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Bishop Geevarghese Coorilos, Metropolitan of Niranam Diocese of Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church (Former President of the CWME), current President of the WSCF (World Student Christian Federation)

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In the context of world Christianity and missional church, how do the theological disciplines arising from Christendom need to be reimagined? The lecture will draw on the reflections of a missiologist designing an introduction to theology for a diverse and global classroom.

Kirsteen Kim (PhD, Birmingham, 2002) is the Paul E. Pierson Professor of World Christianity and Associate Dean for the Center for Missiological Research at Fuller Theological Seminary, USA. A recent publication is The Oxford Handbook of Mission Studies, eds. Kirsteen Kim, Knud Jørgensen, and Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga (Oxford University Press, 2022).

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In the first quarter of the twenty-first century, the churches of the Middle East have faced crisis upon crisis. Wars and terrorism have displaced and weakened Christian and other communities in Iraq, Syria, Palestine, and Lebanon. Economic downturn, climate change, and political instability have rendered them vulnerable. How have the churches responded? What opportunities and obstacles for cooperation have they encountered? Might hospitality be a rallying point for an ecumenical missionary ecclesiology in the Middle East? 

This lecture will address the understanding of church and mission in the main ecclesial families of the Middle East (Oriental Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant). It will also look at the embodiment of mission on the parish level in times of crisis and war.

Wilbert van Saane is Chaplain and Lecturer in Religion at Haigazian University, Beirut. He also serves as Assistant Professor of Theology and Mission at the Near East School of Theology. He is an ordained minister in the Protestant Church in the Netherlands and has served in Lebanon for 16 years.

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