�Reinhold Niebuhr�s Paradoxical Anthropology and Political Thought: An Application to Korean Political Culture.� Song-Chong Lee, Department of Religion, Temple University.
�Ethnographic Research and Inter-Religious Dialogue: Methods and Benefits.�
Joni Podschun, Hendrix College.
�Re-(cons)-Truing Christianity: H. Richard Niebuhr and Contemporary Catholicism.� Stephen Johnson, Montclair State University.
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( AAR 1.2 ) RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY A: ( Thursday, 9:00�11:40, Mather ) Panel: Unsaying the Unsaid: Recasting Mystical Theologies for Contemporary Liberative Praxis. Presiding: Patricia Way, Temple University.
�Self and the Godhead in Eckhart and Heidegger.�
Andrew Eubanks, Drew University.
�Emphatic Ethics: Pushing the Boundaries of the Apophatic / Unsaid with a Thoroughly Spoken and Embodied Ethic.� Dawn Martin, Drew University.
�Phallus Unveiled: Apophatic Language of Eros in Kabbalah.�
Elaine Padilla, Drew University.
�Unsaying the Self as Feminist Mystical Theology?�
Lydia York, Drew University.
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( AAR 1.3 ) RELIGIOUS ETHICS A: ( Thursday, 9:00�11:00, Talbot ).
Presiding: Lee Barrett, Lancaster Theological Seminary.
�Teaching Social Justice in the Corporate University: Deploying the Teachings of Jesus and Marx in the Era of Unchecked Global Capitalism.�
Megan V. Davis, The George Washington University.
�Ethics and War on Terror: A Niebuhrian Approach.�
Jennifer Tyre, Lancaster Theological Seminary.
� �All Life is Interrelated:� The Transforming Power of Agape Love in King, Merton and Thurman.� Crist�bal Serr�n-Pag�n y Fuentes, Goucher College.
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( AAR 1.4 ) WOMEN AND RELIGION A: (Thursday, 9:00�11:00, White Oak A ).
Panel=Feminist Theology as Principled Activity.
Presiding: Lauve Steenhuisen, Georgetown University.
�Feminism/Religion/Culture�Justice?�
Emily K. Arndt, Georgetown University
�World Without End? Or is the End in Sight? Reflections on Ecofeminism, Economics, and Eschatology in a Post-September 11 World.�
Helene Businger-Chassot, Georgetown University.
�Irregular Ordinations of Catholic Womenpriests as Principled Activity.�
Lauve H. Steenhuisen, Georgetown University.
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( AAR 1.5 ) HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY A: ( Thursday, 9:00�11:00, White Oak B )
Presiding: Raymond F. Bulman, St. John�s University, NY.
�Justin Martyr, Irenaeus and the Matrix of Authority Called �Biblical Canon.� �
Carlos R. Bovell, Independent Scholar.
�Vatican II and the Council of Trent: The End of a Project.�
Raymond F. Bulman, St. John�s University, NY.
�The Influence of the Visitationsreise of Nicolas von Cusa (1401-1464) in the German Empire on the Cistercian Monastery Leeuwenhorst.�
Geertruida de Moor, The Catholic University of America.
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( SBL 1.1 ) DEUTERONOMISTIC HISTORY / FORMER PROPHETS A:
( Thursday, 9:00�11:00, Birch ).
Presiding: John W. Herbst, Union Theological Seminary�PSCE.
�Check Mate: A Queen�s Move That Makes A King.�
Terry Ann Smith, Drew University.
�Reading David's Self-Restraint with a Fool: 1 Samuel 25 as Commentary on 1 Samuel 24 and 26.� Tod Linafelt, Georgetown University, and Jeremy Schipper, Siena College.
� �Set Over Us a King�: A Postcolonial Literary Reading of the Character of Samuel.� Robert Wafula, Drew University.
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( SBL 1.2 ) HEBREWS: ( Thursday, 9:00�11:00, Dogwood ).
Presiding: Michael J. Gorman, St. Mary�s Seminary & University.
�Rent in Twain: Katapetasma in Mark and Hebrews.�
Amy L. B. Peeler, Princeton Theological Seminary.
�The City That Has the Foundations.�
George Wesley Buchanan, Gaithersburg, MD.
� �For the Sake of the Joy Set before Him�: Christology and Structure in the Letter to the Hebrews.� Susan Jaeger, The Ecumenical Institute, St. Mary�s Seminary and University.
