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Doctrinal Attitudes of the Rising Younger Churches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2009

William David Schermerhorn
William David Schermerhorn
Affiliation:
Professor of Church History and Missions, Garrett Biblical Institute, Evanston, Ill.
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Those Christians who have been taught by Western Protestant missionaries have come to be critical of the name by which they are called. They are no longer simply “missions” or “missionary churches,” “native churches,” or even “indigenous churches.” They believe that such terms are now marks of condescension on the part of those using them, and so insist upon a non-compromising nomenclature. The Jerusalem Conference gave it; even though it is slightly inaccurate—“The Younger Churches.”

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Papers of the American Society of Church History , Volume 9 , March 1934 , pp. 95 - 118
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Copyright © American Society for Church History 1934

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References

1 A Chapter of Mission History in Modern Japan, by Pettee, J. H., Okayama, 1895.Google Scholar

2 From a letter of the A. B. Mission to the trustees of Doshisha College, July 7, 1896.

3 For an account, see the Japan Evangelist, 1901.

4 From A Chapter of Mission History in Modern Japan, by Pettee, J. H., pp. 66–67 (Trans, by De Forest).Google Scholar

5 Report of the ABCFM 1896, pp. 93–94.

6 Address delivered at the 30th Anniversary of the Kumi-Ai Churches, Oct. 7, 1916, p. 8.

7 Year Book of Japan, Korea & Formosa, 1926, p. 33.

8 Pettee, op. cit.

9 Japan Miss. Year Book, 1926, p. 33.

10 Op. cit., 1915, p. 75.

11 Christian Movement in Japan, 1914, p. 47.

12 See Japan Evangelist, May, 1901, and Journal Genl. Conf. M. E. Ch., 1908, p. 956ff.

13 Japan Evangelist, 1914.

14 United Church Review, Sept., 1930.

15 Handbook of Japan, 1903.

16 Japan Mission Year Bk., 1928, p. 260.

17 The South India United Church reserves to itself the right to revise its General Confession of Faith whenever the consensus of opinion of the united body demands it. See the Edinburgh Missionary Conference Report, vol. ii, Appendix i.

18 Chinese Recorder, June 1922, pp. 369ff.

19 See Art. in International Review of Missions, 1922.

20 Chinese Recorder, June 1922, pp. 36gff.

21 Jerusalem Conference Report, vol. iii, p. 254.

22 Chinese Recorder, May 1921, p. 297.

23 See Jerusalem Conf. Report, vol. iii, pp. 261–263.

24 Pp. 262f.