Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen is a prolific writer who has authored or edited about 27 books as well as more than 150 articles that have appeared in international scholarly journals, including most recent books Christian Theology in the Pluralistic World: A Global Introduction (2019) and Doing the Work of Comparative Theology: A Primer for Christians (2020). He recently completed a five-volume series covering all topics of systematic theology titled A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World, published by Eerdmans (2013–2017): Christ and Reconciliation (2013), Trinity and Revelation (2014), Creation and Humanity (2015), Spirit and Salvation (2016), and Community and Hope (2017).

Kärkkäinen is ordained by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (Minister of Word and Sacrament, 2015) and has served since 2014 as associate pastor (part-time) for the Finnish Lutheran Church in California and Texas (ELCA).

Anne Kubai is Associate Professor of World Christianity and Interreligious Studies. Currently, she is a researcher at the School for Historical and Contemporary Studies at Södertörn University, Sweden. Kubai is also a research associate at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion (RITR) at the University of South Africa, Pretoria.  Kubai is a visiting professor at the Institute for Women and Gender Studies at Egerton University, Kenya. Her research interests include genocide, mass violence, religion in peace and conflict, gender-based violence, transitional justice, international migration, applied development and psychosocial studies. In addition, she has a keen interest in the humanitarian-development-peacebuilding nexus. Kubai worked with different universities and organizations in Kenya and Rwanda for many years. She worked as Research Director for Life & Peace Institute, an International Ecumenical Centre for Peace Research and Action in Uppsala, Sweden. Kubai also worked as Senior Social Scientist at the Division of Global Health (IHCAR), Department of Public Health Sciences at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Until recently she was a researcher at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Racism (CEMFOR) at the Department of Theology, Uppsala University. Kubai has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles, contributions to anthologies, co-edited anthologies, research reports, popular science articles and two documentaries.

John Allembillah Azumah is an ordained Ghanaian minister in the Presbyterian Church of Ghana and associate professor of World Christianity and Islam. He is one of the leaders in Islam and Christian–Muslim relations and he is currently working on research in the area of World Christianity and Islam in the Global South. In addition to speaking around the world, Azumah has written a number of books and has contributed to a large range of publications. He is a strong advocate for ecumenical dialogue between Islam and Christianity.

Kenner is a North American academic, theologian, Biblical scholar and professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary. Kenner’s expertise lies in: New Testament Background, the book of Acts, Jesus, Miracles, the Gospels, Ethnic/racial Reconciliation.

Alan Torrance is professor of systematic theology at St Mary’s College of the University of St Andrews. Previously he lectured at King’s College London from 1993–1998, where he was also Director of the Research Institute in Systematic Theology. His teaching interests are primarily in the areas of philosophical and systematic theology, theological anthropology, person and work of Christ and theological ethics. He researches actively in the fields of Christology, the social implications of the doctrine of reconciliation, theological epistemology and theories of time. He is widely published and respected in his field and now closely associated with the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology at the University of St Andrews.

– Lecture 1: The Continuing Priesthood of Christ and its Implications

– Lecture 2: The Priesthood of Christ and our Understanding of God

– Lecture 3: The Priesthood of Christ and Christian Ethics

Prof. John S. Mbiti was a Kenyan-born Christian philosopher and writer. He was an ordained Anglican priest, and is considered “the father of modern African theology”. Mbiti taught religion and theology in Makerere University, Uganda, from 1964 to 1974 and was subsequently director of the World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Institute in Bogis Bossey, Switzerland. He held visiting professorships at universities across the world and published extensively on philosophy, theology and African oral traditions.

– Lecture 1: Oral Christology: Jesus in Praise and Song by Afua Kuma (1900-1987) of Ghana.

–  Lecture 2: Christology of Liberation Theology: The Case of South Africa and Takatso Mofokeng.

– Lecture 3: Initiation Christology: Jesus Christ as the Master of Initiation, and as the Tree of Life.

An Old Testament scholar and a theological educator since 1979, Delamarter has facilitated learning in several Christian colleges and seminaries. Since 1993, he has been professor of Old Testament at George Fox Evangelical Seminary (GFES) in Portland, Oregon. A fellow of the John Templeton Oxford Seminars on Science and Religion (‘03-’05), Delamarter has an interest in the integration of science and faith and teaches a course on “Cosmology and Spiritual Formation.” In recent years, his research interests have focused on the digitization and cataloguing of more than 600 Ethiopic manuscripts that have come to North America.

– Lecture 1: On Christian Identity and Book Culture in Ethiopia.

– Lecture 2: On the Special Forms of the Ethiopian Psalter.

– Lecture 3: On the Theological Controversies in the Ethiopian Psalter.

Michael Nazir-Ali s a Pakistani-born British Catholic priest and former Anglican prelate who served as the 106th Bishop of Rochester from 1994 to 2009 and, before that, as Bishop of Raiwind in Pakistan.[1] He is currently the director of the Oxford Centre for Training, Research, Advocacy and Dialogue. In 2021, he was received into the Catholic Church and was ordained as a priest for the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham on 30 October 2021.

