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Title: Theology and The Office
Volume Editors: Daniel J. Cameron & John W. McCormack
Abstract and CV Due: January 31, 2023
Initial Final Paper Due: June 30, 2023
In 2020, seven years after the show officially ended, the hit NBC series The Office was the number 1 streamed tv show with over 57 billion viewing minutes beating out the second most streamed show (Grey’s Anatomy) by 45%.[1] In 2016, Rolling Stone Magazine listed The Office within the top 50 most popular tv shows of all time.[2] The show has had a lasting and deep influence on the trajectory of popular culture. It is because of The Office, that shows like Brooklyne Nine-Nine, Parks and Recreation, and The Good Place exist.[3]The show is beloved by many for its witty humor, relatable characters, and simple storyline. But, can The Office be reduced down to another comedy that seeks cheap laughter from its one liners such as “that’s what she said,” its jello pranks, or its absurd characters (i.e. Dwight Shrute) or is there something more, something deeper that we can learn from the things that happen at this fictional Pennsylvania paper company?
This book will argue along with Pam Beasley that “there is a lot of beauty in ordinary things.”[4] Or more specifically there is a lot of theology in ordinary things. This book will be an addition to the Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture series(Lexington Books, Fortress Academic) and while it imagines a broad range of readers, it will be of particular interest to those with an interest in comedy and tv sitcoms, as well as academics interested in intersections of religion and culture. This volume seeks to gather a diverse group of scholars across the field of theology, religion, and related fields in order to produce a book that will provide both a theological lens through which to view The Office as well as to be a space for current cutting edge theological research to take place.
Potential Topics:
– Vocation/calling
– Friendship/fellowship/romance
– Difficult people, imperfect people
– Ethics in The Office
– Religion, “Religion,” and Religions in the Office
– Holidays/ritual observances/liturgical practice (Halloween episodes, Christmas episodes, pretzel day, Diwali, the Christening, weddings, birthday parties)
– Emotions in The Office (Andy’s anger management, Kelly’s manipulations, Gabe’s anxiety, Dwight’s refusal to smile, Toby’s face, etc.)
– Gender, Sexuality, Family, and Relationships (Michael Scott’s masculinity; Oscar, Angela, and the Senator; Ryan and Kelly; “You have to tolerate a lot when you’re part of a family.”)
– Bosses and Authority (Michael, Jan, David Wallace, Robert California, etc.)
– Acceptance and Belonging (Michael: “I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked, but it’s not like this compulsive need to be liked, like my need to be praised;” “Everybody likes the guy who offers them a stick of gum.” Dwight: “Do you want to form an alliance with me?”)
– Racial and ethnic identities in The Office (Diversity Day, The Convict, Warehouse employees, IT guy, Hidetoshi Hasagawa, Sabre’s “Print in All Colors” initiative, etc.)
– Transgression, Sin, and Punishment (Fake firings, Pizza by Alfredo, Michael’s nephew, the Scranton Strangler, etc.)
– Technology (Michael’s GPS; Dunder Mifflin Infinity (2.0); “Unleash the power of the pyramid”; WUPHF)
– Aesthetics, decor, identity (desk toys and all that)
– Creativity (Here Comes Treble, Improv, Art School, Local Ad, Second Life, the Flenderson Files, etc.)
– Popular Culture in the Office (Parkour, Bobbleheads, Sweeney Todd)
– Time (“It’s a quarter to 5, and I have begun to gather my things.” “I’ve been salesman of the month thirteen out of the last twelve months.”)
– Space and place (The Break Room, the Conference Room, the Warehouse)
– Life inside and outside The Office (Call Center, Schrute Farms, truth and reality, etc.)
– The relationship between the Scranton branch and “Corporate” (and other branches, Sabre/Tallahassee, etc.)
– Cinematography and The Office (Talking Heads and the Idea of Hope, mockumentary style storytelling, etc)
Timeframes:
Please send a 500-word abstract, accompanied by a current CV, to TheologyAndTheOffice@gmail.com by January 31, 2023. Acceptance notifications will be sent out February 15, 2023. Full manuscripts (6,000-8,000 words) are due on June 30, 2023. Manuscripts will be returned to contributors on August 1, 2023. Final revised manuscripts will be due by October 15, 2023. The completed volume will be submitted to the publisher December 1, 2023 for anticipated publication in 2024.
