The Logos Institute and Logia seminars take place most weeks during the semester, on Fridays at 1600-1730 in St Mary’s Senior Common Room. They are accompanied by wine and soft drinks.
Semester 2 (2019)
February 8: Stephanie Nordby, ‘We Worship What We Know: The Religious Experiences of the Early High Christology Movement’
February 15: Andrew Torrance, ‘The Paradox of Faith’
February 22: (Logia) Faith Pawl, ‘Animal Awareness of the Divine’
March 1: Mark Murphy: ‘Three Frameworks for Divine Action: Morality, Love, and Holiness’
March 8: Tim Pawl, ‘A Doctrine of Divine Simplicity’
March 15: Bruce Ellis Benson, ‘The Rich Aroma of Forgiveness without the Danger: On Faux Forgiving’
March 29: Kevin Nordby, ‘Common Sense Epistemology, Religious Experience, and Skeptical Theism’
April 5: (Logia) Fanos Tsegaye, ‘Ad Christo: Antecedents of Ethiopic Liturgical Prayers’
April 12: Christoph Schwöbel, ‘Contentious Foundations: Another Look at the Relationship of Revelation and Reason’
April 17 (4pm): Tom McCall, ‘The Identity of the Son and the Freedom of God: Analytic Christology and Theological Interpretation of Scripture’.
April 26: Joshua Cockayne & Gideon Salter, ‘Collective Remembering and Liturgical Time Travel‘
May 3: C. Stephen Evans, ‘A Defence of Accountability as a Virtue’
May 7: Peter van Inwagen, ‘Enjoying God’
May 10: (Logia) Ryan Mullins, ‘Linda Zagzebski’s Omnisubjectivity and the Problem of Creepy Divine Emotions’
May 17: Daniel Spencer, ‘Genesis 2–3 and the Fall: A Tentative Rereading’
May 22: Jc Beall, ‘The Contradictory Christ’
May 24: Yujin Nagasawa, ‘The Problem of Evil for Atheists’
May 31: (Logia) Caron Gentry, ‘The Tension between Hope and Privilege’
June 14: David Efird, ‘The Bible’s Blind Spot: On Interpreting Morally Problematic Passages of the Bible’
June 19 (10.00-11.30): Oliver Crisp, ‘Contemporary Challenges to Systematic Theology’
June 21: Michael Rea, ‘Worship, Protest, and the Deformation of Prayer’
Semester 1 (2018-2019)
September 21: (LOGIA) – Alison Duncan Kerr, “Anthropopathism, God, and Affective Science”
September 28: Max Baker-Hytch, “Theology, Epistemology, and the Historical Jesus”
October 5: (LOGIA) – Christa McKirland, “Need Without Lack: A Helpful Analytic Concept for Theological Anthropology”
October 12: Dennis Bray, “Richard of St. Victor’s Argument for the Trinity from Love
October 19: C. Stephen Evans, “Autonomy as a Virtue and a Vice”
October 25 (Thursday at 7PM): Marc Cortez, Title TBD
October 26: Oliver Crisp, “Two Pictures of God”
November 2: (LOGIA) – Koert Verhagen, “Becoming a Disciple of the Counter Logos: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Confrontational Christology and the Other”
November 9: Justin Duff, “To Be Made like Us in Every Respect”: Weakness and Christology in the Epistle to the Hebrews
November 23: Jeremy Rios, ‘The Cosmological Self, the Modern Self, and the Reading of Scripture (Conceptions of self-identity, East and West)’
November 30: (LOGIA) – Jonathan Rutledge, ‘Analyzing the Muddles of Analysis: What Analytic Theologians Can Learn From the History of Analytic Feminism’
December 7: Thomas McCall, Title TBD
Semester 2 (2017-2018)
8 February: (LOGIA Launch Month): Amy Peeler: ‘Gracious Power of the Father: God Revealed in the Story of Mary (Luke 2:21–52)’
15 February: Kathryn Tanner: ‘Nothing but the Present’
22 February: Alison Duncan Kerr: ‘Anthropopathism, God, and Affective Science’
8 March: John Walton: ‘A Worldview without “Nature” ’
15 March: Darren Sarisky: ‘Biblical Interpretation and Analytic Reflection’
22 March: Bruce Benson: ‘How to Avoid Apologizing’