John H. Walton (born 1952) is an Old Testament scholar and Professor at Wheaton College. He was a professor at Moody Bible Institute for 20 years. He specializes in the Ancient Near Eastern backgrounds of the Old Testament, especially Genesis and its creation account, as well as interpretation of Job. At Wheaton College he is the primary professor for its M.A in Biblical Exegesis.

Loren T. Stuckenbruck (born 1960) is a historian of early Christianity and Second Temple Judaism, currently professor of New Testament at the University of Munich, in Germany. His work has exerted a significant impact on the field. Stuckenbruck has taught at Kiel University, Durham University, Princeton Theological Seminary and currently the University of Munich.

Dr. Anne Wimberly, Professor Emerita of Christian Education at the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC), is a renowned African American researcher, scholar, professor, advocate, and champion of black youth. A leading Christian educator rooted in the United Methodist Church, she has inspired students, colleagues, pastors, church leaders, and countless admirers to pursue education with a “zest to know.” She currently serves as the Executive Director of the Youth Hope-Builders Academy at ITC and founder and coordinator of the Annual Youth and Family Convocation. Her passion for learning has undergirded her educational ministry and life-long vocation.

Dr. Edward Powell Wimberly is the Jarena Lee Professor of Pastoral Care at the Interdenominational Theological Center (ITC) in Atlanta, GA. He has lectured and led workshops across the globe, while authoring numerous books. As an elder in the United Methodist Church, Dr. Wimberly pastored various churches in New England before moving to ITC. He is not only a scholar and author but also an advocate for social justice: serving on the board for various non-profits.

Dr Elaine Storkey is an established communicator and author, and a widely respected contributor on radio and television programmes. She has held posts in many universities, in England and abroad, and speaks regularly to international academic conferences. She is Vice President of Cheltenham and Gloucester College, and a university examinations moderator. She has written seminal material on gender, and continues to do research on a broad range of areas. Elaine writes on social, philosophical and cultural issues for national newspapers, and travels frequently as President of TearFund. A member of the General Synod, she was Theological Adviser to the Archbishop of Canterbury for many years. Elaine also headed up the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity.

Profession Lamin Sanneh did his PhD in Islamic history at the University of London. Prior to his appointment at Yale University as the D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity, with a concurrent appointment as Professor of History at Yale College, he was a professor at Harvard University for eight years. Prof. Sanneh 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. He serves on the editorial board of several academic journals and has published numerous article and books including his most recent, Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity.

J. Dudley Woodberry is dean emeritus and senior professor of Islamic studies at Fuller’s School of Intercultural Studies and is considered one of the foremost Christian scholars of Islam. He has served as consultant on the Muslim world to former US President Carter.

Tokunboh Adeyemo was the General Secretary of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa and Madagascar. He was a popular speaker, educator, administrator and a prolific author. Under Adeyemo’s leadership, the Association of Evangelicals of Africa grew internally as an association and externally in its relationships with other Christian organizations, through dialogue and cooperation. Since 1977, the number of national alliances has grown from eight to forty-two, each with a full-time General Secretary. Adeyemo received many international leadership awards. In 1994, he received an honorary Doctorate from Potchfstrom University, South Africa, for outstanding Christian leadership.

Christopher J. H. Wright is a missiologist, an Anglican clergyman and an Old Testament scholar. He is currently the International Ministries Director of Langham Partnership International. He was the principal of All Nations Christian College. He is an honorary member of All Souls Church, Langham Place in London, UK.

Dr. John Stott, CBE was an English Anglican cleric and theologian who was noted as a leader of the worldwide evangelical movement. He was one of the principal authors of the Lausanne Covenant in 1974. In 2005, Time magazine ranked Stott among the 100 most influential people in the world.

Prof. Kwame Bediako was a Ghanaian Christian theologian and Rector for the Akrofi Christaller Institute for Theology, Mission and Culture in Akropong, Ghana. His PhD at Aberdeen explored the influence of indigenous cultures on Christianity in the second century Greco-Roman world and in 20th century Africa. His other works have tended to emphasize questions related to the encounter between Christianity and an indigenous religious context, especially as found in Africa. Bediako was also an advocate for the role of vernacular language on the development of Christian theology.

Prof. Andrew Walls, OBE, was a British historian of missions, best known for his pioneering studies of the history of the African church and a pioneer in the academic field of World Christianity. Trained as a patristic scholar at the University of Oxford, he went to Sierra Leone in 1957 to teach at Fourah Bay College. There and at the new University of Nsukka in Nigeria (1962–66) he studied the growing churches of Africa and their history.

From there he taught at the University of Aberdeen and established the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World (now known as the Centre for the Study of World Christianity).

Dr. Jonathan J. Bonk is Executive Director Emeritus of the Overseas Ministries Study Center in New Haven, Connecticut. He holds a PhD from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and in 2013 was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity by Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. Being a research professor of missions, he is the author of numerous articles, reviews, and books, and is contributing editor of six collaborative volumes. His best-known book is Missions and Money: Affluence as a Western Missionary Problem.