Overview The lecture will explore scholarship on the modern Christian missionary movement which links mission to the European colonial conquest since the fifteenth century and gives attention to emerging voices seeking to ‘redeem’ mission from this conquest paradigm, especially those in the wider Evangelical tradition arguing for mission as ’incarnation’, ‘integral’, 'translation’, ‘holistic’, and ‘transformation’:  A case will be made that history and a careful reflection of societies where modern Christianity is dominant oblige us to re-read the Gospel narrative and its imperative for followers of Jesus: compelling us to ponder if ‘mission’ is redeemable: Could it be more plausible to talk about the need to ‘repent’ of the mission paradigm?

Speaker Dr. David Zac Niringiye

About the speaker Dr. David Zac Niringiye holds a PhD in Theology and Mission History from the University of Edinburgh (UK), an MA in Theology from Wheaton College (USA), as well as a Physics Honours degree and Teaching Diploma from Makerere University in Uganda. He is a leader with national and international acclaim and has experience as a church leader, theologian, peace and social justice activist and an organizational development consultant. Bishop Zac who previously served as Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Kampala, is now engaged in full-time civic-political activism in his native country of Uganda.