From Henry Martyn to World Christianity: Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide/ Ian Randall, Muthuraj Swamy and Graham Kings. Published by CCCW, 2022.

Our new book will be launched on Wednesday May 25th at 4.00pm (BST) in The Shasha Suite of The Woolf Building (behind CCCW).

Please do come. For registration (and a Zoom Link if you can’t be with us but want to join in), please get in touch with Rachel, our Coordinator, at centre[at]cccw.cam.ac.uk

It would be wonderful to see as many friends and supporters of the Centre as possible. Drinks on the lawn afterwards, sunshine permitting!

A rare opportunity has arisen for the academic role of Academic Coordinator at the Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide.

The role is due to start on or after 1st September 2022. Closing date for applications is Friday 27th May 2022. Download the information below for further information and see our vacancies page

PROF. JAN STIEVERMANN

WEDNESDAY 4TH MAY, 4.00-5:30PM BST

WEDNESDAY 25 MAY 2022, 4.00-5.30 PM (BST)

Please visit our Events page for more information.

Webinar

Networked social movements, networked public theology: the implications of the Hong Kong protests to World Christianity

Dr Calida Chu, Teaching Fellow, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh

When?

Wednesday 2nd March, 4.00-5.30pm GMT

About

When talking about public theology in World Christianity, current trends tend to focus on one context, whether it is based on a geographical location or a platform (e.g. social media). The Hong Kong protests, as networked social movements, show that the flow of information is not as static as one may think, due to the highly decentralised and fluid nature of the movements.

Drawing theories from sociology and migration studies, this paper aims to problematise the concept of public theology as a contextual theology, and suggests that, due to increasing digital literacy and the high mobility of Hong Kongese migrants since 2020, the future of Hong Kong public theology should be seen as a ‘networked public theology’, which transcends geographical locations.

Taking examples of the Milk Tea Alliance in Asia and several pro-democratic Hong Kongese pastoral leaders in different continents, the paper elaborates the phenomenon of networked public theology and offers some preliminary observations of how this may assist World Christianity scholars to ponder the issues of social justice with the oppressed and marginalised groups.

Register

Please register to join: email Rachel Simonson, Coordinator: centre[at]cccw.cam.ac.uk

Tell others

Feel free to download the flyer and encourage others to tune in:

A webinar brought by Theological Education in the Anglican Communion (TEAC) to be held on Thursday 10th February 9-11am GMT; 1400-1600 in Pakistan; 1430-1630 in India and Sri Lanka.

You are warmly invited to attend TEAC’s next webinar on ‘South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Theological Education.’

Revd Dr Muthuraj Swamy, CCCW Director

Featuring:

Revd Professor Israel David, United Theological College, Bangalore, India

Miss Lubna Younas Dewan, Principal, St. Thomas’ Theological College, Karachi, Pakistan

Revd R T B Abeysinghe , Lecturer, Theological College of Lanka, Pilimatalawa, Sri Lanka

• To register for the webinar, please send an email to Revd Dr Muthuraj Swamy.

Our first seminar of the Lent term is: A gospel for the poor: misión Integral and the Latin American evangelical left in the shadow of the Cold War

Dr David C. Kirkpatrick, Associate Chair, Department of Philosophy and Religion, James Madison University, Virginia

2nd February 2022, 4-5.30pm GMT, online

Drawing upon bilingual interviews and archives and personal papers from three continents, Kirkpatrick adopts a transnational perspective to tell the story of how a Cold War generation of Latin American evangelicals developed, named, and exported their version of social Christianity to an evolving coalition of global Christians. Latin Americans drew upon their unique biographies as religious minorities and their fraught history of negotiation with US missionaries in the region. In turn, global conversations between Latin America and the Global North reshaped politics, widened theologies, and provoked an explosion of mission and relief organizations around the world. This story also provides a blueprint for an alternative scaffolding of the Evangelical Left, one not designed from centres of power but from the margins of the global Cold War.

To register and for Zoom link, please email Rachel Simonson, our Centre Coordinator.

For more information, download the flyer.

Happy New Year to all our Friends and Library Users

We are delighted to be open again. To facilitate social distancing in these virulent times, we are limiting the number of library users at any one time to three.

Thank you for your understanding and see you soon.

The CCCW is establishing a week-long annual residential Summer Institute on the theme ‘World Christianity and Global Challenges’ to take place in Cambridge every year.

The first Institute will be from 18-22 July 2022. It is a wonderful opportunity for Christians from the Global North and South to gather together and to learn about Christianity in the other parts of the world. It is also an opportunity to build relationships as World Christians together.

More details of these and of this Summer’s Institute 2022, as well as our new Series of Seminars for 2022 are below on our new Event Card: