Christopher Hays

  • President, Scholar Leaders

  • Formerly Professor of New Testament at the Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia in Medellín, Colombia

  • Director of the Faith and Displacement project at the Biblical Seminary of Colombia in Medellín, Colombia

Biography

He holds a DPhil in New Testament studies from the University of Oxford. Prior to joining Scholar Leaders, he was a professor at the Biblical Seminary of Colombia in Medellín, he a wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the Universität Bonn, and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow on the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford. He is author of Eight Million Exiles (Eerdmans, 2023), Renouncing Everything (Paulist, 2016), and co-author of  When the Son of Man Didn't Come (Fortress, 2016). His research interests include migration, eschatology, and Christian wealth ethics.

Academic CV

Research topics

  1. Responding to the crisis of forced displacement and the armed conflict in Colombia (where I teach theology) as part of the mission of the church and utilizing best practices from the social sciences.
     
  2. The development of Christian names for God, for the purpose of facilitating Muslim-Christian dialogue.

Contributions to GlobalFacultyInitiative.net

How Diverse Global Cultural Contexts Confound and Enrich the Cultivation of Virtues (Disciplinary Brief)
Discipline(s): Theology
Theology: Virtues

Virtues / Theology (Preview Response)
Discipline(s): Theology
Theology: Virtues

Created Order / Theology (Preview Response)
Discipline(s): Theology
Theology: Created Order

Flourishing / Theology (Preview Response)
Discipline(s): Theology
Theology: Flourishing

Justice / Theology (Preview Response)
Discipline(s): Theology
Theology: Justice