Dr. Darrell Guder, visiting scholar of missiology, shares reflections on his faith and call story as it relates to his understanding of Christian mission. He is the primary resource person for Mission & Service Day.
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Dr. Darrell Guder is the Henry Winters Luce Professor of Missional and Ecumenical Theology at
Princeton Theological Seminary. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Hamburg. As an ordained Presbyterian minister, he served as a student outreach pastor and as a faculty member of the Karlshohe College in the German Lutheran Church. His writing and teaching focus on the theology of the missional church, especially the theological implications of the paradigm shift to post-Christendom as the context for Christian mission in the West. One of his major research interests is reading Karl Barth as a missional theologian. He has served as secretary-treasurer of the American Society of Missiology (ASM) and was president of the ASM from 2007-2008. His scholarly translations include Otto Weber, Foundations of Dogmatics (2 vols.); Eberhard JÃngel, God as the Mystery of the World; Karl Barth, The Theology of the Reformed Confessions (with Judith Guder; and Eberhard Busch, The Great Passion: An Introduction to the Theology of Karl Barth (with Judith Guder). He also coordinates the annual Barth Translators Seminar every June immediately following the annual Karl Barth conference.