The Ecumenical Review, July 1st, 2000
Unity, Mission and Social Responsibility as Inescapably Inter-related Challenges
An epistle from the Cape of Good Hope
I am writing this article in the city of Cape Town. As long ago as 1806 William Carey suggested this place as the appropriate venue for "a meeting of all denominations of Christians" in which it would be possible to "understand each other better in two days than in two years of correspondence".(1) That letter, even if it met no ready agreement in the Baptist Missionary Society, sowed a seed that was eventually to lead to the world missionary conference of Edinburgh 1910 an...
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