Society of Christian Philosophers 2022 Mountain-Pacific Meeting
“The Wisdom of Love”
Hosted by the United States Air Force Academy
[Map of Conference Locations]
Conference Schedule
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**Each colloquium presenter will have 20 minutes for presentation, followed by 10 minutes for Q&A, with 15 minutes for break and transition between sessions.**
[Map of Conference Locations]
Conference Schedule
[click here to view a PDF of the schedule]
**Each colloquium presenter will have 20 minutes for presentation, followed by 10 minutes for Q&A, with 15 minutes for break and transition between sessions.**
Thursday, 27 October
12:00-12:45pm Check-in at Polaris Hall
12:45-1:45pm Colloquium Session 1
East Seminar Room Chair: Christopher Love
“Love Into Nothingness: The Givenness of Love in Being and Beyond”
David Mau, Colorado Christian University
“The Wisdom of Eros”
Katharine Harvey, Harvard Divinity School
West Seminar Room Chair: Matt Stolick
“Moral Kenosis as the Wisdom of Love in Kierkegaard”
Jaeha Woo, Claremont School of Theology
“Kierkegaard on the Epistemic Standards of Love”
Z Quanbeck, UNC-Chapel Hill
2:00-3:00pm Colloquium Session 2
East Seminar Room Chair: Roberto Di Ceglie
“Worship as Real Union”
Omar Fakhri, Bethel University
“Descartes on the Intellectual Love of God”
Zachary Agoff, University of Pennsylvania
West Seminar Room Chair: Kathryn Toms
“Agape as Paradigmatic Christian Love”
Ryan Christensen, Brigham Young University
“Prudence, Love, and Role-centered Morality”
Michael Beaty, Baylor University
3:15-4:15pm Colloquium Session 3
East Seminar Room Chair: Garrett Pendergraft
“The Puzzle of Sin and Free Will”
Leigh Vicens, Augustana University
“Loving God and Free Will”
Timothy O’Connor, Indiana University
West Seminar Room Chair: Harriet Baber
“It Tolls for Thee”
Helen Daly, Colorado College
“Philosophy And/As Enthusiasm: from Scandal to Self-surrender”
Grant Poettcker, Briercrest College and Seminary
4:30-4:45pm Welcome and Opening Remarks
Adam Pelser, U.S. Air Force Academy
4:45-6:00pm Keynote Address: "Love, Wisdom, and Philosophy: An Expansive Naturalist Approach"
Dr. Fiona Ellis, Professor of Philosophy, University of Roehampton
6:30-9:00pm Conference Dinner
Friday, 28 October
8:00-8:30am Coffee in Polaris Hall
8:30-9:30am Colloquium Session 4
East Seminar Room Chair: David Pelser
“Answered Prayers and Games of Chance”
David Skowronski, Baylor University
“The Elusiveness of Local Miracle Compatibilism”
Garrett Pendergraft, Pepperdine University
West Seminar Room Chair: Nick Hadsell
“What Could Jesus Do?”
Harriet Baber, University of San Diego
“Concepts of God and Their Origins”
Jim Taylor, Westmont College
9:45-10:15am Colloquium Session 5
East Seminar Room Chair: Dan Kemp
“Does Skeptical Theism Undermine Natural Theology?”
Matthew Lee, Berry College
West Seminar Room Chair: Leigh Vicens
“Theistic Ethics and the Problem of Self-Alienation”
David McPherson, Creighton University
10:30-11:30am Book Symposium on God, the Good, and the Spiritual Turn in Epistemology (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Author: Dr. Roberto Di Ceglie, Pontifical Lateran University
Commenters: Cadet Makensie Blum, Jennifer Jensen, and Adam Pelser
11:30am-12:45pm Lunch (provided in Polaris Hall)
12:45-2:00pm Plenary Panel on Teaching Philosophy
Moderator: Anne Jeffrey
Panelist Presentations:
“Jamming in Real Time: A Jazz Philosophy for Teaching Philosophy”
Dr. Douglas Groothuis, Denver Seminary
“Some Philosophical Strategies for Teaching World Religions”
Dr. Paul Macdonald, U.S. Air Force Academy
“Guiding Students from Wonder to Wisdom to Worship”
Dr. Sean Riley, Gravitas: A Global Extension of The Stony Brook School
“Using the Love of Fun for the Love of Wisdom”
Dr. Kevin Wong, Dallas Theological Seminary
2:15-3:15pm Colloquium Session 6
East Seminar Room Chair: Ryan Christensen
“Loving Your Hateful Enemy”
Austen McDougal, Stanford University
“The Possibility of Loving (and Empathizing With) Your Enemy”
Anne Jeffrey, Baylor University
West Seminar Room Chair: Jim Taylor
“A Defense of the Morality of Some Fear- and Reward-based Motives”
Chris Love, Baylor University
**Best Student Paper Prize Winner**
“Theism, the Eschaton, and Prudential Reasons to be Moral”
Justin Morton, Zayed University
3:30-4:30pm Colloquium Session 7
East Seminar Room Chair: Matthew Lee
“Forgiveness and Correction”
Tucker Sigourney, Florida State University
“Reasons and Redemptive Love”
John William Waldrop, University of Notre Dame
West Seminar Room Chair: Ryan West
“What Makes the ‘Loving Gaze’ Loving?”
