2017 WTS Meeting Preliminary Program (In Progress)
Friday
8:00-9:00 a.m. Registration
9:00-9:30 a.m. Opening Worship
9:30-10:30 a.m. Plenary Address: Sondra Wheeler
10:30-11:00 a.m. Break/Refreshments
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Moral Theology: Moderator- Brint Montgomery SNU
Paying Attention to Habit: the Means of Grace as a Pattern of Receptivity and Resistance
Rev. Maureen Knudsen Langdoc
The Nature of Humility: Acquired, Infused, or Prevenient?
Craig A. Boyd
Ecclesiology in Absentia?: Moral-Theological Reflections on the “Deep Ecclesiology” of Wesley and Aquinas
Gregory B. Van Buskirk
Ecumenical Studies Session
The Church, the People of God: Putting the Neighborhood Parish Back in the Church
Michael J. Christensen
Forming a Ecclesiological Dialogue between John Wesley and Radical Orthodoxy
Sunk Wook Oh
Reflecting Unity: Apostolicity For The Wesleyan Tradition
Joseph Wayne Norris
Not by Will Alone: A Critique of William Abraham's Ecclesiological Voluntarism
Edwin Woodruff Tait
Intercultural Studies
The End of the Road for Old Dogs and Young Workers: An Ecclesiology for Rural America
Marissa Coblentz
East Meets West: A Rationale for Intercultural Reconciliation within the Church
Lena Crouso and Kayla Crouso
Relationships Between Emerging Entrepreneurial Church Planting (ECP) and Wesleyans’ Public
Ecclesiology in South Korea
Sang Rak Joo
Practical Theology
Implicitly Explicit: Doing Ecclesiology In The 21st Century Holiness Church
Panel: Scott Daniels, Steve Hoskins, Dwight Gunter, Brent Peterson
Systematic Theology
Transpositions: The Notes of the Church in Trinitarian and Wesleyan Keys
Jerome Van Kuiken
Divided Because of Jesus
Ken Loyer
Women’s Studies
Humility and its Discontents
Kent Dunnington
Liberative Ecclesiology: Free Methodism in Dialogue with Liberation Theology
Zachary DiMiele
Queering Wesley, Queering the Church: Toward an Ecclesial Circumcision of the Heart
Keegan Osinski
Doubt and Assurance in the Journal of Margaret Foxall (1758-1816)
Jane Donovan
SSPWT and Theology & Science: Moderator Tom Oord
Ecclesiology and the Other: How Might Moral Foundations Shape the Future of the Church?
Ron Wright, Paul Jones, Joe Bankard, Mark Maddix
Biblical Studies
Eschatology, Ethics, and the People of God: Social Dynamics of Bodily Resurrection in the Corinthian Correspondence
Matthew P. O'Reilly
What would Paul say? “Present your bodies as living sacrifices or as a living sacrifice;” and why should we care? A close read of Romans 12:1-2.
