2005 papers
The program for the 2005 meeting was:
- Friday evening: Bennet B. Brabson, “Climate Change and Environmental Justice.”
- Saturday morning: Rev. Canon J. Robert Wright, “The Earliest Translations of the Book of Common Prayer.”
- Saturday evening: Karen Evans-Romaine, “Pasternak and Music.”
- Sunday morning: Edward Hansen, “The Shores of the Great Lakes”
2004 papers
Edward Henderson and David Hein. “An Overview of Captured by the Crucified : The Practical Theology of Austin Farrer.”
Jon Wakelyn, “The Southern Episcopal Church and Confederate Unity and Morale.”
Sanford Schwartz. “C. S. Lewis in Outer Space: A Tour of His Science-Fiction Trilogy.”
Charles Huttar, “Deep Lies the Sea-longing: Inklings of Home.”
2003 papers
Bruce Saylor, Sacred Places, the City, and a Great Hymn for the City of God
Lewis Overaker, The Visual Arts and Worship: A Guide to Chartres Cathedral
David Middleton, “Of Words and the Word: On Selecting Verse as Poetry Editor for The Anglican Theological Review”
David L. Holmes, “The Religion of the Founding Fathers”
2002 Papers
John M. Krantz, “Scientific Authority and the Nature of God’s Action in the World”
Charles R. Forker, “Shakespeare’s Richard II, Authority, Unstable Identity, and the Divine Right of Kings”
Kitty Ferguson. “Why Tycho Brahe Didn’t Live in Vain: An Eccentric Historical Case Study in the Evolution of What Appears Authoritative in Science”
Bethany K. Dumas, “Authority in Legal Process: Juries as Experts on Facts”
2001 papers
David Hein on Noble Powell, Bishop of Maryland
John Whittaker on the problem of evil
Lillian Robinson on money in the New Testament
2000 papers
John Watterson spoke on college football; Charles Huttar on C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, and Milton’s “Nativity Ode”; and Marianne Ward on Frankenstein
1999 papers
Margaret Morgan Lawrence, “The Eucharist: One African-American Life”
John V. Fleming, “Chaucer’s Thirsty Women and Other Acts of Poetic Exegesis”
Frederic A. Van-Catledge, Sr., “Some Defining Moments in (Organic) Chemistry”
David Evett, “Shakespeare, Darwin, and the Collect for Peace; or, What Do You Mean, Altruism?”
1997 Papers
David Holmes, Paul Valliere spoke
1996 papers
Marsha Dutton spoke on the Canterbury Tales
Papers Between 1987 and 1995
We are still gathering information on these papers
1986 papers
Alvin Skardon , Guild of Scholars: The First 50 Years-The Second 50
Pardon Tillinghast, What is Truth in Writing the Life of a Saint?
Manning Pattillo, Solzhenitsyn: His Ideas on Western Culture
Curtis G. Smith, Ethical Problems in Contemporary Neuro-Pharmacology
1985 papers
Paul Ward, Philosopher Malgré Moi
Betty Jo McGrade, Mental Health and the Practice of Religion
- Donald Ferree, Public Polls, Choice, Responsibilities: Survey Research
Dante Germino , The Loss of the Center and Disorder of the Modern World
1984 Papers
Joseph Summers , George Herbert and the Anglican Tradition
John Gatta, Divinity at Play in the Poetry of Edward Taylor
Baird Whitlock, 1984: Have We Made It?
