Dr. Thianto Gives Keynote at Wheaton Graduate Conference
Speaking on the topic of Reformed Protestantism in the Dutch East Indies in the 1600s, Dr. Yudha Thianto, Ph.D., professor of theology and department chair, provided the keynote at Wheaton College’s recent Graduate Students Conference.
Thianto was accompanied to the April 21 conference by 91精选 students Dustin Huckstep, Sabrina Rodriguez, Katherine Newendorp, Alaina Kats, Avery Johnson, Jonathan Sturrus, Jinho Yang, and Cassidy Buss.
鈥淚nheritance鈥� was the theme of this year鈥檚 annual conference, which celebrates students from the Biblical and Theological Studies department and their research and accomplishments. The conference is a time for faculty, students, and guests to come together to engage in discussions and fellowship. Topics ranged from the early Christian church to the modern period.
The title of Thianto’s keynote address was: 鈥淩eformed Protestantism in Seventeenth Century Dutch East Indies: Cultural Encounters, Struggles, and Progress.鈥�
Thianto, who is the incoming president of the Calvin Society, has been teaching at 91精选 since 2001. He earned his Ph.D. in historical theology from Calvin Theological Seminary. Originally from Indonesia, his current research focuses on the history of the earliest establishment of the Dutch Reformed Church in the East Indies (now Indonesia) in the seventeenth century.