29 March (LOGIA): Sarah Lane Ritchie: ‘Religious habit, human agency, and embodied belief: faith formation in neurobiological and theological context’
5 April: Kevin Diller: ‘Participation Views of the Atonement’
12 April: Taylor Telford: ‘Is the Gospel Good News? – The Doctrine of Election and the Euangellion’
19 April: René van Woudenberg: ‘Reading as a Source of Knowledge’
26 April (LOGIA): Kimberley Kroll: ‘Indwelling without an indwelling Holy Spirit: A response to Ray Yeo’
3 May: John Nagle: ‘The Role of Christian Theology in Environmental Law’
10 May: (LOGIA): Joanna Leidenhag: ‘Does Panpsychism invite theism? Panpsychism in Historical Theology, and Contemporary Philosophy’
17 May: Doug Campbell: TBD
31 May: Peter van Inwagen: ‘Hell’
7 June: Mike Rea: ‘The Ill-Made Knight and the Stain on the Soul’
14 June: Oliver Crisp: ‘The Trinity and Mystery’
21 June: Edward Meadors: ‘Isaiah, John, and the Gospels’ Parody of the Roman Road System: Imperial Theology Revisited’
28 June (LOGIA): Graydon Cress: ‘The Trinity is Not Our Gender Program’
Semester 1 (2017-2018)
21 September: Aaron Cotnoir: “Mutual Indwelling”
28 September: TJ Lang: “The Order of Christian Theology: Literal and Ecclesial Senses of the New Testament”
5 October: Oliver Crisp: “Theosis and Participation”
12 October: Joshua Cockayne: “‘We-Thou: Liturgical worship as a collective act”
19 October: N.T. Wright: “The End of the World? Modern Confusions about Eschatology and Apocalyptic and their Theological Results”
26 October: Bill Tooman: “Translation: Remarks on the Disciplines and Responsibilities of the Study of Ancient Jewish Literature”
2 November: C. Stephen Evans: “Christology and Kenosis: A Case Study in Methodology for Analytical Theology”
9 November: Madhavi Nevader: “What’s YHWH Got to Do with it? What’s YHWH but a Second Hand Emotion”
14 November (TUESDAY): Dru Johnson: “Christian Philosophy and Analytic Theology as Biblically Sensitive Enterprises”
30 November: Phil Ziegler: “Bonhoeffer’s Evangelization of the Doctrine of God”
5 December (TUESDAY): Thomas Simpson, “John’s Epistemology of Testimony”
19 December (TUESDAY): Christa McKirland: “Embodiment, Edwards, and Knowledge” (a collaborative paper by Christa L. McKirland, Jason McMartin, and Timothy H. Pickavance).
Semester 1 (2016-2017)
5 October: C. Stephen Evans, “Kierkegaard on Faith, Doubt and Uncertainty.”
13 October: Christa McKirland, “The Image of God and Intersex Persons.”
27 October: Kimberley Kroll, “Is Rationality Uniquely Intra-Personal or must Uniqueness Constrain Inter-Personal Rationality? An overview of Thomas Kelly’s Total Evidence View and the need for revision.”
3 November: Oliver Crisp, “Methodological Issues in Approaching the Atonement.”
10 November: Tim Mulgan, “Ananthropocentric Purposivism.”
24 November: Jonathan Rutledge, “Philosophical Arminianism.”
1 December: Sarah Broadie, “Classical Theism and Petitionary Prayer.”
6 December: Lydia Schumacher, “Theological Philosophy: Rethinking the Rationality of the Christian Faith.”
Semester 2 (2016-2017)
9 February: Dr. David Moffitt, “Serving in the Tabernacle in Heaven: Sacred Space, Jesus’s High-Priestly Sacrifice, and Hebrews’ Analogical Theology.”
16 February: Prof. Richard Bauckham, “Divine Identity Christology in the Gospel of Mark.”
23 February: Dr. David Moffitt, “Wilderness Identity and Pentateuchal Narrative: Distinguishing between Jesus’ Inauguration and Maintenance of the New Covenant in Hebrews.”
2 March: Dr. Elizabeth Shively, “The σῶμα and the Transformation of Persons in the Letter to the Romans.”
9 March: Prof. N.T. Wright, “Son of Man—Lord Also of the Temple?”
23 March: Dr Alexander Arnold, title tbc.
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