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Important General Information

 

Location:               The Marriott Hotel-DFW Airport North

                                8440 Freeport Parkway

                                Irving, Texas 75063

                                972-929-8800; 888-489-2647

 

Date:                      Saturday-Sunday, March 13-14, 2010

 

Message from SWCRS Board:  Please be aware that our meeting rooms are not complimentary.  It is important that you stay in the Marriott Hotel-DFW Airport.  If members do not reserve enough hotel rooms, our conference room rental charges will be prorated to a significantly higher rate.

 

Hotel Reservations: Reservations must be made by February 11, 2010.  Room rates are $105 (prior to Feb. 11), but more than double this amount if reserved after the priority deadline. The easiest way to make hotel reservations is online at  www.swcrs-online.org.  If you make reservations by phone, please mention that you are with the Southwest Commission on Religious Studies.  The Marriott Hotel-DFW Airport Noth provides complimentary DFW Airport pickup.  The hotel has included an internet room package at the reduced rate of $5.95 per day, which must be requested when registering.

 

Meeting Pre-registration and Schedule:  Pre-register before March 1, 2010 (mail-in) or March 4, 2010 (online) to save $10.  For mail-in registration, copy and complete the meeting registration form at the end of this program and send it to the address printed on the form with the appropriate registration fee.  For online registration, complete the form and credit card payment options at www.swcrs-online.org.  Your registration includes coffee and tea breaks, and a reception at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday, at which time awards will be presented.  The Saturday noon luncheon requires pre-reservation (when you register) and an additional charge.

 

On-Site Registration:  Saturday, March 13, 9:00-4:00, Convention Registration Desk.

 

Memorial Report:  The Southwest Commission on Religious Studies would like to pay tribute at our meeting those members of our participating societies who are recently deceased.  Please send memorial notices to Stacy Patty, SWCRS Secretary-Treasurer, at mail@swcrs-online.org.

 

Directions to the Marriott:   From Ft. Worth, take Hwy 183E to Hwy 121N to Hwy 114E; exit Freeport Pkwy, turn left at light; hotel is on the right.  From South Dallas, Take I-35E North to Hwy 114W; exit Freeport Pkwy, turn right at light; hotel is on the right.  For complete directions, see www.swcrs-online.org

 

Pre-Meeting Conferences

Nurturing the Next Generation of Scholars: A Workshop Co-Hosted by the SWCRS and the Fund for Theological Education  (FTE)
 
Friday, March 12, 2010
1:00 p.m. -- 5:00 p.m.
 
Sunday, March 14, 2010
12:30 p.m. -- 2:00 p.m.
 
This workshop will provide students of color considering the pursuit of a Ph.D. an opportunity to learn from current graduate students and distinguished faculty in the profession. This session is designed to demystify the graduate application process, create professional networking opportunities for prospective graduate students, expose prospective students to the professional guild, and ultimately increase the supply of students of color in the pipeline for future faculty positions.
 
Students must apply to participate.  
For more information, contact mwilliams@thefund.org
 
 
National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion

 

Friday, March 12, 7:00-9:00 p.m.; Saturday, March 13, 8:30-10:00 a.m.

 

SWCRS Board of Directors

 

Saturday, March 13, 7:45 -10:00 a.m.

 

 

Regional Meeting Book Exhibit

 

Please visit our supporting exhibitors in the Ballroom.

 

Saturday, March 14, 9:00-6:30

 

Sunday, March 15, 8:30-12:30


  Meetings and Presentations

 

Saturday Morning, March 14 (10:00-Noon)

 

ASOR

Theme: Excavations and Reports

Presiding: Michael Homan, Xavier University of Louisiana

 

10:00       Steve Ortiz, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Israelite Urban Planning: Gezer 2009 Excavations

 

10:25       Eric Mitchell, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Hellenistic and II Temple Necropolis: Gezer 2009 Survey

 

10:50       Jane Cahill, J.D. Houston

Survey of New and On-Going Excavations in and around Jerusalem

 

11:15       Michael Homan, Xavier University of Louisiana

Early Metallurgy and Pollution in Southern Jordan: The 2009 Barqa Landscape Survey Project

 

Saturday Morning, March 14 (10:30-Noon)

 

ASSR

Theme: Emergent Churches, Spiritual Turning Points, and Declining Spiritual Capital

Presiding: Richard Ambler, Southern Arkansas University

 

10:30       Walt Scalen, Stephen F. Austin State University

Emergent Churches; Cutting Edge or 60’s Redux?

 

11:00       Dennis Horton, Baylor University

Spiritual Turning Points: Ages of Calling into Vocational Ministry

 

11:30       J. B. Watson, Jr., Stephen F. Austin State University

Oh Lord, Won’t You Buy Me a Mercedes Benz: Consumer Religion, Therapeutic Deism & Declining Spiritual Capital in U.S. Evangelicalism

 

AAR: ARTS, LITERATURE, AND RELIGION

Theme: Novel Movements

Presiding: Josh Bertetta, St Edwards University

10:30 Darren Middleton, Texas Christian University

The Literary Rasta

11:00 Richard Brumback, Baylor University

Everything is Permissible: Ivan Karamazov and Genocide

 

11:30 Rebecca Huskey, University of Oklahoma

Resurrection of the Living: Renewal of Life after the Death of Another in the Poetry of Gregory Orr

 
AAR: Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion

Theme: Studies in Healing: Valentine Greatrakes and Shaykh Abdul Azeez

Presiding: Mark Dennis, Texas Christian University

 

10:30       Benjamin Brochstein, Rice University

Psychophysiological Influence of the Irish Stroker 

 

