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The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) mourns the passing of Ecuadorian pastor, teacher, theologian and missiologist C. René Padilla, who died on April 27. Padilla is widely recognized as one of the most influential voices in global evangelicalism over the last 50 years.
ARTICLE Thoughts on the relationship of theology, missiology and mission, presented by the chair of the Theological Commission of World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), Thomas Schirrmacher, to the General Assembly of the Missions Commission of the WEA at Schwäbisch-Gmünd, Germany, November 2011.
A Mennonite and Evangelical visionary thinker and bridge builder – Obituary by Thomas Schirrmacher
As President of the Royal Ghassanid Academy of Arts and Sciences I am pleased to report on the recognition of the Ghassanid Royal House by the world's largest non-governmental body of Muslim leaders.
The German publishing House Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft – Culture and Science Publ. (VKW) published Peirong Lin’s research on ‘Countering Mission Drift in a Faith-based Organisation: An Interdisciplinary Theological Interpretation Focused on the Case Study of World Vision’s Identity Formation’.
ARTICLE Christians often think of apologetics as something that only academics do, but actually it has always been an essential part of Christian mission.
Leading figures in the world’s largest Muslim organization and the world’s largest Evangelical Christian organization announced today that they are undertaking an ambitious joint effort to reshape how the world thinks about religion and to counter two threats to religious freedom and to society more broadly: religious extremism and secular extremism.
Thomas Schirrmacher congratulated the head of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Albania, Anastasios Yannoulatos (90), upon receiving the 2020 Klaus Hemmerle Prize and described him as one of the most important living missions and religious studies scholars.