Sixth Biennial Conference
 Samford University
 Birmingham, Alabama

September 19-21, 1997

Schedule of Presentations

Friday, September 19

Noon - 3:00 p.m. Registration - Chapman Hall, Auxiliary Room and hallway (ground level)

2:00-3:30 p.m. Sessions 1 and 2

Session 1 -- Religion and Science Chapman Hall, Room 316
Chair: Clint Ashley (Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary)

  • "Science, Religion, and the Human Genome Project"
    Isaac M. T. Mwase (Ouachita Baptist University)

  • "Which Rationality? Hermeutical Philosophy and Murphy's Research Program"
    Dan R. Stiver (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary)

    Session 2 -- Ethical Issues Chapman Hall, Room 318
    Chair: Wes Lites (Jefferson Community College)

  • "Of Course It's Wrong, But I Would Do It"
    David M. Holley (University of Southern Mississippi)

  • "Ethics and the Professional Veterinarian"
    Edwin Bagley (Wingate University)

    • 3:30-5:00 p.m. Sessions 3 and 4

    Session 3 -- Universals and the Good Chapman Hall, Room 316
    Chair: Don Olive (Carson-Newman College)

  • "With Mill and Moore in Search of the Good"
    David L. Wheeler (Central Baptist Theological Seminary)

  • "Scientia in the Ockham-Burleigh Debate"
    J. Todd Buras (M.Div. student, Yale Divinity School)

    Session 4 -- Postmodernism Chapman Hall, Room 318
    Chair: Wayne Swindall (California Baptist College)

  • "Do We Want to Raise Our Children in Richard Rorty's Liberal Democracy?"
    Dennis Sansom (Samford University)

  • "An Error of Postmodernism: Constructionism and Philosophical Counseling"
    Joe Frank Jones, III (Barton College)
    • 5:00-7:00 p.m. -- Break and Dinner, Beeson University Center, Cafeteria

    7:00-7:30 p.m. -- Welcome and Local Information, Chapman Hall, Room 318

    7:30-9:00 p.m. Sessions 5 and 6 (with Session 6 ending at 8:15 p.m.)

    Session 5 -- Forum: Teaching Philosophy with New Technologies
    Chapman Hall, Room 212 (Computer Lab)

  • Chair: Byron Eubanks (Ouachita Baptist University)
  • Participants: Scott H. Moore (Baylor University), Mike Awalt (Belmont University), and Ronnie Littlejohn (Belmont University)

    Session 6 -- Process Philosophy Chapman Hall, Room 316
    Chair: Dana Bible (Palm Beach Atlantic College)

  • "Whitehead and Theism"
    Lonnie R. Nelson (Ph.D. student, Tulane University)

    • Saturday, September 20

    8:30-10:00 a.m. Sessions 7 and 8

    Session 7 -- Pragmatism's Common Faith Chapman Hall, Room 316
    Chair: Michael Beaty (Baylor University)

  • "Political Justification and Religious Belief in Dewey"
    Randy Colton (Ph.D. student, St. Louis University)

  • "Common Grace, Uncommon Faith: A Climacian Response to Dewey"
    Scott H. Moore (Baylor University)

    Session 8 -- Theology in a Wittgensteinian Mode Chapman Hall, Room 318
    Chair: T. Wesley Stewart (Smyth and Helwys Publishers)

  • "Barth, Wittgenstein and Philosophy: A Comparison in Method" Jeff Willetts (Averett College)

  • "The Task of Theology and the Importance of Theological Education" Dean M. Martin (Campbell University)

    • 10:00-10:30 a.m. Break for Coffee Chapman Hall, Room 320

    10:30-12:00 p.m. Sessions 9 and 10

    Session 9 -- Pragmatism's Common Faith (cont'd) Chapman Hall, Room 316
    Chair: Michael Beaty (Baylor University)

  • "Morality and Religion in Pragmatism"
    Stuart Rosenbaum (Baylor University)

  • "Community of Choice and Community of Origin: Insights into Dewey's Theory of Communication"
    Roger Ward (Georgetown College)

    Session 10 -- Central Theological Concepts Chapman Hall, Room 318
    Chair: Robert C. Shippey, Jr. (Truett-McConnell College)

  • "Hell and the Function of Punishment"
    Charles Seymour (University of Notre Dame)

  • "'Good' and 'Bad' Difference: The Implications of Postmodern Concepts of the Other for Christian Concepts of Incarnation"
    Randall B. Bush (Union University)

    • 12:00-12:30 p.m. -- Business Meeting -- Chapman Hall, Room 318

    12:30-1:30 p.m. -- Lunch -- Beeson University Center, Cafeteria

    5:00-7:00 p.m. -- Dinner and Plenary Session
    Beeson University Center, Flag Colonnade Room
    Speaker: Kirby Godsey (President, Mercer University)

    Sunday, September 21

    8:30-10:00 a.m. Sessions 11 and 12

    Session 11 -- Eternal Destiny Chapman Hall, Room 316
    Chair: Bob Kruschwitz (Georgetown College)
  • "Personal Identity and the Afterlife" Steve W. Lemke (New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary)

  • "Temporal Aid and the Eternal Healing: The Relation of Søren Kierkegaard's The Wish to Eternal Life" Patrick Rogers-Horn (Ph.D. student, Claremont Graduate School)

    Session 12 -- Philosophy and Pedagogy Chapman Hall, Room 318
    Chair: John Meadors (Mississippi College)

  • "Spelunking with Socrates: A Study of Pedagogy in Plato's Republic"
    Victor Boutros (undergraduate student, Baylor University)

  • "The Use of Reading Questions as a Pedagogical Tool: Fostering an Interrogative, Narrative Approach to Philosophy"
    Michael Beaty (Baylor University)

    • 10:00-10:30 a.m. Break for Coffee -- Chapman Hall, Room 320

    10:30-11:30 a.m. Worship -- Beeson Divinity School Chapel
    Worship Leader: Mabry Lunceford (Samford University)

    11:30 a.m. Adjournment

    *Special thanks are due to Dennis Sansom (Samford University) for making on site arrangements.

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