Dabney Hart, Three 20th-Century Wise Men: Haldane, Lewis, Snow
1983 Papers
Ursula Niebuhr, The Glory of God in the Bible
Richard Hocking, Nietzsche: The Driven Lutheran
James Litton, Glory in the Music of the Church
Elaine Smith, God and Nature in 19th-Century America
David Billington, The Glories of Technology
1982 Papers
Cleanth Brooks , The Beauty of Holiness Manifest in the Seventeenth-Century Poem
Robert Strider, The Cambridge Platonists and “The Candle of the Lord”
- Robert Wright, The Role of Mary in Anglican Worship and Devotion
Henry Veatch, Philosophy, Thou Art in a Parlous State
1981 Papers
Alec Wyton, Singing Our Way into the Twentieth Century
Edward N. West, Art at the Service of Religion
James A. Houck, Religion and Literature
Gary Niswonger, What Artists See
1980 Papers
Stan Stenson, God’s Glassy Essence
Richard Toner, Thermodynamics and Theology
Curtis Smith, The Evolution of the Soul
Marshall Walker, The Ethical Responsibility of the Scientist
1979 Papers
John M. Allin, Address by the Presiding Bishop
Rowland Collins, Tenth-Century English Sermons: Blickling Homilies
Baird Whitlock, John Donne: To Doubt Wisely
Manning Pattillo, William Temple and Political Freedom
1978 Papers
- Robert Wright, Anglican-Roman Catholic Relations
Richard Hocking, Present Help from Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity
Henry Veatch, Natural Law in Aquinas and Hooker
Stephen McGrade, Hooker and the Present State of the Church
1977 Papers
William M. Hale, Ordination Examinations of the Episcopal Church
Boyce Bennett, Ordination Examinations of the Episcopal Church
William Banner, Theology According to Saint Augustine: The Knowledge, Love, and Enjoyment of God
Stephen McGrade, A Medical Model for Theology? The Challenge to Theology in W. G. Perry’s Data
Paul Ward, Student Interviews
1976 Papers
Roland Foster, Theological Education
Rowland Collins, Evaluation of Seminarians
Alec Wyton, Theology of Music and the Allied Arts in Liturgy
Hugh Caldwill, Do Iotas Really Matter?
1975 papers
Dante Germino, Voegelin’s Framework for Political Evaluation
Frank Harrison,Plucking Minerva’s Owl
Manning Pattillo, Reflections on Undergraduate Education
Robert Jordan, Sacred and Secular
1974 Papers
T.G. Hereford, Social Structure: Prison or Playground?
Henry Veatch , What Has Recent Philosophy Done to Philosophy?
Ursula Niebuhr, Wystan Auden and the Religious World of the Forties
Robert Terwilliger, Education for Theology
1973 Papers
- Sydney Barr . The Servant Church
Alvin Skardon, Muhlenberg and Maurice: A Comparison
Stephen Bayne,Changing Models of Education
William Banner, Robert Jordan, Sten Stenson Discussion
1972 Papers
Baird Whitlock, The Ethical Import of the Genetic Revolution
Donald Pease, The Issues of Population Control
Richard Toner, New Issues in Medical Ethics
Richard Hocking, Justification for Manipulation of Mind and Behavior
1971 Papers
- Robert Wright, Interaction of Christian Worship and Historical Change
Frederick Pottle , Thomas Barnard’s Treatise on the Sacrament
Henry Thatcher, Computing in Liberal Education: An Apologetic
Frank Harrison, What Kind of Beings Can Have Rights?
1970 Papers
George Burch, Diana
Stan Stenson, The Constitution of Religious Consciousness
Pardon Tillinghast, Leisure
Richard Hocking, De ordine of St. Augustine
1969 Papers
Virginia Harrington, American Religion in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Cleanth Brooks , The Present Decay of Language
Robert Jordan, Behold What We Shall Be in the End without End
Henry Veatch, Natural Norms
1968 Papers
Frank Harrison, Language, Logic, and God
- Sydney Barr, Biblical Critique and Situation Ethics
James Baxter, Psychology and Religion
Marshall Walker, Cybernetics and the Humane Use of Human Beings
1967 Papers
Myths and Symbols in: (a) The Old and New Testaments
(b) Early Christianity and Development of the Eucharist
(c) Literature
(d) The Graphic Arts
1966 Papers
Stan Stenson, The Liberating Essence of Religion
Marshall Walker, An Empiricist Looks at Ethics
John Wild, The Ethics of William James
- W. H. Auden , Of Words and the Word
1965 Papers
Norman Pittenger , Truth and Tradition
Hugh Caldwell, The Uses of Science
Thomas Govan, Whose Service is Perfect Freedom
Lawrence Jones, The Poetic Score: A Linguist’s View of Verse Structure
1964 Papers
Paul Ward, Historical Perspective as a Heightened Sense of History: Its Vicissitudes since Petrarch
Thomas Scott-Craig, History as Inquiry: Chronological and Aspectual
Robert Jordan, The Prestige of the Finite
Frederick Pottle , Notes for a Theory of Literary History
1963 Papers
Cleanth Brooks , Morality and Literature: Limits of Literary Expression
Edward Cady Same
Lewis Hammond Same
- H. Auden Same
1962 Papers - Albert Martin The Theologians’ Idea of the University
Robert Jordan The Place of Theological Studies in the University
Richard Hocking Theology and the Liberal Arts
Dante Germino Theology of the Social Sciences
1961 Papers
John Marshall The Impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture
Harry B. Porter The Law of the Prayer Book and the Authority of Worship Kenneth Woolcombe Authority, Definitions, and Canons of the
Councils of the Anglican Communion
Spencer Irving Pitfalls of Ecumenicity
1960 Papers
Edward Hardy History of the Liturgy
Alfred Shands The Liturgical Revival
Francis Brown The Music of the Liturgy
Cleanth Brooks , Prayer Book Revision: Literary Style
1959 Papers
Stringfellow Barr, Present State of Scriptural Scholarship
Richard Hocking, Culture without Revelation
George Burch, Culture with Revelation
Howard Roelofs , How Seriously should We Take Revelation?
