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Christianity and the Soul of the University:
Faith as a Foundation for Intellectual CommunityThursday, March 25-Saturday, March 27, 2004
Baylor University, Waco, TexasSchedule
Please note that this schedule is subject to change (last revision: 3/25/2004).
Information
The registration and information table in the foyer of the second floor of the Bill Daniel Student Center will be staffed until 5:30 p.m. each day of the conference.
Please visit the exhibitors in the foyers of the second and third floors of the Bill Daniel Student Center.
All meals for registered attendees will be held in the Banquet Room on the fifth floor of the Cashion Academic Center of the Hankamer School of Business.
There is a food court on the first floor of the Bill Daniel Student Center.
Locations (please refer to the campus map at http://www.baylor.edu/map/)
Bill Daniel Student Center, Second Floor: Gregory, Barfield, Baines, Fentress, White Beckham
Bill Daniel Student Center, Third Floor: Cowden, Claypool, Lipscomb, Houston
Hankamer School of Business, Cashion Academic Center, Fifth Floor: Banquet Room, Blume Conference Center
Thursday, March 2512:00 to 1:00 p.m.
Registration/Check In – 2nd Floor Foyer, Bill Daniel Student Center
1:00-1:15 p.m.
Opening Remarks – Barfield Drawing Room
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
The Struggle for Christian Identity through Curriculum – Houston
Organized by the International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Eduation
Chair:
• Nick Lantinga, International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education
Speaker:
• Hubert Krygsman, Dordt College: The Soul of the Curriculum: A Framework for Integral Christian Education
Responses:
• Susan Felch, Calvin College
• Michael Vander Weele, Trinity Christian CollegeCreating and Sustaining a Journal on Faith-Learning Issues: The Case of Intégrité: A Faith and Learning Journal – Baines
Organized by Intégrité: A Faith Learning Journal, Missouri Baptist University
Speakers:
• John Han, Missouri Baptist University: Launching a Faith-Learning Journal: The Genesis, Procedure, Accomplishments, and Challenges
• Clark Triplett, Missouri Baptist University: Finding a Balance between Critical Inquiry and Faith Commitment in the Review of Journal Articles
• Cordell Schulten, Missouri Baptist University: Some Limitations on Faith and Learning Integration
• Brenda Bradford, Missouri Baptist University: In Search of Funding Sources: Financing the JournalReclaiming the Arts – Claypool
Chair:
• Mark Hijleh, Houghton College
Speakers:
• Rachel Hostetter Smith, Taylor University: On the Recovery of Beauty
• Lloyd Arnett, Trinity Western University: The Sacred Precinct: Reclaiming the Place of the Christian Humanist Tradition of Theatre Art in the 21st Century Intellectual Community
• Justyna Braun, Franciscan University: Who is Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf? – Recovering a Christian Worldview through Modern Art and LiteratureWhen God Skips School: New Perspectives on the History of Secularization in American Higher Education – Barfield
Chair:
• Noelle Wiersma, Whitworth College
Speakers:
• Phil Harold, Winebrenner Theological Seminary: A “Great Antagonism”? The Conflict between Faith and Learning in Student Cultures of American Universities in the Late Nineteenth Century
• Robert Wilson-Black, University of St. Francis (Illinois): “Christian Theology as Ambiguous Religion in Academe”: Protestant Attempts to Reconvert Elite Colleges in the New Religion Departments of the Mid-twentieth Century
Response:
• Bradley J. Longfield, University of Dubuque Theological SeminaryJohn Henry Newman and the University – Beckham
Chair:
• Storm Bailey, Luther College
Speakers:
• Steve Oldham, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor: The Promise of Postfoundational Theology at the Religiously-Affiliated University
• Steve Weathers, Abilene Christian University: The Soul (Faculty and Administrators Optional) of Newman’s University
• Duane F. Bruce, St. Anselm College: John Henry Newman on the Ends of University EducationMinding the Curriculum – Lipscomb
Chair:
• Jan Evans, Baylor University
Speakers:
• Michael Smith, Taylor University: The Soul of the Curriculum: The Humanities in Christian Higher Education
• Randall Smith, University of St. Thomas (Texas): Christianity and the Liberal Arts: Intellectual Community as a Foundation for FaithHistorical Scholarship as if the Incarnation Mattered: Part 1 – Cowden
Speakers:
• C. John Sommerville, University of Florida: Introduction
• Jon Boyd, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship: Who Says? Musing on Anonymity in Scholarship
