This article introduces the scholarship and administrative accomplishments of Dr. Gerald H. Anderson, longtime Director of the Overseas Ministries Study Center and Editor of the International Bulletin of Missionary Research. Based on his missionary experience in the Philippines, his voluminous writings, and his founding of major missiological organizations, Anderson was central to the reframing of mission studies in the postcolonial era of the last third of the twentieth century. Under his leadership, the Overseas Ministries Study Center (OMSC) became a hub for the emerging network of World Christianity scholarship. Unlike the rigidity of academic institutions caught in the discourse of secularization theory, the OMSC represented a creative liminal space with the flexibility to innovate. Anderson and the OMSC incubated teams of scholars and practitioners who cumulatively formulated a new approach to the study of mission and to the understanding of Christianity as a worldwide rather than Western religion.

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杰拉尔德·H·安德森与海外事工研究中心：从后殖民主义到世界基督教的“宣教趋势”

本文介绍长期担任海外事工研究中心主任、《国际传教士研究公报》编辑的杰拉尔德·H·安德森博士的学术和行政成就。安德森基于他在菲律宾的传教经历、大量著作以及他创立的主要宣教组织，他在二十世纪后三分之一的后殖民时代重新构建宣教研究方面发挥了核心作用。在他的领导下，海外事工研究中心（OMSC）成为新兴的世界基督教学术网络的中心。与世俗化理论话语中僵化的学术机构不同，OMSC 代表了一个具有创新灵活性的创造性阈限空间。安德森和 OMSC 培育了由学者和实践者组成的团队，他们逐渐形成了一种新的方法来研究宣教和理解基督教作为一种世界性宗教而不是西方宗教。