Category: Congress

Registration for the CTS meeting at Congress, May 31 to June 2 is available on the Congress 2010 website.

There is an early-bird deadline fast approaching on April 1st. “The payment of Congress registration and Association meeting fees are compulsory for every delegate, including speakers, presenters, panelists and those chairing or attending a session.” Congress registration is also required for access to the Book Fair.

When registering, don’t forget to include your registration for the CTS Association meeting. The CTS association meeting fee is only $10 (or $8 for students, retired, and unwaged).

REMEMBER: The Association Fees paid to Congress are not for membership in CTS, they are only for attending the CTS meeting. To join or renew your CTS membership, please visit http://cts-stc.ca/membership/.

Those who have already renewed their CTS membership will be receiving an email from SAGE Publishers soon regarding online access to the journal Studies in Religion. SAGE will be sending you an account number and instructions for access to their website. You will be required to establish a username and password on their website to allow you to access full-text of the latest SR issue and past issues. You will also receive a print copy of the journal.

If you have not yet sent your membership renewal, please download the membership form and send it to Rob Fennell with your membership fee. We will add you to the SR subscription list and ensure that you get back issues.

The deadline for proposals for the CTS annual meeting is extended until January 31, 2010. In addition to regular papers (40 minute presentation), the CTS invites proposals for works-in-progress (20 minute presentation plus extended discussion) and panel discussions (on a book, theme, etc.). See the complete 2010 Call for Papers.

Please forward this message to colleagues in theology who may not be CTS members.

Canadian Theological Society / Société théologique canadienne

Student Essay Contest

Subject: “Connected Understanding” or another topic in theology

Eligibility: any Canadian student currently registered in a university or theological college, in Canada or elsewhere, or any other student registered in a Canadian university or theological college

Length: 20 pages, typed and double spaced (5,000 words)

Due Date: February 5, 2010 (by e-mail only)

Essays need not be written originally for this contest and may be assignments from a course in theology or religious studies. The topic, however, must be theological in nature. This year’s theme allows for exploration of, for example, theology and globalization, the relation of theology to other disciplines, or the relation of Christianity to other religions.

A letter or e-mail from a member of the theological or religious studies department to which the student belongs, indicating that the student is registered and in good standing with the university or college, must also be submitted for each applicant.

The author of the winning essay will receive a $100 student prize; an invitation to read the paper at the annual meeting of the Canadian Theological Society at Concordia University, Montreal, 31 May-2 June 2010; payment of conference registration and accommodation costs; and a subvention towards travel costs.

Send essays by e-mail by February 5, 2010 to Lee Cormie at lee.cormie@utoronto.ca

Please include with your submission: institutional affiliation, mailing address, phone number(s), and e-mail address. Submission via e-mail attachment in Microsoft Word is preferred.

Send letters verifying a student’s registration in a theological college or university to the above e-mail address, or by mail to Lee Cormie, Faculty of Theology, St. Michael’s College, 81 St. Mary St., Toronto, ON  M5S 1J4

Call for Papers:

Canadian Evangelical Theological Association

Annual Meeting

Concordia University, Montréal

May 30, 2010

The Executive of the Canadian Evangelical Theological Association (CETA) welcomes proposals for papers to be presented at the May 30, 2010 Annual Meeting to be held in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences at Concordia University in Montréal.

CETA encourages submission of high quality papers on any topic of theological relevance to Canadian Evangelicalism. The theme for this year’s Congress is Connected Understanding (www.congress2010.ca). Papers which address this theme in relation to Canadian Evangelicalism are encouraged.

Papers should be scholarly but not highly specialized presentations aimed at an audience of scholars from across the spectrum of theological disciplines, including biblical studies and historical, systematic, moral and pastoral theology. Proposals from graduate students are welcome.

Proposals should be approximately 250 words in length and should be accompanied by a short CV. To facilitate anonymous review of proposals, please include your name, institutional affiliation, and contact information on a separate page from your paper proposal.  All proposals should be submitted electronically to the address below in either Word or PDF format by February 15, 2010. Please entitle your email “CETA 2010 Paper Proposal.” Papers chosen for participation will be notified by March 5, 2010.

