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The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910. By Brian Stanley. Studies in the History of Christian Missions. Edited by R. E. Frykenberg and Brian Stanley. (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 2009, Pp. xxii, 352. $45.00, paper.)
In the preface of The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910, Brian Stanley relates that the volume "is intended to supply both an account of the World Missionary Conference as an event in itself and also a synthetic interpretation of the western Protestant missionary movement as it neared the apex of its size and influence" (xx). Stanley recalls that the estimated 1,215 official delegates who attended die conference were primarily missionaries originally hailing from Great Britain, North America, and continental Europe. Stanley also argues that while the 1910 Edinburgh conference is often considered an important development in the modem ecumenical movement, the gathering - which did not include Roman Catholic or Orthodox representation - was "decidedly Protestant and broadly evangelical" and thus essentially "representative of only one, albeit broad, segment of the world...