I am so looking forward to the FULL schedule of topics and panels that is being offered this year right at our doorstep at Seattle Pacific University. To register go to:
http://wesley.nnu.edu/wesleyan-theological-society/annual-meetings
Here is the amazing schedule:
Thursday March 21, 2013
7:00 PM Plenary Session: Walter Brueggemann,
Professor Emeritus, Columbia Theological Seminary
9:00 PM – Post-Plenary Reception
Friday March 22, 2013
7:00 AM – 8:15 AM – Women’s Caucus Breakfast
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM – Registration
8:30 AM – 5:00 PM – Exhibits
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM – Welcome and Worship
Dr. Daniel Martin, President, Seattle Pacific University
Dr. Douglas Strong, Dean, School of Theology, Seattle Pacific University
Rev. Celeste Cranston, Director, Center for Biblical and Theological Education,
Seattle Pacific University
Dr. Stephen Newby, Director, Center for Worship, Seattle Pacific University
9:00 AM – Plenary Session: Bruce D. Marshall, Lehman Chair in Christian Doctrine,
Perkins School of Theology
10:00 – Break and Exhibits
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM – BREAKOUT SESSION #1
Biblical Studies
Forum Discussion: Thomas B. Dozeman, Holiness and Ministry: A Biblical Theology of Ordination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
Moderator: Brad E. Kelle, Point Loma Nazarene University
Panelists:
• Walter Brueggeman, Columbia Theological Seminary
• Pamela Scalise, Fuller Theological Seminary, Seattle
• Brad E. Kelle, Point Loma Nazarene University
• Jack R. Levison, Seattle Pacific University
Respondent: Thomas B. Dozeman, United Theological Seminary
Ecumenical Studies
Topic: Holiness and the Wesleyan Catholic Spirit
Moderator: Kevin Watson, Seattle Pacific University
Presenters:
• Stephen Long, Marquette University, “Losing Catholicity in the Name of a ‘Catholic’ Spirit: Methodism's Theological Sectarianism”
• Scott Dermer, St. Louis University, “Participating in Grace: Augustine and Wesley as Preachers of Sanctification”
• Edgardo A. Colón-Emeric, Duke University Divinity School, “’The Complete Art of Happiness’: Listening to the Sermon on the Mount with John Wesley and Thomas Aquinas”
Historical Studies
Topic: Holiness: 19th Century Tradition and 21st Century Trajectory
Moderator: Douglas Strong, Seattle Pacific University
Panelists:
• Elaine Heath, Southern Methodist University, “The Role of Women”
• Hal Knight, Saint Paul School of Theology, “Important Theological Contributions From the 19th Century”
• Chris Momany, Adrian College, “The Connection Between Concern About Slavery and Concern About Human Trafficking”
Moral Theology 1
Moderator: Brent Peterson, Northwest Nazarene University
Presenters:
• Kevin W. Todd, Palliative Care Chaplain, Ventura County Medical Center, and Bruce V. Puckett, Director of Community Ministry, Duke University Chapel, “A Hope that Mourns: The Triduum, Lament, and Holy Dying.”
• James Gregory Crofford, Director, Nazarene Theological Institute, Africa, “Sanctified Desire? John Wesley on Temptation”
• Hunter Dale Cummings, Nazarene Theological College, “Using the Interior/Exterior Effects of Virtue in Aquinas to Better Understand the Inward/Outward Holiness of
Wesley”
Moral Theology 2
Special Presentation – “Holiness from a Radical Wesleyan Perspective,” Philip Clayton, Claremont Graduate University
Philosophical Theology
Moderator: Christina Smerick, Greenville College
Presenters:
• John M. Bechtold, University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology, “Being Holy: Heideggerian Ruminations on Sanctification”
• Benjamin Suriano, Marquette University, “Post-Marxist Forms of Holiness: Lessons from Agamben, Badiou, and Bulgakov”
• Eric Severson, Eastern Nazarene College, “Older Than Old, Newer Than New: Holiness and Time”
Practical Theology/Christian Formation
Moderator: Celeste Cranston, Seattle Pacific University
Presenters:
• Dirk R. Ellis, Pastor, Grace Chapel Church of the Nazarene, Hooksett, New Hampshire, “The Sanctification of Time: An Examination of the Calendar in Church of the Nazarene Practice and Thought”
• Jack Jackson, Claremont School of Theology, “Holiness from the Word: The perfecting role of verbal proclamation in the church's sacramental and preaching ministry”
Science and Theology
Topic: Holiness and Homosexuality
Moderator: Thomas Jay Oord, Northwest Nazarene University
Panelists:
• Randy L. Maddox, Duke Divinity School
• Brad D. Strawn, Fuller Theological Seminary
• Jeffrey T. Barker, Eastern Nazarene College
Systematic Theology
Moderator: K. Steve McCormick, Nazarene Theological Seminary
Presenters:
• Kenneth Loyer, Otterbein UMC of Spry, “Trinity and Imago Dei”
• Craig Keen, Azusa Pacific University, “Standing Up to the Coming of God”
• Doug Koskela, Seattle Pacific University, “Holiness and Catholicity: A Fruitful Tension for the Wesleyan Tradition.”
