October 1912
Theme: What is Theology?
Paper: E. W. Lyman, “What is Theology?”
Paper: George Cross, “What is Theology?”
Three Brief Papers: W. D. Mackenzie, M. G. Evans, G. A. Coe, “What is Religion?”
Presidential Address: William Adams Brown, “Problems of Present-Day Constructive Theology”
March 1913
Theme: What is the Christian Religion?
Paper: Frank C. Porter, “What is the Christian Religion?” (Historical Approach)
Paper: A. C. McGiffert, “What is the Christian Religion?” (Historical Approach)
Paper: W. W. Fenn, “What is the Christian Religion?” (Theological Approach)
Paper: Dickinson Miller, “What is the Christian Religion?” (Theological Approach)
Paper: Allen M. Dulles, “What is the Christian Religion?” (Practical Approach)
Paper: Arthur P. Hunt, “What is the Christian Religion?” (Practical Approach)
October 1913
Theme: The Philosophical Basis of Theism
Paper: A. L. Gillett, “The Present Situation in Philosophy as Concerns the Philosophical Basis of Theism” (Epistemological Aspect)
Paper: E. H. Sneath, “The Present Situation in Philosophy as Concerns the Philosophical Basis of Theism” (Metaphysical Aspect)
Paper: Rufus M. Jones, “Belief in the Personality of God: Is it Religiously Necessary and Justified?”
Paper: Rufus M. Jones, “Belief in the Personality of God: Is it Philosophically Defensible?”
Presidential Address: David Evans, “The Philosophical Significance of Religious Values”
April 1914
Symposium: The Fact and Meaning of Revelation
Paper: Francis Brown, “Revelation in the Old Testament”
Paper: Frank C. Porter, “Revelation the New Testament”
Paper: Edward S. Drown, “Revelation in Christianity”
Paper: W. M. Groton, “Revelation in Christianity”
Paper: Duncan Macdonald, “Sidelights on the Fact and Meaning of Revelation from the Study of Islam”
Theme: Is There Proof of the Existence of God?
Paper: Spencer Meiser, “The Present States of the Cosmological, Teleological, and Ontological Arguments”
Paper: Thomas C. Hall, “The Thomistic Argument”
Paper: George Cross, “The Argument from Religious Experience”
Paper: D. C. Macintosh, “Theology as an Empirical Science”
October 1914
Theme: CHRISTOLOGY
Paper: Kirsopp Lake, “To What Extent was the Teaching of Jesus Eschatological?”
Paper: B. Becon, “To What Extent was the Teaching of Jesus Eschatological?”
Paper: Milton Evans, “Is Belief in the Historicity of Jesus Indispensable to Christian Faith?”
Papers: W. W. Fenn, F. A. Starrett, “The Present Significance of the Divinity of Christ”
Presidential Address: William D. MacKenzie, “What is the Relation of the Living Christ to Christian Experience?”
April 1915
Theme: Problems Suggested By the War
Historical and Psychological Problems
Paper: R. E. Hume, “War and Religion in Hinduism”
Paper: D. B. Macdonald, “War and Religion in Mohammadanism”
Paper: A. C. McGiffert, “War and Religion in Christianity”
Ethical and Practical Problems
Paper: George Cross, “International Relations and Christian Ethics”
Paper: John R. Mott, “The Effect of the War on Christian Witness (?) in the World”
Theological and Philosophical Problems
Paper: William Adams Brown, “Divine Providence”
Paper: D. S. Miller, “The Problem of Evil”
December 1915
Theme: Soteriology and Ethics
Paper: A. P. Hunt, “Are the Main Accounts of Christian Ethics Justified?”
Paper: W. P. Ladd, “The Relation of the Christian community and the Experience of Salvation”
Paper: R. M. Vaughan, “The Value of the Idea of an Incarnation of God in the Preaching of the Gospel”
Paper: F. C. Porter, “The Bearing of the Literary Character of the Writings of Paul on their Theological Use”
Two Papers: W. A. Brown, B. W. Bacon, “A review and Critique of Professor Royce’s Problem of Christianity, vol. 1, with reply by Royce
Presidential Address: George Cross, “The Place of Soteriology in a System of Theology”
April 1916
Theme: The Bearing of the Psychology of Religion Upon Theology
Paper: J. B. Pratt, “The Significance of Mysticism for Religious Knowledge”
Paper: D. C. Macintosh, “Has the Psychology of Religion Undermined Empirical Theology (A Reply to Professor Leuba)”
Paper: G. A. Coe, “Religious Testimony as Fact for Psychology”
Paper: D. S. Miller, “Subconscious and Unconscious in Relation to Religious Experience”
Paper: R. M. Jones, “The Empirical Argument for the Existence of God”
Paper: A. L. Gillet, “The Psychological Basis of the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit”
November 1916
Theme: The Education of the Christian Ministry
Paper: A. M. Dulles, “Can Unity of End be Secured in the Teaching of a Theological Seminary?”
Paper: W. P. Ladd, “Seminary vs. University”
Paper: Frederic Palmer, “The Education of the Christian Missionary”
Presidential Address: E. S. Drown, “A Problem (?) in Christology”
April 1917
Theme: The Theology of Ritschl and Troeltsch
Paper: Foakes Jackson, “The Theological Curriculum”
Paper: E. A. Cook, “Ritschl on Value Judments”
Paper: L. C. Lewis, “Troeltsch vs. Ritschl”
Paper: W. A. Brown, “The Contribution of Troeltsch to Theology”
Paper: D. C. Macintosh, “Troeltsch’s Theology of Religious Knowledge”
November 1917
Theme: What is the Best Christian Apologetics?
Paper: A. C. McGiffert, “Luther and the Unfinished Reformation”
Brief Papers on Apologetics by Each Member Present
Presidential Address (postponed, see April 1918)
April 1918
Theme: Christology in the New Testament
Paper: Frederic Palmer, “The Synoptic, the Pauline, and the Johannine Conceptions of Jesus”
Paper: Foakes Jackson, “The Christ of the New Testament and the Christ of Today”
Paper: Kirsopp Lake, “Christology Primitive and Modern”
Paper, C. R. Brown, “The Conception of the Death of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels”
Presidential Address (postponed from November 1917): Frank C. Porter, “The Bearing of New Testament Studies on Christology”
1919
Theme: Religious Authority
Paper: W. A. Brown, “The Nature and Limits of the Authority of the Church”
Paper: A. M. Dulles, “The Authority of Jesus and the Scriptures”
Paper, S. B. Meiser, “Is Auhority Essential to the Conception and Functioning of Religion?”
