Title: Faith on the frontier : a life of J.H. Oldham /
Authors: Clements, K. W.
Publisher: T & T Clark ; WCC Publications,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Oldham, J. H.; Oldham, J. H.; Ecumenical movement.; Ecumenists Great Britain Biography.; Ecumenists Scotland Biography.
Contents: Part I. To be a missionary -- ch. 1. The cradle : India, Scotland and Evangelicalism -- ch. 2. The student : Oxford 1892-96 -- ch. 3. The student volunteer : Aldersgate street and India 1896-1901 -- ch. 4. Theological student and missions educator, Edinburgh 1901-07 -- Part II. Ecumenical pathfinding -- ch. 5. Edinburgh 1910 -- ch. 6. After Edinburgh : the beginningo f the doin -- ch. 7. World missions and World War 1914-18 -- ch. 8. a new beginning 1918-25 -- Part III. Mission and the corridors of colonial power -- ch. 9. Mission, empire, race and prayer 1919-25 -- ch. 10. "Friend of Africa" 1920-30 -- ch. 11. New tensions : Oldham, Mott and the IMC -- Part IV. Church, community and state -- ch. 12. Oldham in transition - to life and work -- ch. 13. Oldham and Nazi Germany 1933-37 -- ch. 14. Oxford 1937 -- ch. 15. Towards a World Council of Curches 1933-39 -- ch. 16. "A fighting chance" : the council on the Chrsitian faith and the common life -- Part V. Crisis, war and society 1938-45 -- ch. 17. The moot -- ch. 18. The Christian News-Letter -- ch. 19. Councils of war : the emergence of the Christian Frontier Council -- Part VI. Still "a perfectly mad adventure" -- ch. 20. From Utrecht to Amsterdam : Oldham and the inauguration of the World Council of Churches -- ch. 21. The post-war veteran 1945-459 -- ch. 22. The last frontier 1960-69.