11:00       Yushau Sodiq, Texas Christian University

Islamic Healing in Yorubaland: The Case of Shaykh Abdul Azeez  

 

11:30       Discussion 

 

AAR: Ethics, Society, and Cultural Analysis

Theme: Method  in Ethics

10:30       Joshua T. Mauldin, Southern Methodist University

Three Theories of International Law and the Theology of Human Dignity 

 

10:50       Tim Brookins, Baylor University

What Your Country Can Do for You” and “What You Can Do for Your Country”: The Epicurean and Stoic Roots of Modern Liberalism

 

11:10       Shelley Ashdown, Graduate Institute of Applied Linguistics
The Torobo Social Construct of Ethics
 

  11:30       David Wilmington, Baylor University

Ethical Implications of St. Bonaventure’s Cosmic Exemplarism

 

AAR: History of Christianity

Theme: Gender Issues from Early Christianity to the Sixteenth Century 

Presiding: Art Torpy
  
10:30       Lourdes Yajaira Rincón, Xavier University of Louisiana 

A Socio-Scientific Analysis of Early Patristic Writing about Women and Chastity

 

11:00       Mary Moorman Armstrong, Southern Methodist University  

Quando Tu and the Nuptial Creation: The Role of Gendered Norms in St. Augustine’s Ecclesiology

 

 11:30      Chad J. Pevateaux, Rice University 

Unknowing Gender: Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, and the Dionysian Heritage of Mystical Theology 

 

AAR: Philosophy of Religion and Theology

Theme: Evil and the Problem of Theodicy

 

10:30       Panel Discussion

                Donna Bowman, University of Central Arkansas

Dan Stiver, Hardin-Simmons University

Sarah K. Pinnock, Trinity University 

 

SBL: Hebrew Bible I
Theme: Theology and Pedagogy
 
Presiding: Jan Jaynes Quesada, Texas Christian University
 
10:30     John Willis, Abilene Christian University
              Mediating Conditional and Unconditional Promises in the Hebrew Bible
 
11:00       John Garza, George W. Truett Theological Seminary
                Circumstances of Despair, Conditions for Faithfulness: A Theological Reading of Psalms 88
 
11:30       Stephen Reid, George W. Truett Theological Seminary
                The Death of Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
 
SBL: Hebrew Bible II
Theme: Job
Presiding: John Ahn, Austin Theological Seminary
10:30       Ching-An Yeh, Brite Divinity School
                Metaphor on Humanity and Ambiguities of Suffering in the Book of Job 
 
11:00       Joseph McDonald, Brite Divinity School
                Job and the Voice under Domination
 
11:30       Karen Rangel, Brite Divinity School
                Job and the Womb: Job’s use of the Womb to Curse and Control Creation

 

SBL: New Testament I

Theme: The Gospel of Matthew and the Epistle of James

Presiding: Charles Talbert, Baylor University

 

10:30       Sharon Betsworth, Oklahoma City University
                What Child Is This? A Literary Analysis of the Child in Matthew 2 and 18:1-5 
 
11:00       Doug Kennard, Houston Graduate School of Theology
                Matthew’s Jesus Teaches a New Covenant Nomist Salvation for Jewish Christians
11:30       Daniel R. Streett, Criswell College
                Food, Fellowship, and Favoritism: Early Christian Meals as the Setting for James 2:1-9

 

SBL: New Testament II

Theme: Paul  

Presiding: David B. Capes, Houston Baptist University 

 
10:30       Wendell Willis, Abilene Christian University
                The Downward Mobility of Paul
 
11:00       Jae-Hee Lee, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University
                The Politics of “Rejoice”: Paul’s Negotiation with the Roman Empire in Philippian
 
11:30       Brandon L. Fredenburg, Lubbock Christian University
                Paul's "Troublemaking Teacher": Examining Douglas Campbell's Thesis

 

Saturday, March 14 (11:45–1:15)

 

Lunch

 

By Pre-Registration and Pre-Payment

(in addition to the general registration fee)

 

Additional restaurants are available in the hotel lobby.

 

 
Saturday Afternoon, March 14 (1:30-3:30)

 

ASOR

Theme: Teaching Archaeology and Biblical Studies

Presiding: Greg Snyder, Hebrew Union College

 

1:30         Chad Spigel, Trinity University

Don’t Be Such an Archaeologist! Lessons from a Marine Biologist Turned Filmmaker

 

1:55         Mark Gstohl and Michael Homan, Xavier University of Louisiana

Service Learning, Cemeteries, and Prophets

 

2:20         Sr. Mary Ann Stachow, Xavier University of Louisiana

Undergrad Biblical Studies and Archaeology: Excavating Student Interest

 

2:45         James Moyer, Missouri State University

Horses and Chariots in the Monarchy Period of Ancient Israel: Why did David Hamstring Horses in 2 Sam. 8:4 = 1 Chron. 18:4?

