Talk Probes Christian Efforts to End Slavery
Paul Lim, associate professor of the history of Christianity at Vanderbilt Divinity School, examines the global movement and commitment by evangelical Christians to stop the spread of human trafficking Thursday, Feb. 5, at 3:30 p.m. in Founders Room in the 黑料百科 Kerr Student Center. The Erasmus Society Lecture, 鈥淐alvin, Calcutta, and Corinth: Trinity, Trafficking, and Transformation of Theologia,鈥 is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Helen Rhee, associate professor of religious studies, at (805) 565颅-6834.
The talk will explore the divergent strategies that evangelical freedom fighters employ, offering a thicker narrative of evangelical involvement in the global pandemic of human slavery. 鈥淚 will explore themes of evangelical neo颅-colonialism, re颅-articulation of holistic mission, and the nature and extent of incarnational ministry in their Indian, Korean and American contexts,鈥 Lim says.
An award-颅winning historian of Reformation and post-颅Reformation Europe, Lim wrote the book, 鈥淢ystery Unveiled: The Crisis of the Trinity in Early Modern England鈥 (Oxford, 2012). He won the 2013 Roland H. Bainton Prize as the best book in history/theology by the Sixteenth Century Society and Conference. He has published two other books in that area, 鈥淭he Cambridge Companion to Puritanism鈥 (Cambridge, 2008) and 鈥淚n Pursuit of Purity, Unity, and Liberty: Richard Baxter鈥檚 Puritan Ecclesiology in Context鈥 (Brill, 2004).
His research also focuses on the history of evangelicalism and global Christianity. He is writing a book on the transformation of global evangelical attitudes toward and endeavors on eradication of human trafficking and structural poverty.