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

  1. 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”

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. H. Auden Same
    1962 Papers
  2. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. 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

  1. D. Myers The Soviet Challenge to Christianity

Fr. Hartnell Rationale of the Roman Catholic Attack on Communism

  1. 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

  1. 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