Theological Education
Moderator: Priscilla Pope-Levison, Seattle Pacific University
Presenters:
• Michael Pasquarello III, Asbury Theological Seminary, “Vocational Holiness: Pastoral Formation in the Wesleyan Spirit”
• Bradley T. Johnson, student, Asbury Theological Seminary, “The Prophetic Imagination of Mayberry: Social Holiness as a Means of Theological Education (A Multimedia Presentation)”
Women’s Studies
Moderator: Rev. Carla Sunberg, Co-District Superintendent,
East Ohio District Church of the Nazarene
Presenters:
• Michelle J. Morris, student, Southern Methodist University, “Provided They Continue in Faith, Love, and Holiness: Luther, Calvin, and Wesley on 1 Timothy 2:15”
• Rev. C. Jeanne Orjala Serrão, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, “Paul, Hagios, and Women: A Socio-Linguistic Analysis”
• Rev. Tammy Condon, Program Coordinator for Strategic Projects (Co-Pastor – KC’s Grace Church of the Nazarene), “Who is Woman; a Holiness Perspective”
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM – Lunch
• Executive Committee Meeting
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM – WTS Presidential Address, Michael Lodahl, Professor of Theology, Point Loma Nazarene University, “Holiness Where Two or Three are Gathered: The Persistence of an Idea Among Jews, Christians and Muslims”
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM – Break and Exhibits
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM – BREAKOUT SESSION #2
Biblical Studies
Moderator: William H. Malas Jr., Eastern Nazarene College
Presenters:
• Kimberly S. Majeski, Anderson University School of Theology, “Holiness in Fashion: A Consideration of Women’s Adornment in Cultic Life”
• George Lyons, Northwest Nazarene University, “Sanctification Without Separation”
• Sarah K. Whittle, Nazarene Theological College, Manchester, “A Holy People Who Practice Impurity? Pondering Paul’s Perplexity”
Bonus Section
Special Topic: Explorations in Social Holiness: A New Book Series from Emeth Press
Panelists:
• Nathan Crawford, Trinity United Methodist Church, Plymouth, IN
• Jonathan Dodrill, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
• David R. Wilson, George Fox University
Ecumenical Studies
Topic: Ecumenism in Wesleyan History
Moderator: Don Thorsen, Azusa Pacific University
Presenters:
• Kelly Yates, Nazarene Theological College “Catholic Controversy: Protestant Guilt—John Wesley’s Role in the Gordon Riots of 1780”
• Julie C. Best, Fuller Theological Seminary, “Skeptic, Shepherd or Seer: P.F. Bresee’s Mystical Vision of Holiness as an Interpretive Paradigm for his Life and Ministry”
Historical Studies
Moderator: Rod Stiling, Seattle Pacific University
Presenters:
• Christopher Richmann, student, Baylor Univeristy, “Spirit or Satan?: The Christian and Missionary Alliance on Spiritual Manifestations and Sanctification after A.B. Simpson”
• Mark K. Olson, Church of the Nazarene, “Suffering and Becoming Holy”
• Christopher P. Momany, Adrian College, “Faculty Psychology in the Holiness Theology of Asa Mahan”
• Jerome Van Kuiken, Oklahoma Wesleyan University, “"Edward Irving on Christ's Sinful Flesh and Sanctifying Spirit: A Wesleyan Appraisal."
