Andrew Walls
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Andrew Walls OBE |
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| Born | 1928 (age 88–89) New Milton, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Scholar of missions and religious studies |
| Known for | History of the African church and a pioneer in the academic field of world Christianity |
| Spouse(s) | Doreen, Ingrid (nee Reneau) |
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| Discipline | Missiology, religious studies |
| Institutions | Fourah Bay College, University of Edinburgh, Liverpool Hope University |
 Life and revelations in Sierra Leone (2013)
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What is World Christianity? (2016)
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Andrew Finlay Walls OBE (born 1928) is a British historian of missions, best known for his pioneering studies of the history of the African church and a pioneer in the academic field of world Christianity.
In 2012, he married Ingrid Reneau, a Research Fellow with the Presbyterian Mission Agency.
Walls was born in 1928 in New Milton, England. He taught at Fourah Bay College, Sierra Leone (1957–62) and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (1962–65). He was later appointed to a post in ecclesiastical history in the University of Aberdeen in 1966, before being the first head of the Department of Religious Studies in the University of Aberdeen (1970). He would subsequently move to the University of Edinburgh in 1986. He is currently Professor of the History of Mission at Liverpool Hope University, Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh, Research Professor at Africa International University's Center for World Christianity, and Professor Emeritus at the Akrofi-Christaller Institute of Theology, Mission and Culture.
Walls established the Journal of Religion in Africa in 1967 and Studies in World Christianity in 1995. He also founded the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, first at the University of Aberdeen in 1982, before moving it to the University of Edinburgh in 1987, a year after he moved to Edinburgh.
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