ETTC Meetings – History

The first European Seventh-day Adventist theologians’ conference (called European Theology Teachers’ Convention, ETTC) took place in 1992. In 2015, EASTRS was conceived at the ETTC meeting at Newbold, and in 2017, the Society was officially founded.

These were the places and themes of further ETTC meetings:

 

YEARS DATES PLACES THEMES
1992 Friedensau ?
1994 Florence (no overall theme)
1996 Newbold Christian Spirituality
1998 no meeting no meeting
2001 April 20–22 Collonges (no overall theme)
2003 April 11–14 Bogenhofen Training Pastors
2005 March 16–20 Belgrade Beyond Diversity in Contemporary Adventism
2007 March 29–April 1 Friedensau Finding the “World” in Theology:
Empirical Dimensions in the Study of Faith
2009 May 27–31 Zaoksky SDA Theological Education in the Postmodern World
2011 April 27–May 1 Cernica Adventist Hermeneutics and Eschatology
2013 March 27–31 Beirut Translatable Gospel
2015 March 25-29 Newbold Ecclesia Reformata semper Reformanda
2017 April 19–23 Friedensau “On the Freedom of a Christian”: Human Accountability and Liberty in the Light of the Reformation
2019 April 24–28 Collonges Pastoral ministry and ecclesial leadership: A theological exploration
2021 March 25 (Zoom, organized by Newbold College) Challenges of the Post-Corona World: Responding to Ethical, Sociological, Ecological and Digital Issues
2023 March 22–26 Budapest Tensions, Conflicts, Wars: “Storms” in the Bible, Church and Society
2025 March 19–23 Sagunto Re-envisioning the Church in the Digital Age
2027 March 17–21 Maruševec