Center for Global Christianity & Mission

338683bd02Center for Global Christianity and Mission (CGCM, founded 2001)

 

-  The Vision of the CGCM is to be a community of learners, researchers and doers transforming their missional callings through critical reflection, faithful witness and thoughful engagement with multiple cultures around the world  -

 Contexts:

  • The CGCM of the Boston University School of Theology understands Christianity to be a worldwide, multi-cultural movement – an enduring theological tradition that finds new life in the lived realities of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
  •  The fluidity of world events and the dynamism of the Christian movement require urgent attention to the meaning of Christian witness in the global public square, to friendship across cultures, and to compassion for suffering humanity and God’s creation.
  •  The dramtic growth of world Christianity begs for analysis of the missionary dimension in all churches, as initiators rather than receptors of mission outreach.

 The priorities of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission thus include the following:

1. To conduct research and to produce scholarly resources on Christian engagement across cultural and religious boundaries.

2. To explore the implications of World Christianity for faith, ministry, and cross-cultural mission and outreach.

3. To nurture an interactive community of scholars and activists who reflect critically on what it means to be a global church.

 Director Dana L. Robert