Email all conference paper proposals to:

Dr. Jeffrey McPherson
President, Canadian Evangelical Theological Association
jeffrey.mcpherson@taylor-edu.ca

Annual Meeting
Concordia University, Montréal
May 31st to June 2nd, 2010
Connected Understanding

The 2010 Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences theme of “connected understanding” invites an exploration of the impact of digital technology on scholarly research and research-creation, the links that scholars make with their colleagues in other fields and with larger audiences beyond the academic world. Theological reflections on this theme may include topics such as:

• the synergies of interdisciplinary work in theology (with bioengineering, cosmology, ecology, epidemiology, genetics, nanoscience, neuropsychology, political science, popular culture, literature, etc.)
• engagements between theological doctrine and preaching
• digital technology’s influence on church and theological scholarly practice
• public theology and a multi-faith, intercultural society
• engagements with theologies of the global south
• ministry in unconventional settings

While we invite you to submit proposals on any theological subject, we encourage you to consider topics which relate to this theme.

See the complete 2010 Call for Papers.

Congrès annuel
Université Concordia, Montréal
du 21 mai au 2 juin 2010
Le savoir branché

Le thème du Congrès des sciences humaines 2010 évoque l’impact croissant de la technologie numérique sur la recherche et sur la recherche-création.  Il renvoie aussi aux liens que les chercheurs créent avec des confrères travaillant dans d’autres domaines et avec le public au-delà du milieu universitaire.  La réflexion théologique sur ce thème peut inclure des sujets tels que :

• la réflexion théologique interdisciplinaire (en lien avec le génie biologique, la cosmologie, l’écologie, l’épidémiologie, la génétique, les nanosciences, la neuropsychologie, les sciences politiques, la culture populaire, la littérature)
• les relations  entre la doctrine théologique et le sermon
• les effets des technologies numériques sur les communautés religieuses et la réflexion théologique
• la théologie publique et une société multiconfessionnelle et multiculturelle
• l’engagement avec des théologies de l’hémisphère  sud
• le ministère dans les lieux non-traditionnels

Bien que nous vous invitons à soumettre des propositions sur n’importe quel sujet théologique, nous vous encourageons à considérer des sujets reliés à ce thème.

Voir l’appel de communications pour Congrés 2010.

Professor Jay Newman

Jay Newman was a former president and long time member of CTS. 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. It is his generosity that enables us to launch this annual lecture this year.

We welcome Professor John Schellenberg to give the 2009 inaugural lecture. John Schellenberg holds an Oxford D.Phil. His first book is the well known Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason. He has just finished a trilogy on the philosophy of religion: Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Religion (2005), The Wisdom to Doubt: a Justification of Religious Skepticism (2007), The Will to Imagine: A Justification of Skeptical Religion (2009).

Dr. Schellenberg’s lecture, entitled “Philosophy of Religion: A State of the Subject Report“, will address why philosophy of religion today is so often theologically conservative — the resulting demarcation problem — how both religious and philosophical assumptions are hindering insight in contemporary philosophy of religion — how the resolution of these problems is likely to favour non-conservative rather than conservative theology. The lecture will be given as part of the Annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences on Tuesday, May 26th at 11:25 am in the Herzberg Building, room 4351, at Carleton University. For further details, see the complete CTS 2009 program.

Dear Members of CTS:

Welcome to new members, and greetings to all.

Next year’s meeting of the CTS is June 2-4 in Vancouver. The theme of the 2008 Congress is

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

Please post the attached Call for Papers and consider papers and or panels which you would like to propose on the theme or other areas of interest. Although the deadline for proposals is January 11, 2008, I would encourage the membership to begin consideration of possible panels now. I would particularly encourage creative formats for proposals, which may require extra time to prepare. Might we explore together alternative pedagogical styles and theories? Joint sessions with our partner societies, such as CSSR, CSBS, CSCH, and CSPS are also strongly encouraged.

The CTS Executive would like to decide on a speaker for our joint lecture in 2010 as the Congress meets at Concordia. We invite you to consider possible speakers that will appeal to our partner members of the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion, the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies, the Canadian Society of Church History and the Canadian Society of Patristic Studies. In the past we have hosted such renowned scholars as Larry Rasmusssen and Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz. Please send suggested names to us by the end of August so that we may begin initial contact and confirm the speaker’s availability.

I’m looking forward to serving you this year as President of the CTS.

Shalom,
Loraine MacKenzie Shepherd