Christianity, Cultures, & Worship Worldwide

October 30-November 1, 2003
hosted by Charles Farhadian

Prince Conference Center
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Sponsored by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship, Calvin Theological Seminary, and Seminars in Christian Scholarship.

Christian worship worldwide reflects both continuities and discontinuities with local lifeways, where language, song, culture, and indigenous theology work together to provide a new sense of the self, community, and world. As cultural particularities are drawn into the worshipping church, they are transformed and given new meaning within the community.

This symposium will bring together internationally recognized historians, anthropologists, missiologists, liturgists, and scholars of worship, for lectures and panel discussions that will address the relationship among Christianity, cultures, and worship worldwide.

Speakers include:

James Ault, James Ault Productions
Samuel Escobar, Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Charles Farhadian, Calvin College
Michael Hawn, Southern Methodist University
Seung Joong Joo, Presbyterian College and Theological Seminary
Thomas Kane, Weston Jesuit School of Theology
Miguel A. Palomino, Facultad Teológica Latinoamericana
Robert Priest, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Dana Robert, Boston University
Lamin Sanneh, Yale University
Bryan D. Spinks, Yale University
Andrew F. Walls, University of Edinburgh
Philip Wickeri, San Francisco Theological Seminary
John D. Witvliet, Calvin College

Abstracts

A Brief Overview

Online Bibliography

For further information contact:
Seminars in Christian Scholarship
Calvin College
1855 Knollcrest Circle SE
Grand Rapids MI 49546-4402
616.526.8558
fax 616.526.6682
seminars@calvin.edu