Profesijná charakteristika

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2022- Assistent professor PF UMB Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.

 

2015-     Professor of Missiology, Evangelical Theological Seminary, Osijek, Croatia and Head of the Osijek Institute for Mission Studies.

 

2015-     Adjunct Faculty, Bakke Graduate University, Dallas, TX, USA.

 

2014-2019    Co-Supervisor in PhD program of Evangelical Theological Faculty, Leuven, Belgium.

 

2010-     Associate Professor of Missiology, Baptist Theological Academy, Budapest, Hungary.

 

2003-2014     Professor of Missiology, External Supervisor of MTh in Missiology of University of South Africa, Department Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology.

 

1993-     Mission co-worker with Reformed Mission League (GZB), Driebergen, The Netherlands, seconded since 2015 as Professor of Missiology to the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Osijek, Croatia.

 

2009-             External Supervisor of PhD program of Theological Faculty of Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary.

 

2014-2015    Visiting Professor of Missiology, Protestant Theological Faculty of the Charles University, Prague.

 

2006-2012    Professor of Missiology, Founding Director of Central and Eastern European Institute for Mission Studies (CIMS), Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary (KRE), Budapest, Hungary.

 

2006-2012    Core member of PhD Council of the Theological Faculty of Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary (KRE), Budapest, Hungary.

 

2006-2008     President of the local organizer committee and co-organizer with IAMS and Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary of XIIth quadrennial conference of the International Association for Mission Studies (IAMS) on Human Identity and the Gospel of Reconciliation. Agenda for Mission Studies and Praxis in the 21st Century. Balatonfüred, Hungary, August 16–23rd 2008.

 

2003-2007    Program Coordinator of Structured MTh in Missiology of University of South Africa (UNISA) in cooperation with the Protestant Institute for Mission Studies.

 

1998-2009    External Supervisor, PhD Program, Utrecht University, Faculty of Theology.

 

1998-2007    Professor of Missiology and Head of Department Practical Theology and Missiology (since 2001 Department of Missiology), Reformed Theological Academy, Pápa, Hungary.

 

1995-2005    Director at Protestant Institute for Mission Studies (PMTI), Budapest, Hungary.

 

1989-1998    Facilitator and mentor of International Theological Students Conferences for Central and Eastern Europe, in cooperation with MEKDSz (Hungarian Fellowship of Evangelical Students), Budapest, Hungary.

 

1987-1992     PhD research work at the Reformed Theological Academy, Budapest, Hungary.

 

1986-1992    Associate staff member International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) for Hungary and Central and Eastern Europe, Budapest, Hungary.

 

1984-1986    Teacher and coordinator of field placements, Reformed Bible School (RBS), Zeist, The Netherlands.

 

1984-1985    Pastoral worker and teacher of religious education, Reformed Congregation, Oud-Loosdrecht, The Netherlands. 

 

2013-             Non-residential Visiting scholar of Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies of Utrecht University  

2008               Károli Memorial Award, Károli Gáspár University in the Reformed Church in Hungary, September 2008.

2007               Visiting Scholar, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ, USA, February-May 2007.

2000               Research Fellow, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT, USA, September- December 2000.

2000               Senior Scholar in residence, Overseas Ministries Study Center, New Haven, CT, USA, September-December 2000.

1997               Research Fellow, Summer Tutorial Program, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, USA, June-July 1997.

Research Experience:

PhD Supervision

1. Sipos, Ete Álmos: 'Bittet Den Herrn Der Ernte'. Gyula Forgács (1879–1941), Pionier Der Ungarischen Reformierten Inneren Mission. Vol. 41., Mission series. Zoetermeer: Boekencentrum, Co-Supervisor at Utrecht University. Defense: June 2007.
2. Gonda, László: The Service of Evangelism, the Evangelism of Service. The Influence of John R. Mott, Hendrik Kraemer, Willem A. Visser 't Hooft and Johannes C. Hoekendijk on the Development of the Understanding of Mission in the Reformed Church in Hungary. Vol. 46., Mission series. Zoetermeer: Boekencentrum, 2008. Co-Supervisor at Utrecht University. Defense: December 2008.
3. Nagy, Dorottya: Migration and Theology. The Case of Chinese Christian Communities in Hungary and Romania in the Globalization-Context. Vol. 47., Mission series. Zoetermeer: Boekencentrum, 2009 – Co-Supervisor at Utrecht University. Defense: December 2008.
4. Robertson, Glen Randy: The Roma People and Selected Churches in Post-Communist Slovakia: An Historical Description and Analysis of Their Relation. Vol. 49., Mission series. Zoetermeer: Boekencentrum, 2009 – Co-Supervisor at Utrecht University. Defense: March 2009.
5. Park Sungkon, "Missionary encounters between the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonhap) and the churches in the Czech Republic and Slovakia”. KRE-HTK PhD program, external PhD student. Defense: May 2017.
6. Labreche, Pamela Nationals as Stakeholders: An Investigation of the Contribution of Nationals to Missionary Performance Evaluation, with Special Reference to North American Missionaries in Romania, Evangelical Theological Faculty, Leuven, Belgium, PhD student, Co-supervisor. Defense: September 2019.
7. Tóth, Krisztina Transition without real transformation in Hungary: What aspects influence ethical decisions of Christian leaders in the Marketplace? (Doctor of Transformational Leadership project at Bakke Graduate University)

