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Annual Meeting
Concordia University, Montréal
May 31st to June 2nd, 2010
Connected Understanding
- Abstracts of papers for CTS 2010
- 2010 CCSR combined program (containing the seessions planned by the CSCH, CSBS, CSSR, CSPS, and CTS)
- CETA program for Congress 2010 [updated with added abstracts]
- Registration for Congress 2010
- 2010 Registration guide
- Travelling to Montréal for Congress 2010
- Concordia campus map
- Accommodations at Concordia
- Services on campus at Congress 2010
All papers will be presented in the Molson School of Business, 1450 Guy. The Presidential Reception is in the Grey Nuns Residence, 1185 St. Mathieu. The CTS dinner on Tuesday evening is at Mesa 14 (1425 Bishop, at the corner of St. Catherine, walking distance from Concordia).
Monday,
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MB 3-210 |
MB 3-445 |
| 8:50 – 9:00 | Welcome
Alyda Faber, president, Canadian Theological Society |
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| 9:00 – 10:30 | Panel: The Ecumenist and Critical Theology in Canada
Panelists: Christine Jamieson, Concordia University; Scott Kline, St. Jerome’s University, University of Waterloo; David Seljak, St. Jerome’s University, University of Waterloo |
Panel: William E. Connolly’s Contestations and Augustine of Hippo’s Confessions Regarding Evil
Presenter: Peter Slater, Trinity College, University of Toronto |
| 10:45 – 11:45 | Student Essay Contest Winner
Gregory of Nyssa’s Contra usurarios and Related Sermons |
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| 11:45 – 1:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 – 1:55 | Zimbabwe: Religion and Ecology in Convergence? Robert Matikiti, University of Zimbabwe |
Jesus Christ as Woman Wisdom? Complicating the Gender of Christ Susanne Guenther Loewen, Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo |
| 2:05 – 3:00 | Thomas Berry and a Cosmology of Religion Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University |
The Real Impossible Possibility: Reflections on Reinhold Niebuhr’s Relative Justice and the Prospect of Non-Violence Mark Gingerich, University of Otago |
| 3:20 – 4:10 | Presidential Address
Abundance and Wretchedness: Theology as Ethics of Exposure |
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| 4:15 – 5:15 | CTS Annual General Meeting | |
| 5:30 – 7:00 | Presidential Reception
Location: Grey Nuns Residence, 1185 St. Mathieu |
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| 7:30 – 9:00 | Joint CSPS/CSSR/CSBS/CTS/CSCH Lecture organized by CTS, with financial support from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences Location: MB 1-210, reception to follow in MB 4-101 Beyond Christendom: New Maps The nineteenth and twentieth centuries have brought momentous changes to the map of Christianity, so that it is no longer possible to speak of Christendom in either geographical or theological terms. How is not only the present reality, but also on the way we look at the entire history of Christianity, reflected in the interpretation of Christianity’s canonical texts? What does the incarnation of Christianity in a wide variety of often conflicting contexts imply for its unity? |
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Tuesday,
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MB 3-430 (A/V) |
MB 3-435 |
| 9:15 – 10:10 | Carl Schmitt and the Political Theology of HBO: John Adams and Rome as sites of discourse on De-differentiated Secularism and the relationship between Violence and Law Andrew Atkinson, Wilfrid Laurier University, |
Dusting Off the Doctrine Catherine MacLean, St. Paul’s United Church, Edmonton |
| 10:15 – 11:10 | Le mimetisme comportemental: un mecanisme de l’apprentissage de la theologie Frederic Belley, Institut d’archéologie Saint-André, Montreal |
Public Hope in Dialogue: The Debate Between Moltmann and Ratzinger as a Means to Public Theology Timothy Harvie, St. Mary’s University College |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | The 2nd Annual Jay Newman Lecture in the Philosophy of Religion
On the Correlation of the Eucharist with Christ in Peter Martyr Vermigli’s Oxford Treatise and Disputation on the Eucharist (1549): Considerations from the Philosophy of Religion Perspective by Maurice Boutin |
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| 12:30 – 1:45 | Lunch | |
| 1:45 – 2:40 | Reinterpreting the Doctrines of Original Sin and Sanctifying Grace: Integrating Insights from Sociology and the Evolutionary Sciences Nick Olkovitch, University of St. Michael’s College |
Critical Political Theology in an Apocalyptic Key: A Reception of the Work of Jacob Taubes Kornel Zathureczky, University of Sudbury |
| 2:45 – 3:25 | Eco-Theology and the State of Christian Environmentalism in Québec Robert Smith, Concordia University |
Martin Luther on Preaching the Real Presence of Christ Allan Jorgenson, Waterloo Lutheran Seminary |
| 3:40 – 4:35 | World-Making and the Device Paradigm: Constructing a Theology for ‘Connected Understanding’ Kevin Guenther Trautwein, Conrad Grebel University College, University of Waterloo |
God’s Patience: Bringing Barth into Dialogue with the ‘Deep Time’ of Evolution Adrian Langdon, Nipissing University (to 4:20) |
| 6:30 | CTS Annual Dinner
Location: Mesa 14 (1425 Bishop, at the corner of St. Catherine, walking distance from Concordia) |
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Wednesday,
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MB 3-430 |
MB 3-435 |
| 9:00 – 9:55 | The Suffering Spirit of God: A Pneumatological Critique of the Doctrine of Divine Impassibility Andrew Gabriel, McMaster Divinity College |
Two Theological Movements in India that complicate Western Reformed Identities Don Schweitzer, St. Andrew’s College |
| 10:05 – 11:00 | Christian ‘Just War’ Theology and the ‘Eschatological Delay’ David Deane, Atlantic School of Theology |
Sexual Theology and Adolescent Female Realities: Integrating Experiences Doris Keiser, St. Joseph’s College, University of Alberta |
| 11:00 | Adjournment | |