Daniel J. Cameron holds an MA from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and is a Ph.D. candidate in systematic theology from the University of Aberdeen and serves as the Bible Department head and Spiritual Life Director at Chicago Hope Academy (IL, USA) where he teaches a course in theology and film.
John W. McCormack holds an MAR from Yale Divinity School and a PhD in History from the University of Notre Dame and is Associate Professor of Religion and History at Aurora University (IL, USA).
Notes
[1] Rick Porter. “’Ozark,’ ‘the Office’ Lead Nielsen’s 2020 Streaming Rankings.” The Hollywood Reporter. The Hollywood Reporter, January 13, 2021.
[2] Rob Sheffield. “100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.” Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone, July 29, 2019.
[3] Kelly Lawler, “’The Office’ Turns 15: All the Ways NBC’s Quirky Sitcom Changed Pop Culture,” USA Today (Gannett Satellite Information Network, March 24, 2020).
[4] The Office. 2013. Season 9, Episode 25, “Finale.” Directed by Ken Kwapis. Aired May 13, 2013 on NBC.
The Psychology of Faith Academic Cross-Training
With the support of the John Templeton Foundation, the University of St. Thomas (MN) announced The Psychology and Theology of Faith sub-granting competition in fall of 2022. The goal is to fund academic cross-training in the psychological sciences for scholars of Christian theology or philosophy of religion with research interests relating to religious belief or religious commitment. Six successful applicants will each receive a $70,000 award providing the opportunity to take courses in and work with mentors from the psychological sciences, in order to apply and leverage insights from the psychological sciences in their work as theologians and philosophers. This project is being supervised by professors Michael Rota (Univ. of St. Thomas) and Elizabeth Jackson (Toronto Metropolitan Univ.)
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Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00211400221127126?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Title: “Book Review: The Jerome Biblical Commentary for the Twenty-First Century”
Author: Adrian Graffy Date: 2022-10-11T07:29:42Z
Publication: Vol:87 Numb. 4 Pages: 357 – 362
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00211400221129404?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Title: “Book Review: The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History”
Author: Colmán Ó Clabaigh Date: 2022-11-01T05:47:38Z
Publication: Vol:87 Numb. 4 Pages: 362 – 364
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00211400221129404a?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Title: “Book Review: Christian Solar Symbolism and Jesus the Sun of Justice”
Author: Liam Tracey Date: 2022-11-01T05:47:39Z
Publication: Vol:87 Numb. 4 Pages: 364 – 366
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00211400221129404b?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Title: “Book Review: Theology and Ecology in Dialogue: The Wisdom of Laudato Si’”
Author: Liam Tracey Date: 2022-11-01T05:47:39Z
Publication: Vol:87 Numb. 4 Pages: 366 – 368
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00211400221129404c?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Title: “Book Review: The Politics of Irish Primary Education: Reform in an Era of Secularisation”
Author: David Kennedy Date: 2022-11-01T05:47:39Z
Publication: Vol:87 Numb. 4 Pages: 368 – 370
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00211400221129404d?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Title: “Book Review: Tradition and Apocalypse: An Essay on the Future of Christian Belief”
Author: Philipp W. Rosemann Date: 2022-11-01T05:47:39Z
Publication: Vol:87 Numb. 4 Pages: 370 – 373
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00211400221129404e?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Title: “Book Review: The Shape of Anglican Theology: Faith Seeking Wisdom”
Author: Randall J. Price Date: 2022-11-01T05:47:40Z
Publication: Vol:87 Numb. 4 Pages: 373 – 375
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00211400221129404f?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Title: “Book Review: Education in Late Antiquity”
Author: John Sullivan Date: 2022-11-01T05:47:41Z
Publication: Vol:87 Numb. 4 Pages: 375 – 378
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/00211400221129404g?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Author: Date: 2020-12-26T09:14:54Z
Publication: Vol: Numb. Pages: –
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0021140020987074?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Title: “Editor’s Note”
Author: Phillip Cary Date: 2022-10-24T01:33:26Z
Publication: Vol:31 Numb. 4 Pages: 431 – 432
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10638512221123921?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Author: Shane M. Owens Date: 2022-06-20T04:15:29Z
Publication: Vol:31 Numb. 4 Pages: 433 – 453
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10638512221108054?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Title: “Confitendum et proficiendum: Augustine on the Rule of Faith and the Christian Life”
Author: Alex Fogleman Date: 2022-07-07T06:59:37Z
Publication: Vol:31 Numb. 4 Pages: 454 – 477
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10638512221112039?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Author: Michael Brain Date: 2022-10-13T07:30:17Z
Publication: Vol:31 Numb. 4 Pages: 478 – 503
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10638512221129971?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Title: “Karl Barth: A Catholic Appraisal”
Author: Bruce D. Marshall Date: 2022-09-01T06:58:47Z
Publication: Vol:31 Numb. 4 Pages: 504 – 520
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10638512221123989?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Title: “Karl Barth and Catholic Theology: Does Barth Undo the Deep Grammar of Nicene Faith?”
