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UPDATED: Congress and AGM Schedule
Canadian Theological Society
2011 Programme
May 30—June 1
All events will be held in Margaret Norrie McCain Hall 101 (Recital Room), St. Thomas University, unless otherwise noted.
Monday, May 30
9:00-9:10 Welcome, Lee Cormie, CTS President
9:15-9:55 Don Schweitzer, St. Andrew’s College, “The Sociality of Jesus Christ”
10:00-10:40 Concurrent sessions
Christopher J. Duncanson-Hales, Saint Paul University, “Divine Detectives: Globalization and Niklas Luhmann’s Challenge to Theology”
Nick Olkovich, University of St. Michael’s College, “Beyond Hauerwas: Bernard Lonergan’s Liberal-Communitarianism” (location: Margaret Norrie McCain Hall 106)
11:00-12:00 Annual Jay Newman Lecture in the Philosophy of Religion
“Miracles, Models and the Laws of Nature,” Robert Larmer, University of New Brunswick
1:15-1:55 Doris M. Kieser, St. Joseph’s College, University of Alberta, “The Magical,
Mystical Penis – or – Why We Need More Marys”
2:00-2:40 John Perry, St. John’s College, University of Manitoba, “The Greed of Traders
and Bankers on ‘Coasts and Continents’”
3:00-3:50 Presidential Address, Lee Cormie, University of St. Michael’s College
3:55-5:00 CTS Annual General Meeting
7:00-8:30 Craigie Lecture (organized by CSBS, sponsored by CTS, CSSR, CSPS, CSCH):
“New Perspectives on the Sect of the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John J. Collins, Yale Divinity School (location: Margaret Norrie McCain Hall 100, Noel Kinsella Auditorium, St. Thomas University)
Tuesday, May 31
9:00-9:40 Timothy Harvie, St. Mary’s University College, “In Search Of An Ethics Of Hope: Jürgen Moltmann, Catholic Social Thought and an Eschatological Economy”
9:45-10:25 Concurrent sessions –
Abigail Lofte, University of St. Michael’s College, “Who do you say that I am? A Postcolonial Hermeneutic of Resurrection”
Michael Tapper, Saint Paul University, “Other as Opponent: A Look at the Presuppositions of Canadian Evangelicals and their Critics” (location: Margaret Norrie McCain Hall 106)
10:40-11:20 Student Essay Contest winner: Hyunjoon (John) Park, Knox College, “The Hermeneutical Challenges in Interpreting Genesis 13:1-18”
11:25-12:05 Roundtable discussion: Unionization in Theological Schools
Moderator: Alyda Faber, Atlantic School of Theology
Panelists: to be confirmed
1:15-1:55 Christopher De Bono, University of St. Michael’s College, “At Sea in the New World of Clinical Chaplaincy: ‘Theology’ Overboard?”
2:00-2:40 Susan Willhauck, Atlantic School of Theology, “The Urban Dictionary, Street Wisdom and God: An Intersection of Linguistics and Theology”
3:00-4:30 Panel: “Joanne McWilliam’s Contribution to the Study of Religion in Canada”
Moderator: Ellen Leonard, University of St. Michael’s College
Panelists: Mary Ann Beavis, St. Thomas More College
Theodore de Bruyn, University of Ottawa
Jane Barter Moulaison, University of Winnipeg
Peter Slater, Trinity College
5:00-7:00 Presidents’ Reception (Congress event)
Location: Ballroom, Student Union Building, UNB
6:30 CTS Dinner
Location: Brewbakers, 546 King Street, www.brewbakers.ca
Wednesday, June 1
9:00-9:40 Harold Wells, Emmanuel College, “God and the Rising Seas: Kenosis as Theodicy”
10:00-11:30 Panel: “The Place of Sub-Saharan African Christianity in World Christianity”
Moderator: Lee Cormie, University of St. Michael’s College
Panelists: Stan Chu Ilo, University of St. Michael’s College
Iheanyi Enwerem, St. Thomas More College
Joseph Ogbonnaya, University of St. Michael’s College
in category: AnnouncementsMembership Renewal & Annual Meeting
Please click here if you have yet to renew your membership with CTS for 2011.
Also, don’t forget that the Annual Meeting of the CTS will take place in Fredericton, NB, during Congress 2011 from May 30 through June 1, 2011.
DRAFT Schedule: Annual Meeting at Congress 2011, Fredericton, NB
Canadian Theological Society
2011 Programme
May 30—June 1
All events will be held in Margaret Norrie McCain Hall 101 (Recital Room), St. Thomas University, unless otherwise noted.
