Baptists and the Spirit: Conference and CFP
Call for Papers
Baptists and the Spirit: Living
Into God’s Future
June 20th,
2013
Overland Park, Kansas
American
Baptist Churches, USA will celebrate their 2013 Biennial meeting in Overland
Park, Kansas. In an effort to foster ongoing, vigorous theological
conversations among American Baptist theologians, pastor-theologians, and
theological educators throughout the denomination, the Office of the General
Secretary of ABCUSA and the Emerging Theologians Task Force will host the
second pre-biennial conference around the theme Baptists and the Spirit: Living
into God’s Future. The gathering
will be held at Central Baptist Seminary, an ABC-related seminary, on Thursday,
June 20th, 2013. We welcome paper proposals that address the
conference’s central theme. We invite presenters to also reflect upon the
denomination-wide initiative Transformed
by the Spirit (http://www.abc-usa.org/TransformedbytheSpirit.aspx).
Papers may explore (American) Baptist
notions of pneumatology and eschatology as they relate to questions of economic
justice, worship, leadership, ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue,
missional/global engagements, Baptist history and identity-shaping, beloved
community, and post-colonialism in American Baptist contexts. Papers should be limited to 20 minutes and
can be co-authored. Additionally, the
Office of the General Secretary announces its second competition for an ABCUSA Theology Fellow. Eligible candidates include students in PhD
programs in religion and/or theological studies (including biblical studies,
church history, Christian ethics, and practical theology) who are interested in
making contributions to the life of the American Baptist Churches, USA.
Recipients of the fellowship will be awarded a bursary that will cover expenses
for attendance to the pre-Biennial event in Overland Park, Kansas.
Submit paper proposals before January 31, 2013 to the
attention of:
Dr. Donald Brash - dbrash@eastern.edu
For information on the ABCUSA
Theology Fellow application, please contact:
Dr. Jennifer Davidson –
jdavidson@absw.edu
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