 

ASSR

Theme: Desecration, Racist Religion, and American Injustices

Presiding: Walt Scalen, Stephen F. Austin State University

 

1:30         Karol A. Chandler-Ezell, Stephen F. Austin State University

Desecration or Just Deterioration? How Religious Symbolism Shapes Perceptions of Old Cemeteries

 

2:10         Dianne E. Dentice, Stephen F. Austin State University

Towards a Theory of Racist Religion

 

2:50         Michael D. Royster, Prairie View A&M University

Anomia: How Religion has Justified American Injustices

 

AAR: Joint Session: Arts, Literature, and Religion and Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion

Theme: Reflections on the Comparative and Asian Religious Studies Course 

Presiding: Darren Middleton, Texas Christian University 
  
1:00         Chad J. Pevateaux, Rice University

Comparative Buddha Sightings: Eckel, Gimello, and French Theory on Presence/Absence, Idol/Icon, and Image/Text in Buddhist Meditation 

 

1:30         Sage Elwell, Texas Christian University

Shusaku Endo's Silence and the Aesthetics of Pain 

 

2:00         Darren Middleton, Texas Christian University

Some Reflections on Shusaku Endo's Silence 

 

2:30         Mark Dennis, Texas Christian University

An Orientalist Reading of the Blue Eyes of Jesus in Shusaku Endo's Silence 

 

3:00         Discussion 

 

AAR: Ethics, Society, and Cultural Analysis

Theme: Social Issues in Ethics

 

1:00         Christopher J. Dowdy, Southern Methodist University

“We Might as Well Go to the Elks Arch”: Tracing Violence, Commemoration, and Forgiveness on the Dallas Landscrape
 

1:30         Rodney A. Thomas Jr., Brite Divinity School

God in Solidarity: Incarnation and Eschatology as the Nexus between North American Christian Womanism and Eastern & Russian Orthodox Theologies 
 

2:00         Aaron Weaver, Baylor University 

“Not In My Backyard” To “Not In Anyone’s Backyard”:  The Black Church and the Environmental Justice Movement 
 

  2:30        T.L. Gray, Vanderbilt University

Faith and Ecology: Advancing an Environmentally Pragmatic Theory of Religion
 

  3:00         Brandon Frick, Baylor University

Covenantal Ecology: The Implications of “Covenant” in the Book of Genesis 

 

AAR: History of Christianity

Theme: Gender Issues in Modern Christianity 

Presiding: Carol Holcomb, University of Mary Hardin Baylor  
  
1:00         Michael D. Sciretti, Jr., Baylor University 

The Fruitful “A.D.”: Vocation, Gender, and Authority in the Spiritual Direction Ministry of Anne Dutton

 

1:30         Mitylene M. Myhr, St. Edward’s University  

Docile and Obedient? Leadership Crisis in the Seventeenth-Century Ursuline Community of Bordeaux

 

2:00         Beth Hessel-Robinson, Texas Christian University 

“Unighted by the Strong Ties of Christian Fellowship”: Ritual and Gender Relations in a Nineteenth-Century Quaker Community  

 

2:30         Business Meeting 

 

AAR: Philosophy of Religion and Theology

Theme: Twentieth-Century Thought and Thinkers 

Presiding: Rebecca Huskey, University of Oklahoma, and

Donna Bowman, University of Central Arkansas

 

1:00         Jodie L. Lyon, Southern Methodist University

Pride and Prejudice: Why Niebuhr Actually Got it Right

 

1:20         Rodney A. Thomas, Jr., Texas Christian University

God in Solidarity: Incarnation and Eschatology as the Nexus between North American Christian Womanism and Eastern & Russian Orthodox Theologies 

 

1:40         Warren McWilliams, Oklahoma Baptist University

“I Have Offered Only Guesses”:  C.S. Lewis’s Final Epistolary Theology 

 

2:00         Discussion

 

2:15         Mary C. Moorman, Southern Methodist University

Covenant Communion?  Henri De Lubac on Incorporation in the Two Aspects of the Church

 

2:35         Chad J. Peveteaux, Rice University

How to Speak with Ghosts:  Marx, Derrida, and the Scholar of the Future 

 

2:55         Jay T. Smith, Howard Payne University

A Trinitarian Epistemology: Stanley J. Grenz and the Essence of Convertive Piety 

 

3:15         Discussion  

 

SBL: Hebrew Bible I

Theme: Hebrew Bible Texts and Other Traditions
Presiding: Scott Langston, Texas Christian University
 
1:30         Stuart Lasine, Wichita State University
                Kings Wicked and Weak: Comparing Biblical and Greek Depictions of Failed Leadership 
 
2:00         Tim Brookins, Baylor University
                Reading Philo Reading the Pentateuch: Resonances with Wisdom in Balaam and the Donkey (Numbers 22-24) 
 
2:30         W. Dennis Tucker, Jr., George W. Truett Theological Seminary
                Reading Daniel 3 in a Post-Constantinian Context
 
3:00         Jan Jaynes Quesada, Texas Christian University
                Bathsheba redivivus? Reading (and viewing) Susanna anew
 
SBL: Hebrew Bible II
Theme: Readings in (and out of) the Pentateuch
Presiding: David Moseman, Baylor University
 
1:30         Roy Garton, Baylor University
                Drought & Deceit: The Intertextuality of Jeremiah 14:7-9, 19-22 and Exodus 17:1-7
 
2:00         Nate Loller, Abilene Christian University
                An Inciting Incident: A Narrative-Critical Analysis of Numbers 16 and its importance for the Israelite Priesthood
 
2:30         John E. Anderson, Baylor University
                Replaying the Fool: Esau vs. Jacob and YHWH in Gen 32-33
 
3:00         John Ahn, Austin Theological Seminary
                Murmurs in the Wilderness Wandering Tradition, Revisited

 

SBL: New Testament I

Theme: The Gospel of John and Revelation

Presiding: Steve Friesen, University of Texas

 
1:30         Stan Harstine, Friends University
                A Helical Reading of the Gospel of John
 
2:00         Warren Carter, Brite Divinity School
                John’s Signs: Revealing What? A Disability Studies Approach
 
2:30         David S. Ritsema, B. H. Carroll Theological Institute
                The Divine Messiah: Re-examining John’s Use of Christos in the Purpose Statement of John 20:30-31
 
