Lectures and Colloquia: Fall 2008
You Are Invited
World War II and the Transformation of the Church:
The Importance of the First Post-War Generation
Dr. Andrew F. Walls
Professor Andrew F. Walls, founding director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, is senior research professor at the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission, and Culture, Akropong, Ghana. He is honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh, and professor of the history of mission at Liverpool Hope University. He served as a missionary in Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
His writings include The Missionary Movement in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of Faith (1996), The Crosscultural Process in Christian History (2002), and The Cultural History of Christian Conversion (forthcoming).
His lecture is the conclusion of a weeklong Distinguished Mission Lectureship at OMSC on “Understanding the Missionary Movement from the West: Under the Volcano—Western Missions in the Wake of the Second World War.”
Friday, November 7, 2008
The lecture begins at 12:30 p.m.
Bring a light lunch at 12:15 p.m. Coffee will be provided.
