Siga Arles (12 November 1950 – 5 June 2015) was an Indian

missiologist Missiology is the academic study of the Christian mission history and methodology. It began to be developed as an academic discipline in the 19th century. Definition Broadly speaking, missiology is "an interdisciplinary field of inquiry into Ch ...

and founder of the Centre for Contemporary Christianity (Bangalore, India).

Biography

Arles completed his BSc from

University of Mysore The University of Mysore is a public state university in Mysore, Karnataka, India. The university was founded during the reign of Maharaja Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV and the premiership of Sir M. Visvesvaraya. The university is recognised by t ...

, followed by an M.Div. and an MAR from

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. In 1990, he completed a Ph.D. at the

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at the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, where he co-studied with G. D. V. Prasad, then pursuing doctoral studies in the same university in the discipline of

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. In his academic career, he served as the vice-principal and head of the department of theology at North India Institute of Post Graduate Theological Studies, as theological secretary of Evangelical Fellowship of India, as dean of Consortium for Indian Missiological Education, and as founder and director of the Centre for Contemporary Christianity. From 2002 to 2008, he also served as co-editor of '' Journal of Asian Evangelical Theology'', a journal of the

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based in Singapore. Arles died on June 5, 2015, of a heart attack.

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