Griffin Klemick, Hope College
“Seeing But Not Discovering the Sins of Our Neighbors: The Wisdom of Love in
Kierkegaard’s Works of Love”
Matt Stolick, University of Findlay
4:45-6:00pm Keynote Address: “Kierkegaard’s View of Neighbor Love as a Passion: Love as Both a Duty and a Virtue”
Dr. C. Stephen Evans, University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Baylor University,
and Professorial Research Fellow, Institute for Ethics and Society, University of Notre Dame
Australia
6:00pm Dinner on your own (see folder insert for dining suggestions)
Saturday, 29 October
8:00-8:30am Coffee and donuts at New Life Church
8:30-9:10am Optional Worship Service (NLC Student Chapel)
9:15-10:15am Colloquium Session 8
Student Chapel Chair: Jennifer Jensen
“How Soon Do People Quiesce?: A Critique of Kirk MacGregor’s Monergistic Molinism”
Nicholas Noyola, University of Lucerne
“An Argument for Non-standard Identity Relation from Trinitarianism and Divine Simplicity”
Dominic LaMantia, University Notre Dame
Room 160 Chair: Jim Cook
“The Peculiarity of Christian Love”
Michael Glass, Temple University
“Read Aloud!—For Edification: Approaching Texts in a Kierkegaardian Spirit”
Ryan West, Grove City College
10:30-11:30am Colloquium Session 9
Student Chapel Chair: David McPherson
“Finite and Infinite Values”
Dan Kemp, Baylor University
“Should Moral Theists Believe in Non-Naturalism?”
Henrique Cassol Leal, University of Missouri St. Louis
Room 160 Chair: Paul Macdonald
“Aquinas on Dispassionate Theodicy”
Nick Hadsell, Baylor University
“Aquinas, Death, and Too-many-thinkers”
Jacob Huls, St. Louis University
11:45am-12:00pm Concluding Remarks
12:00-12:45pm Check-in at Polaris Hall
12:45-1:45pm Colloquium Session 1
East Seminar Room Chair: Christopher Love
“Love Into Nothingness: The Givenness of Love in Being and Beyond”
David Mau, Colorado Christian University
“The Wisdom of Eros”
Katharine Harvey, Harvard Divinity School
West Seminar Room Chair: Matt Stolick
“Moral Kenosis as the Wisdom of Love in Kierkegaard”
Jaeha Woo, Claremont School of Theology
“Kierkegaard on the Epistemic Standards of Love”
Z Quanbeck, UNC-Chapel Hill
2:00-3:00pm Colloquium Session 2
East Seminar Room Chair: Roberto Di Ceglie
“Worship as Real Union”
Omar Fakhri, Bethel University
“Descartes on the Intellectual Love of God”
Zachary Agoff, University of Pennsylvania
West Seminar Room Chair: Kathryn Toms
“Agape as Paradigmatic Christian Love”
Ryan Christensen, Brigham Young University
“Prudence, Love, and Role-centered Morality”
Michael Beaty, Baylor University
3:15-4:15pm Colloquium Session 3
East Seminar Room Chair: Garrett Pendergraft
“The Puzzle of Sin and Free Will”
Leigh Vicens, Augustana University
“Loving God and Free Will”
Timothy O’Connor, Indiana University
West Seminar Room Chair: Harriet Baber
“It Tolls for Thee”
Helen Daly, Colorado College
“Philosophy And/As Enthusiasm: from Scandal to Self-surrender”
Grant Poettcker, Briercrest College and Seminary
4:30-4:45pm Welcome and Opening Remarks
Adam Pelser, U.S. Air Force Academy
4:45-6:00pm Keynote Address: "Love, Wisdom, and Philosophy: An Expansive Naturalist Approach"
Dr. Fiona Ellis, Professor of Philosophy, University of Roehampton
6:30-9:00pm Conference Dinner
Friday, 28 October
8:00-8:30am Coffee in Polaris Hall
8:30-9:30am Colloquium Session 4
East Seminar Room Chair: David Pelser
“Answered Prayers and Games of Chance”
David Skowronski, Baylor University
“The Elusiveness of Local Miracle Compatibilism”
Garrett Pendergraft, Pepperdine University
West Seminar Room Chair: Nick Hadsell
“What Could Jesus Do?”