Two Brief Papers: Henry Sloan Coffin, E. W. Lyman, “The Place of Authority in Religion”
Presidential Address: A. C. McGiffert, “Democracy and Religion”
1920
Theme: The Christian Doctrine Concerning the Future
Paper: Robert E. Hume, “The Hopes and Fears of a Future Life in the Monotheistic Religions”
Paper: E. Hershey, “Plato’s Arguments for Immortality”
Paper: Frank C. Porter, “The Nature and Grounds of Paul’s Assurance of Immortality”
Paper: Rufus M. Jones, “The Religious Significance of Death”
Three Papers: Daniel Evans, E. S. Drown, Richard M. Vaughan, “Psychic Research and the Life Beyond Death”
Presidential Address: D. C. Macintosh, “Contemporary Christian Atheism”
1921
Theme: Theism
Paper: E. S. Drown, “The Validity of the Idea of God”
Paper: A. M. Dulles, “The Meaning of the Term ‘God’”
Paper: E. W. Lyman, “Why We Believe in God”
Paper: Dickinson S. Miller, “The Experience of God”
Presidential Address: R. M. Jones, “The Mystic’s Experience of God”
1922
Theme: The Nature and Grounds of Religious Belief
Paper: E. S. Brightman, “The Reasonableness of Theistic Belief”
Paper: A. C. McGiffert, “Christian Theism”
Paper: W. P. Montague, “A Realist’s Conception of God”
Paper: John Baillie, “Some Reflections on the Ground of Theistic Belief”
Paper: E. S. Drown, “Christian Theism”
Paper: W. A. Brown, “The Reasonableness of Theistic Belief”
No Presidential Address: A. M. Dulles absent because of Illness
1923
Theme: Religious Epistemology and the Social Approach to Religion
Paper: Durant Drake, “The Significance of Critical Realism for Religious Knowledge”
Paper: W. H. Sheldon, “A New Interpretation of the Ontological Argument”
Paper: A. C. Knudson, “The Significance of Religious Values for Religious Knowledge”
Paper: H. C. Vedden, “The Social Significance of Primitive Christianity”
Presidential Address: E. W. Lyman, “The Place of Intuition in Religious Experience and its Value as Knowledge”
1924
Theme: The Religious Bearing of Recent Developments in Psychology
Paper: G. R. Wells, “Suggestion and Religious Development”
Paper: W. K. Wright, “Instinctive Elements of Religion”
Paper: English Bagby, “Certain types of Religious Thought and Conduct Regularly Associated with Inferiority Reaction”
Presidential Address: Milton G. Evans, “The New Psychology and the Doctrine of Sin”
1925
Theme:
Paper: G. B. Smith, “Is Theism Religiously Essential?”
Paper: George B. Cutten, “The Progress of Intelligence”
Presidential Address: W. H. Sneath, “Shall We Have a Creed?”
1926
Theme: The Church and Church Union
Paper: Peter Auslie (?), “Recent History of the Movement Toward Church Union”
Paper: Henry C. Sheldon, “Church Union from the Methodist Point of View”
Paper: John A. Marquis, “Church Union from the Presbyterian Point of View”
Paper: A. C. Macintosh, “Church Union from the Baptist Point of View”
Paper: John S. Martin (?), “Church Union from the Baptist Point of View”
Paper: Henry S. Lucker, “Church Union from the Episcopal Point of View”
Presidential Address: (None given, A. L. Gillett absent)
1927
Theme: Christian Ethics
Debate: John Baillie and Durant Drake, “Hedonism”
Paper: W. K. Wright, “The Individualistic Emphasis in Recent Ethics”
Open Forum: “Otto’s Idea of the Holy”
Paper: M. S. Enslin, “The Essential Principles of Christian Morality as Gathered from the New Testament”
Paper: J. B. Pratt, “The Problem of Christian Missions in Buddhist Lands”
Presidential Address: S. B. Meiser, “Why Systematic Theology”
1928
Theme: The Authority of Jesus
Paper: O. W. Warmingham, “The Authority of Jesus for the Modern Mystic”
Paper: D. Evans, “The theological Definition of the Authority of Jesus”
Paper: R. E. Hume, “The Authority of Jesus Among the Non-Christian Religions”
Presidential Address: A. C. Knudson, “The Theology of Crisis”
1929
Theme: The Meaning of Personality
Paper: Ruth L. Benedict, “Varieties of Primitive Religions”
Paper: G. R. Wells, “A Psychologist’s View of Human Personality”
Paper: H. N. Wieman, “The Concept of Personality in Relation to the Idea of God”
Paper: E. W. Lyman, “A Philosophical View of Human Personality”
Presidential Address: W. P. Ladd, “What is the Church?”
1930
Theme: The Challenge of Humanism
Paper: D. C. Macintosh, “Contemporary Humanism”
Paper: J. S. Bixler, “Dewey’s Gifford Lectures,” (with John Dewey present and responding)
Paper: H. S. Elliott, “The Challenge of Humanism”
Paper: W. M. Horton, “The Dualism of Facts and Values in Humanism”
Presidential Address: R. M Vaughan, “Morality without Religion”
1931
Theme: Immortality and Prayer
Paper: Leonard Hodgson, “The Grounds of the Christian Hope in a Future Life”
Paper: George F. Thomas, “The Idea of Immortality in Recent Philosophies of Value”
Paper: E. F. Scott, “The Teaching of the New Testament Concerning Prayer”
Paper: Angus Dun, “In Search of a Theory of Prayer”
Presidential Address: John Baillie, “The Nature and Reality of God’s Presence in Human Life”
1932
Theme: Christianity and History
Paper: Edgar S. Brightman, “A Temporalist View of God”
Paper: William Kelley Wright, “The Role of the Historian and the Role of the Philosopher”
Paper: G. W. Richards, “The Barthian Philosophy of History”
Paper: J. M. Shaw, “Christianity and the Supernatural”
Paper: Frank C. Porter, “The Place of History in our Religion”
Presidential Address: Durant Drake, “Christianity and Future History”
1933
Theme: Christianity and the Social Order
Paper: Reinhold Niebuhr, “The Social Interpretation of the Christian Message”
Paper: H. Richard Niebuhr, “The Social Gospel and the Mind of Jesus”
Paper: John Bennett, “The Duty of the Church in the Present Crisis”
Paper: Douglas V. Steere, “Is the Social Gospel Adequate?”
Presidential Address: C. B. Hedrick, “Was Troeltsch Right?”
1934
Theme: The Ways to Religious Knowledge
Paper: James B. Pratt, “Psychology and the Religious Experience”
Paper: D. C. Macintosh, “A Theistic Religious Realism”
Paper: A. S., Woodburne, “Some Differences Between Scientific and Religious Knowing”
Paper: W. H. Sheldon, “Our Knowledge of One another and of God”
Presidential Address: Edgar S. Brightman, “Immediacy”
1935
Theme: Ethics and Theology
Paper: W. P. Ladd, “Christian Ethics from the Historical Point of View”
Paper: W. A. Brown, “A Preface to Christian Ethics”
Paper: E. W. Lyman, “Naturalism, Ethics, and Theology”
Paper: A. C. Knudson, “The Barthian Ethic”
Paper: Rufus W. Jones, “Ethics and Religion”
Presidential Address: J. B. Pratt, “God and the Moral Law”
1936
Theme: Christianity and the Community
Paper: Hornell Hart, “Christianity and the Family”
Paper: Henry J. Cadbury, “Christianity and Nationalism”
Paper: George Thomas, “Christianity and Politics”
Presidential Address: J. S. Bixler, “What Price Unity?”
1937
Theme: Christianity and Art
Paper: Theodore M. Greene, “Religion and Art”
Paper: Henry Sloan Coffin, “Religion, Music, and Liturgy”
Paper: A. L. Friend, “Religion and the Plastic Arts”
Presidential Address: W. K. Wright, “Christianity and Ethics”
1938
Theme: The Church
Paper: Robert Calhoun, “A Theological Discussion of the Nature of the Church”
Paper: Angus Dun, “What is the Responsibility of the Theologian to the Church?”
Paper: John Bennett, “The Church and the Social Community”
Presidential Address: W. M. Urban, “Symbolism as a Theological Principle”
1939
Theme: The Christian Religion and History
Paper: Paul Tillich, “Christian and Other Philosophies of History”
Paper: Percy Urban, “Christianity and History”
Paper: Alban G. Widgery, “Christianity and the Particularity of the Historical”
Presidential Address: R. E. Hume, “Christianity and Other Religions”
1940
Theme: What is the Essence of Christian Faith?
