The 2006 meeting will be held at the amazing new Arts campus of Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Piliscsaba, near Budapest, August 6-9. All accommodation will be available on the campus. The sessions on August 8 will take place at Károly Gáspár Reformed University in Budapest. Two excursions will also be available, to Ezstergom and Szentedre on Thursday 10th August (all day) and to the remains of the Roman city of Aquincum on Friday morning, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Piliscsaba, Károli, Gáspár, University of the Hungarian Reformed Church.

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Abstract from Dr P. Botha's paper:
Paul’s audience consisted mainly of Gentile Christians and his purpose in writing Romans was to alter their beliefs and behavior. He might have been dealing with entrenched habits originating from the Graeco-Roman culture where sexual morality had a certain looseness about it. Romans 1:26-27 is about as clear a condemnation of homosexual and lesbian behavior as one could get in the New Testament. It would seem that Paul draws repeatedly on both the Old Testament and the Wisdom of Solomon for his arguments in Romans 1. The secular texts of the first century seem also to share Paul’s disposition on homosexual conduct. This paper reflects on the reality of animosity toward homosexuals before and after the Pauline Epistle was read in the Roman congregation.