Wesleyan Philosophical Society Meeting Schedule
March 1, 2007
Olivet Nazarene University 

7:30-8:30 Registration
8:30 - 9:45 Plenary Session
Welcome from Societies (Philosophers (WPS) and Psychologists (SSPWT)

           Welcome from Craig Boyd, President, Wesleyan Philosophical Society
           Welcome from Ron Wright, President, Society for the Study of Psychology and Wesleyan Theology
           Welcome from Olivet Nazarene University
           Welcome from Dignitaries
                   Sister Judith Davies, OSF
                   Chancellor
                    Representative of the Diocese of Joliet

            9:00 Opening Lecture from the Guest Speaker
                D. Stephen Long
                Associate Professor of Systematic Theology,
                Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.
                Embodying Fides et Ratio: Holiness as Truth

            9:30 Response
                Eric Manchester
                Past President, Wesleyan Philosophical Society
                Caldwell College

 9:45-10:00 Break
10:00-12:00 Session 1 (3 tracks)
            Track 1:Faith and Reason in Wesleyan and Catholic Thought
                        Chair: John Wright, Point Loma Nazarene University

                                    Christian Philosophy after Fides et Ratio
                                    Author: Christopher Anadale
                                    Conception Seminary College

                                    The Catholic Continental Philosophers
                                    Author: Christina Smerick
                                    Greenville College

            Track 2: Reason and Holiness in Wesleyan and Catholic Thought
                        Chair: Randy Auxier, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

                                    Reason, Affectivity, Holy Habits, and Christian Philosophy
                                    Author: Gregory B. Sadler
                                    Ball State University

                                    Sin, Irrationality and the Role of Reason in Sanctification
                                    Author:Timothy Crutcher
                                    Southern Nazarene University 

            Track 3: Freedom and Free Will in Wesleyan and Catholic Thought
                        Chair: Tom Oord, Northwest Nazarene University

                                    On Whether God Has A Free Will
                                    Author: Brint Montgomery
                                    Southern Nazarene University

                                    Wesleyan and Catholic Similarities in Free Will, Prevenient Grace, & Justification
                                    Author: Alan Vincelette
                                    St. John's Seminary, Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles

                                    Freedom And Foreknowledge: Problems All Around
                                    Author: Thomas McCall
                                    Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch with Business Session

1:30 - 3:15 Presidential Address and Panel
                    Presidential Introduction
                    Introduction: Thomas Jay Oord, Northwest Nazarene University

            1:30 WPS 2007 Presidential Address
                    Craig Boyd, Azusa Pacific University
                    Towards a Post-Foundationalist Theory of Natural Law.

            2:15 Invited  Panel
                    John Wright
                    Point Loma Nazarene University
                    Creator, Creation, and Participation: Usus and Fruitio in Augustine and John Wesley
                  

                    D. Stephen Long
                    Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
                    The Way of Aquinas: Its Importance for Moral Theology


3:15-3:30 Break

3:30 - 5:30 Session 2 (3 Tracks)
            Track 1: Humanity and Its Response in Wesleyan and Catholic Thought
                        Chair: Eric Severson, Eastern Nazarene College

                                  Exploring Anthropology in Two Traditions: An Exploration of the Anthropologies
                                  of John Wesley and Karl Rahner
                                    Author: Nathan Crawford
                                    Loyola University of Chicago

                                    Psychological Passivity in Augustine
                                    Author: Mark Cullum
                                    Abilene Christian University

                                  Reviving the Catholic Notion of Gelassenheit for Environmental Responsibility
                                   within the Wesleyan Holiness Movement
                                    Author: Sharon Harvey
                                    University of Idaho

            Track 2:         Cause and Response to Violence in Wesleyan and Catholic Thought
                        Chair: Joseph Bankard, Point Loma Nazarene University

                                    John Wesley: Inspiration for an Anti-Catholic Mob?
                                    Author: Al Truesdale
                                    Nazarene Theological Seminary 

Practicing Restorative Justice: Roman Catholic and Wesleyan Perspectives
Author: Robert Henning
Spring Arbor University

Wesley’s Methodist Movement: What Might It Have to Offer to Contemporary Roman Catholics?
Author: Dennis M. Doyle
University of Dayton

            Track 3:Belief and Experience for Understanding God in Wesleyan and Catholic Thought
                        Chair: Robert Thompson, Point Loma Nazarene University

“I Believe that I Believe”: Postmodern Catholic Resources for Contemporary Evangelicalism
Author: J. Aaron Simmons
Vanderbilt University

Wesleyan Epistemology in Contemporary Perspective
Author: Scott Crothers
St. Louis University

                                    Soteriology and God’s Relationship to Time
                                    Author: Adam Green
                                    Saint Louis University

6:30 - 8:30 Banquet with WPS, SSPWT and WTS

7:30 Closing Lecture from Guest Speaker:
            D. Stephen Long,
            Associate Professor of Systematic Theology,
            Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
            Performing the Truth: Wesley in Conversation with von Balthasar.

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2007 WPS Executive Committee
 
President, Craig Boyd, Azusa Pacific University
1st Vice-President and Program Chair, L. Bryan Williams, Warner Pacific College
2nd Vice-President, Robert Thompson, Point Loma Nazarene University
Past President, Eric Manchester, Caldwell College
Promotion Secretary, Thomas Jay Oord, Northwest Nazarene University
Peer Review Coordinator and Webmaster, Brint Montgomery, Southern Nazarene University

Contacts and inquiries may be made through the WPS Website: http://wps.snu.edu
 

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