The Lausanne Movement for the Evangelization of the World was born in the city of the same name in 1974, during the first world congress organized at the initiative of the evangelist Billy Graham and the theologian John Stott.
The “Lausanne France” Group is pleased to offer, for the first time, to the French-speaking public, collected in a single volume, the three reference documents from the three world congresses in Lausanne, supplemented by study guides.
The founding document, the Declaration of Lausanne, shaped the history of evangelicalism for the entire end of the 20th century. These three congresses made possible multiple networks, new partnerships and opened a new path for evangelization, not only in its geographical dimension but also in the world of ideas and in the various spheres of society to which Christians are invited. to evangelize, witness and get involved.
“It has been said, very rightly, that the evangelical movement is defined less by its borders than by its main axis: I do not see how better to trace this axis than by bringing together the documents of the first volume of the “Lausanne” collection. The lasting fruitfulness of the ministry of Billy Graham and John Stott is attested there, as the union, in the joy of the same Gospel, of the refined experience of old Christian Europe, of the generous efficiency of America, and the new dynamism of the Churches of the (two) third world. »
—Henri Blocher
Theologian, Honorary Dean of the Free Faculty of Evangelical Theology (FLTE) of Vaux-sur-Seine, and member of the first International Committee of the Lausanne MovementISBN: 9782755002485