Paper: Edgar Brightman, “The Essence of the Christian Faith”
Paper: Vergilius Ferm, “Christian Faith”
Paper: Henry P. Van Dusen, “Jesus Christ: The Norm of Christian Faith”
Presidential Address: Alban G. Widgery, “The Christian Faith of a Contemporary Realist”
1941
Theme: Sin and Suffering
Paper: H. W. Schneider, “The Sociology of the Fall, Redemption and Forgiveness”
Paper: J. S. Bixler, “Love Suffereth Long”
Paper: Reinhold Niebuhr, “The Persistence of Sin in the Life of the Redeemed”
Presidential Address: Angus Dun, “Some Aspects of the Saving Work of Christ”
1942
Theme: Reason and Revelation
Paper: John A. Mackay, “Reason and Revelation”
Paper: Charles Lowry, “Reason and Revelation”
Presidential Address: George F. Thomas, “The Possibility of a Christian Philosophy”
1943
Theme: The Role of Natural Law in Christian Theology
Paper: Robert L. Calhoun, Title of Paper Missing – Responses: Otto Piper and H. Shelton-Smith
Paper: J. L. Hromadka, Title of Paper Missing – Responses: Eugene W. Lyman and Paul Tillich
Presidential Address: Walter M. Horton, “Natural Law and International Order”
1944
Theme: The Atonement
Paper: M. S. Enslin, “The Atoning Work of Christ in the New Testament” – Responses: E. R. Goodenough and Albert Outler
Paper: Albert C. Knudson, “A Doctrine of the Atonement for the Modern World” – Responses: John C. Bennett and A. G. Widgery
Presidential Address: Paul Tillich, “Estrangement and Reconciliation”
1945
Theme: Conscience: Its Role in Ethics and Religion
Paper: W. K. Wright, Title of Paper Missing – Responses: Andrew Banning and George Thomas
Paper: H. Richard Niebuhr, Title of Paper Missing – Responses: John Kuizenga and H. W. Schneider
Presidential Address: Vergilius Ferm, “Oceanic Christianity”
1946
Theme: Theological Method
Paper: Paul Tillich, Title of Paper Missing – Responses: Edwin A. Aubrey and J. S. Bixler
Paper: E. A. Burtt, Title of Paper Missing – Responses: Karl Löwith and Brand Blanshard
Presidential Address: Douglas Steere, “Ascetic Theology”
1947
Theme: The Kingdom of God
Paper: Paul Minear, Title of Paper Missing – Responses: Otto Piper and Norman Pittinger
Paper: H. Shelton Smith, Title of Paper Missing – Responses: Peter Bertocci and George W. Davis
Presidential Address: H. Richard Niebuhr, “The Catholic Vision”
1948
Theme: Christianity and Communism
Paper: Alban G. Widgery, “Metaphysical and Religious Contrasts Between Christianity and Communism” – Responses: Nels Ferre amd Richard Kroner
Paper: John Bennett, “Christian Ethics and Communist Ethics” – Responses: Edwin A. Burtt amd Vergilius Ferm
Presidential Address: Reinhold Niebuhr, “The Relation of the Christian Faith to the Modern Idea of a Redemptive History”
1949
Theme: The Catholic and Protestant Conceptions of Church and State in America
Paper: John Courtney Murray, “Contemporary Conceptions of Catholic Thought on Church and State in the Light of History” – Responses: Henry P. Van Dusen and Charles Lowry
Paper: Edwin E. Aubrey, “Church and State in Contemporary Protestant Thought with Special Reference to the American Scene” – Responses: Irwin Beiler and E. Jerome Johanson
Presidential Address: Norman Pittenger, “Some Considerations on the Theological Enterprise in the Life of the Church”
1950
Theme: Existentialism in its Historical Setting and in its Theological Implications
Paper: Karl Löwith, “Existentialism in its Historical Setting” – Responses: Walter H. Horton and Howard Brinton
Paper: David E. Roberts, “Some Theological Aspects of Existentialism” – Responses: J. A. Heck and John Newton Thomas
Presidential Address: Edwin A. Burtt, “Toward a World Theology”
1951
Theme: Does Ethics Need a Theological Basis?
Paper: Peter A. Bertocci, “Does Ethics Need a Theological Basis?”: Response: Paul Lehmann
Paper: George Thomas, “Christian and Philosophical Ethics”
Presidential Address: Richard Kroner “The Plight of Theology”
1952
Theme: Mysticism and Faith in the Christian Tradition
Paper: Douglas V. Steere, “The Meaning of Mystical Experience” – Responses: Otto Piper and Harold DeWolf
Paper: Vergilius Ferm, “The Relation of Mysticism and Christian Faith” – Responses: Clarence C. Hamilton and Edwin E. Aubrey
Presidential Address: Morton S. Enslin, “The Bible and the Theologian”
1953
Theme: What is Christianity?
Paper: Alban G. Widgery, “Elements Common to Christianity and Other Religions” – Responses: George W. Davis and Paul Lehmann
Paper: Walter G. Muelder, “Distinctive Elements in Christianity” – Responses: Paul Tillich and Andrew Banning
Presidential Address: Henry P. Van Dusen, “Spirit, Son, Father: Reflections on the Christian Faith in the Light of the Holy Spirit”
1954
Theme: The Christian Hope
Paper: Walter M. Horton, “Christian and Secular Hopes for Society”: Response: George F. Thomas
Paper: Paul Minear, “The Relation of Christian Hope to Eschatology” – Responses: Mary E. Lyman and Erick Dinkler
Presidential Address: John C. Bennett, “Revelation and Relativism”
1955
Theme: Freedom
Paper: Brand Blanshard, “Philosophical Defenses of Freedom”
Paper: Wilhelm Pauck, “The Christian Basis of Freedom” – Response: Peter Bertocci
Presidential Address: Otto Piper, “Metamorphosis”
1956
Theme: Demythologization
Paper: Albert C. Outler, “The Positive Value of Myth” – Responses: Edwin A. Burtt and Julian Hartt
Paper: Erich Dinkler, “Rudolf Bultmann and his Program of Demythologizing and Existential Interpretation” – Responses: John Knox and Morton Enslin
Presidential Address: Brand Blanshard, “The Ethics of Belief”
1957
Theme: Religion as Encounter
Paper: Roger Hazelton, “The Phenomenology of the Encounter” – Responses: Norman Pittinger and J. Calvin Keene
Paper: Julian Hartt, “The Evidential Value of the Encounter” – Responses: Andrew Banning and Daniel D. Williams
Presidential Address: Clarence Hamilton, “Encounter with Reality in Buddhist Madhyamika Philosophy”
1958
Theme: NATURAL THEOLOGY AND THE CHISTIAN FAITH
Paper: George Newton Thomas, “The Place of Natural Theology in the Thought of John Calvin” – Responses: Charles W. Lowry, George S. Hendry
Paper: L. Harold DeWolf, “The Theological Rejection of Natural Theology” – Responses: John H. Hick and Robert E. Cushman
Presidential Address: Nels S. F. Ferre, “Christian Faith and Natural Theology”
1959
Theme: The Systematic Theology of Paul Tillich
Paper: Daniel D. Williams, “The Doctrine of God” – Responses: George F. Thomas and George W. Davis
Paper: Robert Cushman, “The Person of Christ” – Responses: John Knox and Paul Lehmann
Presidential Address: H. Shelton Smith, “Darwinism and American Theology”
1960
Theme: Christian Ethics, the Just War and the Limited War, and American Policy
Paper: Paul Ramsey, “The Just War and the Limited War in the Context of Basic Christian Ethics” – Responses: Roger Shinn and William Banner
Paper: John Bennett, “Towards Criteria for a National Policy” – Responses: Charles Lowry and E. A. Burtt
Presidential Address: Albert Outler, “Toward a Reappraisal of John Wesley as a Theologian”
1961
Theme: Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi — The Relation between Worship and Theology
Paper: Horton Davies, “The Continental Liturgical Movement and Its Influence: Theological and Practical Insights” – Response: Roger Hazelton
Paper: Robert E. Cushman, “Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi” – Responses: William Banner and Douglas Steere
Presidential Address: John Knox, “Jesus and the Church”
1962
Theme: The So-Called Quest of the Historical Jesus
Paper: Otto A. Piper, “History and Christology in the New Testament” – Response: W. D. Davies
Paper: William Bradley, “The Theological Quest for the Historical Jesus” – Response: Walter M. Horton
Presidential Address: Harold DeWolf, “Changing Motifs in the Theology and Culture of the Past One Hundred Years: An Essay in Historical Criticism”
1963
Theme: Nature and Grace Reconsidered
Paper: Andrew Banning, “Being in Christ—the Context of Grace” – Responses: Carl Michalson and Norman Pittenger
Paper: Eugene Fairweather, “The Latin Theology of Grace—Two Contrasting Motifs” – Responses: Gerald Cragg and Cyril Richardson
Presidential Address: Wilhelm Pauck, “Adolf von Harnack, Theologian and Historian”
1964
Theme: Being in Christ
Paper: John E. Smith, “The Concept of Logos and the Theological Enterprise” – Responses: J. Alfred Martin and Nels F.S. Ferre
Paper: Paul Lehmann, “The Logos in a World Come of Age” – Responses: George F. Thomas and Paul Minear
Presidential Address: Peter Bertocci, “An Impasse in Philosophical Theology”
1965
Theme: With What Does Christian Thought Begin?
