OMSC Senior Mission
Scholars in Residence

Each semester the Overseas Ministries Study Center welcomes Senior Mission Scholars who provide leadership in OMSC’s Study Program and are available to residents for counsel regarding their own mission research interests. Seasoned scholarship, internationally renowned instructors, cutting edge seminars, and an ecclesiastically diverse resident community make OMSC the place to be for renewal of mission skills and vision.

Dr. Angelyn Dries, O.S.F.
(Spring 2008)

Dr. Angelyn Dries, O.S.F., professor of mission history and Danforth Humanities Chair at Saint Louis University in Missouri, teaches and writes about Catholicism, the Catholic mission movement overseas, women and religion, and Asian-American Catholics. Dries taught from 1989 to 2003 at Cardinal Stritch University , Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dries was president of the American Society of Missiology (1996–97) and is a member of the Overseas Ministries Study Center board of trustees. She is the coeditor of Prayer and Practice in the American Catholic Community (2000) and the author of The Missionary Movement in American Catholic History (1998).

Dr. Caleb O. Oladipo
(Spring 2008)

Dr. Caleb O. Oladipo is professor of mission and world Christianity at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond (Virginia). He was an assistant professor in the Department of Church-State Studies at Baylor University , Waco, Texas, and founder of the Baylor in West Africa program (2000–03). Oladipo was a visiting professor of religion and literature at the International Baptist Theological Seminary, then located in Ruschlikon, Switzerland . He is the author of The Will to Arise: Theological and Political Themes in African Christianity and the Renewal of Faith and Identity (2006) and The Development of the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the Yoruba (African) Indigenous Christian Movement (1996).

Dr. Judith E. Lingenfelter
Dr. Sherwood G. Lingenfelter
(Fall 2008)

Dr. Judith E. Lingenfelter, former director of the Ph.D. program in intercultural education in the School of Intercultural Studies at Biola University, has spent a lifetime learning and teaching cross-culturally. Her recent writing includes Teaching Cross-Culturally: An Incarnational Model for Learning and Teaching (2003), which she co-authored with her husband.

Dr. Sherwood G. Lingenfelter is professor, provost, and senior vice president at Fuller Theological Seminary. He has served as consultant to SIL over the last two decades in Papua New Guinea, Borneo, Philippines, Africa, and Latin America. He also contributes regularly to mission conferences and training seminars. His most recent publication, coauthored with Dr. Paul R. Gupta, is Breaking Tradition to Accomplish Vision: Training Leaders for a Church Planting Movement (2006).

Dr. Diane B. Stinton
(Fall 2008)

Dr. Diane B. Stinton is professor of theology and coordinator of the Master of Theology in African Christianity program at Daystar University, Nairobi, Kenya. Previously she taught in the Department of Biblical and Religious Studies and was assistant chaplain at Daystar. A Swahili speaker, she was a part-time lecturer in African Christian theology at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology. A Canadian who was born in Angola, Dr. Stinton is a member of the International Association for Mission Studies, the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians, and the Ecumenical Symposium of East African Theologians. She is author of Jesus of Africa: Voices of Contemporary African Christology (2004) and editor of Aspects of Contemporary African Theology (forthcoming).

Dr. Edith L. Blumhofer
(Spring 2009)

Dr. Edith L. Blumhofer is professor of history at Wheaton College and director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, Wheaton, Illinois. Her research interests focus on the history of Christianity in post–Civil War America. She is also interested in the religion of ordinary people and has recently been exploring the history of Protestant hymnody. She is preparing a set of Web-based resources to facilitate the teaching of Pentecostal studies. Dr. Blumhofer, author of People of Faith: A History of Western Christianity (2007), is writing Evangelicalism: A Very Short Introduction (forthcoming from Oxford University Press).

Dr. Kevin Ward
(Spring 2009)

Dr. Kevin Ward, senior lecturer in African religious studies at the University of Leeds (U.K.), spent twenty years working in East Africa as a teacher and theological educator. He did his original research in Kenya, examining the problems of Protestant Christian ecumenical cooperation in colonial Kenya. He has continued to have a strong interest in East Africa, focusing on the history and spirituality of the East African Revival, church-state relations in Uganda, and the religious basis of conflict in Uganda. He is author of A History of Global Anglicanism (2006) and coeditor with Brian Stanley of The Church Mission Society and World Christianity, 1799–1999 (1999).

Future Senior Scholars in Residence include:

Fall 2009: Randall Prior and Allison Howell

Spring 2010: Philomena Mwuara and Charles Amjad-Ali

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