�The Emergence of Proto-Apocalyptic Worldviews in the Neo-Babylonian Period: An Analysis of Selected Passages from Ezekiel and Isaiah 40�55.�
Hong Pyo Ha, Drew University.
�Mark�s Manipulation of Jewish Apocalypticism.�
Micah Kiel, Princeton Theological Seminary.
�The Essene-Qumran Hypothesis Revisited.�
Paul Maillet, The Catholic University of America.
SESSION II:
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( AAR 2.1 ) ACADEMIC STUDY OF RELIGION: ( Thursday, 11:05�12:45, Knight ).
Presiding: Steve Johnson, Montclair State University.
� �Reacting to the Past� in an Interreligious Present.�
Christopher D. Denny. St. John�s University, NY.
�Stubborn Western Misconstructions: Are They Asianists� Responsibility?�
Lise Vail, Montclair State University, NJ.
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( AAR 2.2 ) RELIGION IN AMERICA A: ( Thursday, 11:10�12:30, Talbot ).
Presiding: Arthur Remillard, St. Francis College, Loretto, PA.
�American Popular � and Protestant � Impressions of Islam, 1895-1921.�
Kaley M. Carpenter, Princeton Theological Seminary.
�Terrorism and the Evangelical Pulpit: Homiletic Themes on the Sunday after 9-11.� Miriam Perkins-Fernie, The Catholic University of America.
�Cross(ing) Spectacle: Mark 6:30�44 and Mimicry in the Sea Crossing.�
Grant Gieseke, Drew University.
�Stand by Them, Not Speak for Them: Towards Dalit Feminist Hermeneutics ( Luke 7:36�47 ).� Surekha Nelavala, Drew University.
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( SBL 2.2 ) PANEL ON THE HISTORICAL JESUS: ( Thursday, 11:05�12:25, Dogwood )
Jesus Matters: Howard Divinity Students Speak Out on the Historical Jesus.
Moderator: Michael Willett Newheart, Howard University School of Divinity.
Presenters:
Brenda Anderson, Howard University School of Divinity.
George Brown, Howard University School of Divinity.
Kelon Duke, Howard University School of Divinity.
Loretta Robeson, Howard University School of Divinity.
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( SBL 2.3 ) GENDER AND THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES A:
( Thursday, 11:05�12:20, Suite 353 )
Panel: Issues and Opportunities in Analyzing Masculinity in the Hebrew Bible.
Presenters:
Jennifer Koosed, Albright College.
Tod Linafelt, Georgetown University.
Fred (Chip) W. Dobbs-Allsop, Princeton Theological Seminary.
Response: Colleen M. Conway, Seton Hall University.
Discussion: ( 30 minutes).
( AAR 3.1 ) RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY: ( Thursday, 2:00�4:00, Knight )
Panel= Self Psychology, Religion, and Ethics.
Presiding: Henry Carrigan, Northwestern University.
�A Tamed Ambition: How Abraham Lincoln Tamed His Ambition, and Survived His Depressions.� Tim Helton, Drew University.
�Papa Bear and Mother Eagle: Toward a Self-Psychology of the Political Left with Heinz Kohut, George Lakeoff and Stephen Colbert.� Lydia York, Drew University.
�About Face: A Kohutian Turn of Levinasian Eco-Ethics.�
Eric Trozzo, Drew University.
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( AAR 3.2 ) RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY B: ( Thursday, 2:00�4:40, Mather )
Presiding: Catherine Martin, The College of Saint Elizabeth.
�Jesus and Virtue Ethics in the Spirituality of Jean Vanier.�
Brian Berry, College of Notre Dame of Maryland.
�Circus Spirituality: Migrant Life and Connection to the Holy.�
Catherine Martin, The College of Saint Elizabeth.
�Mary McAleese of Ireland: A Spirituality of Friendship.�
Elizabeth L. McCloskey, The Catholic University of America.
�Comparing the Spirituality of the Desert Mothers and a Contemporary Christian Feminist�s Spirituality.� Laurie Mellinger, Evangelical School of Theology, Myerstown, PA.
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( AAR 3.3 ) RELIGION IN AMERICA B: ( Thursday, 2:00�4:40, Talbot )
Presiding: Arthur Remillard, St. Francis University, Loretto, PA.
