Titus Presler to Share “A Perspective from Pakistan”
7 p.m. Wed., April 13, 2016 at All Saints, New Albany
The Rev. Canon Dr. Titus Presler will give the 12th Annual Lecture on World Religions and Interreligious Dialogue sponsored by the Theological Consortium of Greater Columbus. The event is scheduled for 7:00 p.m., Wed., April 13, 2016 at All Saints Episcopal Church, 5101 Johnstown Road, New Albany, Ohio, 43054. The topic will be “Challenges and Opportunities in Christian-Muslim Relations: A Perspective from Pakistan.”
The lecture is free and open to the public, no reservation necessary.
Presler has wide experience in theological education and cross-cultural mission in the Episcopal Church and the global Anglican Communion. He has served as president of the Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas; academic dean of General Theological Seminary in New York City; and principal of Edwardes College in Peshawar, Pakistan. Presler specializes in the interaction of gospel and cultures, Christian-Muslim relations, and Christianity in Africa and south Asia. He has taught at Episcopal Divinity School, Harvard Divinity School and Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He chaired the Episcopal Church’s Standing Commission on World Mission and served as a consultant to the Anglican Indaba Project devoted to dialogue across differing views on human sexuality.
Presler holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University, a Master of Divinity degree from General Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Theology degree from Boston University. He is the author of “Going Global with God: Reconciling Mission in a World of Difference” (Morehouse Publishing) and “Transfigured Night: Mission and Culture in Zimbabwe’s Vigil Movement” (University of South Africa Press). Among his recent writings are “Why Has Pakistan Become So Intolerant?” in The Daily Beast and “Witness, Advocacy, and Union: Anglicanism’s 20th-Century Contribution to Minority Christianity in South Asia” in the forthcoming “Oxford History of Anglicanism.” He blogs at TitusOnMission.wordpress.com.
Raised in a missionary family in India, Presler and his wife, the Rev. Canon Jane Butterfield, were missionaries of the Episcopal Church in Zimbabwe in the 1980s.
The Theological Consortium of Greater Columbus is a collaborative effort of Bexley Seabury, Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Pontifical College Josephinum, and Trinity Lutheran Seminary.
For information about the Consortium or the lecture series, send an email to Dr. Paul Numrich or call him at 740-362-3443. For information about the location for the April 13 lecture, send an email to All Saints Episcopal Church or call 614-855-8267.