International lectures

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 Universitat, 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

  • XIIth quadrennial conference Human Identity and the Gospel of Reconciliation. Agenda for Mission Studies and Praxis in the 21st 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 at Princeton 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,
  • 15th 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

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.

1999

Introduction to Missiology, MA Course

  • Biblical Theological Seminary, Wroclaw, Poland

1997

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.