Conferences 2008 - Philosophy and Liturgy:
Ritual, Practice, and Embodied Wisdom

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Philosophy & Liturgy Conference

May 20-22, 2008
Prince Conference Center at Calvin College

 

Tuesday, May 20

3-6pm

Welcome/Registration

5:30-6:30pm

Buffet dinner

7:30-9:00pm

“Philosophical Reflections on Liturgy: Getting Started”
Presenter: Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale Divinity School
Chair: James K.A. Smith and John Witvliet, Calvin College

9:00-10:00pm

Reception


Wednesday May 21

8:30-9:00am Deuteronomy 6.4-9: A Philosophical Exposition of a Liturgical Text
Presenter: Howard Wettstein, University of California-Riverside
Chair: Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale Divinity School

9:00-10:30

“Embodied Knowledge: Some Reflections from Recent Philosophy of Science”
Presenter: Josh Reeves, Boston University
Chair: Randi Rashkover, George Mason University
“Ingenuity and Critique: On the Place and Necessity of Philosophy in Liturgy’s Practice and Wisdom”
Presenter: Ângelo Cardita, Advanced Liturgical Institute, Barcelona
Chair: Randi Rashkover, George Mason University

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-12:30

“Beyond ‘Belief’: Liturgy and the Cognitive Apprehension of God”
Presenter: Sarah Coakley, University of Cambridge
Chair: Andrew Chignell, Cornell University

12:30-2:00pm

Lunch

2:00-3:30

“Philosophy of Religion Takes Practice: Liturgy as Source and Method in Philosophy of Religion”
Presenter: James K.A. Smith, Calvin College
Chair: John Hare, Yale Divinity School

3:30-4:00

Break

4:00-5:30

“Lex Orandi—Lex Credendi: Eucharistic Transubstantiation in Light of the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament”
Presenter: Reinhard Hütter, Duke Divinity School
Chair: Paul J. Weithman, University of Notre Dame

6:00-7:00

Dinner

 

Evening shuttles downtown


Thursday, May 22

8:30-9:00am

Liturgy of St. James (4th century, Jerusalem): A Philosophical Exposition of Liturgical Texts
Presenter: John Witvliet, Calvin College
Chair: Don Saliers, Emory University

9:00-10:30

“Displacing Bodies: Ritualization and Resistance”
Presenter: Ludger Viefhues-Bailey, Yale Divinity School
Chair: Paul Griffiths, Duke Divinity School

11:00-11:30

Break

11:30-12:30

“Redemptive Reasoning: Philosophy and Jewish Morning Prayer”
Presenter: Peter Ochs, University of Virginia
Chair: Howard Wettstein, University of California-Riverside

12:30-2:00

Lunch

2:00-3:30

“If These Walls Could Only Speak: Icons as Vehicles of Divine Discourse”
Presenter: Terence Cuneo, most recently at Calvin College
University of Vermont in the fall of 2008
Chair: David Bradshaw, University of Kentucky

3:30-3:45

Break

3:45-4:30

Prospects and Possibilities: Concluding Roundtable Discussion with Plenary Speakers
Chair: John Witvliet, Calvin College

5:00pm

Optional dinner and/or departures