We are in our season of transitions. The Library has already removed from Jenerálka to Postjesweg in Amsterdam and David, Zdenko and Vladko are working hard on assembling it ready for the Academic Year 2014-2015. Meanwhile on the Jenerálka campus the academic year 2013-2014 has to be put to bed. So yesterday (Monday 23 June) the Exam board dealing with Master of Theology degrees from the University of Wales met to review progress of the final batch of MTh students and to pass results on for verification at the University Exam Board meeting in Cardiff in the first part of July. We were delighted to have our Moderator, Dr Helen…
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A historic moment
We have just concluded our last University of Wales Exam Board for the Taught Degrees – here’s the Board itself celebrating this historic moment! A huge thank you to all who contributed to the success of our UW MTh and PGCTh programmes – so many faces and names, both of the teaching staff and the students, are going through my mind right now… – Lina
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The Woman I Am
It is a great joy that Melody Maxwell, who did her PhD at IBTS and is much loved in our community, has now had her revised thesis published, under the title The Woman I Am. This is a splendid book which analyzes the traditional, progressive, and potential roles female Southern Baptist writers and editors portrayed for Southern Baptist women from 1906 to 2006, particularly in the area of missions. Melody is Assistant Professor of Christian Studies at Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas. She previously served with East Texas Baptist University and Woman’s Missionary Union. Batty A. DeBerg, an influential writer on gender and American fundamentalism, commends Melody’s ‘deft reading,…
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Ruth Through CATS Eyes
A piece written by our dear friend, Alec Gilmore, who has lectured several generations of ‘CATs’ – our Certificate in Applied Theology students. Here he is reflecting on one of the assignments the CATs have worked on together. Enjoy! An experiment in using music to add a new dimension to biblical interpretation. Music as Midrash Helen Leneman, an independent scholar and cantor, in a paper entitled ‘Music and Librettos as Midrash: a New Methodology’[i], develops the idea of music as midrash, with particular reference to the Book of Ruth, inviting scholars to address the sort of questions rarely addressed by biblical scholars and preachers but which have to be tackled…
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Alumni news
An exciting piece of news about our alumna, Revd Amy Butler, who is a search committee’s candidate to be the next senior minister at Riverside Church in New York City, one of the most prominent congregations in the US – click here for more. Thanks to Curtis Freeman and Nancy Lively for sending us the news!
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Coming for a Farewell
Dear friends of IBTS, Our times at the beautiful Prague campus are inevitably coming to the end. To say farewell, we will be once again holding our traditional Graduation Service. This will take place on Friday 30th May, and we would like to invite you – our students, alumni, faculty members, staff, volunteers, supporters, friends … – to take part! It will be the last occasion to celebrate another successful year and the academic achievements of our students here in Prague, and it would be lovely to have as many of IBTS friends present as possible. Do come to be part of this last festive gathering, to meet your friends,…
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A Faithful Servant of God Gone Home
As some of you may have already heard, a dear friend of IBTS, Prof Dr Glen Stassen has died over the weekend. We have been lifting him and his whole family in prayers in our IBTS morning circle almost daily over these last few weeks and months, but now that the news that he is no longer with us has hit, the pain of the loss is sharply present. We mourn our dear friend, even as we give God thanks for his amazing life. A tribute from Glen’s former student and then colleague and co-author, David Gushee, can be found here. On the IBTS Facebook page, people are expressing their…
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From IBTS to Scotland
I am pleased to announce on the behalf of the academic leadership of IBTS that our dear colleague and Pro-Rector/Academic Dean Dr Lina Andronoviene has accepted the appointment of Lecturer in Practical Theology in the Scottish Baptist College. We are delighted for the new opportunities opening up for Lina, but at the same time we regret that we are losing such a capable colleague from the full-time IBTS team. Lina first joined IBTS as a student in 2001 and then worked with us as a colleague in different capacities from 2003. Her holistic contribution to IBTS has enriched the academic and spiritual life of the community. We anticipate that Lina…