Allen L. Yeh

Allen Yeh is a missiologist who specializes in Latin America and China. He also has other academic interests in history, classical music, homiletics, social justice, and Jonathan Edwards. He earned his B.A. from Yale, M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell, M.Th. from Edinburgh, and D.Phil. from Oxford. Despite this alphabet soup, he believes that experience is the greatest teacher of all (besides the Bible). As such, Allen has been to nearly 50 countries in every continent, to study, do missions work, and experience the culture. As Mark Twain said in 1857, "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."

Affiliations

• American Academy of Religion (AAR) since 2003
• Latin American Theological Fraternity (Fraternidad Teologia Latinoamericana, or FTL) since 2006
• Evangelical Homiletics Society (EHS) since 2006
• American Society of Church History (ASCH) since 2007
• Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) since 2007

Publications

Articles

• “Towards a Fuller Definition of Evangelicalism” in The Other Journal (http://theotherjournal.com/), Nov 2006
• “The Future of the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America” in Opina journal (http://opina.nl/), Feb 2006
• “Faith and Politics: Unlikely Bedfellows or Necessary Partners?” in Opina journal (http://opina.nl/), Feb 2006
• “Mission from the Periphery: The Theology of Orlando Costas and INFEMIT” in Mission and the Next Christendom (BIAMS Vol. 4), ed. Timothy Yates (Sheffield, UK: Cliff College Publishing, 2005
• “A Multiethnic and Prophetic Heritage in the American Baptist Churches, USA: Orlando E. Costas and Jitsuo Morikawa” in The American Baptist Quarterly (Vol. 25, No. 4, Winter 2006).