Notes on Contributors

Christoffer Grundmann, is the John R. Eckrich University Professor in Religion and the Healing Arts at Valparaiso University. He is an ordained Lutheran pastor with extended intercultural experiences in Venezuela and India. He earned two theological doctorates (Dr.theol., Dr.theol.habil.) and has published widely in fields of medical missions, healing, and religion (URL http://faculty.valpo.edu/cgrundma). His book on medical missions Sent to Heal! (1992; 2005; 2014) became the classic reference work on the topic. Recently he published a study of inter-religious dialogue, Beyond “Holy Wars” (2014).
Wendy Elgersma Helleman, MA Classical Languages, University of Toronto; PhD Ancient Philosophy, Free University of Amsterdam) served as Visiting Professor for Religious Studies and Philosophy, University of Jos, Nigeria, from 2002, and taught in the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, Russia (1995–2002), under the auspices of Christian Studies International, Canadian affiliate of Global Scholars, Kansas City. She taught in the Department of Classics of the University of Toronto from 1987 to 1995.
Joseph P. Huffman, Distinguished Professor of European History, Messiah College, Pennsylvania, is a Fulbright Fellow and author of numerous articles and books on aspects of medieval ecclesiastical, religious, diplomatic, socio-economic, and cultural history, including The Social Politics of Medieval Diplomacy: Anglo-German Relations (1066–1307) (2000) and Family, Commerce, and Religion in London and Cologne: Anglo-German Emigrants c. 1000–c. 1300 (1998; paperback edition, 2002).
Philip Jenkins was educated at Cambridge University. From 1980 through 2011, he taught at Penn State University. In 2012, he became a Distinguished Professor of History at Baylor University, where he also serves in the Institute for Studies of Religion. He has published 25 books, including The Next Christendom (2002), The Lost History of Christianity (2008), and The Great and Holy War (2014).
J. Nelson Jennings is Mission Pastor and Consultant at Onnuri Community Church in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Previously he was a church-planter in Nagoya, Japan; Assistant Professor of International Christian Studies at Tokyo Christian University; Professor of World Mission at Covenant Theological Seminary; and Executive Director at the Overseas Ministries Study Center. He has been editor of Missiology: An International Review and of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research.
Todd M. Johnson is Associate Professor of Global Christianity and Director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is co-author of the World Christian Encyclopedia (2001) and The World’s Religions in Figures (2013), and co-editor of the Atlas of Global Christianity (2009).
Scott Kenworthy is Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Religion at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and specializes in the history and thought of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. His monograph, The Heart of Russia: Trinity-Sergius, Monasticism and Society After 1825 (2010), won the Brewer Prize of the American Society of Church History, and he is currently writing a biography of Patriarch Tikhon (Bellavin) and the Orthodox Church during the Russia Revolution.
Jeremy Kidwell, PhD, Theological Ethics, is a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He is currently involved in an interdisciplinary research project concerned with the way conceptions of time affect moral agency, particularly toward environmental crises. Prior to his academic work, Jeremy worked as an engineer and trainer in telecommunications and information technology. He continues to provide consulting services on network security, infrastructure, and the use of information technology in teaching and learning.
Jeffrey Klaiber is an American Jesuit priest teaching history at the Pontifical Catholic University of Lima in Peru. He specializes in Latin American religious and political history. He is the author of The Catholic Church in Peru, 1821–1985: A Social History (1992), Cristianismo y mundo colonial: tres estudios acerca de la evangelización de Hispanoamérica (1995), The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America (1998), and The Jesuits in Latin America, 1549–2000: 450 years of Inculturation, Defense of Human Rights, and Prophetic Witness (2009).
Volker Küster is Professor of Comparative Religion and Missiology, Johannes Gutenberg-University, Mainz. His research in contextual and intercultural theology evolves along two lines: dialogue, conflict, and reconciliation and visual art and religion. He is author of The Many Faces of Jesus Christ (2001), A Protestant Theology of Passion: Korean Minjung Theology Revisited (2010), Einleitung in die Interkulturelle Theologie (2011), and serves as the series editor for Explorations in Intercultural Theology.
