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Schedule Junior Scholars Conference

Wednesday 5/11/2003

- 10.00 Opening: Lieven Boeve   

- Introductory lecture: Eamonn Conway

- 11.15 Papers session

 

Denis Robinson: Agnosticism as Religious Knowing: The Theological Epistemology and Religious Experience of George Eliot

Frederiek De Poortere: 'Jouissance féminine'? A reflection on Bernini's 'The Extasy of Saint Therese', starting from the work of Slavoj Zizek.

Johan Ardui: A bridge over troubled water. The use of experience in the recent work of German theologians dealing with popular music.

Youn Hee Kim: A Critical Appraisal of David Tracy’s Revisionist Model from the Perspective of Religious Pluralism

Katherine Shirk: Religious Experience in the Revisionist – Postliberal Debate on Theological Method

Ann Van Eechaute: Passions and emotions in religious experience

Pieter De Witte: Death, Experience and Transcendence in Philosophy, Religion and Philosophy of Religion

Timothy Crutcher: Tradition and Experience in Theology. The Convergence of the Twain

William Stevens: the Postmodern question of the de-constructed Self and the possibility of a re-constructed transcendent Self & the ontology of Paul Tillich appropriated in a postmodern, or perhaps a ‘post-postmodern’ description of the Self

Diana Hess: Religious Experience and Theological Epistemology in relation to the Doctrine of God and to the Concept of Reality – some thoughts developed on the work of Richard Swinburne

Marvin Du Bois

Christophe Brabant: Religious ex-perience: the end of immediacy and the perpetual detour 

Tony Neelankavil: "Trinitarian Harmony and the Intercultural Perspectives on Religious Experience: A Critical Reflection on the Intercultural Endeavours of the Federation of the Asian Bishops’ Conferences"

Craig Baron: The Augustinian Postmodern Theology of Graham Ward: The Return of Analogy for the Reconceptualization of Experience "as" Religious

- 12.45 –14.15 Lunch

- 14.15 Papers session

 

Desiree Berendsen: Religious Passions and Emotions, on the difference between passions and emotions

Andreas Peter: The Impossible Experience: the Only Gift that counts for Justice. A Comparison of the 'Gift' by Jean-Luc Marion and Jacques Derrida

Arnella Francis Clamor: Mystical Life Without Mystical Phenomena: Religious Experience in Thérèse of

Lisieux

Victorino A. Cueto: "Perpetual Departure"On Theology and Michel de Certeau

Anne Inman: Questions of Transcendence and the Identification of God

Thomas D. Carroll: Evolutionary Psychology and the Epistemology of Religious Experience

Shane Mackinlay: The Hermeneutics of Revelation in Marion’s Saturated Phenomenon

Lieve Uyttenhove: Ruusbroec and mystical religious experience

Joris Geldhof: "Cogitor ergo sum.": On the Meaning and Relevance of Baader’s Theological Critique of Descartes

James K. Voiss: Thoughtforms and Theological Constructs: Grounding the appeal to Experience in Theological Discourse

Bernard Michollet: Religious Experience in the Age of Neurosciences

Joeri Schrijvers: In love with Marion? Metaphysics and Le phénomène érotique.

Marina Obal Altarejos: The Love of God Revealed in the Crucified as Spiritual Recourse in the Face of Suffering

 

- 15.45 Coffee break

- 16.15 Papers session

Martin Wendte: "The Spirit is for the spirit" - on the contemporary significance of Hegel`s mediation of religious experience with an onto-theological concept of the Absolute

Jennifer Beste: Feminist Theology’s Ability to Yield Normative Claims and Offer Fruitful Visions for Human Flourishing is Seriously Threatened if Human Experience is Dismissed in Feminist Theological Method

Yves De Maeseneer: The Scent of God. Retracing the Spiritual Senses in the wake of Hans Urs von Balthasar

Taras Khomych: Liturgy as Meeting Place for Expression of Religious Experience. Martyrdom as Model of  Christian Life

Hans Geybels: Fra Angelico Ruminans. Visualizing Religious Experience in the Middle Ages.

