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The Bishop Sundo Kim Chair in World Christianity; Professor of Theology, Culture and Mission
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Sathianathan (“Sathi”) Clarke is a presbyter of the Church of South India. Dr. Clarke bridges the world between establishment and the marginalized, the global and the local, and academy and the congregation. For several years (1996-2004), he was on the faculty at United Theological College, Bangalore, India. He was also a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School. For the last twenty years, he has taught and lectured on global Christianity, contextual theology, postcolonial mission, and interreligious dialogue in India, U.S.A., United Kingdom, Germany, Sri Lanka, Korea, South Africa, and Liberia. In his research and teaching, Dr. Clarke has cultivated specialties in contextual theology, constructive global theology, and theology of religions. His current projects include:

  • World Christianity: Theological Method and Themes;
  • Faces of Jesus in World Religions and World Christianity;
  • Christian Mission in an Interfaith World;
  • Competing Religious Fundamentalisms.

 

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  • University of Madras, B.A., M.A.
  • United Theological College, B.D.
  • Yale University Divinity School, S.T.M.
  • Harvard University Divinity School, Th.D. 
Post Colonial Voices, taught with Sharon Ringe Globalization, Mission and the Church: Ecclesiology for the 21st Century Making Christ Work for the Nations: Faces of Jesus in World Christianity PMM: Practice in Ministry and Mission Colloquy Poetics and Politics of Religious Conversion Religion, Violence and Peace: Christian Mission in the Context of Hindu, Muslim And Christian Fundamentalism Systematic Theology 1 Systematic Theology 2 Theologies of Resistance and Liberation: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mohandas K. Gandhi, taught with Josiah Young Theology and the Global Poor, taught with Beverly Mitchell World Religions As Resource for Christian Theology and Church Ministry
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