Some of you probably remember that the Congregational Library co-hosted a conference in the fall of 2010 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the founding of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. So what's the Boston Theological Institute doing celebrating again just two years later?
American Culture and the Missionary Enterprise
Rodney Petersen, the director of the Boston Theological Institute, has, in collaboration with many others, put together what promises to be an excellent conference on the ABCFM, with a special emphasis on the missionary Judson family. The conference will mark another bicentennial of the American Board, which was founded in 1810 but not officially incorporated until 1812.
The conference will take place over a two week period, starting on Feb. 5 and concluding on Feb. 20. Locations for the conference include Boston, Salem, and Malden. For more information about the event, please go to: www.bostontheological.org/judson200.html.
Many of the papers delivered at the last conference on the ABCFM, the one that was held at the Congregational Library in Boston in Sept. 2010, are going to be published in a book that Paul T. Burlin and I have edited. The title of the book (hopefully due out next month from WIPF & Stock) is: The Role of the American Board in the World: Bicentennial Reflections on the Organization's Missionary Work, 1810-2010.
Clifford Putney
Bentley University
There you have it. Our own Peggy Bendroth will be participating in several of the events in her role as a religious historian.
If you missed it the first time around, our ABCFM exhibit will be on display in the Trask Library at Andover Newton Theological Seminary during the conference. (And you can always visit the digital exhibit, as well.)
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