Intercultural Studies
Moderator: Nell Becker Sweeden, Boston University
Presenters:
• Marcus Dean, Houghton College, “Holiness and Culture”
• William Andrew Schwartz, Claremont Graduate University, “Entire Sanctification and Anatta: A Wesleyan-Zen Conversation”
• Peter Bellini, United Theological Seminary, “Missio Trinitatis and Theosis”
• Keegan Osinski, Point Loma Nazarene University, “Between Uzzah and the Hemorrhaging Woman: the Effect of the Incarnation on the Meaning of Holiness”
Moral Theology
Moderator: Joseph Bankard, Northwest Nazarene University
Presenters:
• Timothy Gaines, student, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, “The Duty of Constant Communion:” Eucharistic Participation as the Shape of Christian Ethics”
• Mark Alan Murphree, Toccoa Falls College, “The Role of Prayer in Wesley’s Theology of Sanctification”
• Christopher J. Vena, Toccoa Falls College, “An Ecological Anthropological Critique of Environmental Stewardship”
• Nathan Willowby, student, Marquette University, “Holiness Theology as Response: Confronting the Marginalization of the Category of Religion”
Practical Theology/Christian Formation
Moderator: Dean Blevins, Nazarene Theological Seminary
Presenters:
• Stephen Parker, Regent University “The Dark Side of Holiness: Implications of Winnicott’s False Self for the Life of Holiness”
• Robert Pelfrey, student, Nazarene Theological College, Pastor, United Methodist Church, Midland, Texas “A Blessed Enjoyment’: Holiness as Mystical Union in Jan van Ruusbroec”
• Dean Smith, Booth College, Sydney, Australia “The Sacramental life: Towards an Integrated Christian Vision”
Science and Theology
Topic: Creatio ex Nihilo, Love, and a Holy God
Moderator: Kerry Dearborn, Seattle Pacific University
Panelists:
• Michael Lodahl, Point Loma Nazarene University
• Thomas Jay Oord, Northwest Nazarene University
• Richard Rice, Loma Linda University
Systematic Theology
Moderator: K. Steve McCormick, Nazarene Theological Seminary
Presenters:
• Tim Crutcher, Southern Nazarene University, “’The Convergence of the Twain’: And Essay Toward an American Holiness Relational Theology.”
• Brent Peterson, Northwest Nazarene University, & Stephen Riley, Northwest Nazarene University “Beyond Fear and Loathing: Implications for a Theology of Holiness in a Wesleyan Hermeneutics of the Old Testament.”
• Rusty Brian, Pastor, KC Trinity Church of the Nazarene & Ryan Hansen, Pastor, Grace Fellowship Church of the Nazarene, “Taking the White Paper Seriously: An “Interdisciplinary” Examination of the Church of the Nazarene’s Article X.”
Theological Education
Moderator: Bradley T. Johnson, student, Asbury Theological Seminary
Forum Discussion: Theological Education and Christian Higher Education
Presenters:
• John W. Hawthorne, Spring Arbor University “Wesleyan Implications for Christian Higher Education”
• Stephen W. Rankin, Chaplain, Southern Methodist University, “Searching for a Wesleyan Pedagogy for Church-Related Higher Education”
Panelists:
• Ron Benefiel, Point Loma Nazarene University
• Elaine A. Heath, Perkins School of Theology
• Randy Maddox, Duke Divinity School
Women’s Studies
Moderator: Michelle J. Morris, student, Southern Methodist
University--Dallas, Texas
Presenters:
• Rev. Abraham Ruelas, Patten University, “The Influence of Pheobe Palmer and Wesleyan Holiness on the Ministry and Teachings of Bebe Patten”
• Amanda K. DiMiele, student, “Starving for Perfection: Why Anorexia Is a Theological Issue”
• Jonathan Dodrill, Ph.D. Candidate, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, “A Different Kind of Beulah Land: Sanctifying Sinful Spaces Through Urban Renewal”
5:15 PM – 6:30 PM – Business Meeting
6:30 PM – 7:00 PM – Break
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM – Banquet
9:00 – NTC Reception
Saturday March 23, 2013
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM – Registration
8:30 AM – 4:30 PM –
Exhibits
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM –
BREAKOUT SESSION #3
Biblical Studies 1
Moderator: David Ackerman,
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM – Lunch
• Program Chairs Meeting
• Nazarene Graduate Students Meeting
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM - Closing Worship – Bishop W. Darin Moore, AME Zion Church, presiding
