Bio

The Rev. Dr. Lina Toth is an LCC graduate, where she gained a BA in English, and also holds an MTh and a PhD (University of Wales), which she earned at the International Baptist Theological Seminary (IBTS) in Prague, the Czech Republic. There she served for a number of years as Lecturer and Course Leader of the Applied Theology programme, and later also as Academic Dean. From 2014 to 2024 she served as Lecturer in Practical Theology at the Scottish Baptist College, where she was also Assistant Principal. She is Senior Research Fellow at the International Baptist Theological Study Centre, The Netherlands. Her main role is as the Director of Langham Scholars Programme at Langham Partnership – an organisation committed to serving the church and theological institutions in the Majority World.
 
Her recent publications include ‘Baptists in Continental Europe,’ In Oxford Handbook of Baptist Studies, ed. Paul S. Fiddes, David W. Bebbington, Elizabeth H. Flowers, and Steven R. Harmon (Oxford University Press, 2026), forthcoming; ‘She Did What She Could’: Some Historical Observations on Following Jesus as a Single Woman.’ In Anthony R. Cross and Brian Haymes, Re-Membering the Body: The Witness of History, Theology, and the Arts in Honour of Ruth M.B. Gouldbourne (Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2021), 159-178; and “Strangers in the Land and True Lovers of the Nation: The Formation of Lithuanian-speaking Baptist Identity, 1918-1940” in Perichoresis Vol. 16, No. 1 (2018): 99-117. She has authored several books, the most recent of which is Singleness and Marriage after Christendom: Being and Doing Family (Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2021). She was the editor of Theology in Scotland from 2021 to 2024.
 
Lina teaches and supervises students primarily in the areas of practical theology and baptistic identity. A musician and artist as well as a theologian, she is particularly interested in the ethics, spirituality, and theologies of culture. Her second love is history—not so much dates as people and stories which have shaped the world we live in today.