Habilitation supervision

1. Penner, Peter F.,  Missionale Hermeneutik. Biblische Texte kontextuel und relevant lesen. KRE-HTK habilitation program. Defense: February 2012.

 

Research projects and conferences (only most recent):

 

2018               Coordinator of Program Committee of Conference on Conversations in Theological Education, Church and Mission in Balkan Contexts: Trends, Challenges and Needs, 10-12 April 2018, Osijek, HR, organized to explore establishing of research project mapping the trends, challenges and needs of theological education in the Balkan contexts.

 

2017               Coordinator of Program Committee of Conference on Theological and Missiological Reflections on Christianity among the Roma, November 28-December 1, 2017, Osijek, HR, organized as kicking off of research project with same name.

 

2017               Coordinator of Program Committee of Brainstorming meeting on Developing Urban Transformational Leadership Programs in Central and Eastern Europe, July 11, 2017, Osijek, HR, organized as kicking off of research project with same name.

 

2016-             Project leader of Academic Mission Resource Project: CEEAMSprints (http://osims.org/digital-resource-center/the-academic-mission-resource-development-project/).

 

International lectures and lectureships:

 

2018               “Missionaire vorming en onderwijs op de schop? Een zoektocht naar nieuwe wegen in Oost-Europa” [Missionary formation and education turned upside down? A search for new avenues in Eastern Europe], 6th Hendrik Kraemer public lecture, 8 June 2018, Protestant Theological University, Amsterdam.

 

2017               “A disremembered re-vive-all revisited. Revival-related concepts in CTC and TTL in relation to the ministry of James A. and Ruth Stewart Fajfr (1930-1949) in Eastern Europe.” A review. Paper presented at the Central and Eastern European Association for Mission Studies Conference, CEEAMS Annual Conference: Love, Live and Delight. Conversations in Central and Eastern Europe on present day documents and commitments on mission, Osijek, 13-17 Febr. 2017.

 

2016               “Confronting the Status Quo in Mission”. Plenary Bible study on Jonah 3 at the World Evangelical Alliance Mission Commission Global Mission Consultation in Panama: Polycentric Mission: from all nations to all nations, 3-7 October. 

 

2016               Mission and Money seminar II. European Roma Networks Conference: Building the Kingdom Together. 21-24 September, Békés, Hungary.

 

2015               Re-visiting mission in Europe through contemporary image-formation: a missiological manifesto for the 21st century, Lecture on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary Celebration SWM/SIS and 2015 Missiology Lectures, Fuller Theological Seminary. October 23, 2015.

 

                        Understanding Roma History and Culture, Keynote lecture at the II. International Mission Consultation to the Roma: “Roma for the Nations” in Budapest, 27 Sept. – 2 October 2015.

 

                        Bridging the gap between mission theory and mission practice in mission in Central and Eastern Europe. Paper presented at the Central and Eastern European Association for Mission Studies Conference Beyond the Iron Curtain: Being Church in Central and Eastern Europe twenty-five years after the political changes, 10-13 February 2015, TCM, Heiligenkreuz (2532), Austria.

 

2014               Response to lecture on “Spiritual Transformation”, at second Lausanne Orthodox Initiative Consultation in Durres, Albania, 15-19 September 2014

“Eastern European Church’s Response to Roma People from Historical and Missiological Perspectives”, Keynote lecture at the International Mission Consultation to the Roma: “Roma for the Nations” in Budapest, 29 Sept. – 3 October 2014.

