News of the extended network of faculty, alumni, students, visiting researchers, and mission partners is regularly updated, and some of the big ideas or major events in Global Christianity are covered in the CGCM News.
Three Dutch Saints
M.L. Daneel, captures his personal recollections of J. H. Bavinck, C. G. Berkower, and Hendrik Kraemer in "Three Dutch Saints."
Daewon Moon Reports on Edinburgh
The 2012 Yale-Edinburgh Group Meeting was held at New College at the
University of Edinburgh on June 28–30, with the theme “Religious
Movements of Renewal, Revival, and Revitalization in the History of
Missions and World Christianity.” Dr. Andrew Walls delivered a keynote
speech about the effects of revival and revitalization in the history
of missionary movements, with extensive examples of “dedicated”
Christians (in contrast to “ordinary” Christians) empowered through
revival and involved in various missions all over the world since the
first century. He noted there is a potential danger in revitalization
because it tends to have a very narrow definition of conversion and
“real” Christians.
Several alumni and current students of BU STH presented papers at the
meeting. Dr. Sung-Deuk Oak (Th.D., ’02, second from left), Associate
Professor of Korean Christianity at UCLA, presented his research on
the Korean Revival and its influence on traditional religions and
colonialism from 1903 to 1935. Jaekeun Lee (STM, ’08, second from
right), Ph.D. candidate at the University of Edinburgh, gave his
presentation on a notable revival meeting in Mokpo in 1906 as a case
study of the influence of the Southern Presbyterian Revivalist
tradition on the Korean Revival. Daewon Moon (right), doctoral student
at BU STH, presented a paper on the contribution of African leaders to
the East African Revival in the 1930s and 40s, and another BU STH
doctoral student, Daryl Island, gave a presentation on John Sung’s
evangelistic bands as a location for a new female identity in
Singapore in the 1930s.
CLADE V Photos and Links!
Here are links to two articles, in Spanish, summarizing the conference followed by three photos:
http://www.protestantedigital.com/ES/Magacin/articulo/4843/Clade-v-teologia-en-el-cono-sur
http://www.protestantedigital.com/ES/Blogs/articulo/3492/Con-sabor-latino-se-inaugura-clade-v-en-costa-rica More
Robert and Roldan-Figueroa Attend CLADE V
Dana Robert and Rady Roldan-Figueroa are in Costa Rica this week attending the Latin American Theological Fellowship's CLADE V conference. The purpose of the conference is to pull together a diverse group of Christians from churches, agencies, institutions and movements in Latin America and the Caribbean for discussion and reflection. The theme for this conference is: “Following Jesus in God’s Kingdom of Life. Guide us, Holy Spirit!” Prof. Robert will be participating on a panel of friends from outside Latin America who will share their own reflections on what they have heard. BUSTH doctoral student Ruth Padilla DeBorst is the group's general secretary.
Ireland and Moon present at Yale-Edinburgh
Daryl Ireland and Daewon Moon both presented papers last week at the annual Yale-Edinburgh Meeting. The title of Ireland's paper is Finding a Home: John Sung's Evangelistic Bands as a Location for a New Female Identity. The title of Moon's paper is The Contribution of African Leaders to the Early Development of the Balokole Revival.
Roldan-Figueroa’s Book Named as Best!
Exploring Christian Heritage: A Reader in History and Theology edited by C. Douglas Weaver, Rady Roldán-Figueroa and Brandon Frick has been included in The Christian Century's Best Books for 2012! It was published by Baylor University Press.
Robert Wins Major Research Support Grant
A project proposed by Dr. Dana Robert to the Religion and Innovation in Human Affairs Program of the Historical Society, "The Birth of the World Church: Vision, Friendship, and Community," has just been awarded funding. The two-year project will explore how the religious vision of Christianity as a worldwide community framed a process of mutual transformation among Christian leaders in the West and global South during the first half of the twentieth century and will result in a book. The John Templeton Foundation funded this program to explore how religion may or may not contribute to progress in human history.
Meet Up at ASM in Chicago
Dr. Robert met up with alums Dr. Ben Hartley, Associate Prof of Mission at Palmer Seminary, Philadelphia; and Dr. Angel Santiago-Vendrell, the E. Stanley Jones Assistant Professor of Evangelism at Asbury Theological Seminary, Orlando at the recent meeting of ASM in Chicago.
Alumnus Gary VanderPol Visits
Dr. Gary VanderPol, the new Assistant Professor of Mission and Justice at Denver Seminary, visited Dr. Inus Daneel recently. This is a new position and Gary is the first incumbent. Denver Seminary has 1100 students and is one of the largest freestanding seminaries in the U.S.
Greetings from Burundi
Daewon Moon sends greetings from Burundi where he has been teaching a summer course for students in the missiology program at International Leadership University in Bujumbura. Most of his students are local pastors and campus ministers working with Campus for Christ. Three of them are from DRC, one from Kenya and six from Burundi. 