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Further PhD success in Amsterdam and Ukraine

November 6th, 2018

On Monday 5th November Grant Porter successfully defended his PhD thesis on Church Planting Practices among Muslim and Druze Communities in the Near East. Grant is the fourth IBTS Centre researcher to graduate in 2018 bringing the total of successful candidates to eleven since our relationship with the Vrije Universiteit was established and we relocated to the Netherlands in 2014.  Grant is pictured below with family members following his defense.

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International Conference 2018

Evangelicals and Oppression: Eastern European Perspectives

18-20 April 2018

A joint IBTSC Amsterdam and EBF Theology and Education Commission conference

Held at the Baptist House, Postjesweg 150, 1061 AX Amsterdam

 

The conference explored the topic 'Evangelicals and Oppression' in a wide-ranging way and from different angles: oppression that Eastern European Evangelicals have met in their history; elements of oppression that Evangelicals have created themselves in relation to other groups or within their own church life; conflict and community; religious freedom and political pressures; Biblical interpretation and persecution in Evangelical life; spiritual practices in times of persecution and oppression; reception of and reactions to oppression and tensions; practices of forgiveness in historical perspective.

Conference papers will be published in a 2018 issue of the IBTSC Amsterdam journal Baptistic Theologies.

For further information on the conference contact info@ibts.eu