In October 2015, the Centre’s Prof. Brian Stanley offered a public lecture at Honam Theological University Seminary, hosted by its president Rev. Dr Young Sang Ro, commemorating the centennial of the death of the important Scottish missionary to Manchuria who produced the first Protestant Bible in Korean, John Ross (1842-1915).
On 11–13 June 2015, the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, in collaboration with the Scottish Centre for Chinese Studies, organised a conference in honour of the Scottish missionary-scholar to China, James Legge, on the bicentennial of his birth (see conference page). The conference received generous financial support from the Confucius Institute and the New College Senate. Continue reading