“Grenzenlos berufen - Trends, Gefahren und Aufgaben in der Weltmission heute”, Lecture at the HEKO 2014 conference of the Student Mission Deutschland, Marburg, 10-12 October 2014.

"What has been achieved in 25 years of Eastern European mission?" Keynote address at European Evangelical Mission Association and Central and Eastern European Mission Forum conference “Revolutions in European mission” in Bucharest, 18-21 November 2014.

 

2013               Individual and community in transition: Exploring a relevant missiology for mission in Eastern Europe. Missiological Conference on "Evangelical Mission in the Eastern European Orthodox contexts: Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova and Ukraine", College of Theology and Education, Chisinau, Moldavia, March 22-23, 2013.

 

2012               European Churches’ Perspectives on Mission work among the Roma, Don McClure Mission Lectures at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, USA (Three lectures) September 24-25, 2012.

 

Evangelism in Theological Education and missionary formation, a Central and Eastern European perspective. Consultation on Evangelism in Theological education, WCC, Ecumenical Institute, Bossey, Switzerland, October 31, 2012.

 

2011               Conversion in a Post-socialist context: The case of Hungary. A missiological perspective. Symposium on Conversion between empirical research and theological reflection, Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität, Theologische Fakultät, Institut zur Erforschung von Evangelisation und Gemeindeentwicklung, Greifswald, Germany, February 3–6, 2011. Co-presented with Drs. László Thoma.

 

”Mission among Romani people: facts, challenges, hopes: a missiological perspective”, Study day on “Mission among Romani People: facts, challenges, hopes” , Central European Centre for Mission Studies, Prague, Czech Republic at Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia, February 22, 2011.

 

“New Media and Social Networks”, Plenary Presentation at IFES World Assembly, Krakow, Poland, July 29, 2011

 

Theological Education in Central and Eastern Europe: Trends and challenges, Guest Lecture, Department Church History, Christian Spirituality and Missiology, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa, August 05, 2011.

 

2010               “Mission practice in a multi-confessional/multi-religious context. A Hungarian perspective.”, International consultation on Christian mission in the 21st century. An Orthodox perspective, Institute of Theology of Sts. Methodius and Cyril of the Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus, February 04–07, 2010.

 

“Trends and Challenges in Urban Mission and Church Planting in Post-Communist Europe”. Dialogue session, The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization., Cape Town, South Africa, October 16–25, 2010.

 

Theological Education in Central and Eastern Europe. Major Developments and Challenges since Edinburgh 1910, Symposium on Edinburgh 2010 and the Future of Theological Education in the 21st Century in Central and Eastern Europe, Faculty of Theology of the Károli Gáspár Reformed University and the Central and Eastern European Association for Mission Studies, November 26^., 2010.

 

2009               Panel discussion "General and Theological Education", chairperson. ’Challenges for Church and Society in Post-Communist Contexts: Celebrating and Assessing 20 Years of Freedom’, Evangelical Theological Faculty, Osijek, Croatia, 29–30th October 2009

 

“Re-envisioning Theological Education and the Role of Mission in the Light of the Crisis of the Family and Its Effects on Students and Pastors” at Theological Consultation on Crisis of the Family and the Role of Mission. Theological and Practical Reflections. Protestant Church in the Netherlands, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, November 25–29, 2009.

 

2008               How to Manage Conflict. Institute for Excellence in Christian Leadership Development, International Baptist Theological Seminary, Prague, Czech Republic, February 19, 2008.

 

African Initiated Christianity: Hope for Central Europe. Colloquium on Resources and Responsibilities in African and Asian Christian Studies as part of Conference ’The Significance of African and Asian Christianity’ at the occasion of the Opening of the Andrew F. Walls Centre for the Study of African and Asian Christianity, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, United Kingdom, May 23, 2008.

 

Seven women in Mission in Central and Eastern Europe: a autobiographical narrative mosaic, XII^th quadrennial conference Human Identity and the Gospel of Reconciliation. Agenda for Mission Studies and Praxis in the 21^st Century. International Association for Mission Studies (IAMS), Balatonfüred, Hungary, August 16–23, 2008.

 

2007               Trends and Challenges in Mission and Missiology in ’Post-communist’ Europe. Annual Consultation, Central and Eastern European Association for Mission Studies, Pápa, Hungary, June 6–10, 2007.