Paper: Claude Welch, “With What Does Christian Thought Begin?” – Responses: John E. Skinner and Julian N. Hartt
Paper: Nels Ferré, “The ‘Given’ for Christian Theology” – Responses: Harold DeWolf and Charles Lowry
Presidential Address: Paul Ramsey, “Two Concepts of General Rules in Christian Ethics”
1966
Theme: Theology and Cosmology
Paper: Alfred Stiernotte, “Science and Religion: A Cosmological and Theological Approach” – Responses: Daniel D. Williams and Harold DeWolf
Paper: William Christian, “Can Science Have Import for Theology?” – Responses: Edwin Burtt and Paul Shilling
Presidential Address: Paul Minear, “The Holy Irritation of Renewal: Caused to Reformed and Reformable Churches by the Unreformed and Irreformable Roman Catholic Church”
1967
Theme: Historical Relativism and Authority in Christian Dogma
Paper: John Meyendorff, “Historical Relativism and Authority in Christian Dogma” – Responses: J. Robert Nelson and Albert Outler
Paper: David M. Stanley, “Authority as a New Testament Reality” – Responses: Morton Enslin and Paul Meyer
Presidential Address: Daniel D. Williams, “The New Theological Situation”
1968
Theme: The Reality of God
Paper: George Thomas, “The Reality of God” – Responses: Douglas V. Steere and Frederick Ferré
Paper: Frederick Herzog, “God, Evil and Revolution” – Responses: John Macquarrie and Arthur McGill
Presidential Address: John Smith, “The Reality of God and the Denial of God”
1969
Theme: The Theology of Religions
Paper: Gregory Baum, “‘The Religions’ in Contemporary Roman Catholic Theology” – Responses: Claude Welch and George Tavard
Paper: Wilfred Cantwell Smith, “Participation as a Possible Concept for a Theology of the Religious History of Mankind” – Responses: William Bradley and Lawrence Folkemer
Presidential Address: S. Paul Schilling, “Four Aspects of the Meaning of God”
1970
Theme: Theology and Truth
Paper: John Macquarrie, “Mystery and Truth” – Responses: James Luther Adams and James Ross
Paper: Robert O. Johann, “Inquiry and Truth” – Responses: Frederick Herzog and Frederick Ferre
Presidential Address: Paul Lehmann, “The Language of Faith and the Function of Theology”
1971
Theme: Political Theology: Its Possibility and Implications
Paper: Roger Shinn, “Political Theology in the Crossfire” – Responses: Daniel Day Williams and Frederick Ferré
Paper: Frederick Herzog, “Political Theology in the American Context,” – Responses: J. Robert Nelson and John Deschner
Presidential Address: George Hendry, “The Eclipse of Creation”
1972
Theme: Theology of Nature
Paper: Bernhard W. Anderson, “Man’s Dominion over Nature”
Paper: Gordon Kaufman- “A Problem for Theology: The Concept of Nature”
Presidential Address: Roger Hazelton, “Homo Capax Dei”
1973
Theme: Revelation
Paper: Schubert Ogden, “On Revelation” – Responses: Gabriel Vahanian and Thomas Langford
Paper: Lou Silberman, “Revelation in Judaism” – Responses: Rosemary Ruether and James H. Cone
Presidential Address: James Luther Adams, “Prototypes of Christian Symbolism: Political, Domestic, and Cybernetic”
1974
Theme: The Social Context of Theology: Sexual, Racial, and Economic
Paper: James H. Cone, “The Social Context of Theology” – Responses: Robert Neville and Stephen Crites
Paper: Rosemary R. Ruether, “The Intimate Enmity: Sexism and Liberation” – Responses: Preston Williams and Gene Outka
Presidential Address: Eugene R. Fairweather, “The Circle of Wisdom: Thoughts on a Septingentenary”
1975
Theme: Christology: The Meaning of Jesus in the Present World
Paper: Arthur McGill, “Death as Destination and Nourishment: The Basic Character of and Tension Within the Christian Consideration of Death” – Responses: Owen Thomas, Franklin Young, and W. C. Smith
Paper: Eugene Borowitz, “Contemporary Christologies: A Jewish Response” – Responses: Avery Dulles and William Christian
Memorial Minute: Richard Kroner
Presidential Address: Walter Burghardt, “The Image of God in the Human Person”
1976
Theme: What is the Proper Task of Theology?
Panel I: James Cone, Van Harvey, Carl F. H. Henry, J. Robert Nelson
Panel II: Schubert Ogden, Rosemary Ruether, George Tavard, Manfred Vogel
Presidential Address: Roger L. Shinn, “Perception and Belief”
1977
Theme: What are the Directions in Which Theology Must Move Now?
Paper: Stephen Crites, “Figures of Things to Come,” – Responses: LeRoy Rouner and Marianne Micks
Paper: David Tracy, “What Are the Directions in Which Theology Must Move Now?” – Responses: Charles Curran and Alvin Plantinga
Memorial Minutes: Will Herberg (Roger Shinn); Cyril Richardson
Presidential Address: Frederick Ferré, “Towards Transformational Theology”
1978
Theme: The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit: Historical Backgrounds
Panel One: Topic – “Who or What Is the Holy Spirit?”
Participants: Bernhard W. Anderson (Hebrew Scriptures), Paul Meyer (New Testament), Richard Norris (Patristic Period)
Panel Two: Topic – “The Phenomenon of Enthusiasm”
Participants: Walter Burghardt (Montanism), Rosemary Ruether (Joachimism), Gabriel Fackre (Anabaptism)
Memorial Minute: George F. Thomas (Paul Ramsey)
Presidential Address: J. Robert Nelson, “The Holy Spirit: Personal, Ecclesial, Mundane”
1979
Theme: What Does the Holy Spirit Mean to Us?
