Roger E. Hedlund

Roger E. Hedlund
Born	1935 Minnesota
Nationality	English-American
Occupation	Pastor
Title	The Reverend Doctor

Roger E. Hedlund is a Pastor who has spent more than three decades in India as a theological teacher and researcher with major contribution to Missiology with special reference to Indian ethos.

Hedlund taught at the Union Biblical Seminary, both at Yeotmal and at Pune during 1974-1978 and also at the Serampore College, a constituent College of the nation's first University, the Senate of Serampore College (University) from 1994-1997.

At present he is associated with the Dharma Deepika: A South Asian Journal of Missiological Research and with the Mylapore Institute for Indigenous Studies, Chennai. Hedlund edited the Oxford Encyclopedia of South Asian Christianity.

Hedlund studied at the Upland College in 1957 and thereafter undertook theological studies at the Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary where he was awarded the graduate degree of Bachelor of Divinity (B.D.) in 1961. After serving as a missionary in Italy, Hedlund pursued postgraduate and doctoral studies at the Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena between 1970-1974.

In 2004, Hedlund pursued another doctorate at the State-run University of Madras

Roger E. Hedlund has been prominent in the theological circles in India and known in the Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and Charismatic circles serving the cause of missiological research. The papers and correspondence of Roger E. Hedlund have been preserved and made digitally available by the Asbury Theological Seminary, Kentucky.

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