Fall Meeting 2010
November 5-6, 2010
TOPIC: Religion in the Public Sphere
LOCATION: Tucson Room at Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP), Berkeley, California
SCHEDULE
- Friday November 5, 2-5 pm. Papers by Bill O’Neill (JST) & Erin Brigham (USF)
- 5-7pm. Business Meeting, Dinner (Cost = $25)
- 7-8 pm. Public Lecture by Ted Peters (Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary)
- “The Wolves of Jack London: Darwin, Sin, and Human Nature”
- Saturday, November 6, 9:30–10am. Continental Breakfast
- 10am-noon, Papers by Daren Erisman (GTU) & Nazeer Ahmed (American Institute of Islamic History and Culture)
PAPERS
William O'Neill, SJ, (JSTB),
"The Wisdom of Serpents? Religion in the Public Realm." () Respondent is Jack Crossley.
Erin Brigham (USF),
"Communicative Rationality and public Theology; Some
implications of Contemporary Critical Theory on
Theological Method Today." () Respondent is Malcolm Young.
Daren Erisman (GTU),
"Power and the Public Sphere: How the pre-Islamic view of
hilm and the Christian understanding of kenosis
may inform Public Policy." () Respondent is Giv Nassiri.
Nazeer Ahmed (American Institute of
Islamic History and Culture),
"Faith and the Dialogue of Civilization." () Respondent is Daren Erisman.
