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

Princeton, NJ, November 13, 2007–Dr. Brian Stanley, Henry Martyn Lecturer in Mission Studies at the Cambridge Theological Federation, will give Princeton Theological Seminary’s annual Students’ Lectureship on Missions on Monday, December 3 and Tuesday, December 4. Stanley will lecture on the theme of “The Transfiguration of Christianity: Insights for Christian Mission Today from the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910.”

Stanley is director of the Henry Martyn Centre for the Study of Mission and World Christianity at Westminster College in Cambridge, England. He earned his Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. degrees from the University of Cambridge. He has experience teaching in the areas of mission studies, world Christianity, and modern church history, and was director of the North Atlantic Missiology Project and its successor, the Currents in World Christianity Project, from 1996 to 2001. The author or editor of six books, Stanley is currently completing a major study of the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910, to be published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company in 2008. A conference attended by 1,200 representatives of missionary societies and Protestant denominations from around the world, Edinburgh 1910 is seen as both the culmination of nineteenth-century missions and the formal beginning of modern ecumenism.

The lecture schedule is as follows:

Lecture I: “Visions of the Kingdom: Edinburgh 1910 and the History of Christianity”
Monday, December 3 at 7:00 p.m., followed by a reception in the Private Dining Room of the Mackay Campus Center

Lecture II: “The World Comes to Edinburgh: The Conference in Session”
Tuesday, December 4 at 1:15 p.m.

Lecture III: “The Legacy of Edinburgh 1910”
Tuesday, December 4 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.