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The
aim of the conference is to provide an opportunity for future scholars
to offer, before their peers, papers and presentations that contribute
to Anabaptist-Mennonite scholarship.
This conference
is being sponsored by the |
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Conference
schedule: |
| Friday, 18 June | ||
| 5:00 | Arrival | |
| 5:30 | Welcome, Opening comments, Introductions (with deans) | |
| 5:45 | Supper | |
| 6:30 | Discussion with deans of Mennonite institutions and the Faculty Calling Project | |
| 7:30 | Short Break | |
| Session 1 | ||
| nbsp | 7:40 | "Confusion in the Academy: The Descriptions of Texts, Authorship and Editorial Activity in the Psalms and Beyond" - Derek Suderman, Toronto School of Theology |
| 8:20 | "To What Does the Bible Refer? On Metaphor and Analogy" - Phil Enns, Toronto School of Theology | |
| 9:00 | Adjourn for the evening |
| Saturday, 19 June | ||
| Session 2 | ||
| 9:00 | "The Role of the Religious Text Within the Early Christian Tradition: An Examination of Tertullian's Views on Authority Within 'The Prescription Against Heretics'" - Don Springer, Trinity Western University (Langley, BC) | |
| 9:40 | "Origen on the Authorial Intention of Scripture" - Jeremy Bergen, Toronto School of Theology | |
| Session 3 | ||
| 10:50 | "Erasmus and the 'Christian Humanist' Reception of Augstine" - Hans Leaman, Yale University | |
| 11:30 | "Sola Quae Scripturae? Anabaptists and De-Canonization of the Apocrypha" - Jonathan Seiling, Toronto School of Theology | |
| 12:10 | Lunch | |
| Session 4 | ||
| 1:30 | "Plato's Reflexive Critique of Poetry" - Matthew J. Klaassen, Institute for Christian Studies (Toronto) | |
| 2:10 | "The Flooded Text: Finding Dry Land in The Wings of the Dove" - Jacob Jost, Oxford University | |
| 2:50 | Break | |
| Session 5 | ||
| 3:20 | "Desire, Mysticism and Depression: The Contribution of Psychoanalysis to the Reading of Religious Texts" - Christina Reimer, University of Toronto | |
| 4:00 | Break | |
| 5:15 | Supper at local restaurant | |
| | Session 6 | |
| 6:45 | "Reading the Moral Law: A
Hermeneutical Approach to Religious Moral Epistemology" - David Kratz Mathies, Boston University |
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| 7:25 | "'Doing Without Precedent?'
Typology and Tyrannicide in John Milton's The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates" - Matthew G. Neufeld, University of Alberta |
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| 8:05 | Free evening |
| Sunday, 20 June | ||
| Session 7 | ||
| 9:00 | "Reading with Daughters of Sarah and Hagar: Authority, Scripture, and the Christian Life" - Malinda Berry, Union Theological Seminary (New York) | |
| 9:40 | "Visual Images as Text? Toward
a Mennonite Theology of the Arts" - Chad Martin, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary |
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| 10:20 | Break | |
| 10:50 | Organizational Meeting (publication, next
conference, announcements, Network etc) |
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| 11:10 | Worship | |
| 11:40 | End |
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