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The Vivian J Lamb Lecture
Explaining Nature Naturally - - - and Faithfully
Dr. Ian Hutchinson,
Professor Emeritus of Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
September 18th 2024
4:30PM
Bartley Hall, Curley Exchange
RECONSIDERATIONS CONFERENCE VI
Politics After Augustine
July 24, 25, 26, 2024
The INN at 裡橖眻畦 University
601 County Line Rd, Wayne, PA 19087
On-line registration is now closed
if you plan to attend please register at the Conference
JULY 24, 2024
Reception - Ballroom
5:00 PM
The Saint Augustine Lecture
7:30 PM
Augustines Late Style
Charles Mathewes, University of Virginia
Carolyn M. Barbour Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and Senior Fellow at the Miller Center of Public Affairs
July 25, 2024
SESSION 1
Room 115 10:00 AM - 11:25 AM
Opening Remarks
James Wetzel, 裡橖眻畦 University
Charles Mathewes,University of Virginia
Mary Keys, University of Notre Dame
Allan Fitzgerald, OSA, 裡橖眻畦 University
SESSION 2
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Panel 1 - Room 115
SOVEREIGNTY
Burcht Pranger, University of Amsterdam
Sovereignty and the utilitas calamitatis
Michael Lamb, Wake Forest University
The Politics of Stewardship
Fannie Bialek, Washington University of St. Louis
Non-Sovereign Love: Vulnerability and Agape
Thomas Harmon, University of St. Thomas, Houston - Moderator
Panel 2 - Room 114
ECONOMY
Mark Aloysius S.J., Loyola Marymount University
'Economy and Desire in Augustine's Praeceptum'
Joshua Nunziato, University of Colorado Boulder
The Business of Words: Transactional Language in the Sacrificial Economy
Sarah Stewart-Kroeker, Princeton Theological Seminary
What has Hippo to do with Seneca Falls? Feminist Economies of Desire
Jonathan Teubner, Harvard University Moderator
SESSION 3
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Panel 3- Room 115
SLAVERY
Toni Alimi, Cornell University
No Longer Slaves? Augustines Evolving Interpretation of John 15:15
Matt Elia, Saint Luis University
The Problem of the Christian Master: Augustine in the Afterlife of Slavery
Vincent Lloyd, 裡橖眻畦 University
Augustine, Job, and Harm
Boleslaw Kabala, Tarleton State University Moderator
Panel 4 - Room 114
SECULARITY
Eric Gregory, Princeton University Do Nations Have Souls?
Veronica Ogle, 裡橖眻畦 University
Saeculum et Sacramentum: Contemporary Augustinian Reflections on the Autonomy of Earthly Affairs"
John Cavadini, University of Notre Dame
The Church as the Sacrament of the Saeculum
Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo, Texas State University Moderator
July 26, 2024
SESSION 4
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Panel 5- Room 115
MISOGYNY
Kate Cooper, University of London
Dangerous women: Augustine, Ambrose, and the Problem of Female Agency
Karmen MacKendrick, Le Moyne College
Heartbreak and Wholeness: Avoid All Wives and Mothers
Colleen Mitchell, 裡橖眻畦 University
Augustine and Gendered Communities
Margaret Miles, The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, Emerita Moderator
Panel 6 Room 114
FORGIVENESS
Ian Clausen, 裡橖眻畦 University
Who Will Show Us Some Good?
Mary Keys, University of Notre Dame
Forgiveness and Politics in The City of God
Jesse Couenhoven, 裡橖眻畦 University
Augustine on Eschatological Forgiveness
John Bowlin, Princeton Theological Seminary Moderator
SESSION 5
1:30 PM - 3:05 PM
Panel 7- Room 115
RELIGIOUS PLURALISM
Kristen Deede Johnson, Western Theological Seminary
Cultivating Caritas in an Age of Religious Pluralism and Cultural Conflict
Anna Moreland, 裡橖眻畦 University - Reid B. Locklin, University of Toronto
Comparative theology in a foundationless age: Insight(s) from
Bernard Lonergan
Susannah Ticciati, Kings College, London
Fallible Commitment: Truth-Seeking with Augustine
Stephanie Wong, 裡橖眻畦 University Moderator
Panel 8 Room 114
COMMON GOOD
Paul Camacho, 裡橖眻畦 University - Terence Sweeney, 裡橖眻畦 University
Sharing Ends: Dependence and the Common Good in Augustines Rule
Erika Kidd, University of St. Thomas
Attention and the Common Good
Mel Webb, University of Texas at San Antonio
'the bird that is not in your hands': In Circle with Augustine and Toni Morrison
Allan Fitzgerald, OSA, 裡橖眻畦 University Moderator
SESSION 6
4:00 PM - Room 115
PARTING THOUGHTS
Colleen Mitchell, 裡橖眻畦 University
Ian Clausen, 裡橖眻畦 University
Paul Camacho, 裡橖眻畦 University