Calvin Studies Society 2009

John Calvin: Myth and Reality

April 16-18, 2009, Grand Rapids, MI

Thursday April 16

All sessions take place in the Chapel of Calvin Theological Seminary

11 am to 1 PM

Arrivals

1 – 1:30 PM

Welcome

1:30-2:20 PM

Session I: “The Good, the Bad, and the Indifferent: Myths, Realities, and Ambiguities in Calvin’s Teachings about Women”
Speaker: John Thompson, Fuller Theological Seminary; Chair: Susan Felch, Calvin College

2:30-3:20 PM

Session II: “Calvin and Church Discipline: Penance, Apology and Reconciliation”
Speaker: Diane Margolf, Colorado State University; Chair: Scott Manetsch, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

3:20-3:50 PM

Break in Seminary Student Center

3:50-4:40 PM

Session III: “Calvin’s Appeal to the Women of France, ca 1560-1600”
Speaker: Graeme Murdoch, Trinity College, Dublin; Chair: Amanda Eurich, Western Washington University    
* underwritten by the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship

4:45-5:30 PM

Business meeting

5:30-7:15 PM

Dinner – see suggestions in your folder for meal options

7:30-9 PM

Session IV: Predestination panel: participants: Richard Muller, Calvin Theological Seminary; Richard Mouw, Fuller Theological Seminary; and Laura Smit, Calvin College; Chair: James DeJong, emeritus president, Calvin Theological Seminary

Friday April 17

9-9:50 AM

Session V: “Cruel, Cold and False: Calvin Through the Eyes of his Sixteenth-Century Dutch Opponents”
Speaker: Mirjam van Veen, Free University, Amsterdam; Chair: Henk Aay, Meijer chair in Dutch Language and Culture, Calvin College   
* underwritten by the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship

10-10:20 AM

Chapel service (with Seminary community)

10:20-10:40 AM

Break in Seminary Student Center

10:45-11:35 AM

Session VI: “Calvinism on the Borders of the Empire: Johannes Wigand and the Lutheran Reaction to Calvinism”
Speaker: Irene Dingel, University of Mainz; Chair: Gary Hansen, Dubuque Theological Seminary
* underwritten by the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship

11:45-1:20PM

Lunch – see suggestions in your folder for meal options

1:30-2:20 PM

Session VII: "Respect for the Word: What Calvin and Wittgenstein had against Images"
Speaker: Constantin Fasolt, University of Chicago; Chair: Sue Rozeboom, Ph.D candidate, University of Notre Dame

2:20-2:50 PM

Break in Seminary Student Center

2:50-3:40 PM

Session VIII: “God’s Gracious Provision: Calvin and his Heirs on Political Order”
Speaker: David Koyzis, Redeemer University College; Chair: Ward Holder, Saint Anselm College

3:50-4:40 PM

Session IX: "Did Calvin 'Never Change His Mind'? Private and Public Prayer and Development in Calvin's Thought"
Speaker: Elsie McKee, Princeton Theological Seminary; Chair: John Hesselink, emeritus president, Western Theological Seminary

5:30-7 PM

Conference Banquet in the Prince Conference Center (for those who made reservations in advance)

7:30-9 PM

Session X: Calvin and Worship/Music
Presenter: Rev. Randy Engle, Troy Christian Reformed Church

9-9:45 PM

Reception in the Seminary Student Center

Saturday April 18

8:-8:50 AM

Session XI: "Demoting Calvin: The Issue of Calvin and the Reformed Tradition"
Speaker: Richard Muller, Calvin Theological Seminary; Chair: Suzanne McDonald, Calvin College

9-9:50 AM

Session XII: "Elements of Calvin's Theology and Practice in the Establishment of Reformed Churches in Java in the Seventeenth Century"
Speaker: Yudha Thianto, Trinity Christian College; Chair: Pieter Tuit, Calvin Theological Seminary
* underwritten by the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity

10-10:30 AM

Break in the Seminary Student Center

10:30-11:20 AM

Session XIII: “Calvin and the Social Order in Early America: Moral Ideals and Transatlantic Empire”
Speaker: Mark Valeri, Union Theological Seminary; Chair: Robert Vosloo, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

11:30-12:20 PM

Session XIV: “Doctrine of Scripture in the Calvinist churches in Korea”
Speaker: Jay Shim, Dordt College; Chair: Yang-En Chen, Taiwan Theological College and Seminary
* underwritten by the Nagel Institute for the Study of World Christianity

12:30-1:30 PM

Lunch and discussion: John Calvin: Past, Present, and Future
Closing discussion in the Seminary Student Center led by Karin Maag, H. Henry Meeter Center