Award-Winning Documentary Filmmaker and Scholar James Ault to Show Film on the Faces of African Christianity March 26

Princeton, NJ, March 7, 2008–James Ault, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and scholar, will come to Princeton Theological Seminary on Thursday, March 27 for a screening of his new film, Faces of African Christianity: The Rise of African Christianity and Its World Significance.

The film addresses Christianity’s explosive growth in Africa, which is part of a startling reversal in world history. Over two-thirds of the world’s Christians now live in the global South, with Africa the fastest-growing region. What is Christianity becoming? What new, perhaps surprising, developments will African Christianity foster?

Ault’s documentary Born Again: Life in a Fundamentalist Baptist Church won a Blue Ribbon at the American Film Festival and was broadcast nationally on PBS, on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom, and on other stations around the world. His book on the project, Spirit and Flesh (Knopf), was named one of 2004’s five best nonfiction books by The Christian Science Monitor.

The screening will take place from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m. in Stuart Hall, Room 6 on the Seminary’s main campus. It will be preceded by an introduction given by Dr. Kenda Creasy Dean, associate professor of youth, church, and culture and director of the Tennent School of Christian Education. After the film screening, there will be time for a brief response by Dr. Cephas Omenyo, John A. Mackay Professor of World Christianity, and for conversation with Ault. The film is produced with major funding from the Pew Charitable Trusts. For more information, visit www.jamesault.com.  

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.