Monday, May 30
9:00-9:10 Welcome, Lee Cormie, CTS President
9:15-9:55 Don Schweitzer, St. Andrew’s College, “The Sociality of Jesus Christ”
10:00-10:40 Concurrent sessions
Christopher J. Duncanson-Hales, Saint Paul University, “Divine Detectives: Globalization and Niklas Luhmann’s Challenge to Theology”
Nick Olkovich, University of St. Michael’s College, “Beyond Hauerwas: Bernard Lonergan’s Liberal-Communitarianism” (location: Margaret Norrie McCain Hall 106)
11:00-12:00 Newman Lecture, Robert Larmer, University of New Brunswick
1:15-1:55 Doris M. Kieser, St. Joseph’s College, University of Alberta, “The Magical, Mystical Penis – or – Why We Need More Marys”
2:00-2:40 John Perry, St. John’s College, University of Manitoba, “The Greed of Traders and Bankers on ‘Coasts and Continents’”
3:00-3:50 Presidential Address, Lee Cormie, University of St. Michael’s College
3:55-5:00 CTS Annual General Meeting
7:00-8:30 Craigie Lecture (organized by CSBS, sponsored by CTS, CSSR, CSPS, CSCH):
“New Perspectives on the Sect of the Dead Sea Scrolls,” John J. Collins, Yale Divinity School (location: Margaret Norrie McCain Hall 100, Noel Kinsella Auditorium, St. Thomas University)
Tuesday, May 31
9:00-9:40 Timothy Harvie, St. Mary’s University College, “In Search Of An Ethics Of Hope: Jürgen Moltmann, Catholic Social Thought and an Eschatological Economy”
9:45-10:25 Concurrent sessions –
Abigail Lofte, University of St. Michael’s College, “A Postcolonial Hermeneutic of Resurrection: Christological Themes of the Body, Glorification, and Salvation”
Michael Tapper, Saint Paul University, “Other as Opponent: A Look at the Presuppositions of Canadian Evangelicals and their Critics” (location: Margaret Norrie McCain Hall 106)
10:40-11:20 Student Essay Contest winner: Hyunjoon (John) Park, Knox College, “The Hermeneutical Challenges in Interpreting Genesis 13:1-18”
11:25-12:05 Bertha Yetman, Regis College, “Newfoundland and Labrador: Seeking the Common Good after the Cod Disappeared”
1:15-1:55 Christopher De Bono, Regis College, “At Sea in the New World of Clinical Chaplaincy: ‘Theology’ Overboard?”
2:00-2:40 Susan Willhauck, Atlantic School of Theology, “The Urban Dictionary, Street Wisdom and God: An Intersection of Linguistics and Theology”
3:00-4:30 Panel: “Joanne McWilliam’s Contribution to the Study of Religion in Canada”
Moderator: Ellen Leonard, University of St. Michael’s College
Panelists: Mary Ann Beavis, St. Thomas More College
Theodore de Bruyn, University of Ottawa
Jane Barter Moulaison, University of Winnipeg
Peter Slater, Trinity College
5:00-7:00 Presidents’ Reception (Congress event)
Location: Ballroom, Student Union Building, UNB
6:30 CTS Dinner (location TBA)
Wednesday, June 1
9:00-9:40 Harold Wells, Emmanuel College, “God and the Rising Seas: Kenosis as Theodicy”
10:00-11:30 Panel: “The Place of Sub-Saharan African Christianity in World Christianity”
Moderator: to be determined
Panelists: Stan Chu Ilo, University of St. Michael’s College
Iheanyi Enwerem, St. Thomas More College
Joseph Ogbonnaya, University of St. Michael’s College
Posted: March 28, 2011 in category: Announcements
A Call for Papers: AAR working group Explorations in Christian Theology and Apocalyptic
A Call for Papers
The Explorations in Christian Theology and Apocalyptic working group invites individual paper proposals for an Additional Meeting to be held during the 2011 American Academy of Religion meeting in San Francisco, November 19th – 22nd, 2011.
The group will host a panel session on the theme:
Jacob Taubes and Christian Theology.
The organizers would especially invite proposals for papers which engage in constructive theological reflection on the themes and arguments of Taubes’ Occidental Eschatology (Stanford University Press, 2009) and the essays collected in From Cult to Culture: Fragments toward a Critique of Historical Reason (Stanford University Press, 2009).
Paper presentation will be approximately thirty minutes in length. Proposals should include your name, institutional affiliation, and the title of the proposed paper, as well as a 250 word abstract.
Please submit your proposal via email to
Doug Harink
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and/or
Philip Ziegler
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no later than April 15, 2010.
You can also find the call for papers on the group’s weblog here:
http://theologyandapocalyptic.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/aar-2011-call-for-papers-taubes-and-christian-theology/
Details of the second session, an invited panel which will engage theologically with apocalyptic motifs of the Gospel of Mark, will be forthcoming.
Should you have any questions about the call for papers or the general work of the Explorations in Christian Theology and Apocalyptic group, please do not hesitate to contact me. Also, should you know of other friends and colleagues who would be interested in the work of the group or in presenting a proposal in response to the call for papers, please do forward this post along to them.
Kind regards,
Phil
Dr. Philip G. Ziegler
Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology
Head of the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy
School of Divinity, History and Philosophy
King’s College, University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3UB
United Kingdom
Douglas Harink
Professor of Theology
The King’s University College
9125-50th Street
Edmonton, AB, Canada T6B 2H3
Ph. 780-465-3500, ext 8062
Fax. 780-465-3534
Student Essay Contest Winner
The Canadian Theological Society is very pleased to announce the CTS Student Essay Contest winner for 2011. Mr. Hyunjoon (John) Park, a third year MDiv student at Knox College (Toronto) won the contest with his essay entitled “The Hermeneutical Challenges in Interpreting Gen 13:1-18″. The adjudicators remarked that this work is a “thoughtful, generous, and relevant piece on issues raised by the promise of land.”
The CTS looks forward to hearing Mr. Park deliver his paper at the meetings in Fredericton on Tuesday, May 31 at 10:40am. We hope that you will attend to welcome and encourage this new scholar.
Posted: March 21, 2011 in category: Announcements