Peter Lineham is Professor of History at the Auckland campus of Massey University in New Zealand. He is a graduate of the universities of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Sussex, and has written extensively on the religious history of New Zealand, and in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British religious history, and is widely consulted by the media on present trends in religiosity.
Chandra Mallampalli is a Professor of History at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California, USA. He is the author of Christians and Public Life in Colonial South India (2004) and Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India (2011).
David Martin, FBA, Emeritus Professor of Sociology in the London School of Economics is author of some two dozen books and three hundred articles and chapters, treating secularization, Pentecostalism, and the religion/secular distinction. His work in the 1960s inaugurated the debate on secularization and its comparative historical analysis; his work from the 1980s placed Pentecostalism in the same historical and comparative frame. He has been a visiting professor at King’s College, London, Lancaster University, Boston University, and Princeton Theological Seminary, as well as a visiting fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He is past president of the Science and Religion Forum, the Religion Section of the British Sociological Association, the International Conference for the Sociology of Religion, and the United Kingdom Committee for University Autonomy. He formerly served on the editorial advisory committee of the Encyclopedia Britannica and as editor for the religious studies section of the New International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. His books include: Pacifism: An Historical and Sociological Study (1965), A General Theory of Secularization (1979), Tongues of Fire: Conservative Protestantism in Latin America (1990), Does Christianity Cause War? (1997), Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish (2002), Sociology and Theology (2004), On Secularization (2005), The Future of Christianity (2010), and he has co-authored with his wife, Bernice Martin, Betterment from on High: Evangelical Lives in Chile and Brazil (2006).
Michael J. McClymond is Professor of Modern Christianity in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. He was educated at Northwestern University (BA), Yale University (MDiv), and the University of Chicago (MA in religion; PhD in theology), and has held teaching or research appointments at Wheaton College, Westmont College, the University of California–San Diego, Emory University, Yale University, and the University of Birmingham (UK). His written, edited, co-written, and co-edited books include: The Rivers of Paradise: Moses, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and Muhammed as Religious Founders (2001), Familiar Stranger: An Introduction to Jesus of Nazareth (2004), Embodying the Spirit (2004), Encyclopedia of Religious Revivals in America, 2 volumes (2007), and The Theology of Jonathan Edwards (2012). The last-named work won the Book-of-the-Year Award in the Theology/Ethics category from Christianity Today magazine. In 2012 he was Senior Scholar-in-Residence at the Overseas Ministries Study Center, and has served as Co-Chair for the Evangelical Studies Group in the American Academy of Religion (AAR) and Co-Chair for the Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements Group. His forthcoming monograph is entitled, The Devil’s Redemption: An Interpretation of the Christian Debate over Universal Salvation.
Alister McGrath is Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at the University of Oxford, having earlier been Oxford’s Professor of Historical Theology. Previously he served as Professor of Theology, Ministry, and Education at King’s College London and Head of the Centre for Theology, Religion and Culture; and as Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Oxford and Principal of Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. He has also taught at Cambridge University. McGrath is an Anglican priest ordained in the Church of England. He holds three doctorates from the University of Oxford – a DPhil in Molecular Biophysics, a Doctor of Divinity in Theology, and a Doctor of Letters in Intellectual History. He is noted for his work in historical theology, systematic theology, the relationship between science and religion, and Christian apologetics. He has written more than forty books. McGrath has a long-standing interest in the historical development of Protestantism, and his books include Luther’s Theology of the Cross (second edition, 2004); The Intellectual Origins of the Reformation (second edition, 2002), and Christianity’s Dangerous Idea: The Protestant Revolution (2007).
