims to study the context and the missionary meaning to Edinburgh Missionary Conference in 1910. The 19th century was a very important period in the history of Protestant mission, for there was no time to make the geographical expansion of Christianity thenceforth. Therefore, Kenneth Scott Latourette(1884-1968), a historian who studied the history of Christianity, mentioned the 19th century 'The Great Century'. But there were a lot of issues in the process of the expansion and growth of Christianity because most colonies in all the world were founded by the imperialism of the western Christianity countries just at that time. Not only did the western missionaries show serious disruption and conflict in accordance with the political understanding of their own country, but also the greed and unlawful behaviors done in all the colonies by many white people made serious difficulty to the Christianity mission. In order to solve this problem, the necessity of a meeting with every religious denomination was brought up, so the necessity of the ecumenical missionary conference came to the fore. Besides, in the process of world missionary expansion, the numerous missionary bodies were organized, and they were active positively all over the world. But since they had have the background of the individual church and religious denomination, and worked without cooperation one another, there was a waste of missionary resources as a result of the overlapping of missionary works and the excessive competition in missionary. So, to solve this problem, the ecumenical cooperation was required. In this context, the union movement in missionary was happened, and missionary conference was held from the middle part of the 19th century. Real ecumenical world missionary conference, however, was “The World Missionary Conference” held in Edinburgh of Scotland from June 14 to June 23, 1910. Though the size of this conference was much smaller than London Missionary Conference and New York Ecumenical Missionary Conference in 1900, its leverage was the greater from the point of missionary history. Edinburgh Missionary Conference has some missionary meaning in relation to the world missionary. First, its important meaning is that it was valued as “the birthplace of modern ecumenical movement”. The three kinds of ecumenical movements in Christianity were ‘The International Missionary Council’, ‘Life and Work’ and ‘Faith and Order’, and these movements was originated from this conference. ‘Life and Work’ and ‘Faith and Order’ originated World Church Council. Since the WCC was unified with International Missionary Council in Newdelhi Conference in 1961, it has been the main stream of ecumenical movement until now. Second, it was the western's one way missionary into the non-western. Also, it was the conference confirming their passion and obligation which western Christianity countries should propagate the gospel to non-Christianity countries. This kind of one way missionary, as we know, was over, because this is the time to various two-way missionary, that is, the time to partnership missionary. Third, it had the attitude of positive and imperial missionary. The missionary in Edinburgh Missionary Conference did mean conquering the world by the gospel. The world was understood as a sort of geographical and historical notion, not a theological one. In other words, they thought that this world was divided into Christian countries and non-Christian countries. And they believed that Christian countries should conquer non-Christian countries. Fourth, the necessity of cooperation between native missionary and dispatched missionary was on the rise. The opinion related to the necessity of ecumenical cooperation between native missionary and dispatched missionary, and between missionary council and regional churches produced positive effect. Finally, it was the missionary focused on missionary council, not churches.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 1. 시작하는 말
• 2. 1910년 에딘버러 선교대회의 상황
• 3. 1910년 에딘버러대회의 선교적 의미