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Program of the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Theological Society

University of British Columbia, Vancouver
June 2nd to 4th, 2008

The 2008 CTS annual meeting will be held June 2-4 at Vancouver School of Theology. For more information and registration, visit the Congress 2008 website.

The theme of the 2008 Congress of Humanities and the Social Sciences is

Thinking Beyond Borders: Global Ideas; Global Values
Penser sans Frontières: Idées Mondiales; Valeurs Mondiales

Our theological enterprise carries us beyond the borders of human limitations as we consider the divine. Many of our theologies transgress and expose borders. Some of us locate ourselves and our theologies within the borders of shifting centers and margins. Contextual theologies are becoming increasingly global as they consider both the particular and global impact of climate change and trans-national socio-economic relations. The internet affords immediate, global response and organizational capabilities within social movements and theological gatherings. While we invite you to submit proposals on any theological subject, we encourage you to consider topics which relate to this theme.

2008 Call for papers (PDF version)
2008 appel de communications
2008 Student Essay Contest (.doc)
Note from the CTS president
Abstracts for the 2008 CTS programme
Short descriptions of the proposed papers, lists of panel participants, etc…
CCSR Combined Programme 2008 (PDF)
The combined programme for the CSBS, CSSR, CSPS, CSCH, and CTS. Abstracts are not included. See their
individual websites for further information
2008 CETA programme
The Canadian Evangelical Theological Association will be meeting at Congress on May 31
Getting around at Congress 2008
Information from the Congress website regarding buses, taxis, and airport arrivals and departures
UBC campus maps
How to find your residence, meeting rooms, meals, and the Congress Book Fair
The Book Fair
The Congress Book Fair will be held in the Student Recreation Centre (across the street from the Walter Gage residences) from May 31 to June 7
Towards a Green Congress
UBC and the Congress secretariat have been working hard to make this the most environmentally sustainable Congress yet

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Vancouver School of Theology, Rm. 300		Vancouver School of Theology, Rm. 309
8:45 - 8:55	Welcome — Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd (CTS President) and Sharon Betcher (Local Arrangements Coordinator) Location: VST room 300
9:00- 10:30	Thinking “Beyond Borders”: Teaching Religious Studies and Theology – Chair: Jane Barter Moulaison (University of Winnipeg) (Joint Panel with CSSR)	9:00- 9:55	The Influence of William James on the Historical Theology of Ernst Troeltsch – Michael Sohn (University of Chicago Divinity School)
		10:05- 11:00	Truth-Telling and Justice in the Contact Zone: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Residential Schools – Denise Nadeau (Interfaith Summer Institute for Justice, Peace and Social Movements)
10:40- 12:15	*Book Panel: Frank Macchia, Baptized in the Spirit: A Global Pentecostal Theology* (Zondervan, 2006)** – Chair: Andrew Gabriel (McMaster Divinity College)
		11:10- 12:00	The Indivisible Whole of God’s Reality: Divine and Human Agency in Bonhoeffer’s Ethics – Christopher Holmes (Providence Theological Seminary)
12:30- 1:30	Lunch
1:30- 3:00	The Many Dimensions of Jesus’ Resurrection – Don Schweitzer (St. Andrew’s College), Respondent: Néstor Medina (Emmanuel College)	Paul and the Violence of the Modern State: A Critique of the Liberal Democratic Notion of the ‘People’ through Recent Re-readings of Paul – Kornel Zathureczky (Université de Montréal)
3:10- 4:05	Expanding Human Agency / Shifting Ethical Landscapes – Lee Cormie (St. Michael’s College)	Sharing Space Beyond Secular and Sacred Borders – Tom Reynolds (Emmanuel College)
4:15- 5:10	Dans les frontières, au delà des frontières : une théologie en solidarité entre autochtones et allochtones au Québec – Denise Couture et Jean-François Roussel (Université de Montréal) NB: Room change NB: Time change	Crip/tography: Of Karma and Cosmopolis – Sharon Betcher (Vancouver School of Theology) NB: Room change NB: Time change
7:30-	Apartheid Comparative Religion: The Ideological Construction of Religious Difference in Antiquity International Keynote Speaker: Daniel Boyarin (Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Chair, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California at Berkeley) Location: Woodward/IRC (Reception to Follow in Lobby) Sponsored in part by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

9:00- 12:15	CSSR, CETA, CSCH, CCHS, CTS joint panel: Christianity and Ethnicity in Canada? Location: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 261 Chairs: Paul Bramadat (University of Winnipeg) and David Seljak (St. Jerome’s University)
12:40- 1:40	Lunch
	Vancouver School of Theology, Rm. 300
1:40- 2:35	Feminist Christologies at the Crossroads: An Analysis of Different Feminist Approaches to the Doctrine of the Atonement Student Essay Contest Winner — Cuban Student Ary Fernández Albán (Emmanuel College, Toronto School of Theology)
2:45- 3:40	CTS Presidential Address: Shifting Identities and the Church: A Postcolonial Challenge to Missiology and Ministry Preparation — Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd (Augustine United Church, Winnipeg)
3:50- 4:50	CTS Annual General Meeting
5:00- 6:00	President’s Reception
6:30-	CTS Annual Dinner One More Sushi Restaurant (second floor of the small shopping village, can be accessed via elevator or stairs, off of Dalhousie-immediately behind University Boulevard)

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Vancouver School of Theology, Rm. 300		Vancouver School of Theology, Rm. 309
9:00- 9:40	Work in Progress: *The Problem of “Perspicuity”: Luther’s (Unspoken) Reliance on Regula Fidei* for Biblical Understanding** – Rob Fennell (Atlantic School of Theology)	9:00- 9:55	The Divine Essence Revealed: The Christology of Reinhold Niebuhr – Mark Gingerich (Providence Theological Seminary)
9:55- 10:50	Catholic Approaches to Just Peacemaking – Scott Kline (St. Jerome’s University) and Megan Shore (King’s University College)	10:05- 11:00	The Mind of Christ in Balthasar and Rahner – Mark Yenson (University of St. Michael’s College)
11:00- 12:30	Panel: ‘A Common Word’: Reflections on Muslim, Christian and Jewish approaches to an understanding and practice of the ‘double commandment’ — Chair: Kornel Zathureczky (Université de Montréal)	11:10- 12:00	Civic Sacrament and Social Imaginaries in Transition: The Case of the South African Churches and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission – Stephen Martin (King’s University College)

12:30- 1:20	Lunch
1:25- 2:20	Being thought from beyond our borders: Towards ethical global citizenship – Johann-Albrecht Meylahn (University of Pretoria, South Africa)	Mortality and Morality: Different Senses of ‘Death’ in Levinas’ Thought and Its Implications for Conceiving the Limits and Possibilities of the Human – Michael Sohn (University of Chicago Divinity School)
2:35-	Close of Annual Meeting	Close of Annual Meeting

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