Launch Event - Cambridge Centre for Chinese Theology
You are warmly invited to join us at the official Launch Event for the Cambridge Centre for Chinese Theology.
Date and time
Location
Faculty of Divinity
25 West Road Cambridge CB3 9DP United KingdomAgenda
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Launch Event - Cambridge Centre for Chinese Theology
1:00 PM - 1:10 PM
Opening Address, Professor David Fergusson
1:10 PM - 1:15 PM
Welcome from the School of Arts and Humanities, Professor Jocelyn Wyburd
1:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Welcome & Introduction to the Faculty, Professor Richard Rex
1:30 PM - 1:50 PM
Strategy and Mission of the Centre, Dr. Simeon Xu
1:50 PM - 2:45 PM
Inaugural Lecture "Worlding Chinese Christianity", Dr. Alexander Chow
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM
Tea/Coffee Break
3:15 PM - 4:15 PM
Panel Discussion with Prof. Jörg Haustein, Prof. Chloë Starr, Prof. Kevin Yao
4:15 PM - 4:25 PM
Lux Mundi Address, Dr. Jonathan Li
4:25 PM - 4:30 PM
Concluding Remark, Professor David Fergusson
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Drinks Reception
About this event
- Event lasts 5 hours 30 minutes
Launch Event - Cambridge Centre for Chinese Theology
The Cambridge Centre for Chinese Theology was established in 2025, following a generous donation from Lux Mundi Inc (USA). Professor David Fergusson and Dr Ximian Simeon Xu are its founding Co-Directors.
The dramatic growth of both Chinese Christianities and the churches of global Chinese diasporas is generating increased interaction between Western and Chinese theological academia. However, extensive cross-cultural collaboration in the UK remains underdeveloped. The Centre aims to advance Chinese theology understood in the broadest sense through addressing the context and concerns of Chinese Christians, the study of theological work emerging from China and the Chinese diaspora, and the facilitating of closer links between theologians from the West and those in China and elsewhere in Asia. It seeks to facilitate global and cross-cultural dialogue on Chinese theologies and serve as an interface between Western and East Asian theological institutions and scholars.
You are warmly invited to join us at the official Launch Event for the Cambridge Centre for Chinese Theology for an afternoon filled with interesting talks and lectures, followed by a Drinks Reception to celebrate the opening of the CCCT.