 

Trends and Challenges in Mission and Missiology in Central and Eastern Europe, Student’s Lectureship on Mission atPrinceton Theological Seminary: 3 lectures, March 5-6, 2007.

 

Mission from Central and Eastern Europe: Challenges and Opportunities”. Consultation on Emerging Missions: Engaging with Mission – New Movements, New Models? European Evangelical Missionary Alliance, Budapest, Hungary, 15^th November 2007.

 

2006               The Quest for New Images of the Preparation of Missionaries for “the Home Base” of Edinburgh 1910. Toward Edinburgh 2010 Preparatory Conference, New College, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, 7 October 2006.

                        “The mission of the Károli”, keynote address at Faculty retreat of the Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Budapest, December 2006.

 

2005               Individual and Community in Transition. Exploring a Relevant Missiology for Hungary. PhD Research Course, Nordic Institute for Missiological and Ecumenical Research, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6–13 March 2005.

 

2004               Die EU – Osterweiterung – Eine Herausforderung Für Die Kirchen. Die Antwort Der Kirchen in Mittel- Und Osteuropa Auf Die Herausforderung Des Post-Kommunismus. Guest Lecture, Leuenberg Nord-West Gruppe, Frenswegen, Deutschland. March 4, 2004.

 

2003               Post-communist Europe: From ’Intercultural Theology’ to Missiology, PhD Research Course IIMO, Utrecht University, November 19, 2003.

 

2002               Community and Individual in Transition. Exploring a Relevant Missiology for Hungary, Consultation on mission in secularized and postmodern contexts. "Believing without belonging? In search of new paradigms of church and mission in secularized and postmodern contexts" WCC Commission on World Mission and Evangelism, Breklum, Germany, June 26 –July 2, 2002.

 

“Cross-Cultural Communication through Theological Education”, Seminar at bi-annual conference Fellowship for European Evangelical Theologians and the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance, Wölmersen, Germany, August 2002.

 

2000               The Old Heartlands in a New Millennium: The Church in Eastern Europe, Mission Research Colloquium, OMSC, New Haven, USA, October 2000.

A Protestant Perspective on Mission in Eastern and Central Europe, Fall meeting, American Society for Missiology, Maryknoll, NY, USA, November 3-4, 2000.

 

“Mission in Central and Eastern Europe. Exploring a Biblical Model for the 21^st Century”, OMSC New Haven, Weekly course.

 

1999                Introduction to Missiology, MA Course, Biblical Theological Seminary, Wroclaw, Poland.

 

1997               Babos Sándor és Lőrincz Mária külmissziói szolgálata az erdélyi református egyházi élet fényében [The foreign mission ministry of Sándor Babos and Mária Lőrincz in the light of the Reformed Church life in Transylvania], Guest lecture, Protestant Theological Institute, Kolozsvár (Cluj), Transylvania, Romania.   

 

1995               The Hungarian Protestant Mission Movement as a Factor in the Revival of the Mainline Protestant Churches in the Middle of the XX. Century, International Conference on Christian Missions in the XVIII–XX Centuries, Institute for Universal History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and The Center for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, Moscow, Russia, May, 1995.

                        Trends in Christian Mission in Hungary and Other Parts of Eastern Europe, Overseas Ministries Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, Sept. 1995.

 

Paradigm Changes in the Hungarian Protestant Theology of Mission and its Effects on the Present Situation. A case study, Guest Lecture, Institute for East-West Christian Studies, Wheaton Graduate School of Theology, Wheaton College, IL, USA, September 1995.

1994               Mission Studies and Training in the Context of Post-Communist Europe, Consultation on Theological Education and Leadership Development in Post-Communist Europe, World Evangelical Alliance and Overseas Council for Theological Education and Mission, Oradea, Romania, October 5, 2004.

 

In addition to international academic lectures I annually give a substantial number of academic lectures in Hungarian theological institutions, College of Theological Doctors of Reformed Church in Hungary as well as lectures and short courses for the general public in parishes, and in mission and church related organizations in Hungary, Hungarian speaking churches in Central Europe, The Netherlands and elsewhere in Central and Eastern Europe as well as study days for Dutch-Hungarian partner churches. Examples include: IFES and IFES related movements, Lausanne Movement, the Association for Hungarian Reformed Elders, Hungarian Reformed Women Association, Hungarian Association for Church Culture, Lutheran Association for Foreign Missions, European Evangelical Mission Alliance, European Mission Congress, and Stichting Hulp Oost-Europa.