Doctoral Colloquium ‘Building Bridges: Past and Present’
Location : ETF Leuven
Language : English
ETF’s annual doctoral week is an essential part of our PhD program. Students meet their fellow students and professors, prepare for exams and present their research. ETF professors and internationally recognized visiting scholars give public lectures and public defenses of dissertations take place.
You are welcome to attend one or more sessions of the public program (see schedule below).
Register your attendance via until August 27, 2018. Please indicate which sessions you plan to attend. There is the possibility to join us for the meals before or after the sessions. The sessions are free of charge; however we do charge for the meals: €13,5 for lunch (at 13:00) and €30,5 for dinner (at 18:30). Please register for meals via no later than August 22, 2018.
Morning devotions from 8:15 – 8:45 will be led by Dr. Athanasios Despotis and are open to the public.
| Monday 3 September | |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Faculty Lectures (parallel sessions)
The Pastor as Entrepreneur? An Investigation of the Use and Value of “Entrepreneur” as Metaphor for Pastoral Leadership Criteria for True and False Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible |
| Tuesday 4 September | |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Faculty Lectures (parallel sessions)
Doing Justice to Justification: Bridge-building Attempts between Catholics and Protestants during the Reformation Christian Theology and the Capabilities Approach to Development: Reconsidering Bonhoeffer and Nussbaum Defining Nominal Christianity and Mapping the Field: Elements of the Lausanne Global Consultation on Nominalism in Rome, 10-14 March 2018 |
| 14:30 – 16:15 | Promotion: Clemens Wassermann (NT)
Presentation & Defense of Dissertation: Das vierte Evangelium aus Sicht der semitischen Sprachen. Ein linguistischer Beitrag zur Klärung der johanneischen Frage |
| 16:15 – 17:00 | Reception |
| 19:30 – 20:30 | Inaugural Lecture by Prof. Dr. Jacobus (Kobus) Kok (NT) Drawing and Transcending Boundaries in the New Testament and Early Christianity |
| 20:30 – 21:30 | Reception |
| Wednesday 5 September | |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Faculty Lectures (parallel sessions)
God’s People in Recent Western and Classical theology: Supersessionism and Its Rejection Evaluated A Bridge Too Far: Have Evangelical Versions Respected or Reformed the Hebrew Bible? |
| Thursday 6 September | |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Faculty Lectures (parallel sessions)
I Alone Am Left: The Elijah Motif and the Remnant in Luke-Acts The Ancient Near Eastern Context of the Old Testament and the Globalization of Christianity |
| 14:30 – 16:15 | Promotion: Hans Ulrich Reifler (RM)
Presentation & Defense of Dissertation: Zur Missiologie Fredrik Fransons (1852–1908): Eschatologie, Missionsmethodik und Transnationale Vernetzung |
| 16:15 – 17:15 | Reception |
| 19:30 – 20:30 | Evening Honoring Prof. Dr. Patrick Nullens as Outgoing Rector of ETF Leuven
Theme: Deeply Rooted, Widely Branched |
| 20:30 – 21:30 | Reception |
| Friday 7 September | |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Faculty Lectures (parallel sessions)
‘We all share the same values, right?’ How the Belgian State Seeks to Inject Liberal-Secular Values into Minority Religions’ Communities of Faith The Council of Dort, 1618 – 2018, and the Future |
