{"id":10047,"date":"2025-03-24T10:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T09:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bizg.hr\/?post_type=povijesna_crtica&#038;p=10047"},"modified":"2026-04-20T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T11:15:10","slug":"timeline_2024","status":"publish","type":"povijesna_crtica","link":"https:\/\/www.bizg.hr\/en\/povijesna_crtica\/timeline_2024\/","title":{"rendered":"2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2024 was filled with events, all of which you can watch on our <\/span><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/FKEPqq9P1nM\"><b>YouTube channel<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eCSe580mda8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10038 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bizg.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Izduzeni-YT-BIZG-logo-300x75.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"75\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bizg.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Izduzeni-YT-BIZG-logo-300x75.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bizg.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Izduzeni-YT-BIZG-logo.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>EDUCATION<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><b>Advanced Biblical Studies study program<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In collaboration with EC Sarajevo, we continued with our Advanced Biblical Studies program, where our lecturers gave lectures on 1 Corinthians (Goran Medved), Introduction to Christian Theology, Church History (Danijel \u010casni), and Hermeneutics (Ervin Budiseli\u0107).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In partnership with churches in Rijeka, the program also continued there. Offered courses included Theology of the Bible, The Life and Ministry of Jesus: Introduction to the Gospels, Hermeneutics (Ervin Budiseli\u0107), Introduction to Christian Theology, Fundamentals of Christian Ethics (Danijel \u010casni).<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Biblical Languages<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Organized by our CBI department, the Biblical Hebrew II course (Danijel Berkovi\u0107) was completed in the summer semester, while a new cycle of Biblical Hebrew I (Monika Baji\u0107) and New Testament Greek I (Nino Brozin\u010devi\u0107) started in the fall. Danijel Berkovi\u0107 began a Biblical Hebrew I lecture series at the Church of Christ in Samobor also in the fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Guest Lectures by Our Teachers<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout 2024, our teachers were guest lecturers at other institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Osijek, Danijel \u010casni taught Introduction to Community Pastoral Care as well as Public Relations and Speaking Culture, Goran Medved taught New Testament Greek and New Testament Exegesis, while Perry Stepp delivered lectures on Contemporary Approaches to New Testament Theology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strengthened Cooperation with the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Osijek.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the beginning of 2024, we agreed to align the undergraduate program at ETVOS with the Advanced Biblical Studies program of the Biblical Institute.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Not-for-credit Bible Classes and Seminars<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our lecturers delivered a series of classes, including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Discipleship Jesus\u2019 Way (EPC \u0160ibenik, BC Slavonski Brod, Christian Association Dunamis), Philippians and Thessalonians (Church of Christ Samobor), The Contribution of the Pentateuch and the Old Testament to Christian Belief and Life (online), Archaeology and the Bible, Change of Mind, Change of Heart (Perry Stepp), How We Got the Bible (Goran Medved)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The screening of the video series That the World May Know<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">continued at the Church of Christ Zapre\u0161i\u0107.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In collaboration with Judita Paljevi\u0107-Kraljik, a lecturer at <\/span><b>ETV<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we organized classes The World of Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus in\/on Biblical Festivals. These classes were held at EPC \u0160ibenik, Christ\u2019s Church Samobor, and online.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>COLLABORATION<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><b>Serving Churches and the Community<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our teachers continued their ministry and cooperation with various churches, including: EPC Dar milosti \u0160ibenik, EPC Gare\u0161nica, BC Daruvar, EPC Split, BC Slavonski Brod, CC Ku\u0161lanova Zagreb, Dunamis Zagreb, EPC Osijek, BC Dubrava Zagreb, KC Samobor, EC Sarajevo\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Event Organization<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of the Havurah initiative, we organized a two-day workshop in May on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, featuring guest speaker Avi Snyder.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In October, in collaboration with Fokus Association and the Bay Area Center for Faith, we organized a panel discussion on Artificial Intelligence \u2013 Threat or Aid?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guest Appearances<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our lecturers were featured on Croatian television programs (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Duhovna misao, Zajedno u Duhu<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; Berkovi\u0107, Nino Brozin\u010devi\u0107). You can watch the recordings on our YouTube channel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In October, Perry Stepp was a speaker at the international Christian conference Adria Interaction, while Ervin Budiseli\u0107 spoke at the youth conference \u201cPun kofer\u201d in Sarajevo.