Updated 9/15/97. Modifications in green.
Tentative and Subject to Change and Additions
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 |
7:009:00 p.m. |
Plenary Session 1
Alvin Plantinga: "Christian Scholarship: Need" |
Friday,
October 10th |
8:3010:45 a.m. |
Concurrent Session 1 Module A
- Dean Gueras: "Rorty & the Postmodern Rejection of Absolute Truth"
- Daniel Seidell: "A Christian Approach to the History of Modern Art"
- Terry B. Elwell: "What is Christian Music?"
Module B
- Peter Payne: "Impact of Metaphysical Beliefs on Ethical Claims"
- William Monsma: "Faith and Rationality"
- Michael Corey: "Role of Supernatural Agency in the Modern Scientific Method"*
Module C
- Carl Springer: "The Hermeneutics of Innocence & Literary Criticism"
- Harold Delaney & Tim Goldsmith: "Scientific Psychology and Christian
Theism"
- John Kok: "Differences a Christian Perspective Makes for the Social Sciences"
Module D
- Linda Jacobs: "Embarrassing Words in Contemporary Literary
Culture"
- Rob Lovering: "Is Plantinga Really a Reformed
Epistemologist"
- Jim Marten: "The Enobling Interchange: Literature as
Incarnation, and Sacrament"
|
10:4511:00 a.m. |
Break |
11:00 a.m.12:30 p.m. |
Plenary Session 2
Alvin Plantinga: "Christian Scholarship: Nature" |
12:301:30 p.m. |
LUNCH: Banquet at the University Club (main floor) |
1:303:00 p.m. |
Concurrent Session 2 Module A
- Jan Thomas: "Teaching Values: Applied Ethics and Moral Literature"
- Larry Harwood: "Christian Perspective on the History of Philosophy"
Module B
- Douglas Groothuis: "Christian Scholarship and the Philosophical Analysis
of Cyberspace Technologies"
- Mary Poplin: "Theoretical Assumptions of Religious Work Versus Social Work"*
Module C
- Douglas Henry: "A Virtue Ethic for Christian Academics"*
- Gregory Ganssle: "A Doxastic Approach to Christian Scholarship"
Module D
- William Cox: "The Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom"*
- Kevin Belmonte: "Christians and the Writing of History"
|
3:003:15 p.m. |
Break |
3:154:45 p.m. |
Plenary Session 3
George Marsden: "What Difference Christian Perspectives Make for the
Humanities" |
4:455:00 p.m. |
Break |
5:006:00 p.m. |
Panel Discussion 1
Panelists: Alvin Plantinga, George Marsden, and other TBN. |
Saturday,
October 11th |
8:3010:45 a.m. |
Concurrent Session 3 Module A
- Larry Vardiman: "Non-Newtonian Science: A Fear of Scripture"
- Alan Davy: "Rational But Wrong: Thomas Jefferson's Scientific Opinions"
- Jim Stump: "Science, Metaphysics, and Worldviews"*
Module B
- Jerry Sherman: "Epistemological Repentance"
- Bill Rocha: "Development of Christian Rhetorical Theory"
- Dennis Miller: "The Christian Perspective and the Pursuit of Knowledge"
Module C
- Homer White: "Mathematics and Christian Theism"
- John McIntyre: "The Logical Fallacy Connecting Science to Christian Beliefs"
- Dave Scott: "Reinventing a 'Technology' of Intellectual
Integration: A Historical Case Study"
Module D
- H. Malcolm Newton: "Evangelical Scholarship and the Case of
the Urban Underclass"
- Gordon Lewis: "Creationists of the World, Unite"
|
10:4511:00 a.m. |
Break |
11:0012:30 p.m. |
Plenary Session 4
William Alston: "Realism and the Christian Faith" |
12:301:30 p.m. |
Lunch (On your own) |
1:302:45 p.m. |
Plenary Session 5
Alvin Plantinga: "Two (or More) Kinds of Scripture Scholarship" |
2:453:00 p.m. |
Break |
3:004:00 p.m. |
Panel Discussion 2
Panelists: William Alston, Alvin Plantinga, and others TBA. |
Conference
Ends
(Party at Dr. Ed Miller's 7:009:30 p.m.) |