Installation Service for Dean Scott Sunquist

Sunquist to be Installed as Dean of the School of Intercultural Studies :: 10/01/12

 

An installation service for Scott Sunquist, Fuller’s School of Intercultural Studies’ newest dean, will be held on Tuesday, October 2.

The hour-long service held at the First United Methodist Church in Pasadena begins at 10 a.m. and will be followed by a reception on Fuller’s Arol Burns Mall.

Sunquist, a professor of World Christianity, came to Fuller from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, where he served as the W. Don McClure chair of Mission and Evangelism for thirteen years. He assumed deanship on July 1, 2012.

"Scott Sunquist is an exceptional scholar with a vast amount of international experience," says Dr. C. Douglas McConnell, Provost of Fuller Seminary.  "We are blessed that Scott will bring his leadership skills and vision to the Fuller community." 

In an interview for the school’s website, Sunquist said his vision is to keep the School of Intercultural Studies relevant in a changing world and to foster its innovation in mission work.

“I want to support and encourage our faculty who continue to challenge us with their interests and their level of scholarship. We will be doing some serious thinking about what it means today to be prepared scholastically, as well as spiritually and emotionally, for mission work.”

The entire campus will be closed during the installation service so all Fuller employees and students can attend. The installation address is titled “Christian Existence: Mission as Participation in Christ.”

Sunquist will also be a panelist in an afternoon discussion called “The Place of Missiology and Cultural Studies in the Theological Curriculum.” The discussion will be held in the chapel of First United Methodist Church at 3:00 p.m.