Victor Ezigbo

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Dr. Victor Ezigbo, who attended Igbaja Seminary in Nigeria and earned his doctorate from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, is Associate Professor of Systematic and Contextual Theology at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of Introducing Christian Theologies: Voices from Global Christian Communities (Cascade, 2013) and Re-imagining African Christologies (Pickwick, 2010). His areas of research include Christology, African Christian theologies, African indigenous religions, and World Christianity.

In 2001 Dr. Ezigbo founded the Nigeria-based Center for Research in Global Christianity (CRGC), which provides quality materials to regional students and pastors engaged in outreach, preaching, and evangelism. The center aims to provide materials of particular relevance to Nigerian theological concerns and has proven to be a valuable resource to pastors and others involved in outreach.

Dr. Ezigbo recognizes the many faces of Christianity and was raised with an understanding that “the theologies that matter are the theologies that speak to the needs of the people, and the pastors who are successful are the ones who talk about the issues that really speak to the people.” He appreciates the beautiful landscape and growing diversity of Minnesota’s Twin Cities area, and loves playing soccer and helping his students “learn to think theologically [and] independently, and how to do theology that actually speaks to specific issues within their context.”

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