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Lecture to Focus on World Evangelism Vision
CHICAGO, IL (February 5, 2003) - Noted author and scholar Andrew F. Walls, Ph.D.,
will speak on "Migration and Evangelization: the Gospel and the Movement of
Peoples in
Modern Times" on February 19 in Nyvall Hall's Isaacson Chapel at North Park
Theological Seminary (NPTS).
Wall's first lecture deals with the great migration and the vision for
world evangelization and will begin at 9 a.m., followed by a time of coffee
and fellowship. Wall's second lecture, "Migration Reversed: World Mission
Today," will begin at 10:45 a.m.
The event, which is free and open to the public, is this year's
presentation of North Park's Carl G. Westerdahl Lectureship in Evangelism.
It began in 1964 in memory of the late preacher and evangelist Carl G.
Westerdahl.
Wall is emeritus professor of religious studies at the University of
Aberdeen, Scotland, and is founder and director of the Center for the Study
of Christianity in the Non-Western World at the University of Edinburgh. He
continues to serve as an honorary professor at both universities.
A missionary who has served in Sierra Leone and Nigeria, Walls is a leading
interpreter of the interaction between Christianity and cultures. He is the
author of Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History: Studies in the
Transmission and Appropriation of Faith and The Missionary Movement
in Christian History: Studies in the Transmission of Faith, which was a
winner of the Christianity Today Book Award.
For more information on the Westerdahl Lectureship and the February 19
presentation, call 773-244-5567.
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