Steven Paas

Steven Paas (1942) is a theologian (church history, missiology). He worked in successively the Netherlands and Malawi. In his early years he served as a commissioned officer in the Dutch army. Subsequently, he was a journalist, a secondary school teacher, a seminary lecturer and a pastor. In 1965 he graduated at the Royal Military Academy in Breda, and in 1966 at the Russian language department of the School for Military Intelligence in Harderwijk. He qualified for the teaching of English and Religious Education through various teacher training colleges. Paas graduated from the University of Amsterdam (MTh) and in 1996 from the Theological University of Apeldoorn (PhD -Theology). He was trained at the Hendrik Kraemer Institute for missionary work in Africa. During his Malawi period (1997-2007) Paas taught future ministers at Zomba Theological College and was ordained as a minister of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian. He mainly published in the fields of: His wife Rita and he live in the Netherlands. They have 5 children and 15 grandchildren.

His present fields of research are:

(1) Western and African Church History and Mission.

(2) Views of 'Israel and the Church' in comparison to the christocentric interpretation of prophecies in God’s revealed plan of salvation.

(3) Lexicography of Chichewa, the most prominent vernacular language of Central Africa (see: www.chichewadictionary.org and http://translate.chichewadictionary.org).

Latest books:

-Challenging Western Christians and Their Neighbours: Be Participants in the Mission of Jesus, At Home and Abroad, Eugene, Oregon (USA): Wipf & Stock, May 2020.

-Christian Zionism Examined: A Review of Ideas on Israel, the Church, and the Kingdom, Second Edition, Eugene, Oregon: Wipf & Stock, 2020 [ISBN 978-1-7252-5454-1].

-Johannes Rebmann: A Servant of God in Africa Before the Rise of Western Colonialism. Second edition, Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft (VKW) in Bonn and by Wipf & Stock, in Eugene, Oregon, USA, May 2018.

-Israelism and the Place of Christ: Christocentric Interpretation of Biblical Prophecy, LIT Verlag, Berlin, Munster, Vienna, Zurich, London, January 2018.

-Luther on Jews and Judaism: A Review of his 'Judenschriften', Zürich: LIT Verlag, 2017.

-Christianity in Eurafrica: A History of the Church in Europe and Africa, Washington DC: New Academia Publishing (NAP), February 2017; Wellington (South Africa): Christian Literature Fund (CLF), March 2016.

-Oxford Chichewa-English and English-Chichewa Dictionary, fifth edition, Cape Town, 2016