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Lausanne-Era Global Evangelicalism
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About This Movement
Evangelicals from around the world met at Lausanne from 16 to 25 July 1974, and what came out of it was not a denomination but a network with a document. The Lausanne Covenant was drafted by a committee chaired by John Stott and adopted at the congress, and the congress's own record, Let the Earth Hear His Voice, was published the following year with the addresses in it — including those of the Latin Americans René Padilla and Samuel Escobar, who argued that evangelism and social responsibility could not be separated. That argument won enough of the room to change the movement's direction, which is why 'integral mission' is a Lausanne word. The movement has restated itself twice more since, in the Manila Manifesto of 1989 and the Cape Town Commitment of 2010, and again at Seoul in 2024 — a chain of dated statements of what it takes itself to be, unusual in its consistency.
Sources
- The Lausanne Covenant (1974; drafting committee chaired by John Stott; adopted at Lausanne, 16-25 July 1974); Manila Manifesto (1989); Cape Town Commitment (2010); Seoul Statement (2024) (primary) — John Stott and Samuel Escobar served on the drafting committee.
- Let the Earth Hear His Voice (ed. J. D. Douglas, 1975) - the congress's own record, incl. Rene Padilla's and Samuel Escobar's addresses (primary) — This is the congress's own record of the Global South delegates' argument for integral mission, in their own words.
- The network's institutional record: Lausanne consultations and occasional papers; WEA and national fellowship records (primary) — These records document the movement as a network rather than a formal denomination.
- Brian Stanley, The Global Diffusion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Billy Graham and John Stott (IVP, 2013); Bebbington/Noll evangelicalism-history series (secondary) — Stanley's book is considered the standard history of this network.
- CHC vol. 9; Noll, The New Shape of World Christianity (reference)