Showing posts with label Presler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Presler. Show all posts

Monday, March 4, 2013

Money, Mission, and Responses to Global Poverty

Dr. Douglas Hicks
Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Colgate University

October 25, 2012
Henry H. and Marion A. Presler Lecture

The ethical dimensions of economic issues are explored in this lecture.  Listen to the lecture.

Friday, December 9, 2011

The Hospitality of Receiving: Rethinking Mission and Conversion in an Interreligious Age

John Thatamanil
Associate Professor of Theology and World Religions, Union Theological Seminary (New York)

Presler Lecture

October 20, 2011

Thatamanil believes that “tying together diverse interests is a basic commitment to a deeply metaphysical form of philosophical theology which he takes to be essential for any Christian theology that seeks to be in conversation with non-Christian religious traditions.” Listen to the lecture.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

The Edwards-Pressler Lectures


A New Mission?

Dr. Terry C. Muck
Dean of the E. Stanley Jones School of World Mission and Evangelism
Professor of Missions and World Religions, Asbury Theological Seminary

October 22, 2009

So-called “new missions” come about because of new contexts, not because of a new gospel. It is the demands of a new context that drives us back to Scripture for a fresh look at what God is calling us to be and do in this place and this time. Read the lecture in PDF.



The New Mission Worker

Dr. Frances S. Adeney
William A. Benfield Jr. Professor of Evangelism & Global Missions, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary

October 22, 2009

What are the characteristics of the new mission workers? First they perceive the world differently. Second, they see the contradictions of current mission models and why they are not working, and third, they develop new ways of interacting with their context—new methods that bring the gospel alive in their setting. Read the lecture in PDF.

Muck and Adeney are co-authors of Christianity Encountering World Religions: The Practice of Mission in the Twenty-first Century (Baker 2009).

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Mission Impossible? Faith at the Crossroads of People & Religions


Carlos Cardozi-Orlandi
Associate Professor of World Christianity, Columbia Theological Seminary

The Henry H. and Marion A. Presler Lectureship on Christian World Missions
October 24, 2007

Popular religion is an expression of the gospel of Jesus Christ. As Christianity grows in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Latino areas of the U.S., mission studies discover particular dynamics between religion and culture. Given these dynamics, what role should we take in the Great Commission? Listen to the lecture.

To learn more about the Pressler Lecture series and the people for whom it was named: read the dedication address.