Christopher G Foster
Resurrection, Cosmology, and Ecclesiology
Andy Johnson
Historical Studies
“Fruits Meet for Repentance”: The Role Of Repentance in Wesleyan Ecclessiology
Luther Jeremiah Oconer
The Exigence of Necessity' - John Wesley's Anglican Ecclesiology
Joseph Wood and Jon Kulaga
"Ecclesiastical Monarchy": The Challenge of Republicanism to Early American Methodist Polity
Gregory R. Coates
A Functional Understanding of John Wesley's Theology of Ordination
Zachariah Ellis
Historical Studies
Lay Leaders as Spiritual Catalysts: The Influence of J. A. Culbreth and D. H. Hood on the Emergence of Holiness-Pentecostalism in Eastern North Carolina
Karen Hamilton Lucas
Hugh Bourne’s Defence of Primitive Methodism Against the Charge of Schism
James Pedlar
From Second Work to Secondary Status: The Rise and Fall of Holiness Theology in the Brethren in Christ Church
Devin C. Manzullo-Thomas
12:30-1:30 p.m. Lunch
Meeting of the Executive Committee
1:30-2:30 p.m. Presidential Address:Scott Kisker
2:30-3:00 p.m. Break/Refreshments
3:00-4:30 p.m. WTS Business Meeting
4:45-6:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Moral Theology
The Duty of Constant Communion: The Church as Community of Moral Formation
Timothy Gaines
Rooting out Evil?: The People of God as Communities of Holiness
Nathan Willowby
The Rest of Mercy and the Common Reception of Sabbath
David Lilley
Theology and Pop Culture Moderator: John M. Bechtold
Theme: A Young and Aging Church: The Intertwining of Ecclesia and Pop Culture
Methodists, Millennials, and the Means of Grace
Miranda Zapor Cruz
Challenges Affecting Youth Exemplifying a Life of Worship
Daryll Gordon Stanton and Lucy Kimani
The Paradoxes of Humor: Chesterton and Kierkegaard’s Theologies of Comedy
Philip Tallon
Practical Theology
Balancing Our Account: Overcoming Deficits in the Missional Orientation and Congregational Identity of Gracepointe Church of the Nazarene
Brandon Yarbrough
The Methodist Distinctive: Connecting Knowledge with Vital Piety and Fact with Value
M. Kathryn Armistead
Social Holiness: The Problem of Dementia for the Doctrine of Christian Perfection
Jeffrey A. McPherson
Systematic Theology
Wherever Two or Three Are Gathered: A Theology of Space
Reuben L. Lillie
Art: Discovery and Participation in the Imago Dei
Kaitlyn Haley
A Political Ecclesiology: Gestures towards a Wesleyan Contribution
Timothy L.P. Hahn
Systematic Theology
Ecclesiotomy: The Church as Open Wound
Christina Smerick, Craig Keen, Eric Severson, Brent Peterson
Women’s Studies
How “the Church, the People of God” Can Have a Voice and Role in Providing Healing Opportunities for Victims of Domestic Violence/Sexual Assault
Christy Sim
“Resisting death and creating life”: African Feminist Theology for the Global Church
Jennifer M. Buck
Modesty Culture in the Church: How Women in Ministry Become the Embodiment of Temptation
Melissa Wass
What Compelled Holiness Women in the 19th and Early 20th Century to Preach?
Gerhard Mielke
SSPWT
Theme: Psychology, Theology, and Society
Conservative Theology and Death Anxiety: Are Conservative Christians More Anxious About Death?
Scott Drabenstot & Caleb Demarais
Transformational Learning and Appreciative Inquiry: A Wesleyan Model for the Church's Response to Domestic Violence
Beverly Ann Hall
Biblical Studies
Philippians: A Study of House Church and Female Leadership as Anti Empire Movement
Kimberly Majeski
Justified and Glorified: The Ecclesiological Significance of the Intertextual Connection between Isa 45:18-25 and Phil 2:10-11
Ryan K. Giffin
Following the Lamb Wherever He Goes: John’s Vision of the Church in Revelation 7:1-17 and 14:1-7
Dean Flemming
Historical Studies
The Changing Shape of Free Methodist History: A Proposal for a Global History of the Free Methodist Church
Benjamin D. Wayman
Precarious Paradox: National Association of the Church of God (Anderson)
Barry L. Callen
The Creative Edge of the Believer's Church in American Methodism
Stan Ingersol
Methodist Commentary and Nazarene Campaigns in Response to the Azusa Street Revival
Robert Doyle Smith
Historical Studies
Sacramental Ecclesiology and the Struggle for Unity in Early English Methodism
Philip J. Carder
The Genealogically Unintelligibilty of “Wesleyan Eccclesiology”: The Changing Historical Forms of Methodist Assemblages
John W. Wright
1798 Discipline as Key to Understanding Changing Ecclesiology From Wesley's Vision in 1784 to MEC Reality in 1800
Steven David Bruns
Theology & Science
Theme: Evolution and Epistemology
Towards an Evolutionary Understanding of Original Sin
Logan Patriquin
Knowledge is Power: How Understanding Human Origins Can Be Empowering For Christian Life
Matthew Nelson Hill
John Wesley's Concept of Truth
Ernest Maynard Moore
6:30-8:30 p.m. Banquet
8:30-9:30 p.m. IBOE Reception
NTC Manchester Reception
Saturday
7:00-7:50 a.m. Meeting of Program Units Committee and Section Chairs
8:00-8:30 a.m. Worship
8:30-9:30 a.m. Plenary Address: Phil Meadows
9:30-10:00 a.m. Break/Refreshments
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Moral Theology
Kneeling, Sharia Law, and the Sermon on the Mount: The Peculiar Moral Vision of John Wesley's Methodist Ecclesiology
Rustin E. Brian
The Church, the Powers, and the Stoicheia of American Civil Religion
Frank E. "Smith" Lilley, Jr
Context, Memory, and Suspicion: Church and the Performance of Tradition
Joshua Sweeden
Practical Theology
Mary Bosanquet Fletcher's Communal Catechism
Rebecca Laird
Reading Scripture Together as Wesleyans: Cultivating Christian Formation with Those Who Experience Dementia
Christopher D. O'Brien
Anxiety in the Wesleyan Spirit: A Core Theological Theme?
