Department of Historical Studies
Stephen D. Morad, Ph.D.
Lecturer
stephen.morad@negst.edu
Education
Ph.D. (Christianity in the Non-Western World), University of Edinburgh
M.Div. (Church History), Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
B.A. (History), The King's College
Philosophy of Teaching
While many people study Church History to prove how they and their church is right and others are wrong or to how far we have advanced over the churches in the past, at NEGST we study Church History for what we can learn from it, to have our Christian identity sharpened as we discover the influences that moulded us in the past and how we fit into the broad body of Christ made up of so many different churches and how our faith can be strengthened through the example and teachings of holy men and women of God in the past and by seeing how God continued to work in the church from the Day of Pentecost to the present. The approach that I take in particular is to trace the expansion of Christianity from Jerusalem to "the ends of the earth" and how Christianity changed as it moved from one cultural context to another.
Research Interests
Dr. Morad is currently conducting research on the crusades and the theology of revival.
Publications
"Jesuit Missions to the Far East 1550-1750," in the INSIGHT Reader, edited by Ralph Winter and Rebecca Lewis, Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 2006.
Review of Bengt Sundkler and Christopher Steed, A History of the Church in Africa, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in Fides et Historia. Vol. 34, No. 1 (Winter/Spring, 2002), pp. 153-5.
Review of Allan Anderson, Pentecost and Zion: The Spirituality and Experience of Pentecostal and Zionist/Apostolic Churches in South Africa. Pretoria: University of South Africa Press, 2000, in the Evangelical Missions Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 3, (July 2001), pp. 400-2.
"The Founding Principles of the Africa Inland Mission and Their Interaction with the African Context in Kenya from 1895-1939: the Study of a Faith Mission," Ph.D. Thesis at the Center for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, New College, University of Edinburgh.
"The Spreading Tree: History of the Africa Inland Church in Kenya," book commissioned by the Africa Inland Church to celebrate their centennial.
"Africa Inland Church Local Church Survey," survey of the origin, size, and ministries of the local churches of the Africa Inland Church in Kenya., commissioned by the Central Church Council of the African Inland Church.
Selected Papers and Presentations
"The Africa Inland Mission: the Study of an Early Frontier Mission," series of six lectures delivered at the U.S. Center for World Mission on the history of the American missions movement.
"The Second Century Apologists and the Problem of Christian Identity: Kwame Bediako and the Contribution of African Theology to the Study of Early Christian History", lecture presented at the U.S. Center for World Mission and again at William Carey International University.
"N. T. Wright and Understanding the Origins of Christianity," lecture presented at the U.S. Center for World Mission.
"Gnosticism: a Contextualized Theology That Failed," lecture presented at William Carey International University.
"Jesuit Mission to the Far East," lecture presented at William Carey International University.
"Attempting to Rescue the Memory of the African Inland Church: Lessons from Failure," paper presented at "Rescuing the Memory of Our Peoples": Joint International Association for Mission Studies and International Association of Catholic Missiologists Archives and Documentation Conference in Rome, Italy.