Dutch Scholar to Give Students’ Lectureship on Missions at Princeton Seminary

Princeton, NJ, February 26, 2007–Dr. Anne-Marie Kool, professor of missiology and director of the Central and Eastern European Institute for Mission Studies at Karoli Gaspar Reformed University in Budapest, Hungary, and head of the Department of Missiology at the Reformed Theological Academy in Papa, Hungary, will give Princeton Theological Seminary’s annual Students’ Lectureship on Missions on Monday, March 5 and Tuesday, March 6. The title of her lecture series is “Trends and Challenges in Mission and Missiology in ‘Post-Communist’ Europe.”

Kool is from the Netherlands and has lived and worked in Hungary since 1987. She received her Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, for her dissertation “God Moves in a Mysterious Way: The Hungarian Protestant Foreign Mission Movement (1751–1951).” From 1995 until 2005 she served as the director of the Protestant Institute for Mission Studies in Budapest, and in 1998 received a state appointment as university professor at the Reformed Theological Academy in Papa, Hungary, to chair the Department of Missiology. In 2003 she defended a dissertation titled “Individual and Community in Transition: Exploring a Relevant Missiology for Hungary,” for her Dr.Habil. degree at the Reformed University of Divinity in Debrecen. Since 2004 she has chaired the Central and Eastern European Association for Mission Studies, and serves as European representative on the executive committee of the International Association for Mission Studies.

The lecture schedule is as follows:

Lecture I
Monday, March 5 at 7:00 p.m., followed by a reception in the Private Dining Room

Lecture II
Tuesday, March 6 at 1:15 p.m.

Lecture III
Tuesday, March 6 at 7:00 p.m.

All lectures will be held in the Main Lounge of the Mackay Campus Center and are open to the public free of charge. For more information, contact the Communications/Publications Office at 609.497.7760 or visit www.ptsem.edu.

Princeton Theological Seminary was founded in 1812 as the first seminary established by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. It is the largest Presbyterian seminary in the country, with more than 700 students in seven graduate degree programs.