The Gerald H. Anderson Lectures
Each year OMSC@PTS invites leading scholars in Mission Studies, World Christianity, Intercultural Theology or a cognate discipline to deliver public lectures at the annual Princeton Theological Seminary World Christianity Conference. These lectures are name in honor of Gerald H. Anderson.
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Announcing the 2025 Gerald H. Anderson Lecturers
Migration, Diaspora, Transnationalism In World Christianity
Dr. Kathryn Gin Lum
Professor in the Religious Studies Department, in collaboration with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford
Dr Abel Ugba
Associate Professor and the Director of Taught Postgraduate Studies in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds
Dr. Deanna Womack
Associate Professor of History of Religions and Interfaith Studies at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology in Atlanta
The 2024 Gerald H. Anderson Lecturers
Revisiting Women and Gender in World Christianity
Dr. Ivone Gebara
PhD in Philosophy from the Pontifical Roman Catholic University of São Paulo and a PhD in Religious Studies from the University of Louvain/ Belgium
Dr. Egodi Uchendu
Professor of History at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Dr. Kwok Pui-Lan
Dean’s Professor of Systematic Theology at Candler School of Theology at Emory University
The 2023 Gerald H. Anderson Lecturers
War, Pandemic, and Climate Change: Global Crises–Past and Present–and Their Place In World Christianity Scholarship
Aparecida Vilaça
Professor of Social Anthropology at the National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Arkotong Longkumer
Senior Lecturer in Modern Asia at the University of Edinburgh, UK
Ezra Chitando
Professor of religious studies at the University of Zimbabwe and professor at the Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and Social Justice at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa
The 2022 Gerald H. Anderson Lecture:
Dr. Dana Robert (Boston University) gave the inaugural lecture on June 9, 2022,
in conjunction with OMSC’s Centenary Celebration.
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Dr. Gerald H. Anderson was Director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center from 1976-2000. He was formerly Academic Dean and Professor of Church History at Union Theological Seminary in the Philippines, President of Scarritt College in Nashville, Tennessee, and Senior Research Associate in the Southeast Asia Studies Program at Cornell University. A former Fulbright Scholar, he studied at the universities of Marburg, Germany; Geneva, Switzerland; and Edinburgh, Scotland. He has a PhD from Boston University, and honorary doctorates from Albertus Magnus College, Asbury Theological Seminary, and Moravian Theological Seminary. He is the editor and co-author of The Theology of the Christian Mission, Christ and Crisis in Southeast Asia, Asian Voices in Christian Theology, Studies in Philippine Church History, Mission Legacies, and the Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions among many others. To learn more about Dr. Anderson please read his article “My Pilgrimage in Mission” as printed in the July 2005 issue of the IBMR and visit the Gerald H. Anderson Collection at the Yale Divinity School Archives.
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