Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-2001
Abstract
Ruth Rouse, writing in A History of the Ecumenical Movement, made an extraordinary claim about the origins of modern ecumenism. She identified two factors in the 1890s that, in her words, "changed the course of Church history and made possible the modern ecumenical movement." One was the Student Christian Movement, established m 1895 by the American Methodist layman, John R. Mott. The other factor was the Grindelwald (Switzerland) Reunion Conferences, an assembly mostly of English church leaders organized by a Methodist minister, Henry Lunn, between 1892 and 1895. Mott's movement is very well known to modern readers. The Grindelwald Conferences, by contrast, are utterly obscure in spite of Rouse's conclusion that they "began a new phase in the growth of the ecumenical idea."
Repository Citation
Oldstone-Moore, C.
(2001). The Forgotten Origins of the Ecumenical Movement in England: The Grindelwald Conferences, 1892-95. Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture, 70 (1), 73-97.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/history/250
DOI
10.2307/3654411
Comments
Copyright of the American Society of Church History. The version of record of this article can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3654411.