Author: Paul D. Molnar Date: 2022-08-29T07:06:44Z
Publication: Vol:31 Numb. 4 Pages: 521 – 541
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10638512221122310?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Title: “The Incarnation of the Eternal Son: Fitting, not Necessary”
Author: Paul R. Hinlicky Date: 2022-09-01T06:58:28Z
Publication: Vol:31 Numb. 4 Pages: 542 – 558
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10638512221122281?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Title: “A Farewell to All That”
Author: Katherine Sonderegger Date: 2022-09-15T06:24:07Z
Publication: Vol:31 Numb. 4 Pages: 559 – 568
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10638512221123972?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Title: “Reasons to Say Farewell”
Author: Bruce D. Marshall Date: 2022-09-23T07:18:50Z
Publication: Vol:31 Numb. 4 Pages: 569 – 584
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10638512221124053?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Title: “Discerning Barth’s Legacy: Sorting the Good Conflicts From the Bad”
Author: Christopher R.J. Holmes Date: 2022-09-06T07:08:02Z
Publication: Vol:31 Numb. 4 Pages: 585 – 600
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10638512221124042?ai=2b4&mi=ehikzz&af=R
Title: “Prebunking Disinformation in Science, Skepticism, and Theology”
Author: Ted Peters Date: 2022-10-28T06:05:21Z
Publication: Vol:20 Numb. 4 Pages: 381 – 385
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746700.2022.2124476?af=R
Title: “Aspects of Experience and Their Role in Systematic Theology”
Author: John Daniel Andersen Date: 2022-09-21T04:08:32Z
Publication: Vol:20 Numb. 4 Pages: 386 – 400
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746700.2022.2124477?af=R
Title: “The Evolutionary Biology of Play as a Parameter for Animal Heaven”
Author: Thomas W. Martin Date: 2022-10-12T02:04:20Z
Publication: Vol:20 Numb. 4 Pages: 401 – 415
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746700.2022.2124478?af=R
Title: “Ethical Dilemmas in Developing a Vaccine to Prevent COVID-19: The Perspective of Jewish Ethics”
Author: Tsuriel Rashi Date: 2022-09-19T05:54:16Z
Publication: Vol:20 Numb. 4 Pages: 416 – 427
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746700.2022.2124479?af=R
Author: Stanisław Ruczaj Date: 2022-09-26T09:34:12Z
Publication: Vol:20 Numb. 4 Pages: 428 – 444
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746700.2022.2124480?af=R
Title: “The Global/Local Distinction Vindicates Leibniz’s Theodicy”
Author: James Franklin Date: 2022-10-17T06:10:58Z
Publication: Vol:20 Numb. 4 Pages: 445 – 462
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746700.2022.2124481?af=R
Author: Vahid Taebnia Date: 2022-10-12T02:00:25Z
Publication: Vol:20 Numb. 4 Pages: 463 – 473
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746700.2022.2124482?af=R
Title: “St. George Jackson Mivart: Evo-Devo, Epigenetics and Thomism”
Author: David O. Brown Date: 2022-09-21T04:11:32Z
Publication: Vol:20 Numb. 4 Pages: 474 – 492
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746700.2022.2124483?af=R
Title: “Countercurrent of Life”
Author: George Christopher Date: 2022-09-22T06:46:54Z
Publication: Vol:20 Numb. 4 Pages: 493 – 503
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746700.2022.2124484?af=R
Title: “Critical Realism, Social Constructivism, and the Trinity”
Author: John B. King Date: 2022-09-19T05:56:30Z
Publication: Vol:20 Numb. 4 Pages: 504 – 518
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746700.2022.2124485?af=R
Title: “Science and Religion in a Monotheistic Perspective”
Author: John F. Haught Date: 2022-10-21T01:57:48Z
Publication: Vol:20 Numb. 4 Pages: 519 – 520
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746700.2022.2124486?af=R
Title: “God, Stephen Hawking and the Multiverse: What Hawking Said and Why It Matters”
Author: Robert John Russell Date: 2022-10-21T01:47:59Z
Publication: Vol:20 Numb. 4 Pages: 520 – 525
Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14746700.2022.2124487?af=R
Title: “Introduction to Special Issue on Jewish Analytic Theology”
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/521
