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Mini-Conference on Models of God
The official program will be published in the APA Proceedings in January.
| Wednesday, April 4 | ||||||
| Wednesday Morning, April 4 | ||||||
| Opening Mixer | ||||||
| 7:15-8:00 a.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Continental breakfast will be served | ||||||
| MI-1. | Mini-Conference on Models of God | |||||
| 8:00-9:45 a.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Models of God | |||||
| Chair: | Jeanine Diller (Independent Scholar) | |||||
| Speaker: | Ted Peters (Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary) | |||||
| “Models of God” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jim Taylor (Westmont College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Jeremy Hustwit (Claremont Graduate University) | |||||
| “Can Models of God Compete? Testing the Strength of Religion’s Language-Reality Ties” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Samuel Ruhmkorff (Simon’s Rock College of Bard) | |||||
| MI-2. | Mini-Conference on Models of God | |||||
| 10:00-11:45 a.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Challenges to Prevailing Models | |||||
| Chair: | Andrew Dell’Olio (Hope College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Klaas Kraay (Ryerson University) | |||||
| “Divine Unsurpassability” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Kate Moran (University of Pennsylvania) | |||||
| Speaker: | Pamela Sue Anderson (University of Oxford) | |||||
| “Feminist Conceptions of God: Exploring Transcendence, Immanence, and Goodness” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Charles Taliaferro (St. Olaf College) | |||||
| Wednesday Afternoon, April 4 | ||||||
| MI-3. | Mini-Conference on Models of God | |||||
| 12:45-2:15 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Panel on Process Theism | |||||
| Chair: | Jeremy Hustwit (Claremont Graduate University) | |||||
| Panelists: | Monica A. Coleman (Lutheran School of Theology–Chicago) | |||||
| Dan Dombrowski (Seattle University) | ||||||
| Donald Wayne Viney (Pittsburg State University) | ||||||
| Commentator: | Delwin Brown (Pacific School of Religion) | |||||
| MI-4. | Mini-Conference on Models of God | |||||
| 2:30-5:15 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Extant Novel Models of God | |||||
| Chair: | John Bishop (University of Auckland) | |||||
| Speaker: | Nancy Hudson (California University of Pennsylvania) | |||||
| “Environmentalism and Nicholas of Cusa’s Model of God” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Robert Gall (West Liberty State College) | |||||
| Speakers: | Ford Turrell (Nashville State Community College) | |||||
| Donald Turner (Nashville State Community College) | ||||||
| “The Non-existent God: Transcendence, Humanity, and Ethics in Emmanuel Levinas” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Daniel Murphy (St. Anselm College) | |||||
| Speaker: | David Bradshaw (University of Kentucky) | |||||
| “The Concept of the Divine Energies” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Dan Dombrowski (Seattle University) | |||||
| Reception | ||||||
| 5:15-7:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Wednesday Evening, April 4 | ||||||
| MI-5. | Joint Meeting of Mini-Conference on Models of God and the Society of Christian Philosophers | |||||
| 7:30-8:30 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Speaker: | Dallas Willard (University of Southern California) | |||||
| “Intentionality and the Substance of the Self” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Brian Treanor (Loyola Marymount University) | |||||
| Speaker: | Paul Moser (Loyola University of Chicago) | |||||
| “Forgiveness as Cognitively Significant” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Pamela Hieronymi (University of California–Los Angeles) | |||||
| MI-6. | Mini-Conference on Models of God Keynote Address | |||||
| 8:30-10:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Charles Taliaferro (St. Olaf College) | |||||
| Speaker: | Wesley Wildman (Boston University) | |||||
| “Behind, Between, and Beyond Anthropomorphic Models of Ultimate Reality” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Andrew Dell’Olio (Hope College) | |||||
| Thursday, April 5 | ||||||
| Thursday Morning, April 5 | ||||||
| MI-7. | Mini-Conference on Models of God | |||||
| 8:30-10:30 a.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Panel on Open Theism | |||||
| Chair: | Luke Gelinas (University of Toronto) | |||||
| Panelists: | David Basinger (Roberts Wesleyan College) | |||||
| Alan Rhoda (University of Nevada) | ||||||
| Richard Rice (Loma Linda University) | ||||||
| David Woodruff (Huntington University) | ||||||
| MI-8. | Mini-Conference on Models of God | |||||
| 10:45-12:15 p.m. | ||||||
| Topic: | Panel on Panentheism | |||||
| Chair: | Emily Bennett (Claremont Graduate University) | |||||
| Panelists: | Stephen R. Palmquist (Stanford University and Hong Kong Baptist University) | |||||
| Dong-Sik Park (Claremont Graduate University) | ||||||
| Jeanyne Slettom (Claremont Graduate University) | ||||||
| Commentator: | Philip Clayton (Claremont School of Theology) | |||||
| Thursday Afternoon, April 4 | ||||||
| MI-9. | Mini-Conference on Models of God Keynote Address | |||||
| 1:30-3:00 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Chair: | Samuel Ruhmkorff (Simon’s Rock College of Bard) | |||||
| Speaker: | John Bishop (University of Auckland) | |||||
| “How a Modest Fideism May Constrain Concepts of God: A Christian Alternative to Classical Theism” | ||||||
| Commentator: | Jeanine Diller (Independent Scholar) | |||||
| MI-10. | Mini-Conference on Models of God | |||||
| 3:15-4:45 p.m., Location TBA | ||||||
| Topic: | Plenary Discussion | |||||
| Chair: | Philip Clayton (Claremont School of Theology) | |||||
