Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide

• Comment: This reads a little too much like a web page about their history. It also needs a little more context at the start--it took me two readings to realize that this organization is the successor to the the Henry Martyn Memorial Hall, and it left me unclear to what extent the HMMH was a formal organization, and how it was (and is ) supported. . DGG ( talk ) 18:20, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

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The Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide (CCCW) is a study, teaching and research centre in Cambridge, England and an Associate Institute of the Cambridge Theological Federation. The centre was established in 1881 by a trust that was created in memory of Henry Martyn (1781-1812), a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge who had been a missionary in India and Persia with the British East India Company. The Henry Martyn Memorial Hall was built in 1886-7 on Market Street next to Holy Trinity Church and served as gathering place for mission societies and student groups like the Cambridge Missionary Church Union (CMCU), the Cambridge Inter-Collegiate Christian Union (CICCU), the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA), and the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA). Faculty members and students of the university had direct ties to the Church Missionary Society (1799), the Universities’ Mission to Central Africa (1860), the China Inland Mission (1865), the Cambridge Seven (1884) and the Student Volunteer Movement (1886).

During the 1990s the Henry Martyn Memorial Hall transitioned into a formal academic centre for research and study in history, missions and World Christianity at the University of Cambridge. In 1995 the was changed to the Henry Martyn Centre (HMC) and in 1998 the centre became formally affiliated with the Cambridge Theological Federation and the Cambridge University Faculty of Divinity. In 2014 the HMC became the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide to reflect new trends in the study of missions and World Christianity. The CCCW library, now on the site of Westminster College, contains more than 10,000 books and over 100 journals related to the study of history and World Christianity. The library is associated with the Cambridge University Library (referred to as the University Library, or simply the UL). The archives of the CCCW comprise materials related to the history of missions in Africa, Asia and Latin America, including the papers of John Edward Church (1899-1989), a graduate of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and a leader in the East African Revival. The British historian Brian Stanley, served as the centre's director from 2000 to 2008 before becoming the Professor of World Christianity at the University of Edinburgh.

Research

CCCW has facilitated inter-university scholarship from Western and non-Western academics, linking together the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh and London with the University of Wisconsin, Boston College and Fuller Theological Seminary. Scholars affiliated with the centre produce work on interfaith dialogue, social justice, missions history, the history of Evangelicalism, and World Christianity.

External links

• Official website