Conference Schedule

Tentative and Subject to Change & Additions

Updated 9/15/97. Modifications in green. Tentative and Subject to Change and Additions

*indicates abbreviated titles for some accepted abstracts

In order to accommodate the greatest number of papers, each presenter in the Concurrent Sessions will have approximately 30 minutes, followed by a 10 minute question period, and then 5 minutes for room switching.

 

Thursday, October 9th, 1997
 7:00—9:00 p.m. Plenary Session 1
Alvin Plantinga: "Christian Scholarship: Need"
Friday, October 10th
8:30—10:45 a.m. Concurrent Session 1

 Module A

  1. Dean Gueras: "Rorty & the Postmodern Rejection of Absolute Truth"
  2. Daniel Seidell: "A Christian Approach to the History of Modern Art"
  3. Terry B. Elwell: "What is Christian Music?"

Module B

  1. Peter Payne: "Impact of Metaphysical Beliefs on Ethical Claims"
  2. William Monsma: "Faith and Rationality"
  3. Michael Corey: "Role of Supernatural Agency in the Modern Scientific Method"*

Module C

  1. Carl Springer: "The Hermeneutics of Innocence & Literary Criticism"
  2. Harold Delaney & Tim Goldsmith: "Scientific Psychology and Christian Theism"
  3. John Kok: "Differences a Christian Perspective Makes for the Social Sciences"

Module D

  1. Linda Jacobs: "Embarrassing Words in Contemporary Literary Culture"
  2. Rob Lovering: "Is Plantinga Really a Reformed Epistemologist"
  3. Jim Marten: "The Enobling Interchange: Literature as Incarnation, and Sacrament"
10:45—11:00 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m.—12:30 p.m. Plenary Session 2
Alvin Plantinga: "Christian Scholarship: Nature"
12:30—1:30 p.m. LUNCH: Banquet at the University Club (main floor)
1:30—3:00 p.m. Concurrent Session 2

Module A

  1. Jan Thomas: "Teaching Values: Applied Ethics and Moral Literature"
  2. Larry Harwood: "Christian Perspective on the History of Philosophy"

Module B

  1. Douglas Groothuis: "Christian Scholarship and the Philosophical Analysis of Cyberspace Technologies"
  2. Mary Poplin: "Theoretical Assumptions of Religious Work Versus Social Work"*

Module C

  1. Douglas Henry: "A Virtue Ethic for Christian Academics"*
  2. Gregory Ganssle: "A Doxastic Approach to Christian Scholarship"

Module D

  1. William Cox: "The Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom"*
  2. Kevin Belmonte: "Christians and the Writing of History"
3:00—3:15 p.m. Break
 3:15—4:45 p.m. Plenary Session 3
George Marsden: "What Difference Christian Perspectives Make for the Humanities"
4:45—5:00 p.m. Break
5:00—6:00 p.m. Panel Discussion 1
Panelists: Alvin Plantinga, George Marsden, and other TBN.
Saturday, October 11th
8:30—10:45 a.m. Concurrent Session 3

Module A

  1. Larry Vardiman: "Non-Newtonian Science: A Fear of Scripture"
  2. Alan Davy: "Rational But Wrong: Thomas Jefferson's Scientific Opinions"
  3. Jim Stump: "Science, Metaphysics, and Worldviews"*

Module B

  1. Jerry Sherman: "Epistemological Repentance"
  2. Bill Rocha: "Development of Christian Rhetorical Theory"
  3. Dennis Miller: "The Christian Perspective and the Pursuit of Knowledge"

Module C

  1. Homer White: "Mathematics and Christian Theism"
  2. John McIntyre: "The Logical Fallacy Connecting Science to Christian Beliefs"
  3. Dave Scott: "Reinventing a 'Technology' of Intellectual Integration: A Historical Case Study"

Module D

  1. H. Malcolm Newton: "Evangelical Scholarship and the Case of the Urban Underclass"
  2. Gordon Lewis: "Creationists of the World, Unite"
10:45—11:00 a.m. Break
11:00—12:30 p.m. Plenary Session 4
William Alston: "Realism and the Christian Faith"
12:30—1:30 p.m. Lunch (On your own)
1:30—2:45 p.m. Plenary Session 5
Alvin Plantinga: "Two (or More) Kinds of Scripture Scholarship"
2:45—3:00 p.m. Break
3:00—4:00 p.m. Panel Discussion 2
Panelists: William Alston, Alvin Plantinga, and others TBA.
Conference Ends
(Party at Dr. Ed Miller's 7:00—9:30 p.m.)