We are pleased to announce the publication of this book. Dr. Rupen Das is employed as a part-time member of the IBTSC Amsterdam Faculty. This has become possible through a secondment from Canadian Baptist Ministries. In this role Rupen who has relocated with his wife to Amsterdam will work primarily in the area of missiology in relation to our MA programme. This role also allows him to participate in teaching and research activities related to partnership activities with the European Baptist Federation. We are deeply grateful to CBM for this gift and look forward to developing our partnership with them.
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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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IBTS Book Club: The Sparrow
In case you’ve missed it, IBTS now has a book club! The next book you’re all invited to read is Mary Doria Russel’s The Sparrow, followed by Anne Rice’s novel Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt.
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Russian Baptists and Orthodoxy
The doctoral dissertation of one of our alumni, Constantine Prokhorov, is now in print!
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A Dislocated Book Club!..
This idea was born at the doctoral colloquium (which also included a student-led conference on Migration and Dislocation, hence the title) – and here’s Rosa’s first suggestion for the Book Club. We’ll figure out how we technically conduct the discussion, but for now, read the blog – and then the first suggested book!.. Hello and welcome to the IBTS dislocated book club. This grew out of a discussion following worship at the recent IBTS research colloquium in Amsterdam – some of us were excited about the possibility of having a forum where we could share our thoughts about good books to read and offer our feedback. This book club has…
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As requested…
…by one of our readers, here’s the contents page of our special issue of Baptistic Theologies: Parush Parushev, Lina Andronoviene, Tim Noble, Editorial Ernie Whalley, ‘Life in Christian Service’ Ian Randall, ‘A Believing Church: Baptist Perspectives on Anabaptism’ Parush Parushev, ‘Gathered, Gathering, Porous: Reflections on the Nature of Baptistic Community’ Ruth Gouldbourne, ‘Not Just a Disembodied Voice: Towards an Understanding of Preaching as an Embodied Practice’ Ivana Noble, ‘Various Christian Traditions in One Ecclesial Body’ John Briggs, ‘Baptists and Ecumenical Engagement’ Anne Wilkinson-Hayes, ‘Teaching Penguins to Fly: Baptistic Leadership into the Future’ Lina Andronoviene, ‘Leadership as a Virtuous Practice: Reflections on Women and Stained-Glass Ceilings’ David Goodbourn, ‘Adult Christian Education:…
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Two books on Baptists around the world
Are global Baptist overviews like big red London buses ? You wait for ages, then two come along at the same time? David Bebbington has placed us all in his debt by producing his Baptists Through the Centuries: A History of a Global People, based on material delivered at Baylor University, which seeks to track the story of the world community of Baptists from the early 1600’s until today. Robert E Johnson, on the staff at Central Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas has equally sought to provide an overview A Global Introduction to Baptist Churches within the same time frame and a similar intention to Bebbington. The authoritative work by…
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Leadership's Legacy
I’ve enjoyed flipping through a recent book of Ruth A Tucker on Leadership Reconsidered. Offering quick reviews of the most fashionable leadership theories out there, she turns her attention to the idea of legacy as a more useful term to consider. The book is somewhat bitty but an easy and enjoyable read. I wish its cover would actually have a picture Tucker mentions in the book – James Ensor’s Christ’s Entry Into Brussels (1888). Ensor’s piece has quite a lot to say both about the topic of leadership and the world around us (which it would seem hasn’t changed much since Ensor’s time). Here it is – hope you will enjoy…