ABSTRACT
Andrew Kirk is primarily known as a first class mission theologian and educational practitioner with a wide-ranging international experience. He has served as an adviser to numerous pioneers of theological institutions in various contexts, including several post-communist nations. Andrew’s concern for the contextual relevance of the Christian faith and his ability to ask critical questions about integration of theory and praxis have helped many to define their mission with greater clarity and more effective transformative engagement. Several of my colleagues in Eastern Europe tell me they benefited immensely from Andrew’s perceptive analysis of their particular situations and found him most helpful in his self-effacing though persistent critical questioning of their inherited established patterns and unexamined assumptions in their captivity to western theology and practice.