John A. McGuckin is the Nielsen Professor of Early Christian History at Union Theological Seminary, and the Professor of Byzantine Christian studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an Archpriest of the Romanian Orthodox Church and a widely published specialist in Early and Byzantine Christianity. He is the editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eastern Christianity (2011). McGuckin is the author of twenty-three books of historical theology including: The Transfiguration of Christ in Scripture and Tradition (1986); St. Cyril of Alexandria: The Christological Controversy (1994); At the Lighting of the Lamps: Hymns from the Ancient Church (1995); St. Gregory of Nazianzus: An Intellectual Biography (2000); Standing in God’s Holy Fire: The Spiritual Tradition of Byzantium (2001); The Book of Mystical Chapters (2002); The Westminster Handbook to Patristic Theology (2004); Ancient Christian Doctrines, Volume 2: Patristic Christology (2006); The Orthodox Church: Its History and Spiritual Culture (2007); and The Ascent of Law (2011). Doctor McGuckin has served as visiting professor and guest lecturer in many universities and colleges in England, Ireland, Greece, Romania, Ukraine, Russia, Italy, and the United States. Working with co-producer Norris Chumley in 2011 he completed a feature film about monastic prayer life, entitled Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer. It was over eight years in the making with extensive filming in Sinai, the Egyptian desert, and the monasteries of Transylvania and Russia. It is now available in DVD format.
Jolyon Mitchell, PhD, is Professor of Communications, Arts and Religion, Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues (CTPI), and Academic Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh. A former BBC World Service producer and journalist, his recent books include Promoting Peace, Inciting Violence: The Role of Religion and Media (2012), and Religion and the News (2012). He currently directs a research project on Peacebuilding through Media Arts.
Tomás O’Sullivan, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Medieval Christianity at Saint Louis University. Originally from Bantry, Co. Cork, Ireland, he was educated in Ireland and the United States and received his PhD in 2011. His research interests include Early Christian Ireland, Anglo-Saxon England, Merovingian and Carolingian Christianity, manuscripts studies, hagiography, and early medieval iconography.
Yong Kyu Park is Professor of Church History at the Presbyterian General Assembly Theological Seminary, Chongshin University, Seoul, South Korea (1991–present) and has been Director of the Korea Institute of Church History since 1997.
Eva M. Pascal is originally from the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras. She is currently pursuing a PhD in the History of World Christianity and Mission in Boston University’s Division of Religious and Theological Studies. Her research and writing focuses on the interaction between Christianity and other world religions in Asia. She has published on the topics of missionaries in Siamese political expansion and the rise of faith-based organizations in Southeast Asia. She is also working as a Research Assistant at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University.
Peter C. Phan is the inaugural holder of the Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University. He has earned three doctorates and has been awarded two honorary doctorates. He has published a dozen books, edited some twenty-five volumes, and written over three hundred articles on various aspects of Christian theology. The Catholic Theological Society of America has given him the John Courtney Murray Award, the society’s highest honor in recognition of his outstanding achievements in theology.
Thomas P. Rausch, SJ, PhD, Duke, 1976, is the T. Marie Chilton Professor of Catholic Theology at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Author or editor of eighteen books, he is a specialist in ecclesiology, Christology, and ecumenism. Long involved in ecumenical dialogue, he is presently a member of the Anglican/Roman Catholic Consultation USA and co-chairs the Los Angeles Catholic/Evangelical Committee and the Theological Commission for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Stuart Piggin is Director of the Centre for the History of Christian Thought and Experience at Macquarie University, Sydney, and is Head of the Department of Christian Thought of the Australian College of Theology. He is a graduate of the universities of Sydney and London and of the Melbourne College of Divinity. He has written over a hundred articles for academic journals and seven books, mainly on the history of evangelicalism, revival, and missions.
Amanda Porterfield is the Robert A. Spivey Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Florida State University. She is the author of Conceived in Doubt: Religion and Politics in the Early American Nation (2012), Healing in the History of Christianity (2005), The Transformation of American Religion (2001), Mary Lyon and the Mount Holyoke Missionaries (1997), and Female Piety in Puritan New England (1992). She is also co-editor of the quarterly journal Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture.