Joseph William Cunningham
Practical Theology
John Wesley's Understanding of the Church from the Perspective of Eucharistic Ecclesiology
SunAe Lee-Koo
Ecclesiology and Eucharist in the Wesleyan Tradition
Mark H. Mann
“We Have Our Heading!” Recovering the Church as Ship Image in Basil of Caesarea for Wesleyan Ecclesiology
Benjamin D. Wayman
Systematic Theology
Church and Nation: How Does the Nation State Relate to the Life of the Church?
Thomas A. Noble
The Christo-Centric Community: A Proposal for Wesleyan Ecclesiology
Timothy Crutcher
SSPWT
Theme: Mental Health and the Church
Psychopharmacology and Churches in the Upper Ohio River Valley of WV
Stephen Scott Mapes I
Depression in Ministry: Caring for a Pastor with Clinical Depression
Joshua Pierce
Biblical Studies
Sanctified Space and the Church in Acts
Timothy W. Reardon
RevisionisticallyExegeting the Loyal Samaritan Parable (Luke 10) Restores the Purely Intra-ecclesial Second Great Commandment as the Holy Foundation of Constructive Ecclesiology
James T. Mace
To the Churches and the Israel of God: Pauline Ecclesiology and the Eschatological Coalescence of Church and State
Michael Falgout
Theological Education
Formation for (Faithful) Fresh Expressions: The Necessity of Theological Education for Methodist Ecclesial Innovation
Jeffrey Conklin-Miller
Medieval Speculative Theology as a Model for Teaching Theology to STEM Students
Jonathan Heaps
Midwifery, Scaffolding, and Hospitality: A Metaphor-Driven Philosophy of Teaching and Learning
Ryan K. Giffin
Theology and Pop Culture Moderator: John M. Bechtold
Panel - SeculorumCommunio: Finding Church in Popular Culture
Brannon Hancock
Historical Studies
Theme: The More Radically Christian
British Holiness Historiography: Toward a New Paradigm of Analysis for Holiness Movements
David Bundy
Suffer the Little Children to Come unto Me: Children’s Literature and the Doctrine of Holiness in the Church of the Nazarene
Mary Lou Shea
Common Cause: Conservative Holiness Folk and Other Fundamentalists
Wallace O. Thornton, Jr.
The More Radically Christian: A Reinterpretation of the History of the Holiness Traditions
William Kostlevy
Theology & Preaching
Great Expectations: The Renewal of Preaching by Recovering an Ecclesiology
James Nelson Fitzgerald
Missional Preaching: Shaping Ecclesiology through the Pulpit
Joe Foltz
Reclaiming Our Homiletic Heritage: Evaluating Sermons for Wesleyan Missional Ecclesiology
Lenny Luchetti
Preaching Hijacked Words: Declaring the Peaceable Kingdom As An Ecclesiology
Timothy J. Brooks
12:00-1:30 Lunch