Paper: Robert Jenson, “The Holy Spirit as Spirit of the Believing Community” – Response: Franklin Young
Paper: Robert Neville, “The Holy Spirit as God” – Responses: Gordon Kaufman and Paul van Buren
Presidential Address: Avery Dulles, “The True Church: An Exercise in Theological Nepotism”
1980
Theme: Human Responsibility for the Non-Human World
Paper: Roger Shinn, “Science, Theology, and Ethics: The Ecumenical Conversation” – Response: Paul Ramsey
Paper: Charles West, “God – Man/Woman – Creation” – Response: J. Robert Nelson
Presidential Address: Gordon Kaufman, “The Christian Categoreal Scheme”
1981
Theme: Human Responsibility for the Non-Human World
Paper: Bernhard W. Anderson, “The Relation between the Human and the Non-Human Creation in the Biblical Primeval History” – Response: Gerard Sloyan
Paper: William May, “On Slaying the Dragon: The American Nature Myth” – Response: David Willis-Watkins
Memorial Minutes: Arthur McGill (Gordon Kaufman); Morton S. Enslin (Franklin Young)
Presidential Address: Carl F. H. Henry, “Revelation and Culture”
1982
Theme: Sources and Authority in Theology: Scripture and Tradition
Paper: Letty Russell, “The Role of Scriptures .in My Theology” – Responses: Margaret Miles and Larry Rasmussen
Paper: Clark Pinnock, “The Role of Tradition in My Theology” – Responses: Gabriel Fackre and Richard Norris
Memorial Minutes: James D. Smart (Roger Shinn); Otto A. Piper (Paul Meyer)
Presidential Address: Eugene Borowitz, “Recent Historical Events: A Comparative Theological Probe”
1983
Theme: Hermeneutics and Theology
Paper: J. Deotis Roberts, Sr., “The Hermeneutical Circle of Black Theology: Toward an Experiential Perspective” – Responses: John D. Godsey and Pheme Perkins
Paper: Sallie McFague, “Excerpts from Metaphorical Theology” – Responses: Robert Scharlemann and Geoffrey Wright
Presidential Address: J. Alfred Martin, “The Art of Theology”
1984
Theme: Jonathan Edwards
Paper: Robert Jenson, “Jonathan Edwards’ Christology” – Responses: Richard Norris and George Lindbeck
Paper: Paul Ramsey, “Elements in Jonathan Edwards’ Ethics” – Responses: David Smith and Gabriel Fackre
Presidential Address: Charles West, “Reality and Realization: Thoughts on the Structure of an Ethic en Christo”
1985
Theme: Theology and Language
Paper: Gabriel Vahanian, “God and the Utopianism of Language” – Responses: Lonnie Kliever and Letty Russell
Paper: Robert P. Scharlemann, “The Christological Relation: A Phenomenological Description” – Responses: Richard Norris and Frederick Ferré
Memorial Minute: Hugh Vernon White
Presidential Address: Bernhard W. Anderson, “Cosmic Dimensions of the Genesis Creation Account”
1986
Theme: Creed — Theology — Culture
Paper: Leander Keck, “The New Testament and Nicea: Mostly Preliminary Remarks” – Responses: Pheme Perkins and Gerard Sloyan
Paper: Robert L. Wilken, “The Nicene Creed in Its Historical Setting” – Responses: Avery Dulles and David Power
Presidential Address: John D. Godsey, “Barth and Bonhoeffer: The Basic Difference”
1987
Special 75th Anniversary Panel: Taking Stock of Theology in America Today
Moderator: Franz J. van Beeck
Panelists:
Gabriel Fackre – Protestant Theology; Evangelicalism; Black Theology
Letty Russell – The Women’s Presence in Theology; Ethics
Pheme Perkins – The Study of the Bible
Eugene Borowitz – The Jewish Presence in Theology
Avery Dulles – Catholicism; Ecumenism
Theme: Creed — Theology — Culture
Paper: David Novak, “The Role of Doctrine in Judaism” – Response: Paul van Buren
Paper: George A. Lindbeck, “Doctrine in Christianity: A Comparison with Judaism” – Response: Franz J. Van Beeck
Memorial Minute: L. Harold DeWolf (J. Philip Wogaman)
Presidential Address: Richard A. Norris, Jr., “Rules and Speculations: A Look at a Second-Century Controversy”
1988
Theme: A Theology of Nature
Paper: Harold Oliver, “The Neglect and Recovery of Nature in Twentieth Century Protestant Theology” – Response: John Dillenberger
Paper: Erazim Kohak, “Rehabilitating the Prophets of Ba’al” – Response: Paul van Buren
Paper: Marjorie Suchocki, “Language and Process: Toward a Theology of Nature” – Response: James Ross
Panel Discussion: Moderator: Robert Neville
Panelists: Charles Curran, Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, and the Writers of the Papers
Memorial Minutes: Brand Blanshard (Paul Minear); Orlando Costas (Max Stackhouse); Roger Hazelton (Max Stackhouse); Paul Ramsey (William May); Bard Thompson (Edward L. Long)
Presidential Address: Paul Meyer, “The Issue That Wouldn’t Go Away: Faith and History Revisited”
1989
Theme: A Theology of Teachnology
Paper: Frederick Ferré, “Technology as a Perennial Theological Worry” – Response: Owen Thomas
Paper: Edward LeRoy Long, Jr., “Are There Demonic and Salvific Dimensions to Technology?” – Response: David Novak
Paper: Max Stackhouse, “Godly Cooking? Ethical Reflections on Theology and Technological Society” – Response: Dennis Campbell
Panel Discussion: Moderator: Pheme Perkins
Panelists: Leroy Rouner and the Writers of the Papers
Presidential Address: Paul van Buren, “The Nature of Ecclesial/Theological Change”
1990
Theme: Tradition and the Significance of Historical Thinking in Theology
Paper: Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, “Tradition, Identity, and Reconstruction: Roman Catholic Perspectives” – Response: Franz J. Van Beeck
Paper: Kosuke Koyama, “The Tradition and Indigenization” – Response: Jung Young Lee
Paper: Stanley Harakas, “Tradition in the Orthodox Tradition: Explicating the Account of Tradition within Orthodox Theology” – Response: Vigen Guroian
Panel Discussion by the Writers of the Papers
Memorial Minutes: James I. McCord; Albert C. Outler
Presidential Address: Charles Curran, “100 Years of Catholic Social Teaching: An Evaluation”
1991
Theme: Tradition and Historical Thinking in Theology
Paper: Norbert M. Samuelson, “Tradition from a Jewish Perspective” – Response: Eugene Borowitz
Paper: Joanne McWilliam, “Tradition and the Future” – Response: Thomas W. Ogletree
Paper: John Hesselink, “Scripture and Tradition: A Reformed Perspective” – Response: Daniel L. Migliore
Panel Discussion by the Writers of the Papers
Memorial Minutes: John Knox (Paul Meyer); William J. Wolf (Owen Thomas)
Presidential Address: Gabriel Fackre, “The State of Systematics: Research and Commentary”
1992
Theme: Religious Pluralism and/or the Inculturation of Theology
Paper: Roger Wilken, “Religious Pluralism and Early Christian Thought,” – Response: Lloyd Patterson
Paper: Geoffrey Wainwright, “Canons, Cultures, and the Ecumenically Correct,” – Response: David Power
Paper: Wilfred Cantwell Smith, “Scripture: What Is It and Why?” – Response: Clark Pinnock
Panel Discussion by the Writers of the Papers
Memorial Minutes: Stanley R. Hopper (Bernhard W. Anderson and Ray Hart), Hugh T. Kerr (Daniel L. Migliore)
Presidential Address: Franz Josef van Beeck, “‘This Weakness of God Is Stronger’ (I Cor. 1:25): An Inquiry beyond the Power of Being”
1993
Theme: Religious Pluralism and/or the Inculturation of Theology
Paper: Richard Longenecker, “In the Begriming Was the Confession,” – Response: Richard Norris
Paper: Lonnie D. Kliever, “Niebuhr’s Christ and Culture Revisited: Religious Pluralism and Theological Inculturation,” – Response: Gordon Kaufman
