Christopher M. Hays is a New Testament scholar and president of ScholarLeaders International, a ministry that exists to encourage and enable theological leaders from the Majority World for the Global Church. He and his wife have three children.
Now living in North Carolina, the Hays family moved back to the U.S. after Christopher served for eight years as a missional professor at the Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de Colombia in Medellín, Colombia. As an academic, his publication list includes 40 scholarly essays and six books, including Renouncing Everything (Paulist) and When the Son of Man Didn’t Come (Eerdmans). His scholarly translation work spans Latin, Greek, Spanish and German.
Christopher believes that all truth is God’s truth, and that Christian scholarship exists in service of the church. Thus, during his time in Colombia, he was the creator and director of Fe y DesplazamientoI. This project fuses Christian theology with social-scientific research in order to develop curricula to mobilize Colombian Christian churches to foster the holistic recovery of victims of Colombia’s violent conflict.
Prior to becoming a missionary in Latin America, Christopher worked as a wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter a the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn and as a British Academy Postdoctoral University Fellow at the University of Oxford. He holds degrees in ancient languages, biblical exegesis, theological studies and New Testament studies, including one bachelor’s degree and two master’s degrees from Wheaton College and a doctorate degree in philosophy from the University of Oxford.
Christopher joined the Cook Media Global board of trustees in June 2022.