Multiple Reformations and the Authority and Interpretation of Scripture
March 12-15, 2017 | University of Notre Dame
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Sunday, March 12
- 7:00 pm: Conference Keynote: Mark Noll "Sola Sriptura as Bane and Blessing" | McKenna Hall Auditorium
- 8:00 pm: Reception | Atrium, McKenna Hall
Monday, March 13
9:00 – 11:00 Session 1: Scripture During the Age of the Reformation | 100-104 McKenna Hall
Moderator: Randall Zachman
- 9:00 – 9:30 Manfred Oeming: “Luther’s Interpretation of the Psalms and ‘the Center of Scripture’: the Case of Psalm 22”
- 9:30 – 10:00 Greta Kroeker: “Erasmus and Scripture”
- 10:10 – 10:20 Moderator discussion prompts: Randall Zachman
- 10:20 – 11:00 Plenary Discussion
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 1:30 Session 2: Scriptural Authority and the Legacies of the Reformation | 100-104 McKenna Hall
Moderator: Michael Welker
- 11:30 – 12:00 Matthias Konradt, “Sola scriptura and historical critical exegesis.”
- 12:00– 12:30 Paul Peterson: “The Reformation and Scriptural Authority: The Historical Emergence of the Teaching and its Contemporary Significance”
- 12:40 – 12:50 Moderator discussion prompts: Michael Welker
- 12:50 - 1:30 Plenary Discussion
3:00 – 5:00 Session 3: The Bible, Literature and Politics
Moderator: Kathy Cummings
- 3:00 – 3:30 Susannah Monta: “Religion and poetry: Protestant Psalm Translators' Treatment of the Notion of the Sacrifice of Praise”
- 3:30 – 4:00 Sandra Gustafson: "'By what warrant': Biblical Arguments against the Colonization of the Americas"
- 4:10 – 4:20 Moderator discussion prompts: Kathy Cummings
- 4:20 – 5:00 Plenary Discussion
Tuesday, March 14
10:30 – 11:30 Session 4: Scripture and the Evangelical-Pietist Tradition | 100-104 McKenna Hall
Moderator: Mark Noll
- 10:30 - 11:00 Jan Stievermann & Ryan Hoselton: “Spiritual Meaning in 18th-Century Evangelical-Pietist Exegesis.”
- 11:00 - 11:30 Douglas Sweeney: "The Still-Enchanted World of Jonathan Edwards' Exegesis and the Paradox of Modern Evangelical Supernaturalism"
11:40 – 11:50 Moderator prompts: Mark Noll
11:50 – 12:30 Plenary Discussion
2:00 – 4:00 Session 5: German “Higher Criticism” and its Reception | 100-104 McKenna Hall
Moderator: Gerald Knoppers
- 3:00 – 3:30 Jan Gertz: "Julius Wellhausen, Max Weber und das Alte Testament"
- 3:30 – 4:00 John Fitzgerald: “Reception History of Continental (German) Scholarship in America in the 19th Century
- 4:10 – 4:20 Moderator discussion prompts: Gerald Knoppers
- 4:20 – 5:00 Plenary Discussion
4:00 – 4:30 Break
4:30 – 6:30: Session 6: Scripture and Modern Moral Theology
Moderator: Gerald McKenny
- 4:30 – 5:00 Neil Arner: “The Use of Scripture in 20th Century Catholic Moral Theology”
- 5:00 – 5:30 William Mattison III: “The Use of Scripture in 20th Century Protestant Moral Theology”
- 5:40 – 5:50 Moderator Prompts: Gerald McKenny
- 5:50 – 6:30 Plenary Discussion
Wednesday, March 15
8:30 – 11:00 Session 6: Transformations of Biblical Scholarship in the 19th Century | 200-202 McKenna Hall
Moderator: Klaus Tanner
- 8:30 – 9:00 Friederike Nüssel: „Martin Kähler’s Approach to Biblical Studies”
- 9:00 – 9:30 David Lincicum: “F. C. Baur, the Bible, and the Essence of Protestantism”
- 9:30 – 10:00 Grant Kaplan: “Where Truth Resides: Johannes Kuhn and the Catholic Response to the Left-Wing Hegelianism of D.F. Strauss”
- 10:10 – 10:20 Moderator prompts: Klaus Tanner
- 10:20 – 11:00 Plenary Discussion