3:00         Eric J. Gilchrest, Baylor University
                Reading the New Testament with its Original Audiences: A Methodological Proposal with Examples Drawn from John’s Revelation

 

SBL: New Testament II

Theme: After the New Testament

Presiding: D. Jeffrey Bingham, Dallas Theological Seminary

 
1:30         Michael R. Whitenton, Dallas Theological Seminary
                After pi/stij Xristou~: The Faith of Jesus Christ in the Apostolic Fathers
 
2:00         Alisa Cotter, Wichita State University
                Paul’s View of Women: Influence on the Acts of Paul and Thecla
 
2:30         Trevor W. Thompson, Abilene Christian University
                ’This Book Has Been Forged!’ The Interpolation and Forgery of Galen’s Works As a Model for the Diffusion of Early Christian Texts
 
3:00         Tim Ricchuiti and Brian Wright, Dallas Theological Seminary
                From ’God’ to ‘God’: A New Discussion and Proposal

 

 

Saturday Afternoon, March 13 (3:30-4:00)

 

Coffee Break

 

Sponsored by the

American Academy of Religion, Southwest Region

 

Complimentary coffee and tea

 

Book Exhibits Open

 

 Saturday Afternoon, March 13 (4:00-5:30)

 

 

AAR: Plenary Address

 

Presiding:  Sarah Pinnock, Trinity University

President, AAR-SW

 

4:00  Ann Taves,

University of California at Santa Barbara

            President, AAR 

ASOR and SBL: Joint Session

Theme: The United Monarchy in Ancient Israel: Text and Artifact

 

Joel S. Burnett, Director, Baylor University

Biblical and Epigraphic Voices on the Israelite United Monarchy

 

 Steven Ortiz, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

The Archaeology of the United Monarchy: Quest or Quagmire

 

ASSR

Theme: Spiritual Center of Light, and God Bless Texas

Presiding: Jeter Basden, Baylor University

 

4:00         Todd Jay Leonard, Hirosaki Gakuin University

A “Spiritual Center of Light” since 1886—The Spiritualist Community that Talks to the Dead—Historic Camp Chesterfield

 

4:30         Jon Loessin, Wharton County Junior College

God Bless Texas: Religious and Postmodernist Narratives in the Texas Nationalist Movement

 

5.00          Business Meeting

 

SBL: Hebrew Bible
Theme:  Jonah and Isaiah
Presiding: Rebecca Raphael, Texas State University
 
4:00         W. G. Hulbert, Baylor University
                Seasick Fish and Fasting Cows: Words about God and Creation in the Book of Jonah
 
4:30         Richard Bautch, St. Edward’s University
                Isaiah’s Vineyard Remembered                                                       
 
5:00         Mark W. Hamilton, Abilene Christian University
                Isaiah 32 as Literature and Political Meditation
 
SBL: New Testament  I

Theme: Hebrews

Presiding: James Thompson, Abilene Christian University

 
4:00         Brian Small, Baylor University
                Scripture as Prosopopoeia in Hebrews
 
4:30         Jason Whitlark, Baylor University
                The Eternal City and Its King: Roman Imperial Discourse and Hebrews
 
5:00         D. Jeffrey Bingham, Dallas Theological Seminary
               Irenaeus and Hebrews

 

SBL: New Testament  II
Theme: Luke and Acts
Presiding: Andrew Artebury, George W. Truett Theological Seminary
 
4:00         Tim Brookins, Baylor University
                Elements of Stoic-Oriented Declamation in the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31)
 
4:30         Joshua Stout, Baylor University
                Luke’s Samaritan Panegyric: The Encomiastic Function of Luke 17:11-19
 
5:00         J. Coleman Baker, Brite Divinity School
                Peter and Paul in Acts: A Review of the Shifting Methodologies and a Prospect for Future Study

 

 

Saturday Evening, March 13 (5:30-6:30)

 

Reception

 

Registrants will receive a ticket for the reception.

Complimentary food and beverage will be served.

 

Announcement of 2010 Awards

 

Presiding: D. Jeffrey Bingham, Dallas Theological Seminary

President, Southwest Commission on Religious Studies

 

 

 Saturday Evening, March 13 (6:30-8:30)

 

 

SBL: Presidential Address

Presiding: James Thompson, Abilene Christian University

6:30  Kelley Coblenz Bautch, St. Edwards University

Eve-ning the Score: Exegetical Trajectories of Genesis 2-3 and Related Traditions on the First Woman
ASSR

Theme: The Psychology of Totemism, Capsicum, and The Path to Mormon Enlightenment

Presiding: Ben D. Craver, Wayland Baptist University, Albuquerque

 

6:30         Patrick Scott Smith, Republic, MO

The Psychology of Totemism

 

7:00         Joshua E Hultberg, Stephen F. Austin State University

A Brief Examination of Capsicum in Pre-Columbian Societies

 

7:30         Kelley Downey, Stephen F. Austin State University

The Twilight Saga: The Path to Mormon Enlightenment

 

AAR: Arts, Literature, and Religion

Theme: Musical Theologies

Presiding: Rebecca Huskey, University of Oklahoma

 

6:30         Josh Bertetta, St Edwards University

Religious Dialogue through a Musical Exploration

 

7:00         Austin Bennett Amonette, Houston Graduate School of Theology

Hearing Theology in Rock Music

 

7:30         Jenny Caplan, Syracuse University

The Times, They are A’Changin’

 

AAR: History of Christianity

Theme: Missions, Circuit Evangelism, and Trans-cultural Encounter 

Presiding: Hjamil Martínez-Vázquez, Texas Christian University

 

