OMSC and Princeton Seminary Create New Partnership
PRINCETON SEMINARY AND OVERSEAS MINISTRIES STUDY CENTER FORGE PARTNERSHIP The two institutions mark their new alliance at MOU signing ceremony June 5 NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 5, 2019– President M. Craig Barnes of Princeton Theological Seminary and Executive Director Thomas J. Hastings of the Overseas Ministries Study Center (OMSC), a renowned research institute for world […]
Message from the Director
The Passing of a Generation The past six months have seen the deaths of several major figures in the fields of mission studies and World Christianity. It is important to offer gratitude for their lives and leadership. Their work has influenced many of us connected with the Center for Global Christianity and Mission. Ed Schroeder, […]
Global Christianities: Perspectives, Methods, and Challenges
The University of Chicago hosted its second conference on Global Christianities on May 2, 2019. Dana L. Robert delivered the keynote address, “Mission Studies and Global Christianity.” The conference attracted scholars and students from many institutions, as other topics included “The Study of Global Christianity from a Post-Colonial Perspective,” and “Challenges, Concepts, and Prospects” for […]
Chinese Christian Art and Literature
The Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University convened artists and scholars to discuss Chinese Christianity and art. Among those gathered was Associate Director, Daryl Ireland, who spoke about “The Cross in Popular Chinese Christianity.” Ireland explored the meaning of the cross in Protestant Chinese Christianity in the first half of the twentieth […]
The 2019 Im Conference of Korean Christianity
Colonialists, Missionaries, and Nationalist in Korea and Beyond The University of California Los Angeles held a conference for scholars in all Korea-related and world-Christianity fields, so they could present their researches on Korean Christianity, especially on the topics related to (1) Christianity in North(ern) Korea (2) Colonialism and Christianity, 1910-1945, and (3) Christianity, Nation Building, and […]
Costas Consultation
On April 5th, the Boston Theological Institute held its annual Costas Consultation on International Mission and Ecumenism. This year, the event was held at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry, and the theme was World Christianity and the Arts. Talks included “Icons and World Christianity,” by Fr. Maximos Costas of Holy Cross Greek […]
Methodist Mission Bicentennial
Last week, the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries, in collaboration with Candler School of Theology of Emory University in Atlanta, hosted a conference on “Answering the Call: Hearing God’s Voice in Methodist Mission Past, Present, and Future.” The conference celebrated Methodism’s mission heritage and looked to the future of Methodist mission. Some of those […]
Material Cultures of Devotion in Early Modern Jesuit Missions
This roundtable will examine the functions of sacred objects in three very different Jesuit missions from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries – England, China, and Northeastern America – to compare the devotional, social, and sometimes political significance that sacred objects acquired in different geographical and cultural circumstances. The event will feature an exhibit of relics and […]
Meeting of Mission Minds
On April 6, 2019, Andrew Walls, Ingrid Walls, Dana L. Robert, M.L. Daneel, and Gerald Anderson met in New Haven, Connecticut. The contributions to Mission Studies by each is significant, but the friendship among them is what endures.
Moving Forward Together: Ecumenical Meeting
From 26 to 28 March 2019, the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA) hosted representatives of the five Christian world communions formally associated with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ) to discuss implications of that landmark agreement in the context of growing closeness and collaboration between them. Church leaders came from the […]