Billy Graham Center Archival Research Lecture

Each year the Billy Graham Center Archival Research Lecture features a scholar describing his or her recent discoveries in the BGC Archives. This year, Dr. Hans Krabbendam will deliver a lecture titled "The Lost Continent? The Discovery of Europe by American Evangelicals,1940-1980."
 

Krabbendam is assistant director of the Roosevelt Study Center, a research and conference center in The Netherlands. He is the author of Freedom on the Horizon: Dutch Immigrants to America, 1840-1920 (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2009). In this year’s presentation he will look at the different responses in Europe and North-America to the changing position of religion in society. In particular he examines the confrontation between American Evangelicals and Europe in the post-World War II period.

In addition to the lecture and Q&A session, there will be an exhibit of documents, photos, and videos from the Archives holdings on American missions and evangelism in Europe in second half of the 20th century. A reception sponsored by the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals will follow.

Free and open to the public, this event will be held in the Wilson Suite on the fourth floor of the Billy Graham Center.