David J. Hesselgrave

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David J. Hesselgrave (born January 3, 1924 in North Freedom , Wisconsin , † May 21, 2018 in Rockford , Illinois ) was Professor of Missiology at the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield , Illinois.

Life

Hesselgrave received his PhD in communications from the University of Minnesota with an emphasis on intercultural communication.

He served in pastoral ministry for five years before going to Japan for twelve years as a missionary for the Evangelical Free Church of America (EFCA). After returning to the United States, he taught at the University of Minnesota for three years. In 1965 he began his activity at the Trinity Evangelical Divinity School . During his tenure there, he was the President of Mission and Evangelism for 14 years. Further teaching positions led Hesselgrave to the Evangelical Theological College in Hong Kong and the Asian Theological Seminary in Manila . Hesselgrave retired in 1991.

Hesselgrave's professional competence extended over the areas of intercultural communication , intercultural advice , church planting and mission theology . He was a member of the EFCA Ministerial Association , the American Society of Missiology and the Evangelical Missiological Society , of which he was director from 1991 to 1994.

In addition to Charles Kraft, it is mainly Hesselgrave's merit to have asserted the importance of culture in missiology and missiology in the 1970s and 1980s .

David Hesselgrave last lived in Rockford, Illinois with his wife Gertrude. There he died in 2018 at the age of 94.

Fonts

  • Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally: An Introduction to Missionary Communication. 2nd edition Zondervan, Grand Rapids 1991, ISBN 0310368111
  • Contextualization - Meanings, Methods, and Models (with Edward Rommen). William Carey Library, Pasadena 2000, ISBN 0878087753
  • Counseling Cross-Culturally: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. Baker Book House, Grand Rapids 1984, ISBN 0801042828
  • Planting Churches Cross-Culturally: North America and Beyond. 2nd Ed. Baker Books, Grand Rapids 2000, ISBN 0801022223
  • Scripture and Strategy: The Use of the Bible in Postmodern Church and Mission. William Carey Library, Pasadena 1994, ISBN 0878083758

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Allan Anderson: Pentecostal-Charismatic Spirituality and Theological Education in Europe from a Global Perspective. PentecoStudies, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2004 ( PDF file, English )
  2. ↑ Longtime TEDS professor and missiologist David J. Hesselgrave dies at 94th Trinity International University, May 23, 2018, accessed May 31, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hesselgrave, David J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theologian, missionary, and missionary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH January 3, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH North Freedom , Wisconsin
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 2018
Place of death Rockford , Illinois