1958 Meeting
Norman Pittenger , Observations on American Religiosity
Howard Roelofs , Freedom: Real and Intelligible
John Wild, Christianity and the World of Freedom
Thomas Govan, Freedom and Culture: An American Perspective
1957 Meeting
- L. Casserley, Natural and Revealed Theology
Theodore Odell, Natural Theology in Biological Science
Lewis Hammond, Natural Theology in Philosophy
Richard Toner, Natural Theology in Physical Science
Frederick Pottle , Natural Theology in Literature
1956 Meeting
Norman Pittenger , Movement from Liberalism in the Theology of the Church
John Hallowell, Disillusionment with Liberalism as Political Ideology
George Burch, Chirstianity and the Eastern Religions
Cleanth Brooks , Conservatism and Orthodoxy in Modern Lilterature and Criticism
1955 Meeting
Howard Roelofs , Contemporary Thought Models and the Scholar
William Pollard Dark Age and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century
Stanley Leavy Values in Psychiatry
Thomas Scott-Craig The Christian Humanism
1954 Meeting
Ryusaku Tsunoda, Buddhism
Swami Pavitrananda Hinduism
- T.Cheng, Confucianism
Edward Myers, Summary
1953 Meeting
Edward Myers, Toynbee on Law and Freedom
Henry Shepard, Law and the Christian Ethic
John Marshall, Hooker on Natural Law and Constitutionalism
Wilbur Katz, Natural Law and Positive Law
1952 Meeting
Brooks Otis History and the Truth of Christianity
Philip Taft, The Role of Christianity in the Economic Discipline
Stanley Leavy, Psychological Understanding of Religion and Conscience
Norman Pittenger , Nature and Task of Theology in the Life of the Church
1951 Meeting
Mr. Lane Professional Objectives of the Natural Scientist
Theodore Odell A Biologist Looks at Christianity
Howard Roelofs , Science, Truth, and Religion
Frederick Pottle , Programs for Changing a Positivistic Climate of Opinon
1950 Meeting
Richard Hocking, Existentialism and the Liturgical Community
Thomas Scott-Craig, Development of Existentialism from Kierkegaard
Mr. Patterson, Theological Development of Existentialism
- H. Auden , Existentialism and Literature
1949 Meeting
George Burch Christian Philosophy of Love
John Marshall The Theology of Christian Charity
Leicester Bradner Implications of Christian Love for the Individual
- D. Myers Implications of Christian Love for Social Action
1948 Meeting
Hoxie Fairchild, Failures and Resources of our Ritual and Liturgy
Howard Roelofs , Failures and Resources of our Theology
Henry Shepard Our Failures and Recources as Churchmen
1947 Meeting
Lewis Hammond Theology in Theory and Practice
John Wild Theology and Dogma
George Thomas Theology and Philosophy
1946 Meeting No information available
1945 Meeting
Henry Shepard Economics and the Brotherhood of Man
- D. Myers The Soviet Challenge to Christianity
Fr. Hartnell Rationale of the Roman Catholic Attack on Communism
- Orton Religion and Academic Economics: An Historical Survey
1944 Papers
Allen P. Farrell The Role of Religion in Liberal Education
John Crocker Enlarging Problems and Practical Solutions
- M. Greene
1943 Papers
E. D. Myers The Role of Religion in Post-war Reconstruction
Walter Lowrie This World and the Post-war World in the Light of Kierkegaard’s Doctrine of the Individual