Rev. Prof. Sathianathan Clarke

Keynote Speaker in 2023

Theme: Neither Slave Nor Free: Privlege, Class & Discipleship

Biography (adapted from United Theological College website):

Sathianathan “Sathi” Clarke is the Bishop Sundo Kim Chair in World Christianity, Professor of Theology, Culture and Mission, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington D.C.

Sathi is a presbyter of the Church of South India. Sathi bridges the world between establishment and the marginalised, the global and the local, and academy and the congregation. For several years (1996-2004), he was on the faculty at United Theological College, Bangalore, India. He was also a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School. For the last twenty years, he has taught and lectured on global Christianity, contextual theology, postcolonial mission, and interreligious dialogue in India, U.S.A., United Kingdom, Germany, Sri Lanka, Korea, South Africa, and Liberia. In his research and teaching, Sathi has cultivated specialties in contextual theology, constructive global theology, and theology of religions.

His current projects include:

• World Christianity: Theological Method and Themes;

• Faces of Jesus in World Religions and World Christianity;

• Christian Mission in an Interfaith World;

• Competing Religious Fundamentalisms.

Education

• University of Madras, B.A., M.A.

• United Theological College, B.D.

• Yale University Divinity School, S.T.M.

• Harvard University Divinity School, Th.D.