03 Dec 2024
‘Many Dwelling-Places’: The Search for an Ecumenical-Missionary Ecclesiology in the Middle East
Overview 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.
Speaker Wilbert Van Saane
About the speaker 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.
Passage: 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.
