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‘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.
Towards a Missiological Perspective of Collaboration: Insights from Scripture and Global Mission
Overview This lecture explores biblical foundations, historical development in mission collaboration, and key statements on collaboration, contrasting them with sociological collaboration models: Attendees will gain theological, missiological, sociological and practical insights into fostering trust, unity, and mutual accountability in collaborative efforts serving God’s mission:
Speaker Kirk J. Franklin
About the speaker Kirk J. Franklin (PhD, University of Pretoria, South Africa) is a researcher, author, educator, and speaker about global missions based in Melbourne, Australia. He is also an adjunct lecturer at the Melbourne School of Theology, associate faculty at OCMS, and a missiologist with the Wycliffe Global Alliance.
Overview 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:
Speaker Kirsteen Kim
About the speaker 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).
Introduction to the book, Community of Missionary Disciples: The Continuing Creation of the Church
Overview This lecture is an introduction to the book, Community of Missionary Disciples: The Continuing Creation of the Church: Rather than “tack” mission at the end of ecclesiology, the book focuses on Mission as starting with creation, and essential for the church’s foundation:
Speaker Stephen B. Bevans
About the speaker Stephen B. Bevans, SVD Professor of Mission and Culture, Emeritus, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago
Overview Pentecostalism has always functioned within a precarious space in which it has constantly sought to hold in creative tension its Christian identity and indigenous spiritual identity: While these aspects appear to complement each other, they are simultaneously in conflict:
Speaker Mutale Kaunda
About the speaker Mutale Mulenga Kaunda joined the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies in September 2024 as a Research Tutor. She is a former Doctoral Researcher at the University of KwaZulu-Natal 2017-2019 and the University of the Western Cape 2022-2024. She held the position of Research Mentor and Writing coach in the School of Religion Philosophy and Classics University of KwaZulu-Natal 2015-2019. She is an expert in gender rituals, an expert in how African women negotiate cultural dynamics in places of work.
