GBFE graduation ceremony
Conferences

GBFE hosts several international academic conferences on various topics.
The coming conference is a conference on the topic
LET’S DO THEOLOGY – OFF THE MAP BUT NOT WITHOUT DIRECTION
at Forum Wiedenest in Bergneustadt, Germany.

GBFE Conference 2025 on the topic

LET’S DO THEOLOGY – OFF THE MAP BUT NOT WITHOUT DIRECTION

Date
26. - 27. August 2025
Venue
Forum Wiedenest in Bergneustadt, Germany

Conferences Overview

Being a network devoted to research, GBFE aims at fostering academic research and providing an intercultural academic community for its members and other scholars and students. GBFE has started to host several academic conferences. These conferences bring together scholars from different parts of the world (especially from Africa and Europe) to address and discuss crucial subjects in the academy, church and wider society. Being a network devoted to education, GBFE encourages the interaction of experienced scholars, younger scholars and students during its conferences, M&D seminars and other occasions. After rigorous discussion and peer review processes, the output of the conferences is published in academic journals or books.

2013

Christian Leadership Conference, at Unisa, Pretoria, South Africa.
published as special edition Koers − Bulletin for Christian Scholarship 79:2 (2014)

2014

Christian Leadership Conference II, at Forum Wiedenest Bergneustadt, Germany.
published as book Christian Leadership in a Changing World: Perspectives from Africa and Europe. Leuven: Peeters (2016)

2016

Christian Leadership Conference III, at ETF Leuven, Belgium.
published as book Increasing diversity: Loss of control or identity adaptive construction. Leuven: Peeters (2017)

2017

Reconciliation: Christian Perspectives – Interdisciplinary Approaches, at Forum Wiedenest Bergneustadt, Germany.
published as book Reconciliation - Christian Perspectives - Interdisciplinary Approaches. Münster: LIT (2020)

2018

Christian Leadership Conference IV, at Karimu, Burbach-Holzhausen, Germany.
published as book Metaphors for Leading –Leading by Metaphors. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (2019)

2019

Christian Leadership Conference V, hosted by the Theological Society of South Africa in Pretoria.
published with HTS Theological Studies, Vol. 76, No. 2 (2020) Special collection: Christian leadership.

2020

Integrating Theory and Praxis in Theological Education, at Forum Wiedenest Bergneustadt, Germany.
published with Acta Theologica, Supplementum 31: Integrating theory and practice: A challenge in theological education (2021)

2022

Christian Leadership Conference VI, hosted by the Norwegian School of Leadership and Theology (HLT), Oslo, Norway.
published in two special issues of the Scandinavian Journal for Leadership and Theology and Verbum et Ecclesia (2023)

2023

Being spiritual while doing research, at Forum Wiedenest Bergneustadt, Germany.
to be published with LIT

2024

Christian Leadership Conference VII, hosted by Károli Gáspár University in Budapest, Hungary.