Paper: Victor Nuovo, “Reflections on Truth, Religious Diversity, and Religious Pluralism,” – Response: James Ross
Panel Discussion by the Writers of the Papers
Presidential Address: J. Deotis Roberts, “Deliver Us from Evil: Human Pain and Divine Compassion”
1994
Theme: Orthodoxy and Heresy
Paper: Richard Norris, “Orthodoxy and Heresy in the Earliest Christian Centuries,” – Response: Franklin Young
Paper: Vigen Guroian, “An Orthodox View of Orthodoxy and Heresy,” – Response: Thomas Oden
Paper: David Willis-Watkins, “Orthodoxy at the Reformation and in the Reformation Tradition Beyond,” – Response: Gilbert Meilaender
Panel Discussion by the Writers of the Papers
Memorial Minutes: Robert E. Cushman (Dennis M. Campbell), George S. Hendry (Daniel L. Migliore), Paul Lehmann (Christopher Morse)
Presidential Address: Owen C. Thomas, “Thought and Life: The Case of Heidegger and Tillich”
1995
Theme: Orthodoxy and Heresy
Paper: Robert K. Johnston, “Orthodoxy and Heresy: The Problem for Modern Evangelicalism,” – Response: J. Philip Wogaman
Paper: Eleanore Stump, “Should the Distinction between Orthodoxy and Heresy Be Preserved?” – Response: Daniel W. Hardy
Paper: William P. Alston, “The Uses of Orthodoxy,” – Response: Avery Dulles
Panel Discussion by the Writers of the Papers
Memorial Minutes: James Luther Adams (Roger Shinn), Robert Hood (Richard Norris), S. Paul Schilling (J. Philip Wogaman)
Presidential Address: Karlfried Froehlich, “Cultivating a Symbolic Mentality”
1996
Theme: God, Time, and Eschatology
Paper: Michael A. Fahey, “Time and Eternity in One of the he Cappadocians” – Response: Joanne McWilliam
Paper: Robert W. Jenson, “God, Time and Eschatology” – Response: James Evans
Paper: Robert P. Scharlemann, “God and the Time of Being,” – Response: Diogenes Allen
Panel Discussion by the Writers of the Papers
Memorial Minutes: Fred Herzog (Dennis M. Campbell), John C. Bennett (Roger Shinn)
Presidential Address: Edward LeRoy Long, Jr., “On Theological Communication: Polemics, Apologetics and Dialogues”
1997
Theme: God, Time, and Eschatology
Paper: Susan Ashbrook Harvey, “Embodiment in Time and Eternity: A Syriac Perspective,” – Response: Peter W. Ochs
Paper: Gerard S. Sloyan, “We Won’t Be There Ten Thousand Years: Time and the Christian Eschaton,” – Response: Richard B. Hays
Paper: Franz J. van Beeck, “What Can We Hope For, Really?” – Response: Francis Schussler Fiorenza
Panel Discussion by the Writers of the Papers
Memorial Minute: Jung Young Lee (Edward L. Long, Jr.)
Presidential Address: Geoffrey Wainwright, “The Ecumenical Rediscovery of the Trinity”
1998
Theme: Theological Language and Other Sorts of Languages
Paper: Norbert M. Samuelson, “Creation in Jewish Theology and Modern Astrophysics,” – Response: Robert Neville
Paper: Lamin Sanneh, “Theological Language and the Problem of Indigenization,” – Response: Francis X. Clooney
Paper: Audrey R. Chapman, Theological Perspectives on Genetics and Hunan Nature,” – Response: Pamela Dickey Young
Panel Discussion by the Writers of the Papers
Memorial Minute: Norman Pittenger (Richard A. Norris)
Presidential Address: Stanley S. Harakas, “Ethical Decision-Making in St. Basil’s Long Rules”
1999
Theme: Theological Language and Other Sorts of Languages
Paper: David Tracy, “The Theological Category of ‘Fragment’ as Informed by Literary Theory and Philosophy,” – Response: Catherine Keller
Paper: Peter Paris, “The Enculturation of the Gospel: The Word of God in Words of the People,” – Response: Vigen Guroian
Paper: Max Stackhouse, “After Cloning: Ethical Reflections on Creation, Nature, Biotechnology, Grace” – Response: Thomas Ogletree
Panel Discussion by the Writers of the Papers
Presidential Address: Robert W. Jenson, “The Hidden and Triune God”
2000
Theme: Mixed
Paper: Kathryn Tanner, “Eschatology Without a Future?” – Response: Alan Segal
Paper: Peter Phan, “Doing Theology in a Missionary Context: The Example of Alexandre de Rhodes,” – Response: J. Deotis Roberts
Paper: Pamela Dickey Young, “The Church Unofficial: Is It Any Longer Possible to Have a Doctrine of the Church?” – Response: Alexander McKelway
General Discussion led by Elizabeth Johnson and M. Douglas Meeks
Memorial Minutes: Lloyd George Patterson (Richard A. Norris); Charles Philip Price
Presidential Address: Joanne McWilliam, “Augustine’s Christologies”
2001
Theme: Mixed
Paper: Gabriel Fackre, “The Ecumenical Import of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification” – Responses: Avery Dulles and George Lindbeck
Paper: Frederick Ferré, “Optional Theism and the Wider Ecumenical Dialogue,” – Responses: Paul Griffiths and Wesley J. Wildman
Paper: Catherine Keller, “The Mystery of the Lost Chaos” – Responses: Wentzel van Huysteen and Francis X. Clooney
General Discussion led by Robert Neville and Serene Jones
Presidential Address: Michael Fahey, “Reflections of a Theological Editor: Theological Studies – the Journal – 1940 and 2001”
2002
Theme: Mixed
Paper: Peter Ochs, “The Renewal of Jewish Theology Today: Under the Sign of Three,” – Response: Ellen Charry
Paper: Miroslav Volf, “Memory of Evil in the World of Love: A Thought Experiment” – Response: Kendall Soulen
Paper: Sarah Coakley, “The Resurrection and the ‘Spiritual Senses’: on Wittgenstein, Epistemology, and the Risen Christ,” – Response: Bruce Marshall
General Discussion led by Susan Nelson and Josiah Young
Memorial Minute: John Deschner (Charles Wood)
Presidential Address: Christopher Morse, “The Virtue of Heaven: From Calvin to Microsoft and Back”
2003
Theme: Mixed
Paper: David Novak, “Covenantal Theology and Social Contract Theory,” – Response: Francis Fiorenza
Paper: Kate Sonderegger, “The Character of Christian Realism,” – Response: Charles Wood
Paper: Robert Neville, “Truth in Theology: Toward a Theology of Symbolic Engagement,” – Response: Reinhard Hütter
General Discussion led by George Mavrodes and James H. Evans
Memorial Minutes: Elizabeth Achtemeier (Patrick Miller), Waldo Beach (Leander Keck, Moody Smith)
Presidential Address: George Tavard, “The Mystery of Divine Providence”
2004
Theme: Mixed
Paper: Robin Lovin, “Christianity and Public Discourse: A View From the Other Side” – Response: J. Philip Wogaman
Paper: Kendall Soulen, “‘Who Shall I Say Sent Me?’ The Name of God in Trinitarian Perspective” – Response: Mark Heim
Paper: Ellen Charry, “The Pastoral Function of the Divine Character” – Response: Richard Norris
(Medieval) Disputatio on the Question “Does the Risen Christ Have More Than One Body?”
Disputantes: Reinhard Huetter; Robert Jenson. Magister: Karlfried Froehlich
Presidential Address: Robert K. Johnston, “Useless Beauty”
2005
Theme: Mixed
Paper: Don Saliers, “Beauty and Terror: What Have We to Pray, What Has Theology to Say?” – Response: Serene Jones
Paper: Josiah Young, “Wonder What God Had in Mind: Leibnitz’s Theodicy and the Art of Toni Morrison” – Response: Samuel K. Roberts
Paper: Mark Burrows, “Raiding the Inarticulate: Mysticism, Poetics, and the Unlanguageable” – Response: Frans J. Van Beeck
Panel Discussion: “What, in your judgment, would be the most promising and potentially fruitful topic and approach for contemporary theological discussion between Christians and Muslims?”
