LEST III - Optional Papers

List of Optional Lectures

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• Johan Ardui (Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Belgium), An open communication between Theology and Rock? A response to the statement of cardinal J. Ratzinger.
• Kasonga Banyingela (Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Belgium), From Understanding to Contemplation. The Challenge of African Theology at the dawn of the XXIst Century.
• Lieven Boeve (Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Belgium), The End of Conversation in Theology: Considerations from a Postmodern Discussion.
• Gerald Boodoo (Xavier University, New Orleans, LA, U.S.A.), La Divina Pastora Feast of Trinidad: Conversation, Power and Possibilities
• Roger Burggraeve (Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Belgium), A 'Dialogical' God as Source of a 'Responsorial' Ethic.
• Delfo Cortina Canceran (Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Belgium), A Triadic Paradigm of Conversation.
• David Carter (Open University, U.K.), The Spirituality of Ecumenical Dialogue.
• Paul Cashen (Australian Catholic University, Adelaide, Australia), From The Divine Comedy To The X-Files: In Conversation With The Beyond.
• Dirk Claes (Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Belgium), Conversation in an historical context: the case of the Vota Antepraeparatoria by the Benelux bishops and the Catholic Universities of Leuven and Nijmegen.
• Timothy Crutcher (Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Belgium), The Christo-centric Community/Family: An Essay toward a Relational Ecclesiology.
• Yves De Maeseneer (Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Belgium), Towards a Theological 'Ideologiekritik' of Consumerism: Saint Francis versus McDonald's?
• Peter De Mey & Katelijne Schiltz (Faculty of Theology & Department of Musicology, KU Leuven, Belgium), The Composer as Interpreter of the Easter Creed: The Music and Texts of Bach, Brahms and Britten
• Michel Despland (Department of Religion, University of Concordia, Montréal, Québec, Canada), The Dialogue as a Literary Form Used in Western Inquiries into Religious Diversity.
• Luk De Volder (Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Belgium), Marital Dialogue as Theological Metaphor
• John Dick (Overlegcentrum voor Christelijke Ethiek, KU Leuven, Belgium), Changing Images of God in American Political and Cultural Life.
• Kris Dierickx (Centre for Biomedical Ethics and Law, KU Leuven, Belgium), Where theologians and geneticists meet.
• Donald J. Dietrich (Theology Department, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, U.S.A.), Catholic Social Thought and the Global Common Good: A New Emerging Paradigm.
• Ivana Dolejsova, Apophatic Aspects of Theological Conversation
• Brian Doyle (Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Belgium), Dysfunctional Conversation in Isaiah 24.
• Maria Duffy (St.Patrick's College, Maynooth, Ireland; European Ethics Network, KU Leuven, Belgium), A Conversation between Spirituality and Auto-Biography.
• Jacques Dupuis (Gregorian University, Rome, Italy), Christianity and Religions: From Confrontation to Encounter. (paper will be discussed in absence of the author)
• Ulrich Engel (Institut M.-Dominique Chenu, Berlin, Germany), Religiöse (Nicht-)Identität.
• Jerry T. Farmer, (Xavier University, New Orleans, LA, U.S.A.), The 'fiesta de moros y cristianos': A Paradigm for a Relational Theology.
• Meghan F. Froehlich (Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.), Preaching and Conversation: Homiletics in a Eucharistic Context.
• Hans Geybels (Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Belgium), "You Will Think the More Fruitfully as You Think More Piously": Augustine's and Spinoza's Conversation between Faith and Reason in the Light of Augustinian Spirituality.
• Anthony J. Godzieba (Dept. of Theology and Religious Studies, Villanova University, Villanova, PA, U.S.A.), Bodies and Persons, Resurrected and Postmodern: Towards a Relational Eschatology.
• Elizabeth Groppe (Xavier University, New Orleans, LA, U.S.A.), God and Creature In Lacugna's Relational Theology.
• Edmund Guzman (Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Belgium), Embodied and Vulnerable Creation: A Plea for a Relational Theology
• Laurence Paul Hemming (Heythrop College, University of London, U.K.), Talking to You is not Being with You: Martin Heidegger, Intersubjectivity, and Prayer.
• Susanne Hennecke (Faculty of Theology, U.Utrecht, The Netherlands), The prayer as utopic memory. An encounter between Karl Barth and Luce Irigaray.
• Theo L. Hettema (Faculty of Theology, Leiden, The Netherlands), In Conversation with the Past: Theology and the Dialectics of History.
• Bradford Hinze (Faculty of Theology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.), Dialogical Traditions and a Trinitarian Hermeneutic.
• Scott Holland (Bethany Theological Seminary, Richmond, IN, U.S.A.), Bonhoeffer's Friends: Toward An Aesthetics of Relationality.
• Michael Howlett (Studies in Theology and Society, Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford, Ireland), Twentieth Century Irish Writing: An Opportunity for Fruitful Interaction between Spirituality and Theology.