6:30         James Gorman, Independent Scholar

A History of Ambivalence: Missions in the Early Stone-Campbell Movement, 1809-1830

 

7:00         Art Torpy, Independent Scholar

Peter Cartwright: Nineteen-Century Methodist Evangelical

 

7:30         Angela Tarango, Trinity University

The “Indigenous Principle,” Native American Leaders, and the Changing Face of the Assemblies of God 

 

Saturday Evening, March 13 (8:00-9:30)

 

Institute for Biblical Research, Southwest Region

Presiding: Rodney Reeves, Southwest Baptist University

 

8:00         Ken Gore, Williams Baptist College

Devotional

 

8:10         David Ritsema, B.H. Carroll Theological Institute

Christology of the Gospel of John

 

8:40         Van Herd, University of Oklahoma

The Place of I John 5:12 in the Textus Receptus: Some Early Modern Examples of its Role in the Shaping of Christological and Trinitarian Doctrine
 


Sunday Morning, March 14 (7:30-8:30)

 

7:30-8:15 AAR Business Meeting

7:30-8:30 ASOR Business Meeting

7:45-8:30 SBL Business Meeting

 

 

Book Exhibits Open

 

Sunday, 8:30-12:30

 

Please visit our supporting exhibitors in the Ballroom. 

 

Sunday Morning, March 14 (8:30-10:30)

 

ASOR

THEME: Archaeology, History, and Biblical Studies

Presiding: Eric Mitchell, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

 

8:30         Lourdes Y. Rincon, Xavier University of Louisiana

Early Christian Rituals in Light of Archaeology

 

8:55         Greg Snyder, Hebrew Union College

Decorative Columns and Bases in Assyrian Palace Architecture

 

9:20         Heather Reichstadt, Tandy Center for Archaeological Research, and
                Adam Dodd, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

SWBTS Cuneiform Project: An Overview of Current Conservation and Research Initiatives

 

AAR:  Arts, Literature, & Religion

Theme: Applied Theology

Presiding: Celucien L. Joseph, University of Texas at Dallas

 

8:30         Ashley Squires, University of Texas at Austin

The American Gospel: “Ben-Hur” in the Classroom

 

9:00         Mary Moorman Armstrong, Southern Methodist University

Explorations in the Contribution of Art to Homiletics: Salvadore Dali and the Freedom of Christ

 

9:30         Jenny Caplan, Syracuse University

Representations of Jesus in Modern Theatre

 

AAR:  Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion

Theme: Experiential Exercises in the Classroom: Merits and Limitations

Presiding: Andrew O. Fort, Texas Christian University

 

8:30         Panel Discussion

  

William Barnard, Southern Methodist University

Donna Bowman, University of Central Arkansas

Alejandro Chaoul, University of Texas Medical School

Jennifer Fields, St. Edwards University

Anne Gleig, Rice University

 

10:30       Business Meeting 
 
AAR:  Ethics, Society, and Cultural Analysis

Theme: Social Issues In Ethics

 

8:30         Kathleen A. Brown, St. Edwards’s University

The Conference of Christian Pacifists: Bearing Witness to Christian Faith and Practice during World War I

 

9:00         Andrew Lang, Graduate Theological Union

A Consideration of Recent Arguments for Pre-Natal Potential Personhood

 
 

9:30         Charles K. Bellinger, Brite Divinity School

The Rhetoric of the Abortion Debate as Anthropological Prism

 

10:00       Discussion

 

AAR: History of Christianity

Theme: Issues in Evangelicalism 

Presiding: Jeffrey Williams, Brite Divinity School

 

8:30         Aaron Weaver, Baylor University

Charles the Baptist”: the Church State Jurisprudence and Contributions of Charles Evans Hughes

 

 9:00        Donald G. Emler, Oklahoma City University

The Story of the Sunday School Movement

 

9:30         Rodney A. Thomas, Jr., Brite Divinity School

Conversion and Decolonization: A Comparative History of Evangelical Christian Responses to Nationalist Movements in the Black Christian Community of Harlem and the Protestant Churches of Korea  

 

10:00       Courtney A. Lyons, Baylor University

For God and For America: Evangelical Support of the American Military during the Vietnam War
 
AAR: Philosophy of Religion and Theology
Theme: Forgiveness in the Jewish, Jewish-Christian and Post-Holocaust Contexts

 

8:30         Panel Discussion

 

Alan Udoff, St. Francis College

"And, therefore, will the Lord wait" – The Place of Confession in the Drama of Forgiveness

 

Martin D. Yaffe, University of North Texas

Why Couldn’t Shylock Forgive Antonio – and Vice Versa?  Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice as a Platonic Dialogue on the Jewish-Christian Question

 

Andrew Kelley, Bradley University

May One Forgive Oneself?

 

Discussants:

 

Joshua Parens, University of Dallas

Gregory Kaplan, Rice University 
 
AAR: Theta Alpha Kappa Session

Theme: Student Papers from Theta Alpha Kappa Chapters in the Region 

Presiding: Derek Dodson, Baylor University 
  
8:30         Dustin James, University of the Ozarks

Moral and Cultic Law in Leviticus: A Dubious Distinction in the Christian Debate over Homosexuality

 

8:55         Lauren May, St. Edward’s University

The Parasol as Symbol in Buddhist Folklore 

 

9:20         Nathan Hays, Baylor University

The Scottish Church and the Enlightenment 

               

9:45          Carol Flip, St. Edward’s University

Academic Freedom and the Catholic University:  A Case Study of The Vagina Monologues and the University of Notre Dame

 

