Gerald H. Anderson Papers

Gerald H. Anderson was born in 1930. He was a Methodist missionary in the Philippines from 1960 to 1970, serving as professor of church history and ecumenics as well as the academic dean of Union Theological Seminary in Manila. Upon returning to the United States, he was elected president of Scarritt College in Nashville and was also professor of world Christianity there. From 1973 to 1974, Anderson was a senior research associate in the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University. In 1974 he was appointed as Associate Director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center and in 1976 became Executive Director of OMSC and editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research. Anderson was a founder and president of the American Society of Missiology and a participant in many ecumenical groups such as the International Missionary Council, World Council of Churches Commission on World Mission and Evangelism, Lausanne Committee Task Force on Jewish Evangelism, and the Kennedy Institute Jewish-Christian-Muslim Trialogue. Among his many published works, Anderson was co-editor with Stephen Neill and John Goodwin of the Concise Dictionary of the Christian World Mission, co-editor and author (with Thomas Stransky) of the series Mission Trends, co-editor of Mission Legacies, editor of Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions, and author of Witness to World Christianity : the International Association for Mission Studies, 1972-2012. For more detailed biographical information, see Series IV, Personal Items and Memorabilia, Biographical Documentation.