• Albert Louis Zambone, University of Oxford: In the Scholar’s Study3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Religious at Heart: Christian Callings in Higher Learning – Barfield
Organized by Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship
Chair:
• Steven Pounders, Baylor University
Speakers:
• Susan Felch, Calvin College: Doubt and the Hermeneutics of Delight
• Arie Leegwater, Calvin College: On the Incompatibility of Science and Religion?Faculty and Mission: Three Centers at Catholic Universities – Beckham
Organized by the Bannan Center for Jesuit Education, Santa Clara University
Speakers:
• T. Frank Kennedy, Jesuit Institute at Boston College: Issues of Faith and Culture: Multiple Levels of Faculty Dialogue
• James Heft, Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies, University of Dayton: Muti-Level, Multi-Form and Multi-Disciplinary
• William Spohn, Bannan Center, Santa Clara University: Understanding the Faith That Does JusticeChristian Scholarship in Political Science: Past, Present and Future – Claypool
Organized by Christians in Political Science
Chair:
• Amy Black, Wheaton College
Speakers:
• Amy Black, Wheaton College: Christianity and American Political Institutions
• Clarke Cochran, Texas Tech University: Christianity and Political Theory
• Brent Nelsen, Furman University: Christianity and Comparative Politics
• Corwin Smidt, Calvin College: Christianity and Electoral BehaviorThe Discourse and Descriptive Dilemma: Evaluations of Southern Baptist Models of Faith and Learning – Houston
Chair:
• Timothy R. McKinney, Baylor University
Speakers:
• Glenn M. Robins, Georgia Southwestern State University: An Interfaith Dialogue: A Jesuit Model for Southern Baptist Higher Education
• John Wells, Carson-Newman College: Decisionism, Quietism, and Constraining Parameters: Confronting the Obstacles to Christian Liberal Arts
Response:
• Douglas Weaver, Baylor UniversityTeaching about Christianity at a Secular University: The Christian Studies Cluster at Wesleyan University – Baines
Chair:
• Todd Buras, Baylor University
Panelists:
• Steven Horst, Wesleyan University
• Cecilia Miller, Wesleyan University
• Eugene Klaaren, Wesleyan UniversityThe Intellectual Life of the Christian Scholar – Lipscomb
Chair:
• Sam Powell, Point Loma Nazarene University
Speakers:
• Deborah Savage, University of St. Thomas (Minnesota): Conversion as a Foundation for Intellectual Community
• Maxie Burch, Grand Canyon University: From Reflective Faith to Prophetic Voice: The Christian University, the Christian Scholar and the Challenge of Intellectual and Spiritual TransformationThe Writer and Christian Intellectual Life – Fentress
Chair:
• Donald Fox, Baylor University
Speakers:
• Jason Peters, Augustana College: Flannery O’Connor on Fiction: A Model for Christian Intellectual Labor
• Daniel Ritchie, Bethel College: Personal Knowledge and Faith Commitment in William Cowper’s Satire of the EnlightenmentThe Future of Protestant Higher Education in America – Gregory
Chair:
• Todd Still, Baylor University
Speaker:
• Daniel H. Williams, Baylor University: Protestantism and Its Vocation in Higher Education
Responses:
• Ralph Wood, Baylor University
• Barry Hankins, Baylor UniversityHistorical Scholarship as if the Incarnation Mattered: Part 2 – Cowden
Speakers:
• Lendol Calder, Augustana College: For Teachers to Live, Professors Must Die
• Mike Kugler, Northwestern College (IA): Faust’s Bastards: Academic Humility in the Shadow of the Cross
• Lauren Winner, Columbia University: The Place of Scholarship6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Dinner – Banquet Room
7:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Plenary Presentation – Banquet Room
Richard Hays, Duke Divinity School: The Palpable Word as Ground of Koinonia
Friday, March 268:30 to 10:00 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Scholarship and Christian Faith: Enlarging the Conversation by Douglas and Rhonda Jacobsen of Messiah College – A Panel – Barfield
Organized by the Pepperdine Center for Faith and Learning
Moderator:
• Richard Hughes, Pepperdine University
Panelists:
• Barbara DeConcini, American Academy of Religion
• Mark Edwards, Harvard University
• Maxine Walker, Point Loma Nazarene UniversityThe Struggle for the Heart of the Professor – Houston
Organized by the International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education
Chair:
• Nick Lantinga, International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education
Speakers:
• M. Elaine Botha, Redeemer University College, Discipling the Scholar and Teaching the Teacher: Towards a ‘Theology’ of Faculty Development
• Craig Bartholomew, Redeemer University College, How Should Christian Scholars Read the Bible? Is Christian Scholarship Alive and Well?