Lamin Sanneh was educated on four continents and holds degrees in History and Islamic studies. He taught in universities in Africa and the United Kingdom. He served on the Harvard faculty for eight years before coming to Yale in 1989 as the D. Willis James Professor of World Christianity and of History. He is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, Honorary Research Professor at the School of Oriental & African Studies in the University of London, and recipient of honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh and Liverpool Hope University. He has twice served as chair of Yale’s Council on African Studies. He was the recipient of the John W. Kluge Chair in the Countries and Cultures of the South at the Library of Congress. For his academic work Professor Sanneh was made Commandeur de l’Ordre National du Lion, Senegal’s highest national honor. He is the author of over two hundred articles in scholarly journals and of more than a dozen books on Islam and Christianity. His books have been translated into several languages, including Spanish, German, and Korean.
Christopher Schmidt-Nowara is Prince of Asturias Chair in Spanish Culture & Civilization at Tufts University. He is the author of Slavery, Freedom, and Abolition in Latin America and the Atlantic World (2011) and has edited a special issue of Social History (August 2011) on “Caribbean Emancipations” and, with Josep M. Fradera, Slavery and Antislavery in Spain’s Atlantic Empire (2013). He is a contributor to the Cambridge World History of Slavery.
Brian Schrag, PhD, Ethnomusicology, is SIL International’s Coordinator of Ethnomusicology and Arts, and developed the World Arts program at the Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics. He has performed protracted music-related research and community service in central Africa.
Michèle Miller Sigg is currently pursuing a doctorate at the Boston University School of Theology in the History of World Christianity and Mission with a concentration in African Christianity. Her research focuses on French Protestant missionaries in Africa and she has published articles on African widows and on the role of women in the Fifohazana revival movement in Madagascar. Since 2000, she has served as the Project Manager for the Dictionary of African Christian Biography (www.DACB.org), a digital resource hosted by Boston University’s Center for Global Christianity and Mission.
James C. Skedros is the Michael G. and Anastasia Cantonis Professor of Byzantine Studies at Hellenic College Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline. He received his undergraduate honors degree from the University of Utah in Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies (Arabic) and earned his ThD from Harvard Divinity School in the History of Christianity. His teaching and research areas include popular religious practices in late antiquity, Byzantine hagiography, and Christian–Muslim relations.
Souad Slim received a PhD in history from the Sorbonne IV (Paris) in 1984, and a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Birmingham in 2001. She has taught at the University of Balamand since 1989 and earned the rank of Professor in 2013. She is Director of IOHANES – the Institute of History, Archaeology, and Near Eastern Heritage. Her publications include Partnership and Tax in Mount Lebanon during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries [Le métayage et l’impôt au Mont-Liban aux XVIII et XIX siècles] (1987; 1993), Balamand: History and Heritage [Balamand: histoire et patrimoine] (1995), and The Greek Orthodox Waqf in Lebanon during the Ottoman Period (2007).
Brian Stanley is Professor of World Christianity and Director of the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, in the University of Edinburgh. His recent books include The World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910 (2009), The Global Diffusion of Evangelicalism: The Age of Billy Graham and John Stott (2013), and (co-edited with Judith Becker), Europe as the Other: External Perspectives on European Christianity (2014).
Scott W. Sunquist is the Dean of the School of Intercultural Studies and Professor of World Christianity at Fuller Theological Seminary. Previously he taught at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary and at Trinity Theological College in the Republic of Singapore. He is author of A History of Presbyterian Missions, 1944–2007 (2008) and Understanding Christian Mission: Participation in Suffering and Glory (2013), co-author (with Dale T. Irvin) of History of the World Christian Movement, 2 volumes to date (2001; 2012), and editor of A Dictionary of Asian Christianity (2001).
Antolin V. Uy, SVD, is Professor of Church History at the Divine Word Seminary, Tagaytay City, Philippines (DWST). He has served as DWST Rector for two periods (1979–1987 and 1999–2002) as well as Dean of the DWST School of Theology (1995–1996). Father Uy was born in San Miguel, Leyte, Philippines. He did his theological studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University where he obtained his Licentiate in Theology and then a Doctorate in Church History.
