Aspiring to Be an Three-Mile-an-Hour People
“Aspiring to Be a Three-Mile-an-Hour People,” is the latest article from Visiting Researcher Jon Bonk. It recently appeared ion Vision: A Journal for Church and Theology.
What is Truth: Lenten Preaching Series
Pilate’s question to Jesus, “What is truth?” (John 18:38), resonates through the ages, as we each stand before God wrestling with questions of meaning and identity. In our time, the idea of truth is under attack in new ways, challenging our coherence as a society and the witness of the church. This Lent, the annual […]
II International Conference on Bartolomé de Las Casas
The first International Conference, “Bartolomé de Las Casas, O.P.: History, Philosophy, and Theology in the Age of European Expansion,” held in 2016, was a landmark event for Lascasian scholarship. In response to this success, Providence College is pleased to invite interested scholars to our next gathering: “II International Conference on Bartolomé de Las Casas.” Moreover, […]
In Praise of Greatness: Nimi Wariboko and Africa’s Leading Public Intellectuals
Nimi Wariboko is featured in a new book on Africa’s leading public intellectuals and living legends. The book, In Praise of Greatness, by the famous historian Professor Toyin Falola of the University of Texas chronicles the life and scholarship of Africans who have made substantive contributions to knowledge. Wariboko is cited as one of Africa’s intellectual […]
African Initiative and Inspiration in the East African Revival, 1930-1950
In the 1930s and 1940s, African revivalists in colonial Ugandan and Ruanda-Urundi appropriated Christian beliefs and practices to forge a distinctively African Christian spirituality that precipitated the moral and spiritual transformation of many people in East Africa. Daewon Moon, in his successfully defended dissertation, demonstrated that African revivalists had the support and sympathy of evangelical-minded […]
Life and Death in the Missions of New France and East Asia
Narratives of Faith and Martyrdom October 18-21, 2018 Midland, Ontario Canada Symposium Programme_Final Draft_8OCTOBER
Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled
A 17th-Century Chinese Christian and His Conflicted Worlds The Institute for Advanced Jesuit Studies at Boston College will host a presentation of the recently published book Global Entanglements of a Man Who Never Traveled (Columbia University Press, 2018), a strikingly original work and a major contribution to East Asian, transnational, and global history, with important implications for […]
The Role of Missionaries in the Inception of Transnational Adoption, 1949-1960.
Soojin Chung successfully defended her dissertation on “The Role of Missionaries in the Inception of Transnational Adoption, 1949-1960.”
Call for Papers: II International Conference on Bartolomé de Las Casas
July 15-16 (Monday-Tuesday), 2019 Providence College, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A. The first International Conference, “Bartolomé de Las Casas, O.P.: History, Philosophy, and Theology in the Age of European Expansion,” held in 2016, was a landmark event for Lascasian scholarship. In response to this success, Providence College is pleased to invite interested scholars to our next […]
Mapping Chinese Christianity
In early June, Professor Eugenio Menegon (Chinese History), together with co-investigator Prof. Daryl Ireland (Associate Director of the Center for Global Christianity and Mission & Research Assistant Professor of Mission, BU’s School of Theology) received the exciting news that a Digital Humanities Project they are jointly sponsoring was awarded a seed grant for Summer 2018 by […]