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Donald Lee Berry


Donald Lee Berry is Professor of Missiology and the Director of the Global Missions Resource Center. Berry came to the School of Divinity from the International Baptist Theological Seminary in Prague, Czech Republic where he was an Assistant Professor of Missiology and Director of the Institute for Mission and Evangelism for the European Baptist Federation. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in Social Work at the University of Kentucky, his Master of Divinity and Doctor of Philosophy degrees at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and additional studies at the University of Louisville and the University of Chicago. Berry has lectured at numerous Seminaries and Bible Schools in Europe, Middle East, and Asia. He has published two books: Pictures of Islam published by Mercer University Press (2007) and Islam and Modernity through the Writings of Islamic Modernist Fazlur Rahman (2003).  He contributed to the Festschrift for Fazlur Rahman titled The Shaping of an American Islamic Discourse edited by Earle Waugh and Frederick Denny.  He has written reviews for the Review and Expositor and Muslim World. He is currently on the Editorial Board of Perspectives in Religious Studies.  He has served as a church pastor, teacher and missionary.

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