Donna Freitas: Mystical Experience: A New Cornerstone in Feminist Philosophy and Feminist Liberation Theology

Dominika Kurek: ‘For We are a Sweet Scent of Christ’ (2 Cor 2,15): Sensual Imagery in the Apostle Paul’s Depiction of His Relationship with God

Jose Palackal: The Religious Experience of Jesus of Nazareth. Two Views from the Ongoing Quest of the Historical Jesus

- 17.15 End of Juniors Conference

Opening LEST IV Conference

Wednesday 5/11/2003

- 20.00 Invocation

- Opening Lecture:  Lieven Boeve

Theology and the Interruption of Experience

- Reception

Thursday 6/11/2003 

- 8.30 Morning prayer

- 9.00 Lecture: Richard Schaeffler

Die religiöse Überlieferungsgemeinschaft als Schule der Erfahrung

respondent: Marc Dumas, and plenary discussion

- 10.30 Coffee break

- 11.00 Lecture: Jean-Luc Marion  'Cancelled on account of ill-health of J.-L. Marion'

The Phenomenon of Love: Experiencing the Other from the Other Point of View

Lecture in substitution:  Stijn Van den Bossche 

From the Other's Point of View: 
The Challenge of Jean-Luc Marion's Phenomenology to Theology

respondent: Anthony Godzieba, and plenary discussion

- 12.30 Lunch

- 14.00 Lecture: Sylvie Robert

L'expérience: un chemin de connaissance de Dieu? 
L'enseignement d'une lecture d'Ignace de Loyola
 

respondent: Paul Verdeyen, and plenary discussion

- 15.30 Coffee 

- 16.00 Paper panels

14. The Status of the Concept of Experience:

-Philip Rossi

-Thomas M. Kelly

17. Religious Experience Beyond the Traditions:

-Michael Paul Gallagher

-Thomas Hughson

-Paolo Gamberini

18. Liturgy and Religious Experience

-Georgia Masters Keightly

-Martyn Percy

-Paul Cortois

-Susan K. Roll

5. Revelation and Experience

-Johannes Zachhuber

-Jacques Haers

6. Being and Other Than Being

-Wessel Stoker

-Stephen Curkpatrick

-Declan Marmion

10. Experience and Ethics

-Susan Frank Parsons

-Todd Salzman

- 20.00 – 21.30 Lecture: Grace Jantzen  

‘The Depth of the Abyss’: Medieval Mysticism and the Nihilism of Postmodernity

respondent: Gerald Boodoo, and plenary discussion

Friday 7/11/2003

- 8.30 Morning prayer

- 9.00 Lecture: Laurence Hemming 

Are We Still in Time to Know God?  Apocalyptic, Sempiternity, and the Purposes of Experience

respondent: Herwi Rikhof, and plenary discussion

- 10.30 Coffee break

- 11.00 Paper panels

1. Phenomenology and Negative Theology

-Marc Dumas

-Ian Leask

-Michael Purcell

2. Pluralistic Culture and Theological Epistemology

-Daniël Veldsman

-Jon Pahl

12. Experience and Pneumatology

-Jane E. Linahan

-Theo L. Hettema

13. Women’s Experience and Theology

-Jean Donovan

-Phyllis Kaminski

-Susanne Hennecke

15. Experience from Modern to Post-modern

-Dennis Rochford

-Peter De Mey

-George Worgul

-Paul McQuillan

8. Experience and Salvation: Contextual Approaches:

-Gilbert I. Bond

-Daniel Groody

-Sabine Van Den Eynde

- 12.30 Lunch

- 14.00 Lecture: Sebastian Painadath  

Diversity of Religions, Unity in Spirituality

respondent: Daniel Madigan, and plenary discussion

- 15.30 Coffee break 

- 16.00 Paper panels

7. Deconstruction and Theological Epistemology

-Robert Masson

-Marie Baird

4. Theology of Religions

-Jacques Dupuis

cancelled due to health problems

-Peter C. Phan

9. Religious Experience at Vaticanum II

-Pierre C. Noël

-Paul Pullikan

-Gabriël Flynn

3. William James

-Scott Holland

-Brian J. Mahan

-Jan Van der Veken

16. Experience in Christian Mystical Tradition

-Rik Van Nieuwenhove

-Ivana Noble

-Rob Faesen

-Stephen Edmondson

11. Experience and Embodied Mediation

This session was cancelled due to the sudden decease of Dr. Happel on saturday October 4th 2003. Requiescat in pace cum sanctis.

-Stephen Happel

-Susan K. Roll (now in session 18)

- 20.00 – 21.30 Lecture: Francis Schüssler Fiorenza

The Transcendence of Experience or the Experience of Transcendence: Negotiating the Difference

respondent: Robyn Horner, and plenary discussion

Saturday 8/11/2003

9.30 Roundtable with the main lecturers

12.00 Eucharist presided by G. Card. Danneels, archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel

13.00 Closing banquet