Rev. Calum Samuelson
Research Associate in the Orthodox Project
Calum is currently a Research Associate at the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies (OCMS) in an Ethiopian Orthodox project funded by the Templeton Trust (through Fuller Theological Seminary) and is now based at Sankt Ignatios College, Södertälje, Sweden, to conduct research and participate as part of the Department of Tewahedo Christian Studies and the Collegium for Biblical Studies.
Reverend Calum Samuelson is an ordained minister in the Free Methodist Church and a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies in Cambridge, having also taught theology in Chicago and Nairobi. He has strong research interests in Ethiopian monasticism, and with a broad goal of gaining insights from Ethiopian’s ancient Christianity for the global church. He has been involved in several international projects that aim to preserve, catalogue, transcribe, and translate Medieval Ethiopic manuscripts (e.g. The Ethiopic Manuscript Imaging Project [EMIP] and the Beta Maṣāḥǝft [Universität Hamburg]). Calum is a young leader in the Lausanne-Orthodox Initiative. In all of these activities, he strives to remedy misunderstandings between different Christian traditions and foster deeper modes of fellowship.
Credentials
- PhD (finishing) in theōsis in monastic texts of the Täwaḥǝdo Tradition [Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies (IOCS)]
- MPhil in Medieval History (University of Cambridge)
- MA in Christian Thought (Olivet Nazarene University)
- BA in Biblical Studies (Olivet Nazarene University)