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17th
Annual Hein Fry Lectures
March 6, 2008
Questions? Call 717-334-6286 ext 2121
Living Together in the 21 st Century:
The Lutheran Vocation in World Christianity
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Lecture 1
The Bounds of Empire and the Bonds of Mission: Lutheranism Abroad
The first lecture will explore the rise of modern Protestant missions and the role of Lutherans in the period of early imperial expansion in India and Africa.
Lecture 2
Sator Resartus: Lutherans and the Indigenous Discovery of Christianity
The second lecture examines the role of Lutheran missionaries in the post-Western indigenous awakening. |
Dr. Lamin Sanneh
D. Willis James Professor of Missions & World Christianity Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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Lecture 3
What May Have to Change: Lutheran Seminary Education
and World Christianities
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The Rev. Dr. Maria Erling
Associate Professor of the History of Christianity in North America and Global Mission |
Dr. Lamin Sanneh
Dr. Lamin Sanneh
Sanneh, a naturalized U.S. citizen, is descended from the nyanchos, an ancient African royal house, and was educated on four continents. He went to school with chiefs' sons in the Gambia, West Africa. He subsequently came to the United States on a U.S. government scholarship to read history. After graduating he spent several years studying classical Arabic and Islam, including a stint in the Middle East, and working with the churches in Africa and with international organizations concerned with inter-religious issues. He received his Ph.D. in Islamic history at the University of London.
He was a professor at Harvard University for eight years before moving to Yale University in 1989 as the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity, with a concurrent courtesy appointment as Professor of History at Yale College. He has been actively involved in Yale's Council on African Studies. He is an editor-at-large of the ecumenical weekly, The Christian Century, and serves on the editorial board of several academic journals. He is an Honorary Research Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies In the University of London, and is a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University.
The Rev. Dr. Maria Erling
Responding to the Hein Fry lectures will be the Rev. Dr. Maria E. Erling, who received her M.Div. from Yale University Divinity School and Th.D. from Harvard Divinity School. Erling has taught the History of Christianity in North America and Global Mission at the Seminary since 1999.
She has served parishes in New England: Trinity Lutheran Church, Worcester, MA and Christ the King, Nashua, NH, and supervised urban ministry for the New England Synod, 1985-1987. She also served the synod as its ecumenical officer 1991-1999. Dr. Erling has served on the executive board of the Augustana Heritage Association, on the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s (ELCA) Archive Advisory Committee, and on the board of the Lutheran Historical Conference.
Dr. Erling co-edited and contributed to The Role of the Bishop: Changing Models for a Global Church, Lutheran University Press (2001). She also wrote chapters for Lutherans Today: American Lutheran Identity in the 21st Century (Eerdmans, 2003), Witness at the Crossroads (2001) and The Augustana Heritage: Recollections, Perspectives, and Prospects (1998), as well as chapters in recent books on Spirituality, Swedish Immigration, and Ministry.
As a part of her ongoing interest in the way that American Lutheranism has developed, Dr. Erling is completing a book with co-author Mark Granquist on the history of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, one of the churches that eventually merged into the ELCA.
Order of the Day
9:00 a.m.—Registration
9:15 a.m.—Welcome and Introduction
9:30 a.m.—Lecture I
10:30 a.m.—Break
10:45 a.m.—Lecture II
11:50 a.m.—Chapel Worship
1:30 p.m.— Lecture III
2:30p.m. —Q/A
2:45 p.m.—Conclusion and Prayers
What is the Hein Fry Lectureship?
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The Hein-Fry Lecture Series is an endowed theological lecture
series of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America fostering
original scholarship and enriching theological dialogue throughout
the church and is coordinated by the Division for Ministry in cooperation
with the eight seminaries of the ELCA.
More about the Hein Fry
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