Responses:
• Emmanuel Ayee, Dordt College
• David Cunningham, Hope CollegeLiterature and the Soul of the University – Claypool
Organized by the Conference on Christianity and Literature
Speakers:
• Emily Griesinger, Azusa Pacific University: Recovery of Hope: Eschatology and the Re-Enchantment of Literature
• Jonathan Wade, Abilene Christian University: The Pedagogy of Faith in Doubt: Using Literature to Challenge Dogmatism and Expand Faith Horizons in a Christian Institution
• Laura Barge, Mississippi State University: Exploring Christ Figures in Literature: Learning about Jesus
• Brian Conniff, University of Dayton: Disciples and Disciplines: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Vocation and the ArtsFaith/Learning Integration at Whitworth College: Theory and Praxis – Lipscomb
Organized by the Weyerhauser Center for Christian Faith and Learning at Whitworth College
Speakers:
• Dale Soden, Whitworth College: An Underlying Philosophy of Faith/Learning Integration at Whitworth College
• Arlin Migliazzo, Whitworth College: A Long Journey in Two Directions: The Epistemological Paradox of Western Education
• Noelle Wiersma, Whitworth College: Heart and Mind as Art and Science: The Wesleyan Tradition and Contemporary PsychologyChristianity and Political Liberalism – Baines
Chair:
Stephen Lake, Wheaton College
Speakers:
• Bryan T. McGraw, Harvard University: Should Christians Be Reasonable?
• Kyla Ebels Duggan, Harvard University: A Christian Perspective on Rawls’ Political Liberalism
Response:
• Jonathan Chaplin, Institute for Christian StudiesAugustine and the Aims of Christian Education – Beckham
Chair:
• Douglas Kries, Gonzaga University
Speakers:
• Douglas Kries, Gonzaga University: Augustine on the Role of Natural Science in Christian Education
• Michael Foley, University of Notre Dame: Augustine on the Role of the Liberal Arts in Christian Education
• Katherin Rogers, University of Delaware: Augustine on the Role of Philosophy in Christian EducationFaith and Teacher Education – Cowden
Speakers:
• Terry Simpson, Maryville College: Preparing Teachers (Who are Christian) to Work in Secular Public Schools: The Role of the University
• Tom Rosebrough, Melinda Clarke, and Ralph Leverett, Union University: Representing a Christian Vision of Teaching and Learning: Faith, Character, Service as an Inquiry Curriculum
Response:
• J. Wesley Null, Baylor University
• Tony Talbert, Baylor UniversityModels for the Christian Professor – Gregory
Chair:
• Marc Baer, Hope College
Speakers:
• John M. Dunaway, Mercer University: The Ultimate Why: The Vocation of a Christian Professor
• Marty McMahone, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor: Servant Leadership as a Model for Christian Teaching10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Plenary Presentation – Tidwell Bible Building, First Floor, Miller Chapel
David Jeffrey, Baylor University: Faith, Fortitude and the Future of Christian Intellectual Community in America12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Buffet – Banquet Room
CCSS Business Meeting – Blume Conference Center
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Faithful Change? Mission and Vision in Christian Higher Education – Barfield
Organized by the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities
Speakers:
• Marc Ellis, Baylor University: Expanding the View: A Jewish Assessment of Mission and Vision in Christian Higher Education
• Ronald Mahurin, Council for Christian Colleges & Universities: Christ-Centered Higher Education: What Does It Mean, and Where Is It Going?