Panelists: Lamin Sanneh, John Berthrong, J. Patout Burns
Memorial Minutes: Walter G. Muelder (Robert C. Neville), J. Robert Nelson (Michael Fahey), Lonnie Kliever (Charles Curran)
Presidential Address: J. Philip, Wogaman, “The Absolute and the Relative in Christian Ethics”
2006
Theme: Ecclesiology
Paper: Avery Cardinal Dulles, “H. Richard Niebuhr on Church and Ministry” – Response: Daniel L. Migliore
Paper: Mary McClintock Fulkerson, “A Place to Appear: Ecclesiology As If Bodies Mattered” – Response: Diana L. Hayes
Paper: Douglas Ottati, “Theology Education, the Purpose of the Church and its Ministry: Reflections in a Niebuhrian Key” – Response: Sheila G. Davaney
Panel Discussion: “‘Increase among men of the love of God and neighbor’ (H. Richard Niebuhr) Can we improve upon this definition of the purpose of the Church?”
Panelists: Michael A. Fahey; George Hunsinger; Peter Paris
Memorial Minutes: Eugene R. Fairweather (Peter Slater), Langdon Gilkey (Roger Haight), Richard A. Norris (Frans J. Van Beeck)
Presidential Address: Robert C. Neville, “Two Dimensions of Religious Belief”
2007
Theme: Gender and Theology
Paper: Teresa Berger, “Beyond Mrs. Murphy in the Pew: The Challenge of Gender for Liturgical Tradition” – Response: Charles Curran
Paper: Catherine Keller, “The Apophasis of Gender: A Fourfold Unsaying of Feminist Theology” – Response: Susan Nelson
Paper: Katie Cannon, (Alison Gise Johnson, and Angela Sims), “Womanist Works in Word” – Response: Josiah Young
Panel Discussion on Feminist and Womanist Theologies
Panelists: Serene Jones, Terry Tilley, Diana Hayes
Presidential Address: Elizabeth Johnson, “Pneumatology Revisited: Creator Spirit in Ecological Theology”
2008
Theme: Images of God
Paper: Wesley J. Wildman, “Ultimacy Images Arising from the Microbial Ocean” – Response: Cynthia Crysdale
Paper: Francis Clooney, “Imago Dei, Paraman Samyam: How We May Become Like unto God—Some Hindu Resources” – Response: Peter Phan
Paper: Robert Neville, “Images of God in Sexual Embodiment” – Response: Kate Sonderegger
Memorial Minute: Bernhard W. Anderson (Karlfried Froehlich)
Presidential Address: Daniel L. Migliore, “The Love Commandments: An Opening for Christian-Muslim Dialogue?”
2009
Theme: Theology and the Political
Paper: C. Clifton Black, “American Scriptures,” – Response: Deotis Roberts
Paper: John Burgess, “Reconstructing Christ and Culture: The Perils of Orthodox Renewal in Post-Soviet Russia,” – Response: J. Philip Wogaman
Paper: Eugene F. Rogers, Jr., “How Paul Genders the Gentiles in his Epistle to the Romans with Implications for Same-Sex Marriage,” – Response: Charles Curran
Panel discussion: “Theology and Politics in the Obama Era”
Panelists: Linell Cady, Peter Paris, Gary Dorrien
Memorial Minute: Joanne McWilliams (Michael Fahey)
Presidential Address: Max L. Stackhouse, “Framing the Global Ethos”
2010
Theme: Christology
Paper: Roger Haight, “The Uniqueness of Jesus” – Response: Daniel L. Migliore
Paper: Terrence Tilley, “Jesus, History, and Christology: Three Theses” – Response: Charles Hefling
Paper: Beverly Gaventa, “Seeking the Identity of Jesus: A Pilgrimage” – Response: Mary McClintock Fulkerson
Memorial Minute: Claude Welch (Wesley J. Wildman)
Presidential Address: Kathryn Tanner, “Grace and Gambling”
2011
Theme: Theology and Public Life
Paper: David Novak, “Can One Speak of God’s Law in Public (Secular) Space?” – Response: John Burgess
Paper: Phil Wogaman, “How Views of God Frame Political Life,” – Response: James Evans
Paper: Eric Gregory “Num Tertium Quid? Civic Virtue and Augustine’s Eudaimonism,” – Response: Brian Daley
Memorial Minute: John D. Godsey (J. Philip Wogaman)
Presidential Address: C. Peter Slater, “Contesting Confessions: William Connolly’s Augustinian Imperative and Mikhail Bakhtin’s Dialogical Imperative”
2012 (ATS Centennial Meeting)
Theme: Theology Past, Present, and Future
Panel discussion: The Past
Panelists: Dale C. Allison, Ellen T. Charry, Gary Dorrien, Roger Haight, S.J. Moderator: Karlfried Froehlich
Panel discussion: The Present
Panelists: Peter C. Phan, Samuel K. Roberts, Don E. Saliers, Kathryn Tanner. Moderator: Elizabeth A. Johnson
Panel discussion: The Future
Panelists: Francis X. Clooney, Catherine Cornille, Serene Jones, James F. Kay, Cheryl J. Sanders. Moderator: C. Peter Slater
Memorial Minutes: Frans Jozef Van Beeck (Michael Fahey), Gordon D. Kaufman (Sheila Davaney), Susan Nelson (Sam Calian), Franklin W. Young (D. Moody Smith)
Presidential Address: Peter Paris, “The Theologies of Black Folk”
2013
Theme: Vistas on Creation and Theological Anthropology
Paper: Leo Lefebure, “Buddhist and Christian Perspectives on Wisdom,” – Response: Phillip Cary
Paper: Wesley J. Wildman, “Why Does Science Matter for Theological Anthropology?” – Response: Terrence Tilley
Paper: J. Kameron Carter, “‘When the World Was Red’: Richard Wright’s Shadow Narrative of Theology, Race, and Human Existence” – Response: Amy Hollywood
Memorial Minutes: Ronald Thiemann (Francis Schüssler Fiorenza), Diogenes Allen (Daniel L. Migliore)
Presidential Address: Charles M. Wood, “The Church and Its Ministry: Expanding an Ecumenical Vision”
2014
Theme: Theology and Science
Paper: Cynthia Crysdale, “Evolution, Systematic Theology, and God” – Response: Ian McFarland
Paper: J. Wentzel van Huyssteen: “Human Origins and the Emergence of a Distinctively Human Imagination: Theology and the Archeology of Human Personhood” – Response: Paul DeHart
Paper: Elizabeth A. Johnson: “Evolution and Christ: Is God’s Charity Broad Enough for Bears?” – Response: Frederick Ware
Memorial Minutes: Paul W. Meyer (Karlfried Froehlich), Roger Shinn (Christopher Morse)
Presidential Address: Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, “Faith and Political Engagement: Political Theology in a Pluralistic World”
2015
Theme: Pneumatology
Paper: Robert Hughes, “Begotten in Love: An Active Role for the Spirit in the Eternal Begetting of the Word?” – Response: Eugene Rogers
Paper: Ephraim Radner, “The Modernism of Pneumatology as a Theological Discipline” – Response: Bradford Hinze
Paper: Amos Young, “Audibilizing the Faith: Toward a Pentecostal, Sonic, and Pneumatological Theology of Proclamation.” – Response: Cheryl J. Sanders
Memorial Minutes: David N. Power OMI (Charles Curran), Samuel K. Roberts (Peter J. Paris)
Presidential Address: M. Douglas Meeks, “God and Forgiving Debt”
2016
Theme: Comparative Theology
Paper: Catherine Cornille, “The Church as Community of Disciples of Jesus: Insights from Hinduism” – Response: S. Mark Heim
Paper: Ruben Habito, “God-Talk out of Silence: Triune Mystery as Christian Koan” – Response: Paul Lakeland
Paper: Daniel Madigan, “‘The Best Umma Singled Out for Humankind’: The Community of Believers in Islam” – Response: Jeannine Hill Fletcher
