Victor Ezigbo

Professor of Global Christianity and Intercultural Ministry

Rev. Dr. Victor I. Ezigbo is the College’s first Professor of Global Christianity and Intercultural Ministry, a post he will take up on January 1, 2025.

Dr. Ezigbo comes to Wycliffe from Bethel University in St Paul, Minnesota, where he has been Professor of Theology since 2008. After receiving his BA from ECWA Theological Seminary in Igbaja, Nigeria, he studied at Wheaton College and received his MA in 2002. In 2005, he obtained an MTh at the University of Edinburgh, and was awarded a PhD from there in 2008. In 2014, he was Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, and in 2022, he was Visiting Research Fellow at Yale Divinity School.

He is the author of Re-imagining African Christologies: Conversing with the Interpretations and Appropriations of Jesus Christ in Contemporary African Christianity (2010); Introducing Christian Theologies: Voices from Global Christian Communities (two volumes, 2013 and 2015); and The Art of Contextual Theology: Doing Theology in the Era of World Christianity (2021). His book, Christology and the Enactment of Jesus Christ’s Presence, is expected to be published next year by Cambridge University Press.

His wife is a nurse and they have two children.

Re-imagining African Christologies: Conversing with the Interpretations and Appropriations of Jesus Christ in Contemporary African Christianity (2010)

Introducing Christian Theologies: Voices from Global Christian Communities (two volumes, 2013 and 2015)

The Art of Contextual Theology: Doing Theology in the Era of World Christianity (2021)

Christology and the Enactment of Jesus Christ’s Presence, is expected to be published in 2025 by Cambridge University Press