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.
Previous Scholars in Residence
Dr. J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu
Spring 2012
Dr. J. Kwabena Asamoah-Gyadu is professor of contemporary African Christianity and Pentecostal-charismatic studies at Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon, Accra, Ghana. He is dean of graduate studies.
Asamoah-Gyadu, who received his doctorate from the University of Birmingham, U.K., has been a senior research fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University (2004), and visiting professor of African Christianity at Luther .jpg)
Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota (2007).
He is a board member of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies; an international advisory board member of the Religion, Culture, and Society program in the Theology Department of Vrije University, Amsterdam; and an adjunct faculty member at Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission, and Culture, Akropong-Akuapem, Ghana.
Asamoah-Gyadu is author of many publications on contemporary African Christianity and Pentecostalism, including Christianity, Mission, and Ecumenism in Ghana: Essays in Honour of Robert K. Aboagye-Mensah (2009) and African Charismatics: Current Developments Within Independent Indigenous Pentecostalism in Ghana (2005), and various papers on religion and media in sub-Saharan Africa.
