Following five successful International Conferences on Baptist Studies at Oxford in 1997, Wake Forest University Divinity School in 2000, IBTS Prague in 2003, Acadia Divinity College (Canada) in 2006, and Whitley College Melbourne, there will be a sixth at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (North Carolina, USA), from Wednesday 11 to Saturday 14 July 2012.  All of these conferences have taken Baptists as their subject matter, but participation has not been restricted to Baptists, either as speakers or attendees.  The theme this time is ‘Mirrors and Microscopes: Historical Perceptions of Baptists’, which includes Baptist self-appraisals, the views of others about Baptists, and the treatment of Baptists in historiography of all types.  What have been the different and sometimes conflicting ways in which Baptists have understood themselves and their mission?  How have other contemporaries looked at the Baptists?  How have historians represented – and misrepresented – the denomination?  The theme will be explored by means of case studies, some of which will be very specific in time and place while others may cover long periods and more than one country.

Please note that all tickets and add-ons are non-refundable.