Out of Bounds in Chicago
It’s time for the AAR conference, and once again your trust Out of Bounds bloggers will be representing. We are down to half our numbers this year, but Justin and I will both be giving papers over the weekend. We’d love to see you turn out and say hello.
Here’s a schedule of those sessions, plus a few more of interest that I hope to attend. Drop a note if there is anything noteworthy that you think I’ve missed, as I haven’t been able to work my way through the entire program book yet (that is why God gave us trans-Atlantic flights, after all) …
- Schleiermacher Group (A17-129)
Theme: Schleiermacher and his Readers
Saturday – 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
McCormick Place West-190B
Justin’s paper is titled “Mysticism or the Word! Emil Brunner’s Polemical Reading of Schleiermacher.”
Reformed Theology and History Group (A18-127)
Theme: One Body of Christ? Unity and Schism among Reformed Churches
Sunday – 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
McCormick Place West-194A
I’ll be giving a paper titled “On the Merits of Scrupling: Unity and Uniformity in American Presbyterianism.”
Also of note:
- Explorations in Theology and Apocalyptic (M16-201)
Paper by Aberdeen’s Phil Ziegler titled “Discipleship in an Apocalyptic Key,” with a respondent
Friday – 1:30 PM-3:30 PM
McCormick Place North-427A
Karl Barth Society of North America (P16-210)
Papers by Katherine Sonderegger and Paul Dafydd Jones
Friday – 3:15 PM-6:15 PM
McCormick Place East-258
Karl Barth Society of North America (P17-112)
Papers on Barth’s ethics / moral theology by authors David Haddorff and Gerald P. McKenny
Saturday – 9:15 AM-12:15 PM
McCormick Place West-183A
Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group and the Karl Barth Society of North America (A18-223)
Theme: Reconsidering the Relationship between Søren Kierkegaard and Karl Barth
Sunday – 1:00 PM-2:30 PM
McCormick Place West-175C
Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group (A18-281)
Theme: Christology in Barth and Tillich
Papers by Bruce McCormack, Robison James, and Tom Greggs
Sunday – 3:00 PM-4:30 PM
McCormick Place North-128
Christian Systematic Theology Section (A19-104)
Theme: The Authority of Doctrine: In Dialogue with Khaled Anatolios
Papers by George Hunsinger, Francesca Murphy, Bruce Marshall, and Matthew Levering, with a response from Khaled Anatolios
Monday – 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
McCormick Place West-183A
Teaching Religion Section and Religion and Disability Studies Group (A19-216)
Theme: Teaching Disability in the Christian Tradition
A bucket of papers with responses from Aberdeen’s Brian Brock and John Swinton
Monday – 1:00 PM-3:30 PM
McCormick Place South-105BC
Theology and Religious Reflection Section (A19-315)
Theme: Universalism: A Contested Question in Theology
Monday – 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
McCormick Place West-194A
Christian Systematic Theology Section (A20-102)
Theme: Church and State
Look especially for Scott Prather’s paper “Exousiology and Oikonomia: On The Economic Orientation of Political Power.”
Tuesday – 9:00 AM-11:30 AM
McCormick Place West-176C
See you in Chicago!