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our professors have continued their research projects, including: Narrative and Metanarrative of the Biblical Psalter and Biblical Psalmody \u2013 exploring how storytelling in biblical poetry conveys content and message (Project Leader: Danijel Berkovi\u0107), Churches of the Reformation Heritage in Croatia (1990\u20132020) (Project Leader: Stanko Jambrek), The Concept of Discipleship in Evangelical Churches in Croatia (Project Leader: Ervin Budiseli\u0107).<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Conferences<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In March, our CBI department organized the scientific symposium The Biblical Psalter: Between History and Narrative as part of the research project Narrative and Metanarrative of the Biblical Psalter and Biblical Psalmody. You can watch the recordings on BIZG\u2019s YouTube channel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In April, we held an international theological conference titled Discipleship in Churches of the Reformation Heritage: Biblical, Historical, and Contemporary Perspectives. Conference presentation recordings are available <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLP0KjH2x1a5yWvd17R0HP82ZPXXikp91u\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In September, as a continuation of the April discipleship conference, we organized a panel discussion, Conversations on Discipleship, in collaboration with BC Dubrava.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>International Collaboration<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In May, we hosted Alistair Begg (from Truth For Life) and Stevo Vuleti\u0107 from Gospel Partners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In August, our lecturers participated in the FEET (The Fellowship of European Evangelical Theologians) international conference, which focused on &#8220;Evangelical Identity in Europe Today: Unity in Diversity.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>PUBLISHING<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><b>Books<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have published, both independently and in collaboration with partners, the following books:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Greg Ogden, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Essential Discipleship<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dallas Willard, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Renovation of the Heart<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mark W. Hamilton (ed.), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transforming Word<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (final volume)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dennis Allen, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dilemma: Discipleship \u2013 Yes or No?<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Online edition of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lexicon of Evangelical Christianity<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3><b>Theological Journal <\/b><b><i>Kairos<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In May and November, we published two more issues of the scientific journal Kairos: Evangelical Theological Journal in both Croatian and English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The English edition of Kairos has been accepted into the Scopus database as of May 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><b>DEPARTMENT UPDATES<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><b>Center for Biblical Research (CBI)<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to organizing the scientific symposium The Biblical Psalter: Between History and Narrative, CBI hosted several Hebrew workshops for those who successfully completed Hebrew I. Additionally, the center organized several Bible workshops on various topics, including one focused on the emotional states of the Biblical psalmist.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Documentation and Research Center for Protestant-Evangelical History (DCP)<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The DCP continued its work on the digitization of archival materials relevant to Protestant-Evangelical history. This includes publications of many evangelical magazines. Additionally, the DCP organized events to commemorate Reformation Day, including a special event on women of the Reformation, titled Mind, Heart, and Everyday Life as well as a Reformation Day lecture by Stanko Jambrek, titled From Gutenberg to Google: The Contributions of the Reformation to Modern Europe. During this event, the online edition of the Lexicon of Evangelical Christianity (LEK) was also presented.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Library<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once again, we highlight that our library department is a unique and specialized library for Christian literature, serving a total of 590 users this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Employees<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In July, our lecturer Goran Medved successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at Aurel Vlaicu University in Arad, Romania. His research focused on &#8220;Paul\u2019s Theological Contribution to the Evangelical Perspective of Theosis.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10047","povijesna_crtica","type-povijesna_crtica","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-timeline"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizg.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/povijesna_crtica\/10047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizg.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/povijesna_crtica"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizg.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/povijesna_crtica"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizg.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizg.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizg.hr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}