Stanley H. Skreslet returned to Union Presbyterian Seminary in 1997 after ten years of service on the faculty of the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo through the mission program of the Presbyterian Church (USA).  Previously, he taught at the College of Idaho, after having been Chaplain and Director of Church Relations for the College.  Skreslet’s scholarly interests are focused in particular on the field of missiology, but also include the history of Christianity, Islam, and Orthodox Christianity, especially as these latter topics relate to the Middle East.  Dr. Skreslet is an ordained Presbyterian minister and member of the Presbytery of the James.  He is a past president of the American Society of Missiology, the Association of Professors of Mission, and the Eastern Fellowship of Professors of Mission, while also having served as academic dean on the Richmond campus of UPSem.  A forthcoming book, Constructing Mission History: Missionary Initiative and Indigenous Agency in the Making of World Christianity, is due to appear in early 2023.  His introduction to the field of missiology, Comprehending Mission: The Questions, Methods, Themes, Problems, and Prospects of Missiology, was the first book to receive the American Society of Missiology’s annual book award.

Publications

For a full list of Dr. Skreslet’s publications, use the link below to his current CV.

Constructing Mission History: Missionary Initiative and Indigenous Agency in the Making of World Christianity (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2023 forthcoming)

Comprehending Mission: The Questions, Methods, Themes, Problems, and Prospects of Missiology (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2012)

Picturing Christian Witness: New Testament Images of Disciples in Mission (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2006)

Fundamentals of New Testament Greek (Cairo: Bible Society of Egypt, 1995; a textbook and beginning reference grammar in Arabic)

Christians and Muslims in Egypt,” Interpretation 76/2 (2022): 129-139

“An Inadvertent Missiologist: Edward Gibbon and the Science of Mission,” Missiology 44 (2016): 20-32

“Missiology and the IRM over a Century,” International Review of Mission 100 (2011): 160-180

“American Presbyterians and the Middle East,” in A History of Presbyterian Missions, 1944-2007, ed. Scott W. Sunquist and Caroline N. Becker.  Louisville: Geneva Press, 2008

“History.”  Encyclopedia of Mission and Missionaries.  New York: Routledge, 2007

“Thinking Missiologically about the History of Mission,” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 31 (2007): 59-65

“Configuring Missiology: Reading Classified Bibliographies as Disciplinary Maps,” Mission Studies 23 (2006): 171-201

“Doctoral Dissertations on Mission: Ten-Year Update, 1992-2001,” International Bulletin of Missionary Research 27 (2003): 98-133

Courses taught recently:

History of Christianity (Reformation to the present); Ecclesiology in World Christian Perspective; Mission and Missionaries in Film and Fiction; History of Christianity in Africa; Religion of Islam; Middle East Travel Seminar

Link to site of International Association of Mission Studies

Link to site of American Society of Missiology

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Curriculum Vitae