• Robert Suggs, Ashland University: The Road Back to Jerusalem from Athens: An Impossible Journey?
Chair & Response:
• Susan VanZanten Gallagher, Seattle Pacific UniversityCelebrating the Eucharist: Embodying Faith in and for the Intellectual Community – Cowden
Chair:
• Jerold Waltman, Baylor University
Organized by the Wesleyan Center for 21st Century Studies at Point Loma University and accompanied by a celebration of the Eucharist
Speakers:
• Sam Powell, Point Loma Nazarene University: The Sacrament of Proclamation: The Christian Intellect Seeking Understanding
• Maxine Walker, Point Loma Nazarene University: The Sacrament of Remembering and Re-enactment: “By this Heavenly Art”
• Michael Leffel, Point Loma Nazarene University: The Sacrament of Interactive Embodiment: A View from Cognitive Neuroscience and PsychotherapySabbath Environmentalism – Houston
Organized by the Center for Christian Ethics at Baylor University
Chair:
• Robert Kruschwitz, Baylor University
Speakers:
• Norman Wirzba, Georgetown College: Sabbath Environmentalism
• Bret Stephenson, Baylor University: Socializing Nature: Toward A Theology of Place in Time
• Susan Bratton, Baylor University: Sabbath Traditions and the LandThe Moral Imagination – Gregory
Organized by the Gordon Center for Christian Studies
Chair:
• Louis Gallien, Regent University
Speakers:
• Mark Sargent, Gordon College: Cultivating the Moral Imagination in the Life of the Institution
• Dan Russ, Gordon College: Cultivating the Moral Imagination through the CurriculumMathematics: Human and/or Divine? – Claypool
Chair:
• Peter Maurer, Baylor University
Speakers:
• Russell W. Howell, Westmont College: Does the Success of Mathematics Defeat Naturalism?
• William A. Dembski, Baylor University: Mathematics as an Experimental ScienceWhen Worlds Collide: The Counter-Cultural Calling of the Christian Professor – Beckham
Chair:
• Marty McMahone, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Speakers:
• Richard M. Gamble, Palm Beach Atlantic University: Is It Good? The New Testament Confronts “Christian” Education
• Carol Woodfin, Palm Beach Atlantic University: The Counter-Cultural Calling of the Christian Professor as Advisor and Mentor
• Thomas St. Antoine, Palm Beach Atlantic University: Seeing Things As They Are: The Subversive Pedagogy of a Christian TeacherChristianity and the Soul of the Postmodern University – Baines
Chair:
• Duane F. Bruce, St. Anselm College
Speakers:
• Doug Mitchell, University of Mobile: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Nihilist: The Christian Scholar in a Post-Christian Age
• Roger Owens, Duke University: Plundering the Egyptians with Gregory of Nyssa, Stanley Hauerwas, and the Radically Orthodox
• Steven Harmon, Campbell University: Arguing about Our Story: Tradition, Narrative, and Communal Conflict in the Postmodern Christian UniversityTheology and the Pursuit of Knowledge – Lipscomb
Chair:
• Martin J. Medhurst, Baylor University
Speakers:
• Tom Reynolds and Bridget Burke-Ravizza, St. Norbert College: Reflections on the Vocation of the Theologian at a Catholic University
• Daniel J. Treier, Wheaton College: Biblical Theology and/or Theological Interpretation? Faithfully Connecting the Historical, Literary, and Philosophical
• Eduardo Echeverria, Sacred Heart Major Seminary: The Pursuit of Truth in Fides et Ratio: John Paul II and the Christian Intellectual Tradition3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
Catholic in a Changing Context – Barfield
Organized by the Association of Catholic Colleges & Universities
Chair:
• Robert Wilson-Black, University of St. Francis (Illinois)
Speakers:
• Monika Hellwig, Association of Catholic Colleges & Universities: The Changing Context
• Barbara Wall, Villanova University: Institutionalizing the Mission of the University
• Gene Scapanski, University of St. Thomas (Minnesota): The “Office for Mission” – A New Campus PhenomenonThe Struggle for the Heart of the University – Houston
Organized by the International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education