SBL: Hebrew Bible I
 
Theme:  Rhetoric and Ideology in the Hebrew Bible
Presiding: Stephen Reid, George W. Truett Theological Seminary
 
8:30         Rebecca Raphael, Texas State University
                Method Contra Authority: Feminism, Disability, and Biblical Studies
 
9:00         Jillian Nelson, Oklahoma City University
                Toward a Second World Liberation Theology             
 
9:30         Brian L. Webster, Dallas Theological Seminary
                The Perfect Verb in the Book of Proverbs
 
10:00       Davida Charney, University of Texas
                Rhetorical Exigencies in the Individual Psalms
SBL: Hebrew Bible II
Theme:  Ruth, Samuel, and Kings
Presiding:  Travis Frampton, Hardin-Simmons University
 
8:30         Robyn Holtmeyer, Hardin-Simmons University
                Ruth as David’s Kinsman-Redeemer
 
9:00         Jimin Lee, Union Theological Seminary
                The Woman in Endor and the Woman in Enaim: An Intertextual Reading of 1 Samuel 28:3-25 and Genesis 38           
 
9:30         Rannfrid Thelle, Independent Scholar
                Constructing Jerusalem in 2 Samuel and in Kings
 
10:00       Ginny Brewer-Boydston, Baylor University
                Queen Mother, Advisor to the King: Theological Implications of the Naming of the Queen Mother in the Regnal Formulas
 
SBL: New Testament
Theme: The Gospel of Mark and Tatian’s Diatessaron
Presiding: Bobby Kelly, Oklahoma Baptist University
 
8:30         William Karlson, Independent Scholar
                The Baptismal Dove and Mark’s Irony of Royal Symbols of Power
 
9:00         Renate Viveen Hood, University of Mary-Hardin Baylor
                Healing in the Gospel of Mark: Restoration and Community Wholeness
 
9:30         Viktor P. Roudkovski, LeTourneau University
                Last Supper as a Part of Jesus’ Temple Program in Mark
 
10:00       Nicholas J. Zola, Baylor University
                Tatian’s Diatessaron and the Passion Chronology

 

Sunday Morning, March 14 (10:30-11:00)

 

Coffee Break

 

Sponsored by the

Society of Biblical Literature, Southwest Region

 

Complimentary coffee and tea

 

Book Exhibits Open

  

      

Sunday Morning, March 4 (11:00-12:30)

 

SBL: Plenary Address

 

Presiding:  Kelley Coblentz-Bautch, St. Edward’s University

 

11:00  James Kugel, Bar-Ilan University

 

            Not Just a Curiosity: Why Ancient Biblical Intepreters Are Worth Listening to

 

 

ASSR

Theme: The History of Religion, Science, and Philosophical Influences

Presiding: Jon Loessin, Wharton County Junior College

 

11:00       Jerry Hopkins, East Texas Baptist University

Religion, Novels and History: Teaching and Learning Religious History with Fun Reading

 

11:30       Thomas D. Watts, University of Texas at Arlington

Jaki’s Critique of the History of Science

 

12:00       Thomas D. Watts, University of Texas at Arlington    

Some Current Philosophical Influences on University Liberal Arts Faculty

 

AAR:  Arts, Literature, & Religion

Theme: Freedom, Resistance, and Vindication

Presiding: Ashley Squires, University of Texas at Austin

 

11:00       Celucien L. Joseph, University of Texas at Dallas

Theologizing the Black Atlantic, Black Liberation Theology in a Cosmopolitan Context: From Dutty Boukman to James Cone

 

 11:30      Jenny Caplan, Syracuse University

Images of Native Americans in Comic Books

 

AAR:  Comparative and Asian Studies in Religion

Theme: Critical Perspectives on Religion  and  Science: Evolution, Transition, and Experience

Presiding:  Benjamin Brochstein, Rice University

 

11:00       Homer Montgomery, University of Texas at Dallas

Religion and Human Evolution, Positive Influence and No Voice 

 

11:30       Claire Villarreal, Rice University

Narratives of Transition 

 

12:00       Travis Chilcott, University of California, Santa Barbara

What Cognitive Science Offers to the Study of Religious Experiences 

 

AAR:  Ethics, Society, and Cultural Analysis

Theme: Interdisciplinary Ethical Approaches

  

11:00       Rachel Ozane, The University of Texas

What Would St. Francis Do? Comparative Ethics

 

11:20       Dustin Atlas, Rice University

The Problem of the Third in Schmitt’s Catholic and Romantic Writings

11:40       Ian W. Panth, Baylor University

Apology as a Refraction of Gospel Truth: The Influence of Jacques Maritain on Contemporary Political Discourse

 

12:00       Celucien L. Joseph, University of Texas at Dallas

The Ethics of Justification, Social Justice, and The Question of Race

 
 

AAR: History of Christianity

Theme: Ecumenical Gatherings 

Presiding: Elizabeth Flowers, Texas Christian University

 

11:00       Craig R. Clarkson, Baylor University

Edinburgh and “The World”: Reciprocal Influences in the Develop-ment of International Ventures in Missionary Cooperation and Unity

 

11:30       Bill Pitts, Baylor University

John Mott's Decisive Hour of Christian Missions (1910)

 

12:00       Kathleen A. Brown, St. Edward’s University

The Conference of Christian Pacifists: Bearing Witness to Christian Faith and Practice during World War I 

 

AAR: Philosophy of Religion and Theology

Theme: Biblical and Early-Church Topics 

Presiding: Dan Stiver, Hardin-Simmons University

 

11:00       Brandon Frick, Baylor University

Convenantal Ecology: The Implications of “Covenant” in the Book of Genesis

 

