Talk to Reflect Global Christianity, Mission

Robert A. Hunt, director of global theological education at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, will speak about “Multiple Modernities: How Global Christianity is Challenging Concepts of Christian Mission” Monday, Sept. 26, at 3:30 p.m. in Hieronymus Lounge inside Westmont’s Kerrwood Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Charles Farhadian, associate professor of religious studies at Westmont, says Hunt is a great communicator with ongoing international experience.

“Mission paradigms, which assume that secular modernity will define the future, have evolved as non-Western cultures and Christians encounter and assimilate economic, political, and technological change,” Farhadian says. “Hunt will reflect on this change.”

Hunt, an authority on Southeast Asian Christianity, contemporary Muslim societies and movements, and Muslim-Christian relations, earned his doctorate from the University of Malaya. He has published several books and many articles about interfaith relations and interreligious dialogue. He is researching and writing on religious identity in religiously plural settings.

Hunt lived and worked in Malaysia, Singapore and Austria from 1985 to 2004, and speaks both Malay and German.

The event is part of Westmont’s ongoing World Christianity Lecture Series, which seeks to bring attention to the global presence of Christianity, particularly in the non-Western world.