Chair:
• M. Elaine Botha, Redeemer University College
Panelists:
• Mike Goheen, Redeemer University College
• Al Wolters, Redeemer University CollegeSchooled but Uneducated? A Transforming Vision of Christian Higher Education – Baines
Organized by the Pew College Society at Dallas Baptist University
Chair:
• Maxie Burch, Grand Canyon University
Speakers:
• David Naugle, Dallas Baptist University: How To Get An Education Even Though You Are In College: The Pew College Society Vision and Program at DBU
• Daryl Charles, Baylor University: The ‘Idea’ of Christian Liberal Arts Education
Student Panel:
• Christi Williams, Baylor University
• Grant Daves, Dallas Baptist UniversityPsychology as Christian Vocation: Christianity’s Contributions to Scholarship and Teaching – Fentress
Organized by the Christian Association for Psychological Studies
Chair:
• David Rudd, Baylor University
Speakers:
• Peter Hill, Biola University: Giving Integration Away: What Integrative Work Offers Psychology
• Todd W. Hall & Steven L. Porter, Biola University: The Relational Nature of the Integrative Process: Linking Experiential and Conceptual Integration
• Liz Hall, Biola University: Integration in the Classroom: Teaching Students to Think Christianly‘Let us set out along Charity Street Together’: Love and Memory in St. Augustine – Gregory
Chair:
• Cathleen Corrie, Baylor University
Speakers:
• Stephen Lake, Wheaton College: Can Philosophy Be Trinitarian? Reading Augustine After Hegel
• Christina Bieber Lake, Wheaton College: A Trinity of Charity vs. a Trinity of Desire: Toni Morrison’s Beloved
• Paige Hochschild, University of Durham: Memory and the Trinity in the Early Writings of Saint Augustine
• David Wright, Wheaton College: Confessions and the Lyric Voice: Augustine’s Poetic(s) and the Social SelfBaptist Models for Intellectual Community – Lipscomb
Chair:
• Harry Poe, Union University
Speakers:
• Jonathan Parker, Daniel Skubik & H. Bruce Stokes, California Baptist University: A University Committed to the Great Commission
• Tom Wiles & Gil Stafford, Grand Canyon University: Symbol to Sacrament: Re-Inventing the Soul of a Post-denominational UniversityThinking and Teaching Christianly about Society – Cowden
Chair:
• Clarke Cochran, Texas Tech University
Speakers:
• Jonathan Chaplin, Institute for Christian Studies: Blessed Be the Ties that Bind: Theories of Civil Society in Christian Perspective
• Sarah Duggin, Catholic University of America: Faith and the Study of Business Corporations: Should the Christian Vision of Life Impact the Teaching of Secular Subjects?
• Robert Tracy McKenzie, University of Washington: A “Community” of One? Teaching History at a Secular UniversityArt and Music at the Intersection of the Academy and Culture – White
Chair:
• Robin Wallace, Baylor University
Speakers:
• Charlotte Kroeker, University of Notre Dame: Christian Music and the Soul of the University
• Mark Hijleh, Houghton College: Art Music in the Academy: Looking for a Resurrection
• Laurel Gasque, Trinity Western University: Hans Rookmaaker (1922-1977): The Impact of a 20th Century Christian Public IntellectualChristian Commitment and the Profession of Nursing – Claypool
Speakers:
• Patty Kraft and Barbara Hulsman, Carson-Newman College: Faith, Reason and Intellectualism: The Spiritual Community of Nursing Education
• Frances Strodtbeck, Baylor University: Stewardship: A Biblical Approach to Advanced Nursing Practice
• Lyn Prater and Melanie McEwen, Baylor University: Student Nurses' Thoughts on “Nursing as Calling”5:00 to 6:00 p.m.
So You Want to Be a Christian Scholar – Baines
A panel discussion for undergraduates sponsored by Baylor University’s William Carey Crane Scholars Program
Panelists:
• Roger Ward, Georgetown College
• Sarah Harper, Boston College6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Keynote Banquet – Banquet Room
7:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Keynote Address – Banquet Room
Jean Bethke Elshtain, University of Chicago: Faith and the Life of the Mind
Saturday, March 278:30 to 10:00 a.m.