Geoffrey Wainwright holds ordination in the Methodist Church of Great Britain. Early in his career he served as a teacher and pastor in Cameroon, West Africa. For thirty years he was Professor of Christian Theology at Duke University, North Carolina. His chief scholarly interests have resided in systematic theology, where he emphasizes the liturgical dimensions of the Christian faith. He has written, edited, or co-edited more than twenty books, including Doxology (1980), Eucharist and Eschatology (1981), For Our Salvation (1997), Worship with One Accord (1997), Is the Reformation Over? (2000), Lesslie Newbigin (2000), and Embracing Purpose (2007). He served as primary author of the landmark WCC document, Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry (1982).
Andrew Walls, OBE, MA, BLitt, DD, FSA Scot, served as Lecturer in Theology, Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone (1957–1962) and Head of the Department of Religion, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (1962–1966). He taught in the University of Aberdeen from 1986, first in the Department of Church History and then as Head of the Department of Religious Studies and Riddoch Lecturer in Comparative Religion, and Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies since 1985. From 1986 to 1997 he was Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World (now Centre for the Study of World Christianity). He has held Visiting Professorships at the University of Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland, Yale University, Harvard University and Trinity College, Singapore, and Princeton Theological Seminary. Currently he also serves as Professor in the Akrofi-Christaller Institute, Akropong, Ghana; Professor of the History of Mission at Liverpool Hope University, Research Professor at Africa International University, Nairobi, and Visiting Professor at the City Seminary of New York. With Lamin Sanneh, he is the Joint Convener of the Yale–Edinburgh Group on the History of the Missionary Movement and World Christianity. His publications include: The Missionary Movement in Christian History (1996), African Christianity in the 1990s, with Christopher Fyfe (1996), The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History (2002), and Christian Mission in the 21st Century, with Cathy Ross (2010). He was the founding editor of the Journal of Religion in Africa, contributing editor for International Bulletin of Missionary Research, bibliographical editor for International Review of Mission, and general editor for Methodist Missionary History Project.
Kevin Ward studied at Edinburgh University and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he obtained his PhD in ecumenical relations between Protestant Churches in colonial Kenya. He worked as a mission partner of the Church Mission Society from 1975 to 1991 in Uganda, where he was ordained as a priest of the Anglican Church of Uganda. After serving as a parish priest in the Church of England, in 1995 he was appointed as Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the University of Leeds. His research interests have centered on Christianity in East Africa, including a study of the East African Revival, and on debates about homosexuality in Africa. He is the author of A History of Global Anglicanism (2006).
John Witte, Jr. is Jonas Robitscher Professor of Law, Alonzo L. McDonald Distinguished Professor, and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion Center at Emory University. A specialist in legal history, marriage law, and religious liberty, he has published two hundred articles, fifteen journal symposia, and twenty-seven books. Recent book titles include: Sex, Marriage and Family Life in John Calvin’s Geneva, 2 volumes (2005; 2014); No Establishment of Religion: America’s Original Contribution to Religious Liberty (2012); From Sacrament to Contract: Marriage, Religion, and Law in the Western Tradition (second edition, 2012); Religion and the American Constitutional Experiment (third edition, 2011); Christianity and Human Rights: An Introduction (2010); Sins of the Fathers: The Law and Theology of Illegitimacy Reconsidered (2009); Christianity and Law: An Introduction (2008); The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion, and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism (2007); Modern Christian Teachings on Law, Politics, and Human Nature, 3 volumes (2006); and God’s Joust, God’s Justice: Law and Religion in the Western Tradition (2006). Professor Witte’s writings have appeared in fifteen languages, and he has delivered more than three hundred and fifty major public lectures throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Israel, Hong Kong, Australia, and South Africa. With major funding from the Pew, Ford, Lilly, Luce, and McDonald foundations, he has directed twelve major international research projects on democracy, human rights, and religious liberty, and on marriage, family, and children. He edits two major book series, Studies in Law and Religion, and Religion, Marriage, and Family, and coedits the Journal of Law and Religion.
Gina A. Zurlo is a Doctoral Student at Boston University School of Theology focusing on world Christianity, international religious demography, and the history of American sociology. She is also the Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (South Hamilton) as well as at Boston University’s Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs. She was the senior editorial assistant on the Atlas of Global Christianity (2009) and her demographic research contributes to the World Christian Database (2007) and World Religion Database (2008).