Comments on the Manila Manifesto

The materials in consist of notes and letters from individuals and groups sent to John Stott during congress about the draft, including proposed additions, revisions, and deletions. After the draft of the Manifesto was presented to the delegates, they were encouraged to send in suggestions for the final version, in groups if possible to make the volume of comments more manageable. JRWS and the drafting committee of the Congress used these materials in preparing the final version of the Manifesto which was approved in general terms by the Congress.

Additional note from the Billy Graham Center catalogue concerning this section: "Folder 11-5 contains much of the raw material he and the drafting committee worked with in preparing the final version of the Manila Manifesto...These materials appear to be in roughly arranged according to the twelve sections of the draft of the Manifesto to which they refer, plus responses to the Manifesto’s conclusion and general comments at the back of the file. (There do not seem to be any comments on the introduction of the Manifesto.) They have been maintained in their original order and divided by the archivist into 14 packets for ease of reference in the CD edition of the papers. Some of the individuals are groups that sent in comments are listed in the description of each packet. The lists are meant to be samples is not comprehensive as to all the commentators. Also, the fact that an individual’s or groups’ comments are listed in one packet does not mean that there are not additional comments from the same individual or group in another packet. Groups are identified by the name they themselves used." [from the online description provided by the Billy Graham Center: http://www2.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/GUIDES/590.htm]