World Christianity

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Semester 1 – Autumn 2026

DateSpeaker(s)Details

5-8 October

5:15pm

Revd Dr Jooseop Keum

2026 Cunningham Lectures

'What Does It Mean to Be Human? Slavery, Artificial Intelligence, Creation, and Mission'

  • 5 October: Mission as (Trans)Humanisation: Artificial Intelligence and Surplus Humanity
  • 7 October: Saint Onesimus, Saint Quamina: Legacies of Slavery and Decolonising Mission
  • 8 October: Creation at the Heart of Mission: Transformative Spirituality Beyond Anthropocentrism

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20 OctoberDr Garfield Campbell (Research Associate, Scottish Episcopal Institute)‘Compromised Privilege: Anglican Missiology in Jamaica 1824-1838,’
27 OctoberPanelists TBCBook launch of Pedro Feitoza and Joseph Florez, Evangelicalism in Latin America: Historical documents in Context, Cambridge University Press, 2026
17 November

Kpanie Addy (Centre for the Study of World Christianity)

 

Biao Zhu (Centre for the Study of World Christianity)

'Nkrumah and Rawlings: Political lives paralleled by Catholic religious influence'

 

'Ballet Dancers in a Landfill: Covenantalism, Public Witness, and the Sacramental Ecclesiology of China’s Urban House Churches'

1 DecemberDr Aminta Arrington (Oxford Centre for Mission Studies)'Hymns of the Everlasting Hills: The Christian Lisu of Southwest China and their Music'

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