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THE
AMERICAN THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Midwest Division
The One Hundred Fifty-Sixth
Meeting
Friday, October 28, 2005
Lutheran
School of Theology at Chicago
1100 East 55th
Street, Chicago, IL 60615
THEOLOGICAL
TABLE -TALK
1:00-2:45 p.m., Third
Floor Common Room (Room 350)
Multiculturalism,
Africentrism, and the Theology of World Religions:
The Theological Legacy
of J. Deotis Roberts
Gary Dorrien
Reinhold Niebuhr Professor
of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary (New York)
Registration and Afternoon
Refreshments, 2:45-3:15 p.m.
AFTERNOON
PROGRAM
3:15-4:30 p.m., Third
Floor Common Room (Room 350)
Womanist Scholarship
& Being Human in Black Folk Tales
Dwight N. Hopkins
Professor of Theology,
University of Chicago
Hospitality Hour 4:30-5:00
p.m.; Dinner and Business Meeting, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
EVENING
PROGRAM
6:30-8:00 p.m.,
Third Floor Common Room (Room 350)
Black Theology &
Womanist Theology in Dialogue:
Which Way Forward
for the Church and the Academy?
Linda E. Thomas
Professor of Theology
and Anthropology, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
ATS Officers (Midwest
Division)
Antje Jackelén, President
Mary C. Doak, Member-at-Large
Robert Cathey, Vice President
Paul P. Parker, Secretary/Treasurer
The
Program: The Midwest Division of the American Theological
Society is a regional organization of scholars who teach
and publish in the fields of religious studies. The Society’s
semi-annual meetings often reach beyond its local membership
to invite scholars from across the country and around the
world to present papers and to participate in vigorous discussions.
For this meeting, the Executive Committee is pleased to
call attention to the work of three scholars whose contributions
are critical for African American religious studies. We
are a community of scholars engaging each other’s
best thinking.
The one hundred fifty-sixth meeting
of the Society’s Midwest Division will open with Theological
Table-Talk in which Gary Dorrien (the new Reinhold Niebuhr
Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary
(NYC) and the immediate past president of the Midwest Division
of the ATS) will offer a critical overview of the thought
of Deotis Roberts followed by a discussion of Roberts’
place in the American theological scene. In the afternoon
and evening sessions the Society will turn its attention
to Womanist contributions to the academy and the church
in papers presented by Dwight Hopkins and Linda Thomas.
The tradition of the society is to have an extensive critical
conversation after each paper.
Housing,
Registration, and Dinner Reservations: The Executive
Committee’s task of planning the Society’s semiannual
meeting is greatly eased if members pre-register for
the meeting and make reservations for dinner. To pre-register
and to reserve your place at the table, please call, write
or email Paul Parker and declare your intentions: office
phone (630) 617-3559; paulp@elmhurst.edu; or Department
of Theology and Religion–Box 26, Elmhurst College,
190 Prospect Ave., Elmhurst, IL 60126.
Because ATS meetings are partially
supported by the host institutions of its semi-annual meetings,
there is no registration fee and only nominal dining expense.
For this meeting, the Society has asked the Zygon Center
for Religion and Science to cater the evening meal for which
members may pay at the meeting when they sign-in. We estimate
that dinner will cost less than $18.00–and be excellent!
To arrange overnight housing, please
contact Marcy Gaston of the Zygon Center: phone: (773) 256-0670,
fax (773) 256-0682) or email .
Dues:
Annual membership dues (to cover the costs of printing,
postage, refreshments, and other incidentals) are $15 for
members and $10 for associate members to be paid to the
Secretary/Treasurer, Paul Parker, each year at the fall
meeting. If you have not yet paid your dues for last year,
you may attend to the oversight at this fall’s meeting
or at any time through the mail. Attention to this is appreciated.
Directions
and Parking: Directions to the Lutheran School of Theology
at Chicago, parking information, and a map of the campus
are conveniently located on its website at www.lstc.edu.
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