IBTSC will host a Conference on ‘Conflicting Convictions’ on Tuesday 3rd and Wednesday 4th of November 2015 in Baptist House, Amsterdam. This conference will explore disagreements among Christians on ‘matters that matter’ and responses to such.
Already a number of people have offered papers on topics of conflict indeed perhaps encouraging some debate on a number of contested issues.
We are also continuing to look for papers that will explore conflict among people who claim to hold to the same Christian ‘tradition’: its nature, causes, risks, opportunities and how such can be responded to and dealt with. Papers can be offered from a range of perspectives, biblical, theological, historical, practical. There is the opportunity following conference review to be published in our Journal, Baptistic Theologies.
We invite contributions from not only from more experienced writers and scholars but also from aspiring and developing scholars. For those who may wish to offer more provisional and developing work there is an opportunity for publication in the Journal of European Baptist Studies which as well as containing the work of more established writers was created to help young and new scholars publish in an English language European Journal.
To offer or to discuss the possibility of a paper please contact, Stuart Blythe, blythe@ibts.eu.
There is no charge to attend the conference although there will be a small fee to cover lunch provision and participants are responsible for their own travel, food, and accommodation.
At present, we have no bursaries to help people come but if you would be willing to contribute towards another person being able to come please be in touch.
The Conference will follow the delivery of the Nordenhaug lectures on Monday 2nd November 2015. These will be delivered by Dr David P. Gushee who is the Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics, Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Life at Mercer University, Atlanta & Macon, Georgia. He will deliver three lectures on ‘What it means to say that human life is sacred?’. 
Dr David P. Gushee who is the Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics, Director of the Center for Theology and Public Life Mercer University, Atlanta & Macon, Georgia.
Widely regarded as one of the leading moral voices in American Christianity, he is the author or editor of 20 books and hundreds of articles in his field, including Righteous Gentiles of the Holocaust, Kingdom Ethics, The Sacredness of Human Life. He will deliver three lectures on the Monday on the theme of ‘What it means to say that human life is sacred’.
