Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization

Theological Convergence: Edinburgh 1910 to Lausanne 2010 with an introduction. In this introduction, he starts off with his thesis; “This thesis argues that a theological convergence developed out of the ecumenism that existed within the Edinburgh 1910 Global Missions Conference, and that this ecumenism grew from Edinburg 1910 until the Lausanne Movement that began in 1974, at which point it began to flourish” (Pruitt 5). He then defines some terms and lists some acronyms that prove helpful and a guide to look back on while reading. Chapter 1 focuses on the early development of evangelicalism and ecumenism. He starts this chapter off with the “arduous task” of defining evangelicalism. “Therefore, in order…