Harriet Baber, University of San Diego
“Concepts of God and Their Origins”
Jim Taylor, Westmont College
9:45-10:15am Colloquium Session 5
East Seminar Room Chair: Dan Kemp
“Does Skeptical Theism Undermine Natural Theology?”
Matthew Lee, Berry College
West Seminar Room Chair: Leigh Vicens
“Theistic Ethics and the Problem of Self-Alienation”
David McPherson, Creighton University
10:30-11:30am Book Symposium on God, the Good, and the Spiritual Turn in Epistemology (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Author: Dr. Roberto Di Ceglie, Pontifical Lateran University
Commenters: Cadet Makensie Blum, Jennifer Jensen, and Adam Pelser
11:30am-12:45pm Lunch (provided in Polaris Hall)
12:45-2:00pm Plenary Panel on Teaching Philosophy
Moderator: Anne Jeffrey
Panelist Presentations:
“Jamming in Real Time: A Jazz Philosophy for Teaching Philosophy”
Dr. Douglas Groothuis, Denver Seminary
“Some Philosophical Strategies for Teaching World Religions”
Dr. Paul Macdonald, U.S. Air Force Academy
“Guiding Students from Wonder to Wisdom to Worship”
Dr. Sean Riley, Gravitas: A Global Extension of The Stony Brook School
“Using the Love of Fun for the Love of Wisdom”
Dr. Kevin Wong, Dallas Theological Seminary
2:15-3:15pm Colloquium Session 6
East Seminar Room Chair: Ryan Christensen
“Loving Your Hateful Enemy”
Austen McDougal, Stanford University
“The Possibility of Loving (and Empathizing With) Your Enemy”
Anne Jeffrey, Baylor University
West Seminar Room Chair: Jim Taylor
“A Defense of the Morality of Some Fear- and Reward-based Motives”
Chris Love, Baylor University
**Best Student Paper Prize Winner**
“Theism, the Eschaton, and Prudential Reasons to be Moral”
Justin Morton, Zayed University
3:30-4:30pm Colloquium Session 7
East Seminar Room Chair: Matthew Lee
“Forgiveness and Correction”
Tucker Sigourney, Florida State University
“Reasons and Redemptive Love”
John William Waldrop, University of Notre Dame
West Seminar Room Chair: Ryan West
“What Makes the ‘Loving Gaze’ Loving?”
Griffin Klemick, Hope College
“Seeing But Not Discovering the Sins of Our Neighbors: The Wisdom of Love in
Kierkegaard’s Works of Love”
Matt Stolick, University of Findlay
4:45-6:00pm Keynote Address: “Kierkegaard’s View of Neighbor Love as a Passion: Love as Both a Duty and a Virtue”
Dr. C. Stephen Evans, University Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, Baylor University,
and Professorial Research Fellow, Institute for Ethics and Society, University of Notre Dame
Australia
6:00pm Dinner on your own (see folder insert for dining suggestions)
Saturday, 29 October
8:00-8:30am Coffee and donuts at New Life Church
8:30-9:10am Optional Worship Service (NLC Student Chapel)
9:15-10:15am Colloquium Session 8
Student Chapel Chair: Jennifer Jensen
“How Soon Do People Quiesce?: A Critique of Kirk MacGregor’s Monergistic Molinism”
Nicholas Noyola, University of Lucerne
“An Argument for Non-standard Identity Relation from Trinitarianism and Divine Simplicity”
Dominic LaMantia, University Notre Dame
Room 160 Chair: Jim Cook
“The Peculiarity of Christian Love”
Michael Glass, Temple University
“Read Aloud!—For Edification: Approaching Texts in a Kierkegaardian Spirit”
Ryan West, Grove City College
10:30-11:30am Colloquium Session 9
Student Chapel Chair: David McPherson
“Finite and Infinite Values”
Dan Kemp, Baylor University
“Should Moral Theists Believe in Non-Naturalism?”
Henrique Cassol Leal, University of Missouri St. Louis
Room 160 Chair: Paul Macdonald
“Aquinas on Dispassionate Theodicy”
Nick Hadsell, Baylor University
“Aquinas, Death, and Too-many-thinkers”
Jacob Huls, St. Louis University
11:45am-12:00pm Concluding Remarks