Cephas Narh Omenyo
John A. Mackay Professor of World Christianity
Department of History
34 Carriage House
Phone: 609.497.7976
Fax: 609.279.1952
Email: cephas.omenyo@ptsem.edu

Cephas Narh Omenyo is the John A. Mackay Professor of World Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary. He earned his M.Phil. from the University of Ghana, Legon, and his Ph.D. from the University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, he is a member of that church’s General Assembly committees on church and society, constitutional review, and worship. A member of the Joint Consultative Group between the World Council of Churches and Pentecostals, and a member of the Reformed Commission of the Ongoing International Reformed-Pentecostal Dialogue, he is currently researching church-planting activities by churches in the Southern Hemisphere (focusing on Africa, and particularly on Ghana) in the Northern Hemisphere. He is coeditor of the revived Ghana Bulletin of Theology. He teaches courses in African Pentecostalism, the history of African Christianity, and the African experience of gospel and culture.

Pentecost outside Pentecostalism: A Study of the Development of Charismatic Renewal in the Mainline Church in Ghana (Zoetermeer, 2002)
The Ongoing Encounter between Christianity and African Culture: A Case Study of Girls’ Nubility Rite of the Krobos (Adwensa Publishers, 2001)