WPS Schedule
March 5, 2009
Anderson University

7:00 A.M.-8:00 A.M. Registration (On-Site) 

8:00 A.M. Welcome 

8:15 A.M.- 9:00 A.M. Morning Plenary Address

“The Weakness of God”

Dr. John Caputo,

The Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Syracuse University 

9:00 A.M.-9:45 A.M. Panel Response and Questions 

9:45 A.M.-10:00 A.M. Break 

10:A.M.-11:45 A.M. SESSION I (Four parallel sessions)

1A Teri Merrick, Azusa Pacific University (Moderator)

Universal Love and the Wrongness of Racism

Robert  Muhlnickel, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School 

The Epistemology and Ethics of Hope

Joshua Kira, Claremont Graduate University 

1B Jodi Belcher, Nazarene Theological Seminary (Moderator)

The Problem with the Problem of Evil: A Phenomenology

Christina Smerick, Greenville College 

Narrating Evil:  Emplotment, Truth, and Human Suffering

John Brittingham, Boston College 

Our Responsibility for Universal Evil: Rethinking Fallenness in Ecological Terms

Christina M. Gschwandtner, University of Scranton 

1C Sam Powell, Point Loma Nazarene University (Moderator)

“To be or not to be:” Relational ontology and the “Irreality” of evil

Tim Crutcher, Southern Nazarene University 

A Four-Fold Solution to the Problem of Evil from a Wesleyan Perspective

Thomas Oord, Northwest Nazarene University 

Good as the Standard and Good as Relative: Discerning Analytical Foundations for the Problem of Natural Evil.

Brint Montgomery, Southern Nazarene University 

1D Eric Manchester, Caldwell College, (Moderator)

John Hick’s Pluralistic Response to Evil and Suffering

Jonathan Parsons, College of DuPage 

An Evil Doctrine? Re-imagining the Final Judgment for Our Time

Jon Stanley, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto 

11:45 A.M.-12:45 P.M. Lunch/Business Meeting 

1:00 P.M.- 2:30 P.M. Panel Heather K. Ross, Point Loma Nazarene University (Moderator)

Reflections On the Work of John Caputo, with his response

Craig Keen, Azusa Pacific University, Teri Merrick, Azusa Pacific University, and Eric Severson, Eastern Nazarene College

Respondent: John Caputo, Syracuse University 

2:30 P.M.-2:45 P.M. Break 

2:45 P.M.-4:15 P.M. SESSION II (Four parallel sessions)

2A Christina Smerick, Greenville college (Moderator)

Defending God’s ‘Decision’ to Create a Suffering World: Evil, Privation, and Foreknowledge in Aquinas

Eric Manchester, Caldwell College   

Evil in the Thought of Simone Weil

Kent Dunnington, Greenville College 

2B Nathan Kerr, Trevecca Nazarene university (Moderator)

The Colonialism of Human Rights: Moving Beyond Rights-to-Non-Evil

Musetta Durkee, independent 

Race and Hospitality:  Pursuing Racial Reconciliation through Derrida’s Understanding of Hospitality

Nathan Crawford, Loyola University of Chicago 

The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: Process Aesthetics and the Problem of Evil

Kent Stiles, Indiana Wesleyan University 

2C Brint Montgomery, Southern Nazarene University (Moderator)

Forgiveness of Evil and the Passage of Time

Delilah Caldwell, Virginia State University 

Forgiveness, if there is Such a Thing: A Discourse on Forgiveness Amidst Radical Evil

Tiffany Triplett, Nazarene Theological Seminary 

Four Types of Gratuitous Evil

Alan Rhoda, Notre Dame 

2D Joseph Bankard, Northwest Nazarene University (Moderator)

The Proximity of Love and Evil in Schelling’s Ages of the World

Juliana Eimer, Pennsylvania State University (University Park) 

Hegel and Foucault: Engaged Versus Disengated Accounts of History and the Problem of “Evil” Subjectivity

Matt Flaherty, University of Minnesota 

Ivan Karamazov and His Problems with Theodicies: Rethinking Theology and Evil

Patrick Fessenbecker, Johns Hopkins 

4:15 P.M.-4:30 P.M. Break 

4:30 P.M.-5:45 P.M. Session III (Four parallel sessions)

3A Kent Dunnington, Greenville College (Moderator)

Philosophy and the Logic of Criticism: D. Z. Phillips’s Response to Kai Nielsen and Wittgensteinian Fideism

Beto Urquidez, Purdue University 

Emmanuel Levinas and the Ethics of Philosophy An Optics for the Suffering Other

Scott Grover, Fuller Theological Seminary 

3B David Belcher, Nazarene Theological Seminary

Environmentalism: I More Than Others

Christopher Caldwel, Virginia State University 

For Whom Am I Responsible? Broken Faith in HBO’s, The Wire

Sherol Scott, University of Georgia 

3C  (Moderator TBA)

Beyond Good and Evil: Dao, Nature, and Environmental Ethics    

Young Ko, Lorain County Community College 

Evil as Metaphor

Justin Hernandez, Conception Seminary College 

3D Thomas Oord, Northwest Nazarene University (Moderator)

From the Human Condition to Divine Revelation: Reverse Engineering the Blueprint

Dominic Halsmer, with Michael Gewecke, Rachelle Gewecke, Nate Roman , and  Tyler Todd, Oral Roberts University 

Islamic Suicide Bombing & the Question of Evil

Geoffrey Karabin, Villanova University 

6:45 P.M.-7:30 P.M.  Banquet Dinner 

7:30 P.M.-8:15 P.M.  Evening Plenary Address

“The Weakness of Flesh”

Dr. John Caputo,

The Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities and                                                                      Professor of Philosophy, Syracuse University

 8:15 P.M. Questions

9:00 P.M. End

 

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