Lausanne Conference and related committees

Correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, magazine and newspaper clippings, brochures and other materials relating to John R. W. Stott’s involvement in the 1974 International Congress of World Evangelism, Lausanne, and the Lausanne movement that developed out of it. The series is particularly strong in material relating to Stott’s membership on the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization and its executive committee; his contribution to drafting several of the movement’s major statements; his chairmanship of the Lausanne Theology and Education Group and the consultations it sponsored; and his participation in the preparation of Lausanne books and other publications.

The Lausanne papers were copied while in the custody of John Stott in 2003 so that surrogates could be deposited at the Billy Graham Center for Archives (collection 590). The descriptions in this section of the catalogue (LPL STOTT/4/2) replicate the descriptions created by the BGC, which numbered these sections as 4, 5, 11 and 12. At lower levels the numbering therefore replicates the codes allocated by the BGC. Also contains a file of Lausanne related correspondence dating from 2005-2006 (STOTT/4/2/13) which was not included in the main series of material for which surrogates are held by the Billy Graham Center. The original arrangement and catalogue descriptions were kindly provided to Lambeth Palace Library by the Billy Graham Center, Wheaton College, Illinois.