ASBaMT:

Amsterdam Studies in Baptist and Mennonite Theology

The Amsterdam Series in Baptist and Mennonite Theologies (ASBMT) is an academic series rooted in the Believers Church tradition (Anabaptist-related, Free Church, Peace-Church). Ecumenically engaged and international in orientation, it provides a platform for both younger and established scholars, delivering monographs, single-author and edited books. It hosts a spectrum of academic fields (Biblical Theology and Hermeneutics, Baptist and Mennonite History, Systematic Theology, Ethics / Peace and Conflict Studies, Mission and Ecclesial Practices), while at the same time holding to a focus within these fields on themes that are of particular importance to and characteristic of the Baptist and Mennonite traditions. 

The Series is supported by the Dutch Baptist Seminary, the Mennonite Seminary Amsterdam, the Amsterdam Centre for Religion and Peace & Justice Studies, and the International Baptist Theological Study Centre Amsterdam (IBTS).  The chairs of the Dutch Baptist Seminary, the Mennonite Seminary and IBTS (all residing at the VU University Amsterdam) oversee the Series.

Scholars who wish to be considered for publication in the Series should contact the Managing Editor at Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.

Editors

Editors-in-Chief

Henk Bakker (James Wm. McClendon Chair for Baptistic and Evangelical Theologies)
Fernando Enns (Chair of Peace-Theology and Ethics)
David Gushee (Chair of Christian Social Ethics)

Editorial Board

David E. Goatley (Fuller Seminary, United States)
Stephen Holmes (University of St Andrews, Scotland)
Parush Parushev (IBTS/St. Trivelius Institute Sofia, The Netherlands/Bulgaria)
Helen Paynter (Bristol Baptist College, England)
Astrid von Schlachta (Universität Hamburg, Germany)
Lina Toth (Scottish Baptist College, Scotland)

Managing Editor

David McMillan (IBTS, Amsterdam)

Recent publications

Convictions, Conflict and Moral Reasoning

Looking in the Other Direction

Publications in process

August Higgins, THE CRISIS OF CONVERSION: REIMAGINING RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE FOR A POSTMODERN EVANGELICAL SPIRITUALITY

In this book, the author analyzes the crisis of conversion in contemporary North American Anglo-evangelical Christianity and propose a remedy to it. The root of this perceived crisis is an internal contradiction surrounding the evangelical elevation of experiences of religious conversion and the simultaneous epistemological rejection of the validity of human experience more broadly conceived in light of the authority of religious truth.

Andrew Gregory Suderman, IN SEARCH OF PROPHETIC THEOLOGY: SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICAL THEOLOGY IN CONVERSATION WITH ANABAPTISM

Andrew Suderman argues that although the South African Kairos Document: A Challenge to the Church emerged as an example of the Prophetic Theology that proposed an antidote to the dominance of “Church and State Theologies”, twenty-two years on the vision is unfulfilled. Citing among other reasons an under-rated comprehension of the nature of the church as an alternative politic within the realities of empire Suderman argues that Anabaptism offers a helpful perspective as the South African church strives to take the next steps of faithfulness in its new post-apartheid political dispensation.

David J McMillan, CONVICTIONS, MORAL REASONING AND CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION

This revised version of Convictions, Conflict, and Moral Reasoning develops the insights from the earlier publication and offer specific application to the work of conflict transformation.

Call for manuscripts

The series is open for promising studies in the fields mentioned above. For more information regarding the series and possible submissions please contact David McMillan (Dit e-mailadres wordt beveiligd tegen spambots. JavaScript dient ingeschakeld te zijn om het te bekijken.); manuscripts should be submitted according to the instructions for authors.

Instructions for authors