Seventh Biennial Conference
September 25-27, 1998
Schedule of Presentations
New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
New Orleans, Louisiana
Friday, September 25
1:00 - 2:40 p.m. Registration - Leavell Center
- "Other Certainties and Faith" Kant Room
- Presenter: Tony Khoury (Auburn, Alabama)
- Respondent and Chair: T. Wesley Stewart (Smith and Helwys)
- "Freud's Search for his Philosophical Soul" Plato Room
- Presenter: Harvey Solganick (Missouri Baptist College)
- Respondent and Chair: Ronnie Littlejohn (Belmont University)
- "Some Epistemological Problems With Historical Claims" Kant Room
- Presenter: Bennie Crockett, Jr. (William Carey College)
- Respondent and Chair: H. Mike Awalt (Belmont University)
- "Philosophy and Contraception" Plato Room
- Presenter: Charles Seymour (University of Notre Dame)
- Respondent and Chair: Rob Provost (Wingate University)
- "Does Reasonable Nonbelief Exist?" Kant Room
- Presenter: Douglas Henry (Malone College)
- Respondent and Chair: L. Manning Garrett (University of Georgia)
- "How To Think About Environmental Ethics" Plato Room
- Presenter: Norman Wirzba (Georgetown College)
- Respondent and Chair: Steve Lemke (New Orleans Baptist Seminary)
- "Revolutionary Forgiveness" Aquinas Room
- Presenter: Marc Ellis (Baylor University)
- Chair: Michael Beaty (Baylor University)
6:00 p.m. -- Dinner at a New Orleans Restaurant or Dixieland Dinner/Jazz Cruise (return reservation form)
Saturday, September 26
- "Persons and Music Kant Room
- Presenter: Tom Buford (Furman University)
- Respondent and Chair: Bob Kruschwitz (Georgetown College)
- "Churchland's Moral Vision" Plato Room
- Presenter: Darin Davis (St. Louis University)
- Respondent and Chair: David Solomon (University of Notre Dame)
- "Do We Contribute to Deity?" Kant Room
- Presenter: Forrest Wood, Jr. (University of Southern Mississippi)
- Respondent and Chair: Carl Vaught (Baylor University)
- "Schutz and Self-Deception" Plato Room
- Presenter: Randall Colton (St. Louis University)
- Respondent and Chair: Scott H. Moore (Baylor University)
- "The Philosophical Structure of Jonathan Edwards's Religious Affections" Kant Room
- Presenter: Roger Ward (Georgetown College)
- Respondent and Chair: Stuart Rosenbaum (Baylor University)
- "Scientia in a World of More Words Than Things" Plato Room
- Presenter: J. Todd Buras (Yale University)
- Respondent and Chair: Shawn Floyd (Calvin College)
- "Teaching Bioethics Using Doctor's Dilemmas" Aquinas Room
- Presenter: Isaac Mwase (Ouachita Baptist University)
12:10-12:30 p.m. -- Business Meeting -- Kant Room
12:30- -- Afternoon activities in New Orleans
- Philosophical Reflections on the "Baptist Manifesto" Kant Room
- Chair: Scott H. Moore (Baylor University)
- Topic One: The Baptist Manifesto and E. Y. Mullins
- "E. Y. Mullins: He Ain't Such A Bad Guy"
Tim Maddox (Cambellsville University)- "Epistemological Crises, E.Y. Mullins, and Soul-Competency"
Michael Beaty (Baylor University)
- Topic Two: Postmodern Baptists and the Baptist Manifesto
- "Dissent and the Postmodern Subject in 'Reading Communities'"
Dan Stiver (Hardin-Simmons University)- "The Baptist Manifesto and Two Notions of Autonomy"
Dennis Sansom (Samford University)
- "Divine Hiddenness: What is the Problem?"
- Speaker: Jonathan Kvanvig (Texas A& M University)
Sunday, September 27
- "Achieving the Self" Kant Room
- Presenter: Robert Baird (Baylor University)
- Respondent and Chair: David Holley (Univ. of Southern Mississippi)
- "The Problem of Intuition in Perfect Being Theology" Plato Room
- Presenter: Byron Eubanks (Ouachita Baptist University)
- Respondent and Chair: D. Brian Austin (Carson-Newman College)
- "Green Character" Kant Room
- Presenter: Edwin Bagley (Wingate University)
- Respondent and Chair: Forrest Wood (Univ. of Southern Mississippi)
- "Divine Timelessness and Freedom" Plato Room
- Presenter: Michael Robinson (Cumberland College)
- Respondent and Chair: Kent Hoeffner (Truett-McConnell College)
- Worship Leader: Macklyn Hubbell (New Orleans Baptist Seminary)