�Productive Devotional Practices: A Case Study of Robert K. Doran & Father Nelson H. Baker.� Heather A. Hartel, University of Iowa
�Is the Catholic Tradition Over? A Report from the Field.�
Patrick Hayes, St. John�s University, NY.
� �True� and �Un-True� Americans: Anti-Catholicism, Civil Religion(s), and the Murder of Father James Coyle.� Arthur Remillard, St. Francis University, Loretto, PA.
�Saint John the Evangelist Church as a Case-Study in a Spatial Analysis of Early National Catholic Philadelphia.� Katie Oxx, St. Joseph�s University, Philadelphia.
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AAR 3.4 RELIGIOUS ETHICS B: ( Thursday, 2:00�4:00, White Oak A )
Panel = Residents or Resident Aliens? Hauerwas and Detachment in Contemporary Christianity. Presiding: Angela Sims, Union Theological Seminary, VA � PSCE.
�A Critique of the �Resident Alien� Movement.
David Krueger, Temple University.
�Is King a Constantinian or an Alien? Resident Aliens and the Life and Work of Martin Luther King, Jr.� Charles Brian McAdams, Temple University.
�Global Residents: The Myth of the Christian Colony.�
Patricia Way, Temple University.
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( AAR 3.5 ) THEOLOGY A: ( Thursday, 2:00�4:40, White Oak B )
Presiding: Michael Kogan, Montclair State University.
�Jacques Dupuis� Theology of Religion and the Postmodern Religious Sensibilities.�
Craig A. Baron, St. John�s University, NY.
�The Influence of Vatican II on Yves Congar�s Theology of the Laity.�
Rose M. Beal, The Catholic University of America.
�Boethius� Use of Augustine�s De Trinitate.�
David Barbee, The University of Pennsylvania.
�Rahner�s Contribution to an Ecological Theology.�
Michael Canaris, Fordham University.
�Feeding the 5K: A Soul Reading of the Multiplication Miracle.�
Michael Willett Newheart, Howard University School of Divinity.
�Identity of Jesus and the Johannine Community: Focusing on �Do You Love Me?� (John 21:9�17).� Yung-Suk Kim, Virginia Union University.
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( SBL 3.2 ) RECEPTION HISTORY OF THE BIBLE: ( Thursday, 2:30�4:30, Dogwood )
Presiding: Jin Hee Han, New York Theological Seminary.
�The Way of Women: Mishnah Niddah and Ancient Jewish Women�s Experiences of Purity.� Stewart Moore, Drew University.
�The Raising of Cain in Gen 4:9�17, and Roskolnikov�s Repentance in Dostoyevsky�s Crime and Punishment 4.4 � Cornerstones for Prison Ministry.� Gregory Yuri Glazov, Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology, Seton Hall University.
�A Tale of Two Simons: Celebrating Baptism and a Visit.�
Linda Sue Galate, Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University.
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SBL 3.3 GENDER AND THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES B: ( Thursday, 2:00�3:20, Suite 353 )
Presiding: David Carr, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York.
�Abigail and Judith Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Fighting for Survival.�
Donna J. Laird, Drew University.
�Anna of Naphtali: Cutting Against the Grain of a Patriarchal Society.� Geoffrey David Miller, The Catholic University of America and Marymount University (Arlington,VA).
SESSION IV:
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( SBL 4.1 ) MAR-SBL PLENARY: ( Thursday, 4:10�5:10, Dogwood )
Presiding: A. Katherine Grieb, Virginia Theological Seminary
�The Devil is in the Detail: Dispelling Doubts about Dispensing with Q.�
Mark Goodacre, Duke University.
( SBL 4.2 ) MAR-SBL Informal Exchange with Mark Goodacre: ( Thursday, 5:15�5:45, Birch )
Presiding: A. Katherine Grieb, Virginia Theological Seminary.
( AAR 4.1 ) MAR-AAR PLENARY: ( Thursday, 5:20�6:20, White Oak A )
Presiding: Henry Carrigan, Northwestern University.
�Confessional Christian Theology in the Context of the Wider Human and Religious Conversation.� Roger Haight, Union Theological Seminary, NY.
SESSION V:
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( AAR & SBL 5.1 ) GENERAL RECEPTION: ( Thursday, 6:30�7:30, Suite 353 ).
( AAR & SBL 5.2 ) WORKSHOP: Successful Job Hunting.
( Thursday, 8:00�10:00, White Oak A )
Presiding: Jacqueline Pastis, La Salle University.
