Roger E. Hedlund is an American pastor who has spent more than three decades in India as a theological teacher and researcher with major contributions to missiology with special reference to Indian ethos.[1]
Hedlund taught at the Union Biblical Seminary, both at Yeotmal and at Pune from 1974 to 1978 and also at the Serampore College from 1994 to 1997. He is associated with Dharma Deepika: A South Asian Journal of Missiological Research and with the Mylapore Institute for Indigenous Studies (Chennai).[3] Hedlund edited the Oxford Encyclopedia of South Asian Christianity.[4]
Hedlund has been prominent in the theological circles in India and known in the Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and Charismatic circles serving the cause of missiological research.[1] The papers and correspondence of Roger E. Hedlund have been preserved and made digitally available by the Asbury Theological Seminary, Kentucky.[5]
Selected works
Hedlund, Roger E (1970). The Protestant movement in Italy; its progress, problems, and prospects. South Pasadena, Calif.: William Carey Library. ISBN978-0-87808-307-7. OCLC132850.
Hedlund, Roger E. (1981). Roots of the Great Debate in Mission. Evangelical Literature Service. OCLC477724803.
Hedlund, Roger E (1982). Building the church. Madras, India: Evangelical Literature Service. OCLC14697911.
Hedlund, Roger E. (1985). Mission to Man in the Bible. Evangelical Literature Service. OCLC14174448.
Hedlund, Roger E. (1992). Evangelization and Church Growth: Issues from the Asian Context. C.G.R.C. McGavran Institute, India. OCLC1203446266.
Hedlund, Roger E. (1997). God and the Nations: A Biblical Theology of Mission in the Asian Context. ISPCK. ISBN978-81-7214-396-1.
Hedlund, Roger E (2003). The mission of the church in the world: a biblical theology. Eugene, Or.: Wipf and Stock Publishers. OCLC54070487.[6]
Hedlund, Roger E. (2000). Quest for Identity: India's Churches of Indigenous Origin: the "Little Tradition" in Indian Christianity. ISPCK. ISBN978-81-7214-525-5.
Hedlund, Roger E (2002). Roots of the great debate in mission: mission in historical and theological perspective : revised and enlarged. Bangalore, India: Theological Book Trust. ISBN978-81-7475-008-2. OCLC808564613.
^Hedlund, Roger E (2003). William Carey's American connections: implications for the Serampore mission, indigenous Christianity and India's renaissance. OCLC856826760.
^Roger E. Hedlund, Response to Persecution and Suffering in the History of Christian Mission in Mark T. B. Laing (Edited), Persecution and Suffering: Christian Reflections and Responses, published for the Centre for Mission Studies, Union Biblical Seminary, Pune by the ISPCK, New Delhi, 2007.
^O'Connor, Dan (December 2013). "Review: Roger E. Hedlund (Chief Editor). 2012. The Oxford Encyclopedia of South Asian Christianity". Studies in World Christianity. 19 (3): 286–287. doi:10.3366/swc.2013.0063. ISSN1354-9901.