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 RELGION?
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 THEOLOGIES 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 RELGIOUS 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: Wilhkelm 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 Concept 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 Aspect 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 CONI’EXT 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 AUTHORITY
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 TECHNOLOGY
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 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 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 SORI’S 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 (Carnegie 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), 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 Jennings, “Creating Places of Hope”
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
Presidential Address: James H. Evans, Jr., “Together Again: The Meaning of Reconciliation”
2020
No meeting due to SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
2021
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 Sanders, “The Crisis of the Black Christian Public Intellectual: Ethical and Theological Responses to the Problem of Anti-Blackness”
2022
Theme: Redemptions
Paper: 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 Haight
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
Presidential Address: John Thiel, “Tradition, Traditions, and the Future of the Past”