Student Christian Movement
Student Christian Movement of Great Britain (formerly Student Christian Movement of Great Britain and Ireland ) is a British Christian charity.
history
SCM began as the Student Volunteer Missionary Union in 1889 with the aim of bringing together students with an interest in overseas mission. But the organization very quickly broadened its goals and became the largest student organization in Britain. Among other things, the organization participated in the founding of the National Union of Students and the World University Service . The first general secretary was Tissington Tatlow . Likewise, the SCM was the driving force behind the first World Mission Conference in Edinburgh in 1910 , from which the modern ecumenical movement was to emerge. In addition, SCM played an important role in the establishment of the British Council of Churches and the World Council of Churches .
SCM Press was founded as a publishing house of the movement and has become one of the leading theological publishers in the UK.
In 1928 the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (Inter-Varsity Fellowship) came into being when members of the SCM who did not want to take the liberal positions founded an independent, missionary group.
Until the 1980s, SCM was an organization covering all of Britain and Ireland. Only then did it split into two organizations. Both organizations are members of the World Student Christian Federation . During this period, Catholics were increasingly accepted into the organization, which had been predominantly Protestant until then .
SCM has relationships with approximately 60 universities and other secondary education institutions in the UK. Each link is in the form of a student group or a chaplaincy that agrees with the goals of the SCMs. Some student groups are named SCM ( Sheffield SCM ), others do not, some are denominationally tied to certain churches. The properties of each link are very different as the SCM has no regulations in this regard. The SCM also has a number of individual members: former or current students who want a stronger connection with the organization or who do not have groups on site.
literature
- Tissington Tatlow: The Story of the Student Christian Movement of Great Britain and Ireland . SCM Press, London 1933.
- Steve Bruce: The Student Christian Movement: a nineteenth century new religious movement and its vicissitudes . In: International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy . 2, No. 1, 1982, pp. 67-82. doi : 10.1108 / eb012943 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Brian Stanley: The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910 . Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2009, ISBN 9780802863607 , pp. 8-9.