Concurrent Sessions
The Soul of the Baptist University – Beckham
Organized by the Association of Southern Baptist Colleges and Schools
Chair:
• Daniel Skubik, California Baptist University
Speakers:
• Bob Agee, Association of Southern Baptist Colleges & Schools: Southern Baptist Higher Education: Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Headed
• David Dockery, Union University: Developing a Theology for Baptist Higher EducationThe University: A Place of Encounter between Faith and Culture – Houston
Organized by the Center for Faith and Culture at the University of St. Thomas (Texas)
Chair:
• Randall Smith, University of St. Thomas (Texas)
Speakers:
• Donald Nesti, University of St. Thomas (Texas): Education and the Christian Understanding of Person: Liminality and the Catholic University
• Clinton Brand, University of St. Thomas (Texas): Culture, Community and Liberal Education
• Mary Catherine Sommers, University of St. Thomas (Texas): Maintaining the Soul of the UniversityOutdoor Recreation and Spirituality: Philosophy, Pilgrimage, and Practice – Claypool
Organized by the Christian Society for Kinesiology and Leisure Studies
Chair:
• Dale Connally, Baylor University
Speakers:
• Paul Heintzman, Brock University: Outdoor Recreation and Spirituality: An Overview and Critique of Current Literature
• Susan Bratton, Baylor University: Pilgrimage and Recreational Hiking: Are They Spiritually Comparable?
Response:
• Jimmy Griffin, Jacksonville State University: Critique of a Model for Measuring Spirituality during Adventure Based ActivitiesBiblical Approaches to Learning and Knowledge – Gregory
Chair:
• Jonathan Chaplin, Institute for Christian Studies
Speakers:
• Agnia Assur and Samuel Barkat, Nyack College: Working Towards a Vision of Shalom: An Integrative Approach to Christian Scholarship, Curriculum and Teaching
• Dwaine Greene, Campbell University: Johannine Concepts of Faith as Instructive for Understanding the Intellectual Life of a UniversitySpiritual Formation throughout the Academic Life – Baines
Organized by the Emerging Scholars Network, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Chair:
• Russell W. Howell, Westmont College
Panelists:
• Marc Baer, Hope College: Calling Undergraduates to the Academy
• Nancy Thomas, Union University: Contentment and Vision in an Academic Calling
• Paul Jeffries, University of Dubuque: Christian Reflections on Excellence: Are Christian Virtues Tenure-track Virtues?
• Jon Boyd, InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries: Drawing Near to Christ: Spiritual Disciplines and the Academic LifeChristian Perspectives on Diversity – Barfield
Chair:
• Jane Kelley Rodeheffer, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota
Speakers:
• Adel Abadeer, Calvin College: Seeking Kingdom Diversity on a Christian Campus
• Aurelie Hagstrom, Providence College: Beyond Tolerance: The Biblical Notion of Hospitality as the Model of a Christian University
• Louis Gallien, Regent University and Ruth Givens, Seattle Pacific University: PEDAGOGY of Hope: Constructing a Hopeful Teaching and Learning Environment at a Christian Graduate University in an Interdenominational and Multi-Ethnic EnvironmentReflections on Faith and Reason – Lipscomb
Organized by the Society of Christian Philosophers
Chair:
• Gerald Cleaver, Baylor University
Speakers:
• Storm Bailey, Luther College: Christian Faith and the Basis of Academic Freedom
• Elmer Duncan, Baylor University: If a Man Die, Shall He Live Again? A Plea for 19th Century Studies
• Andrew Gustafson, Bethel College: Is Christian Philosophy Possible? A Response to Heidegger’s Comments on Christian PhilosophyFaith and Psychology – Cowden
Speakers:
• Harold Delaney, University of New Mexico: Human Nature, Motivation and Change: Judeo-Christian Perspectives on Psychology
• Tom Kennedy, Houston Baptist University: Psychology as Antagonist and Protagonist of a Reflective Faith: What Theory and Research Really Say
Chair & Response:
• David Rudd, Baylor University10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Plenary Presentation – Barfield
Joel Carpenter, Calvin College: The Christian Scholar in the Age of Global Christianity12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Buffet –Banquet Room
1:30 to 3:00 p.m.
