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THE
AMERICAN THEOLOGICAL SOCIETY
Midwest Division
The One Hundred Fifty-Fifth
Meeting
Friday, April 29, 2005
Garrett-Evangelical
Theological Seminary
2121 Sheridan Road, Evanston,
IL 60201
THEOLOGICAL
TABLE -TALK
1:00-2:45 P.M., Room
105
Recent
Scholarship among the Society’s Members
Gary Dorrien, Moderator
Mary Doak, Notre Dame
University, The Public Role of the Church
Tom Gilbert, Lutheran
School of Theology at Chicago, Science, Religion and Creation
Jerry Stone, William
Rainey Harper College, The History of Religious Naturalism
Edgar Towne, Christian
Theological Seminary, Theology of Culture: God as Actual
Registration and Afternoon
Refreshments, 2:45-3:15 P.M.
AFTERNOON
PROGRAM
3:15-4:30 P.M., Room
105
The 'Unmappable Geography'
of Religion and Science: Pedagogical Questions
Jennifer Jesse, Truman
State University
Hospitality Hour 4:30-5:00
P.M.; Dinner and Business Meeting, 5:00-6:45 P.M.
THE
PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS
7:00-9:00 P. M., Room
105
Theology of Spirit:
Personalist Idealism, Nels F. S. Ferre and the Universal
Word
Gary Dorrien, Kalamazoo
College and Union Theological Seminary (New York City)
ATS Officers (Midwest
Division)
Gary Dorrien, President
Robert Cathey, Member-at-Large
Antje Jackelén, 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
semiannual 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, however, the Executive Committee is pleased
once again to call attention to its own members’ research
and publications. We are a community of scholars engaging
each other.
At 1:00 P.M. the one hundred fifty-fifth
meeting of the Society’s Midwest Division will open
with Theological Table-Talk during which four members will
present some of their most recent research for the Society’s
critique and discussion. ATS president and the newly appointed
Reinhold Niebuhr Chair in Social Ethics at Union Theological
Seminary, Gary Dorrien, will moderate the papers and discussions
by professors Doak, Gilbert, Stone, and Towne. This is an
opportunity for our colleagues to receive feedback on their
works in process, and for the Society’s members to
learn of emerging arguments in religious studies.
In the afternoon and evening sessions
the Society will turn its attention to the work of two its
most critical and faithful members. First, Professor Jennifer
Jesse will address the pedagogical riddles if not contradictions
in teaching about science and religion. Then, after dinner
and the business meeting, President Gary Dorrien will deliver
the Society’s prestigious annual Presidential Address,
Theology of Spirit: Personalist Idealism, Nels F. S.
Ferre and the Universal Word.
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, there is no registration
fee and only nominal dining expense. For this meeting members
will dine in Garrett’s cafeteria and paying for our
meals individually as we proceed through the line. Meals
average about $ 9.00.
To arrange overnight housing, please
phone Sue Fowler, Garrett’s Assistant to the Director
of Special Services, (847) 866-3950. A range of options
is available from $45.00 to $78.00.
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 did not submit your dues last fall, you
may attend to it at the spring meeting or at any time through
the mail. Attention to this is appreciated.
Directions
and Parking: Directions to Garrett-Evangelical Theological
Seminary and a map of the campus are conveniently located
on its website.
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