Eighth Biennial Conference
 Baylor University
 Waco, Texas

September 22-24, 2000

Schedule of Presentations

Friday, September 22

1:00-5:00 p.m.  Registration

2:00-3:15 p.m.

Session I.A - Rayzor Room

"Bertrand Russell Meets Karl Barth: A Venture in Philosophical Theology"

  • Presenter: Joe Barnhart (University of North Texas)
  • Respondent: Mark Stone (Furman University)

Session I.B - Tidwell 301

"On the Incarnation of a Timeless God"

  • Presenter: Doug Blount (Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary)
  • Respondent: Mike Robinson (Cumberland College)
3:30-5:30 p.m.

Session II - Tidwell 301

Introduction to the Center for Christian Ethics

  • Bob Kruschwitz (Baylor University)

Philosophical Reflections on the "Baptist Manifesto"
  • Panel Discussion: Scott Moore (Baylor University), Curtis Freeman (Houston Baptist University), and Barry Harvey (Baylor University)
5:45-6:45 p.m.  Supper - Memorial Food Court, President's Room

7:00-9:30 p.m.

Session III.A - Rayzor Room

"The Liberal Commitment to Individual Autonomy: A Defense"

  • Presenter: Robert Baird (Baylor University)
  • Respondent: David Holley (University of Southern Mississippi)

"An Hegelian Critique of Civil Society and Civil Religion"

  • Presenter: Dennis Sansom (Samford University)
  • Respondent: John Basie (Baylor University)

Session III.B - Tidwell 301

"Paideia, Philosophy, and the University"

  • Presenter: Michael Beaty (Baylor University)
  • Respondent: Mark Anderson (Georgetown College)

"The Transgressing Academy: Baptist Distinctives and Higher Education"

  • Presenter: Roger Ward (Georgetown University)
  • Respondent: Ruth Heizer (Knoxville, Tennessee)

Saturday, September 23

8:00-10:30 a.m.

Session IV.A - Rayzor Room

Book Preview: "The Springs of Life: A Primer on the History and Theory of 'Worldview'"

  • David Naugle (Dallas Baptist University)

"Hermeneutics and Divine Discourse: A Response to Wolterstorff's Critique of Ricoeur"

  • Presenter: Dan Stiver (Logsdon School of Theology)
  • Respondent: Kent Hoeffner (Truett-McConnell College)

Session IV.B - Tidwell 301

"Disengaged Reason and Belief in God"

  • Presenter: David Holley (University of Southern Mississippi)
  • Respondent: Brian Austin (Carson Newman University)

"Fides Quaerens Intellectum"

  • Presenter: Carl G. Vaught (Baylor University)
  • Respondent: Dennis Samson (Samford University)
10:45 a.m. - Noon  Plenary Session - Tidwell 301

"The Sense of Duty Among the Virtues"
  • Bob Roberts (Baylor University)
12:00-12:30 p.m.  Business Session - Tidwell 301


Lunch on your own

Dinner Party at Michael Beaty's home at 5:00 p.m. and/or Baylor vs. South Florida at 6:00 p.m.

Sunday, September 24

8:30-11:00 a.m.

Session V.A - Rayzor Room

"Creation, Trinity, and Nothingness"

  • Presenter: Norman Brian Cubbage (Pennsylvania State University)
  • Respondent: Brad Hadaway (Georgetown College)

"Surd, God, and Creation"

  • Presenter: E. Scott Jones (University of Oklahoma)
  • Respondent: Glenn Gentry (Baylor University)

Session V.B - Tidwell 301

"A Biblical Defense of Critical Thinking"

  • Presenter: Byron Eubanks (Ouachita Baptist University)
  • Respondent: Wayne Swindall (California Baptist University)

"Critical Thinking and the Black Church"

  • Presenter: Isaac M. T. Mwase (Ouachita Baptist University)
  • Respondent: Harvey Solganick (Missouri Baptist College)
11:15-11:45 a.m.  Worship - Miller Chapel

  • Worship Leader: Dennis Sansom (Samford University)

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