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October 24, 2008
Program
All sessions will be held in the University Center on the campus of Western State
University in Cullowhee, NC.
| 8:30-9:00 |
Registration
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| 9:00-9:15 |
Welcome
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| 9:30-10:30 |
Moral Philosophy Group 1
- Wilber Mundia, “Paradigms of Paradox in Christian Reponses to Evil”
- Jim McLachlan, “Human Beings are Artistically Cruel: Reading Evil in
The Brothers Karamazov through Schelling’s Of Human Freedom”
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Group 2
- Joe Frank Jones, “God, Ethics, and Philosophy”
- P. Eddy Wilson, “Universalism and Moral Psychology”
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| 10:30-10:45 |
Break
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| 10:45-11:30 |
Historical Theology Group 1
- Ryan Neale, “Nestorius the Orthodox: A Second Look at a
Denounced Heretic” •
- Gregory B. Sadler, “An Anselmian Problematic: Justice as a
Degree of Ontological Dignity”
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Group 2
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Greg Rich, “Erasmus and Luther Debate Free Will: The
Preface”
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Christopher Hoyt, “Wittgenstein and the Scapegoat
Ritual”
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| 11:45-1:15 |
Lunch
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| 1:30-2:30 |
Group 1
- Daryl L. Hale, “Kant and Moltmann”
- Heather McDivitt, “Assisting Death: a Theological Reflection on the
Death Penalty and Assisted Suicide”
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Group 2
- Joseph Osei, “Moderate Moslems and Democracy: The Case of Dr. Ahmed
Abdulai of Ghana”
- Carrie McLachlan, “Rivers of Change and/or Structural Endurance in
Cherokee Thought”
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| 2:30-2:45 |
Break
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| 2:45-4:15 |
Group 1: Politics and Society
- Erica Cribbs, “The Role of Civil Religion in the Upcoming U.S.
Presidential Election”
- Professor N. Samuel Murrell and Christopher Ripley (student) “Civil
Disobedience, Law, and Religion, an Uncomfortable Trinity”
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Group 2: Biblical Studies/Women's Studies
- Renee Lynn Farrar, “Judith as Metaphor for an Ambiguously Gendered
God”
- Brittany N. Andrews, “A Travesty of Injustice or a Woman’s Woe?”
- Lynn Poland, “Genesis where God Brings the Animals to Adam ‘to see
what he will call them’.”
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| 4:15-5:00 |
Business Meeting and Closing
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Chair |
Heather
McDivitt
Dept. of Religion and Philosophy
Wingate University
Campus Box 3038
Wingate, NC 28174
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Phone: (704)
233-8082
E-mail:
hmcdivitt@wingate.edu
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| Local Arrangements |
Christopher Hoyt
Dept. of Philosophy and Religion
Western Carolina University
Cullowhee, NC 28723 |
Phone: (828)
227-3972
E-mail: CHOYT@wcu.edu |
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