11:20       Karen Rangel, Texas Christian University

Job and the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius

 

11:40        Kalvin S. Budiman, Baylor University

The Law of Number and the Problem of Evil in Augustine’s On Order 

 
 

12:00       Myles Werntz, Baylor University

War, Power, and the Creation of Worlds: Augustine and Foucault on the Ontology of War 

 
About the SWCRS
 
The Southwest Commission on Religious Studies was organized in 1974 to encourage, support, and coordinate scholarly activities in the field of religious studies in the Southwest. The Commission serves as the umbrella organization for the regional American Academy of Religion, American Schools of Oriental Research, Association for the Scientific Study of Religion, and Society of Biblical Literature. The SWCRS is sponsored by institutions whose faculty are eligible to apply for annual Junior Scholar Grants and to be nominated for the John G. Gammie Distinguished Scholar Award.

 2009-10 SWCRS Board of Directors

Directors Ex Officio
Jeffrey Bingham, Dallas Theological Seminary (President)
Andrew O. Fort, Texas Christian University (Vice President)
Stacy L. Patty, Lubbock Christian University (Secretary-Treasurer)
Directors Selected by American Academy of Religion
Sarah Pinnock, Trinity University (President)
Darren Middleton, Texas Christian University (President Elect)
John Starkey, Oklahoma City University (Vice President)
Donna Bowman, University of Central Arkansas (Secretary-Treasurer)
Mark Gstohl, Xavier University of Louisiana (Immediate Past President)
Directors Selected by American Schools of Oriental Research
Nancy B. Reed, Texas Tech University (President)
Michael Homan, Xavier University of Louisiana (Secretary-Treasurer)
Directors Selected by Association for the Scientific Study of Religion
Jon K. Loessin, Wharton County Junior College (President)
Todd Jay Leonard, Hirosaki Gakuin University (Secretary)
Directors Selected by Society of Biblical Literature
Kelley Coblenz Bautch, St. Edwards University (President)
James Thompson, Abilene Christian University (President-Elect)
Jan Jaynes Quesada, Texas Christian University (Vice President)
Mark Hamilton, Abilene Christian University (Secretary-Treasurer)
Victor Matthews, Missouri State University (Immediate Past President)
Directors Selected by the SWCRS Board of Directors
Todd Still (2007-1010), Baylor University
Ivette Vargas-O’Brian (2008-2011), Austin College
Stuart Lasine (2009-2012), Wichita State University

2009-2010 Sponsoring Institutions

The SWCRS is thankful for the support of these institutions and their support of excellence in religious scholarship throughout the Southwest region.

Abilene Christian University

Ouachita Baptist University

Austin College

Perkins School of Theology

Baylor University

Phillips Theological Seminary

Brite Divinity School

Rice University

Centenary College of Louisiana

Seminary of the Southwest

Concordia University Texas

Southern Methodist University

Criswell College

Southern Nazarene University

Dallas Baptist University

St. Edward's University

Dallas Theological Seminary

St. Mary's University

East Texas Baptist University

Texas Christian University

Friends University

Texas Lutheran University

John Brown University

Trinity University

Logsdon School of Theology

University of Dallas

Lubbock Christian University

University of Houston

McMurry University

University of Texas at El Paso

Missouri State University

Wayland Baptist University

Oklahoma Baptist University

Williams Baptist College

Oklahoma Christian University

Xavier University of Louisiana

Oklahoma City University

 
        Austin Graduate School of Theology
        Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
        George W. Truett Theological Seminary
        Houston Graduate School of Theology
        Institute for the Study of Antiquity and Christian Origins
        New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
        Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
        Texas State University – San Marcos
        The University of Texas at Austin
        University of Mary Hardin Baylor
        Wharton County Junior College 

 


Award Recipients

John G. Gammie Distinguished Scholar Award

2007-08   William H. Bellinger, Jr., Baylor University

2006-07   David Gunn, Texas Christian University

2005-06   Joe Barnhart, University of North Texas

2004-05   Claudia Camp, Texas Christian University

2003-04   Ronald B. Flowers, Texas Christian University

2002-03   E. Earl Ellis, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

2001-02   Toni Craven, Texas Christian University

2000-01   Bruce C. Cresson, Baylor University

1999-00   John T. Willis, Abilene Christian University

1998-99   Charles Hedrick, Southwest Missouri State University

1997-98   Leo Perdue, Brite Divinity School

1996-97   Everett Ferguson, Abilene Christian University

1995-96   Roy F. Melugin, Jr., Austin College

1994-95   James H. Ware, Austin College

1993-94   Joseph B. Tyson, Southern Methodist University

1992-93   Glenn O. Hilburn, Baylor University

1991-92   Brandon Scott, Phillips Graduate Seminary

1990-91   William O. Walker, Jr., Trinity University

1989-90   Kenneth Lawrence, Texas Christian University

1988-89   William Estep, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

1987-88   William R. Farmer, Southern Methodist University

1986-87   William R. Baird, Brite Divinity School

1985-86   Eugene Boring, Phillips Graduate Seminary

1984-85   John Glenn Gammie, University of Tulsa 
 
The John G. Gammie Distinguished  Scholar Award honors noted scholars in the field of religious studies who reside in the Southwest.  Nominees for this award must be active members of one of the participating societies and on the faculty or staff of a sponsoring institution.  Letters of nomination  must be sent to the SWCRS no later than January 30.

Frank P. Forwood Award for Academic Excellence in Presented Research

 

2008-09   Dennis P. Horton, Baylor University

2007-08   J. B. Watson, Stephen F. Austin State University

 

Honoring the career service of Frank P. Forwood, this award recognizes distinguished scholarship in the ASSR and the SWCRS.  The award is administered by the ASSR-SW.