Memorial Minutes: Owen C. Thomas (Francis Schüssler Fiorenza), Eugene B. Borowitz (Daniel L. Migliore), Max Stackhouse (Peter J. Paris)
Presidential Address: Peter C. Phan, “Deus Migrator: Doing Theology from the Perspective of Migration”
2017
Theme: Bodies Black and Blue: African-American Theological Explorations
Paper: James H. Evans, Jr., “The Earthly Spirituality of Black Folk as an Approach to an African-American Eco-Theology,” Respondent: Elizabeth A. Johnson
Paper: Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, “Black Women’s Use of ‘Lament’ as a Theological Response to the Abuse and Trauma of Black Bodies,” Respondent: J. Kameron Carter
Paper: Stephen G. Ray, “‘Black Lives Matter’ as Enfleshed Public Theology,” Respondent: Serene Jones
Memorial Minutes: Richard R. Niebuhr (Clifton Black), Joseph Fitzmyer (Clifton Black), Dwight Moody Smith (Clifton Black)
Presidential Address: Wesley J. Wildman, “Ontologizing Color? An Immigrant Pilgrimage in Racialized America”
2018
Theme: Toward a Theology of Place
Paper: Eric Gregory, “Eschatology, National Identity, and the Ethics of Humanitarianism,” Respondent: Nancy Bedford
Paper: Dale Irvin, “God of the City: Toward a Theology of the Urban Space,” Respondent: Katherine Sonderegger
Paper: Teresa Berger, “Shared Space without Physical Co-Presence: Theological Reflections on Digital Social Space and Multi-Sites,” Respondent: Anthony Godzieba
Closing Comments: Willie James Jennings, “Creating Places of Hope”
Memorial Minutes: Robert W. Jenson (William Storrar), Wendell S. Dietrich (Katherine Sonderegger), George A. Lindbeck (Kendall Soulen), Thomas C. Oden (Don Saliers)
Presidential Address: R. Kendall Soulen, “Fragment from a Systematic Theology in Progress: Humankind as ‘Transcript of the Trinity’ (Charles Wesley)”
2019
Theme: U.S. Politics and Theology
Paper: Maya Rivera Rivera, “Theological Metaphors in Anti-Immigration Discourse,” Respondent: Charles E. Curran
Paper: Leora Batnitzky, “Rethinking Jewish and American Exceptionalism: Jewish Theology and the Possibilities of American Democracy,” Respondent: Chester Gillis
Paper: Anthony B. Pinn, “Does Theology Matter as America Becomes ‘Great Again’? Thoughts on the Shifting Language of Life,” Respondent: Amy Plantinga Pauw
Memorial Minutes: Katie Canon (Anthony Pinn), James H. Cone (Cheryl J. Sanders), Lamin Sanneh (Peter Paris)
Presidential Address: James H. Evans, Jr., “Together Again: The Meaning of Reconciliation”
2020
No meeting due to SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
2021 (Zoom Meeting)
Theme: Works in Progress
Paper: Benjamin Valentin, “Ain’t I a Context? Theology and Place,” Respondent: Elaine Heath
Paper: Jeannine Hill-Fletcher, “The Grace of the Ghosts: Ancestors, Activists and the Making of Theologians,” Respondent: Karen Baker-Fletcher
Paper: Frederick Ware, “The ‘Jesus Idea’ of Beloved Community: Philosophies of Christianity and the Telos of Human Civilization,” Respondent: Wesley J. Wildman
Presidential Address: Cheryl J. Sanders, “The Crisis of the Black Christian Public Intellectual: Ethical and Theological Responses to the Problem of Anti-Blackness”
2022 (Zoom Meeting)
Theme: Redemptions
Paper: S. Mark Heim, “Salvations Revisited: Religious Difference as Fractal and Genetic,” Respondent: Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
Paper: M. Shawn Copeland, “Redemption: The Matter, the Law, and Grace,” Respondent: Francis Schüssler Fiorenza
Paper: Erin Lothes, “Divestment as a $ymbolic Sacrifice: Redeeming God’s Oikonomia for the Kin of all Creation,” Respondent: John Dadosky
Closing Comments: Daniel Migliore, Catherine Cornille
Presidential Address: Cynthia Crysdale, “‘Take-Homes’ on Atonement”
2023
Theme: Theologies of Grace
Paper: Julia Lamm, “Graces: A Typology Applied to Julian of Norwich’s Showings,” Respondent: Catherine Clifford
Paper: Cyril Orji, “Tribal Trifling in the Theology of Grace: A Historical and Systematic Repositioning,” Respondent: Peter Paris
Paper: Nancy E. Bedford, “Decolonizing Grace,” Respondent: Dale Irvin
Closing Comments: Karen Baker-Fletcher, Roger D. Haight, S.J.
Memorial Minutes: Geoffrey Wainwright (M. Douglas Meeks), Gerard Mannion (Peter Phan), Michael J. Buckley, S.J. (Roger D. Haight, S.J.), Michael A. Fahey, S.J. (Roger D. Haight, S.J.), Thomas H. Tobin, S.J. (Roger D. Haight, S.J.), James H. Evans, Jr. (Peter Paris), J. Wentzel van Huyssteen (Peter Paris), I. John Hesselink, Jr. (Willie James Jennings), J. Deotis Roberts, Sr. (Cheryl J. Sanders), Charles C. West (Daniel L. Migliore)
Presidential Address: C. Clifton Black, “The Kindness of Strangers”
2024
Theme: Christian Traditions in Context
Paper: John Burgess “Orthodox Political Theologies in Contemporary Russia and Ukraine: The Nationalistic Temptation and the Work of Reconciliation,” Respondent: John Borelli
Paper: Nimi Wariboko: “Pentecostal Experience in Today’s Context,” Respondent: Frederick Ware
Paper: Michele Saracino: “Hopelessness at the Borders,” Respondent: Susan Wood
Closing Comments: Mary Ann Hinsdale, Katherine Sonderegger
Memorial Minutes: Gene Outka (Eric Gregory), Leander Keck (C. Clifton Black), William May (Charles Wood), Donald Shriver (Daniel L. Migliore)
Presidential Address: John E. Thiel, “Tradition, Traditions, and the Future of the Past”
2025
Theme: Spirituality and Theology
Paper: Karen Baker-Fletcher, “Becoming Christian Buddhist: Poetics and Koans.” Respondent: Cheryl Kirk-Duggan
Paper: Jennifer Herdt, “Play: The End of the Ethical.” Respondent: Robin Lovin
Paper: Edwin Chr. van Driel, “On Being With and Resonance: Supralapsarian Christology for a New Missional Era.” Respondent: Eric Gregory
Memorial Minutes: Edward LeRoy Long (Robin Lovin), Robert Hughes III (Cynthia Crysdale), Richard B. Hayes (Mary Fulkerson)
Closing Session: “Reflections on the State of Theological Education”
Catherine Clifford, Serene Jones
Presidential Address: Ruben Habito, “Effing the Ineffable: The Impossible Task of Christian Theology”
2026
Theme: “Theology and Apocalypse”
Paper: Margaret Kamitsuka, “What’s Love Got to Do With It? Apocalyptic Eschatology Meets Eros.” Respondent: John E. Thiel
Paper: Stephen Ray, “Which One? The Responsibility of Theology in the Face of Apocalypse(s).” Respondent: Jeannine Hill-Fletcher
Paper: Brian Robinette, “Inhabiting Revelation: Apocalyptic, Ressentiment, and the Logic of Resurrection.” Respondent: William Loewe
Memorial Minutes: Francis Schussler Fiorenza (Jeannine Hill-Fletcher), Roger D. Haight, S.J. (John E. Thiel), Daniel L. Migliore (Amy Plantinga Pauw), David W. Tracy (Chester Gillis)
Presidential Address: Leo D. Lefebure, “Interreligious Paths of Wisdom in an Apocalyptic Age.”