John G. Flett is Professor of Intercultural Theology and Missiology at Pilgrim Theological College, a Uniting Church in Australia college within the University of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia. He is a minister of the Word in the Uniting Church in Australia; Senior Research Associate, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg, South Africa; außerplanmäßiger Professor at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal, Stellvertretender Institutsleiter am Institut für Interkulturelle Theologie und Interreligiöse Studien, Wuppertal, Germany; co-editor of the book series Beiträge zur Missionswissenschaft / Interkulturellen Theologie, LIT Verlag; Member of the Editorial Board of HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies; and contributing editor to the International Bulletin of Mission Research.

His PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary examined the history and theology of missio Dei and was published as The Witness of God (Eerdmans, 2010). His Habilitationschrift, undertaken at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal, developed a critical account the church’s apostolicity, understanding the embodiment of the faith in cultural difference as fundamental to the continuity of the faith through time. This appeared as Apostolicity: The Ecumenical Question in World Christian Perspective (IVP Academic, 2016) and was recognised as one of the IBMR’s Ten Outstanding Books for 2016. His most recent work (2020) with Henning Wrogemann, titled Questions of Context: Reading a Century of German Mission Theology, examined the range of ideas that underly the theories of contextualisation and the related consequences for local embodiments of the faith. This was his third book to be named as one of the IMBR Ten Outstanding Books. His current book length projects include the T&T Clark Handbook on Intercultural Theology and Mission Studies (with Dorottya Nagy), and a critical edition of the life and works of J. C. Hoekendijk (Brill).

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