Junior Scholar Grant

2008-09                 Michael Martin, Lubbock Christian University

2007-08                 Rebecca Raphael, Texas State University – San Marcos

                              Eric A. Mitchell, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

2006-07                         Heidi Campbell, Texas A & M University

                              Serge Frolov, Southern Methodist University

2005-06                         Leor Halevi, Texas A & M University

                              David Jensen, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
2004-05                         Brent Plate, Texas Christian University
Stephen Ortiz, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
 
2003-04                         Joel S. Burnett, Baylor University

Sarah K. Pinnock, Trinity Univesity

2002-03                         Jack A. Hill, Texas Christian University

Todd C. Penner, Austin College

2001-02                 Matthias Henze, Jr., Rice University

2000-01                         Darren J. N. Middleton, Texas Christian University

1999-00                 David B. Capes, Houston Baptist University

1998-99                 Daphne C. Wiggins, Texas Christian University

1997-98                 Joerg Rieger, Perkins School of Theology, SMU

1995-96                         Richard H. Lowery, Phillips Theological Seminary

1994-95                 Darryl Trimiew, Brite Divinity School, TCU

1993-94                 Danna Nolan Fewell, Perkins School of Theology, SMU

                              Lynn Tatum, Baylor University

1992-93                 Jon L. Berquist, Phillips Graduate Seminary

                              Richard W. Cogley, Southern Methodist University

1991-92                 Gregory Walters, St. Mary's University

                              Warren G. Frisina, University of Houston

1990-91                 Mark G. Toulouse, Brite Divinity School, TCU

                              William F. Monroe, University of Houston

1989-90                 Bobby C. Alexander, Southern Methodist University

                              Mikeal Parsons, Baylor University

1988-89                 William H. Bellinger, Jr., Baylor University

                              Victor H. Matthews, Southwest Missouri State University

1986-87                 Daryl Schmidt, Texas Christian University

                              Frank Gorman, Jr., Phillips University

1985-86                 Dennis Smith, Oklahoma State University

                              Robert Sloan, Baylor University

1984-85                 Andrew J. Dearman, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

                              James O. Duke, Brite Divinity School, TCU

 

Junior Scholar Grants are awarded to promising newer scholars of religious studies who reside in the Southwest region.  Applicants must be active members of one of the participating societies and on the faculty or staff of a sponsoring institution. They will ordinarily have completed their dissertation and have served in a faculty position no more than ten years. Applications  must be completed no later than January 30.

 
Past Presidents and Secretary-Treasurers

 

Presidents

2008-09   Nadia Lahutsky, Texas Christian University

2007-08   C. Mackenzie Brown, Trinity University

2006-07   Sharyn Dowd, Baylor University

2005-06   C. David Grant, Texas Christian University

2004-05   Jesse Long, Lubbock Christian University

2003-04   Francisco Garcia-Treto, Trinity University

2002-03   Amy Oden, Oklahoma City University; Stephen Stell, Austin College

2001-02   Stephen B. Reid, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

2000-01   James Moyer, Southwest Missouri State University

1999-00   Terry Muck, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

1998-99   Roy F. Melugin, Austin College

1997-98   Nadia Lahutsky, Texas Christian University

1996-97   Claudia V. Camp, Texas Christian University

1995-96   Harold Hatt, Phillips Theological Seminary

1994-95   Philip Shuler, McMurry University

1993-94   Paula Cooey, Trinity University

1992-93   Victor Matthews, Southwest Missouri State University

1991-92   Robert B. Sloan, Baylor University

1990-91   Toni Crave, Brite Divinity School

1989-90   George Boyd, Trinity University

1988-89   Thomas W. Nuckols, Austin College

1987-88   Richard A. Hoehn, Brite Divinity School

1986-87   John Alsup, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

1985-86   Joe E. Barnhart, North Texas State University

1984-85   William O. Walker, Jr., Trinity University

1983-84   Joseph B. Tyson, Southern Methodist University

1982-83   Kenneth T. Lawrence, Texas Christian University

1981-82   M. Eugene Boring, Phillips Graduate Seminary

1980-81   Bruce C. Cresson, Baylor University

1979-80   Roy F. Melugin, Austin College

1978-79   Thomas H. Olbricht, Abilene Christian University

1977-78   W. Eugene March, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

1976-77   W. L. Hendricks, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

1975-76   John G. Gammie, University of Tulsa

1974-75   Albert C. Outler, Perkins School of Theology

 

Secretary-Treasurers

2006-       Stacy L. Patty, Lubbock Christian University

2003-06   William Pitts, Baylor University

1997-03   Willam H. Bellinger, Baylor University

1991-97   Toni Craven, Brite Divinity School

1990-91   Gary Lance Johnson, Phillips Graduate Seminary

1987-00   Daniel B. McGee, Baylor University

1980-87   Thomas H. Olbricht, Abilene Christian University

1978-80   William O. Walker, Jr., Trinity University

1974-78   Joseph B. Tyson, Southern Methodist University


Advanced Registration Form
Southwest Commission on Religious Studies

Southwest Regional Meeting

March 13-14, 2010

Pre-Registration Form

 

Online Registration is available (preferred) at www.swcrs-online.org

 

Mailed registrations (to the following address)

 must be postmarked no later than March 1, 2010.

 

Stacy Patty, SWCRS Secretary-Treasurer

Lubbock Christian University

5601 19th Street, Lubbock, TX 79407

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(Includes entrance, 2 coffee breaks, and reception)

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