Concurrent Sessions
The University’s Role in Developing a Truly Human Future – Gregory
Organized by the Carl F.H. Henry Center for Christian Leadership at Union University
Chair:
• Roger Ward, Georgetown College
Speakers:
• Greg Thornbury, Union University: Statecraft, Soulcraft and Higher Education: A Dooyeweerdian Perspective
• Harry Poe and Jimmy Davis, Union University: What Does It Mean to Be Human? A Model for Interdisciplinary Dialogue in the Modern UniversityIntelligent Faith Doing Justice – Beckham
Organized by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities
Moderator:
• Charles L. Currie, Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities
Speakers:
• Tom Landy, College of the Holy Cross: Jesuit Charisms, Stories, and the Shape of the Mission
• Christine Firer Hinze, Marquette University: Catholic Social Thought and the Advocacy-Academic Tension in "Faith Seeking Justice"
• Mark Ravizza, Santa Clara University: Do Faith and Justice Unify or Divide Us?The Struggle for Excellent Christian Higher Education – Houston
Organized by the International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education
Chair:
• Nick Lantinga, International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education
Panelists:
• M. Elaine Botha, Redeemer University College
• David Diephouse, Calvin College
• Harry Fernhout, Institute for Christian Studies
• Rockne McCarthy, Dordt College
• Mark Sargent, Gordon College
• David Weeks, Azusa Pacific UniversitySport and Religion: Sociological and Athletic Perspectives – Claypool
Organized by the Christian Society for Kinesiology and Leisure Studies
Chair:
• Dale Connally, Baylor University
Speakers:
• Jim Mathisen, Wheaton College: Religion and Sport: Thinking Christianly about Complex Relationships
• Valerie Gin, Gordon College: Transforming Sport from the Inside Out
Response:
• Rick Kreider, Baylor University: Examination of the Role that Faith, Religion, and Spirituality Play in Helping Athletes Optimize PerformanceTransitions in Church-Related Colleges – Baines
Organized by the Rhodes Consultation on the Future of Church-Related Higher Education
Chair:
• Scott Moore, Baylor University
Panelists:
• Mary E. Shields, Trinity Lutheran Seminary
• William Cahoy, St. John’s University
• John Carey, Agnes Scott CollegeChristianity and the History and Philosophy of Science – Lipscomb
Chair:
• Francis J. Beckwith, Baylor University
Speakers:
• Edward Davis, Messiah College: Is There a Christian History of Science?
• Rob Koons, University of Texas: Is There a Christian Philosophy of Science? The Christian Philosopher as Contrarian
• Kenneth Hendrickson and Glenn Sanford, Sam Houston State University: Historical Method, Scientific Method, and “Intelligent Design”The Senior Capstone and the Soul of the University – Cowden
Chair:
• Jon Boyd, InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries
Speakers:
• Susan VanZanten Gallagher, Seattle Pacific University: Capstones and Coherence: History and Possibilities
• Jane Kelley Rodeheffer, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota: Servant Leadership and Spiritual Exercises: The Soul of Capstone (Lasallian Honors Program, Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota)
• Margaret Franson, Christ College, Valparaiso University: Vocational Discernment and Autobiographical Narrative: Student Reflection in a Capstone CourseHigher Education and Global Christianity: A Panel Discussion – Barfield
Chair:
• Ward Gasque, Pacific Association for Theological Studies
Panelists:
• Martha Chan, Educational Resources and Referrals China
• David Jeffrey, Baylor University
• Daryl McCarthy, International Institute for Christian Studies
• James Mininger, Lithuania Christian College3:30 to 5:00 p.m.
Plenary Presentation – Barfield
John Polkinghorne, Queen’s College, Cambridge University: Christian Interdisciplinarity6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
Dinner – Banquet Room
7:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Closing Plenary Panel – Banquet Room
Panelists:
• Susan Felch, Calvin College
• Susan VanZanten Gallagher, Seattle Pacific University
• Thomas Kennedy, Valparaiso University
