Meetings of the North American Paul Tillich Society

The 2013 Annual Meeting

The Annual Meeting of the North American Paul Tillich Society took place in Baltimore, Maryland on Friday, November 22nd and Saturday, November 23rd, 2013. The American Academy of Religion group "Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture" met Saturday and Sunday, November 23 and November 24.

If you are attending the meeting, please bring the Bulletin with you for the Program and Banquet information. Time and room assignments are subject to change, final time and room assignments are available in the onsite Annual Meeting Program Book. You may also consult this program at the AAR website.

2013 Program

Friday, November 22, 2013
9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Room: Hilton Baltimore—Brent
North American Paul Tillich Society
Theme: Tillich and Liberation Theologies

  • Duane Olson, McKendree University
    Presiding
  • Zachary W. Royal Garrett Theological Seminar
    Cultural Transformation as Ultimate Concern: Tillich’s Theological Project of Cultural Embeddedness in Conversation with The Black Liberation Theology of James Cone
  • Alan Richard Realistic Living, Inc.
    Liberation from the Word: Tillich’s Systematic Theology and Revelation in Liberation Theology
  • Nathan Crawford , Plymouth, Indiana
    “What Can I Do?:” Turning to Tillich for Help in the (Over)Information Age

Friday, November 22, 2013
1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Room: Hilton Baltimore—Brent
North American Paul Tillich Society
Theme: Correlation and Contemporary Thought

  • Bryan Wagoner, Davis and Elkins College
    Presiding
  • Laura Thelander, Luther Theological Seminary
    Tillich and the Changing Face of Theological Education
  • Mary Ann Stenger, University of Louisville
    Correlating a Contemporary Existential Question with the Symbol of Transfiguration
  • Alexander Blondeau, Luther Theological Seminary
    “Yes, But Only If God Does Not Exist”: A Tillichian Answer to the Question of God’s Necessity for Morality

Friday, November 22, 2013
4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Room: Hilton Baltimore—Brent
North American Paul Tillich Society
Theme: Tillich and Contemporary Christianity

  • Echol Nix, Furman University
    Presiding
  • Lawrence Whitney, Boston University
    Correlating to “Nones:” Tillich’s Method of Correlation and Late Modernity
  • Sharon Peebles Burch, Interfaith Counseling Center
    Formulating Questions, Facilitating Change: Tillich’s Method of Correlation
  • Christopher Rodkey, Penn State University, York
    Pentecosting: Preaching the Death of God

Friday, November 22, 2013 7:00 PM–10 PM
North American Paul Tillich Society
Annual Banquet
Place: The Baltimore Convention Center, Room 328
Speaker: Marion Hausner Pauck
Title: Remembering the Past, Looking Forward to the Future


Saturday, November 23,2013
7:00 AM–8:45 AM
Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors of NAPTS


Saturday, November 23, 2013
9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Room: Sheraton Inner Harbor—Loch Raven 1
North American Paul Tillich Society
Theme: Issues in the Systematic Theology

  • Charles Fox, Regent University
    Presiding
  • Annette Neblett Evans, Lynchburg College
    Otherness and Fallenness
  • Wesley J. Wildman, Boston University
    Tillich’s Systematic Theology as a Template for the Encounter between Christian Theology and Religious Naturalism
  • Richard Grigg, Sacred Heart University
    The Key Element in Paul Tillich’s Systematic Theology
  • Ryan Coyne, University of Chicago
    Reconsidering the Sources of Tillich’s Ontology

Sunday, November 24, 2013
1:00 PM–2:30 PM
A24–229
Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group
Theme: Contemporary Applications of Paul Tillich’s Theology

  • Sharon Peebles Burch, Interfaith Counseling Center
    Presiding
  • Mike Grimshaw, University of Canterbury
    The Irrelevance and Relevance of the Radical, Impure Tillich
  • Samantha Lyon, Boston University
    No Shallow Beauty: A Reinterpretation of Anthropocentrism in Paul Tillich’s Theology of Nature
  • Michael Turner, University of Chicago
    A Failure to Communicate? A Tillichian Approach to the Symbolism in Cool Hand Luke
  • Alexander Blondeau, Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul
    Intimacy Through Self-Loss: Intersections in the Paradoxical Soteriologies of Paul Tillich and Sebastian Moore

Tillich Group Business Meeting
Russell Re Manning, University of Aberdeen
Presiding


Sunday, November 24, 2013
3:00 PM–4:30 PM
A24–277
Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group
Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Group
Theme: Schelling, Kierkegaard

  • Russell Re Manning, University of Aberdeen
    Presiding
  • Panelists:
    Adam Pryor, Bethany College
    Stacey Ake, Drexel University
    Vincent A. McCarthy, St Joseph’s University, Philadelphia
    Christian Danz, Universität Wien, Evang. Theol. Fakultät
    Daniel Whistler, University of Liverpool

Monday, November 25, 2013
1:00 PM–3:30 PM
A25–238
Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Group
Theme: Paul Tillich in Conversation with Contemporary Pentecostal Theology

  • Wolfgang Vondey, Regent University
    Presiding
  • Nimi Wariboko, Andover Newton Theological School
    Political Theology from Tillich to Pentecostalism in Africa
  • Frank Macchia, Vanguard University
    Justification in the Ecstasy of the Spirit: A Pentecostal Engagement with the Pneumatology of Paul Tillich
  • Lisa Stephenson, Lee University
    Spiritual Presence and the Divine Feminine: A Tillichian-Pentecostal-Feminist Spirituality
  • Responding
    Mark Lewis Taylor, Princeton Theological Seminary
    John Thatamanil, Union Theological Seminary


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