• William J. Hoye (Faculty of Theology, University of Münster, Germany), The Conversation of Love as Unfulfilling Union.
• Bernhard Koerner (Faculty of Theology, University of Graz, Austria), Theology Based on and Formed by Giving Himself: K. Hemmerle's "Trinitarian Ontology" as a Starting Point for a New Paradigm of Theology.
• Beate Kowalski (Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Belgium), Conversations about Poverty in the Lukan Community
• Lope Florente A. Lesigues (Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Belgium), Tastes of Incarnation, Trinity and Carnival: Critical Conversations in Theoaesthetics from the Perspective of Mikhail Bakhtin.
• Jane E. Linahan (Saint Francis Seminary, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.), Kenosis: Metaphor of Relationship.
• Wiel Logister (Faculty of Theology, K.U.Brabant, Tilburg, The Netherlands), Content and Form of a Conversation on the Faith according to William of Ockham.
• Laszlo Lukacs (Sapientia School of Theology, Budapest, Hungary), Conversatio cordium. Conversation as basic principle of Newman's theology: The Holy Trinity – revealed for us, in us.
• Peter Martens (Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, IN, U.S.A.), Anselm's Conversations: Faith Seeking Understanding as a Spiritual Exercise.
• Robert Masson (Faculty of Theology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.), Getting-it Together: Analogy, Metaphor and the Essentially Conversational Character of Religious Discourse.
• Georgia Masters Keightley (St. Anselm Institute for Lay Theology, U.K.), Lay Church and World: Practise as Conversation.
• Kadavil Mathai (Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Belgium), Sacramentality of Creation: An Assessment of Recent Studies in the Theology of Creation in the Eastern-Oriental Tradition.
• Bernard Michollet (Faculté de théologie, Université Catholique de Lyon, France), La méthode scientifique et la structure de l'acte de foi.
• Hadwig Müller (Missionswissenschaftliches Institut, Aachen, Germany), Gott: ein Gespräch, das aus dem Hören lebt.
• Chukwudi Anthony Njoku (Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Belgium), On The Thresholds of Theological Conversations between the North and the South: Impediments and Hopes.
• Lawrence Nwankwo (Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Belgium), The Church as Family: Challenges and Prospects of the Family Metaphor for Christian-Muslim Conversation in Africa.
• Drago Ocvirk, cm (Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), From Private to Public Conversation in the Church: The Case of the Catholic Church in Slovenia.
• Susan Parsons (Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge, U.K.), Why Friendship is not good for us.
• Bart Pattyn (Overlegcentrum Christelijke Ethiek, KU Leuven, Belgium), Church, Social Capital and the Web: Prerequisites for True Conversation.
• Wilcent K. Peter (St. Xavier's Seminary, Trivandrum, Kerala, India), Trinitarian Conversation: An Encounter for the Communion of Humanity.
• Paul Pulikkan (Marymatha Major Seminary, Trichur, India), The Reception of Second Vatican Council's Social Teaching in India: A Case Study of Theological Conversation between Council, Indian Bishops and Society.
• Philip Rossi, SJ (Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.), Divine Transcendence and the Languages of Personal Resonance : The Work of Charles Taylor as a Resource for Spirituality in an Era of Post-modernity.
• Todd Salzman (Creighton University, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.), Friendship as a Foundation for Communication between the Universal and Particular Church.
• N.F.M.Schreurs (Faculty of Theology, K.U.Brabant, Tilburg, The Netherlands), Bargaining over Guilt? Forgiving and the Appeal to a Relational God.
• Regina Schwartz (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, U.S.A.), Conversation and Communion
• Ciril Sorè (Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), Trinitarisierung der Kommunikation in der Postmoderne.
• Jacqui Stewart (Dept of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Leeds, UK), Theology, Conversation and Community.
• Kristof Struys (Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Belgium), Relationship in God as a Condition of Possibility for the Salvation of Humankind in Walter Kasper.
• Lawrance Thaikattil(Faculty of Theology, KU Leuven, Belgium), Bhakti Marga as a model of the Church: A Catalyst for Conversation in India.
• Gesa Elsbeth Thiessen (Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, Dublin, Ireland), Theological Dialogue: Karl Rahner's Contribution to a Theology of Art.
• W.G.B.M. Valkenberg (Faculty of Theology, K.U.Nijmegen, The Netherlands), Interreligious Dialogue as Polemical Conversation.
• Pierre Van Hecke (Faculty of Theology, K.U.Brabant, Tilburg, The Netherlands), From Conversation About God to Conversation With God: the Case of Job.
• Milton Wan (Department of Religion, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Life of Dialogue v.s. Life of Self-transcendence: Biblical Spirituality and Mystical Experience
• Conrad Wethmar (Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, South Africa), Doctrine and Dialogue.
• George Worgul & Craig Baron (Faculty of Theology & Family Institute, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A.), Changing Ideas of Marriage in American Cultural Life: The New Post-Modern Praxis of Marriage and Non-Married Relationships and the Need for Conversation Method in Religious Discourse.