Jay Newman Lecture – Janet Wesselius, PhD

The Executive of the CTS is pleased to announce that Dr. Janet Wesselius has accepted our invitation to present the Jay Newman Memorial Lecture in the Philosophy of Religion at the 2014 CTS at Brock University (Monday, May 26, 1:30pm). We would like to thank Drs. William Sweet, Yiftach Fehige, and Jean-Pierre Fortin for their work organizing the lecture.

Janet Wesselius, PhD

Dr. Janet Wesselius is Associate Dean of Teaching and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Augustana Campus of the University of Alberta. She obtained her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Vrije Universiteit (Free University) in Amsterdam, with her dissertation, “Objective Ambivalence: Feminist Negotiations in Epistemology.” Her area of specialization is feminist epistemology and philosophy of science; she has published extensively on feminist themes. She has also received numerous teaching awards, most recently the Augustana Faculty Teaching Award.

 

 

Student Networking Luncheon

Student Networking Luncheon

Canadian Theological Society Conference (Congress)

University of Victoria, May 2013

 This year CTS will repeat our highly successful Student Networking Luncheon.  This was established last year in response to concerns expressed by students concerning career prospects. In responding to this concern, voiced in 2011, the Executive of the CTS in 2012 deliberated over the efficacy of the Student Essay Contest, which saw one student paper chosen for a presentation at the conference. It was decided to use the money spent on this competition for an event that would be of service to all the students attending the annual meeting.Vsit this site to find the best check loans and more financial advice.

At the May 2013 Conference, the CTS will repeat the “speed-networking” luncheon experienced at Wilfrid Laurier University last year.  This event allows students and established scholars to interact informally within a structured environment. It is anticipated that these conversations will lead to ongoing interaction between students and established scholars both at the Congress and beyond. Our intention is to provide students with a venue in which to gather practical information regarding careers in theology. We hope this event will complement existing opportunities for interaction among new and established members.

This event will take place over lunch on Tuesday, June 4 at noon. It will be free for student members and there will be a modest cost for established scholars.

 

The Executive of the CTS invites our established members (i.e., tenured, tenure-track, emeritus, contract, retired, honourary) to share their experience and wisdom with students. And we invite students to take advantage of this opportunity.

 

To register for this event, please email: Allen Jorgenson (President-Elect, CTS) at ajorgenson@wlu.ca by April 1, 2013. Please also let us know if you have any dietary restrictions.

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

Beyond Christendom: New Maps

Dr. Justo L. GonzalezBeyond Christendom: New Maps

Dr. Justo L. González

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?

Joint CSPS/CSSR/CSBS/CTS/CSCH Lecture
organized by CTS, with financial support from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Monday, May 31, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Concordia University, 1450 Guy (Montreal)
MB 1-210, reception to follow in MB 4-101

Justo L. Gonzalez, author of the highly praised three-volume History of Christian Thought and the two-volume Story of Christianity and other major works, attended United Seminary in Cuba, received his M.A. at Yale, and was the youngest person to be awarded a Ph.D. in historical theology at Yale. Dr. Gonzalez is now on the faculty of the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta.

2010 Newman Lecture

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
John W. McConnell Professor of Philosophical Theology & Philosophy of Religion,
Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010, 11:30 am-12:30 pm
Concordia University, 1450 Guy (Montreal)
MB 3-430

A new lectureship made possible by the estate of the late Jay Newman, a long time member and former president of the Canadian Theological Society. He was a prominent Canadian scholar with a keen interest in the philosophy of religion. He authored eleven books, seven relating to religion or the religious life. He was a member of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Guelph from 1971 until his death on June 17, 2007. Professor Newman left a bequest to CTS for the purpose of endowing an annual lecture in the Philosophy of Religion.

2010 CTS program now available

The Canadian Theological Society program for Congress 2010 is now posted online. Brief descriptions (abstracts) of the papers are now available as well. Please remember that registration for Congress is administered through the Congress 2010 website. Participants and presenters are expected to register for each society where they will be participating.

Please also remember that Congress registration does not constitute membership in the CTS. To become a CTS member, please visit the CTS membership page for instructions.

UPDATES:
The Gonzalez lecture on Monday evening will be in room MB 1-210, with a reception to follow in MB 4-101
The CTS dinner on Tuesday evening, June 1st, is at Mesa 14 (1425 Bishop, at the corner of St. Catherine, walking distance from Concordia).