Professor Robert is co-director of the centre for global Christianity and mission at Boston University School of Theology in the USA. She addressed nearly 300 delegates and 100 other participants on the topic “Mission and Unity in the ‘Long View’ from 1910 to the 21st Century”. Edinburgh 2010 marks the centenary of a mission conference held in the Scottish capital in June 1910, an event considered a milestone in the missionary movement that is identified with the birth of the modern ecumenical movement towards closer inter-confessional cooperation.
Edimburgo 2010 celebra el centenario de la Conferencia de Misiones celebrada en la capital escocesa en junio de 1910, acontecimiento considerado un hito en el movimiento misionero y que se identifica con el nacimiento del movimiento ecuménico moderno.