Title: “The Claim of Holiness”
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/512
Title: “What is the Best Jewish Account of the Grounds of Worship of God?”
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/513
Title: “What’s So Bad about Worshipping Other Gods?”
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/514
Title: “For all the Blessings of this Life”
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/515
Title: “Good Enough to be God”
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/516
Title: “A Dilemma for De Dicto Halakhic Motivation: Why Mitzvot Don’t Require Intention”
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/517
Title: “Worship, Apophaticism, and Non-Propositional Knowledge”
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/518
Title: “Toward an African Theory of the Atonement”
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/403
Title: “Can Analytic Theology be Phenomenological?”
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/398
Title: “Closeness with God”
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/413
Title: “Self-Defense for Theists”
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/388
Title: “Descartes on Necessity and the Laws of Nature”
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/404
Title: “The One vs. The Many”
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/423
Title: “Transubstantiation”
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/466
Title: “Discovery of the Sixth Ecumenical Council’s Trinitarian Theology”
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/455
Title: “William Lane Craig. In Quest of the Historical Adam: A Biblical and Scientific Exploration“
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/500
Title: “James M. Arcadi and James T. Turner, Jr., eds. T&T Clark Handbook of Analytic Theology“
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/501
Title: “Hud Hudson. Fallenness and Flourishing“
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/502
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/503
Title: “Jeffrey Koperski. Divine Action, Determinism, and the Laws of Nature“
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/505
Title: “Samuel Lebens. The Principles of Judaism“
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/506
Title: “Michael C. Rea. Essays in Analytic Theology, Volumes 1 and 2“
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/507
Title: “Thomas H. McCall. Analytic Christology and the Theological Interpretation of the New Testament“
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/508
Title: “Mark C. Murphy. Divine Holiness and Divine Action“
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/509
Title: “Joanna Leidenhag. Minding Creation: Theological Panpsychism and the Doctrine of Creation“
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/510
Title: “William Wood. Analytic Theology and the Academic Study of Religion“
Author:
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000
Link: https://jat-ojs-baylor.tdl.org/jat/article/view/511
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Author: Bender, Kimlyn J. Date: 2022-10-14
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Title: “Whole God and whole man: Deification as incarnation in Maximus the Confessor”
Author: Korb, Samuel Date: 2022-10-14
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What does faithfulness to the call of Christ demand within the political, economic, and social orders of today’s world? Where can Christians turn for help in discerning that call, and how can Christian ethicists serve those who must make difficult moral decisions?
In May of 2022, prominent ethicists, theologians, philosophers, and practitioners will gather in Oxford to honour Professor Nigel Biggar’s efforts to do Christian ethics from the ground up. Our presenters will mark fifteen years of Biggar’s work as Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology by offering creative and constructive proposals across a wide range of issues, including bioethics, just war, political theology, and academic freedom.
Chris Eberle • Jennifer Herdt • Gerald McKenny • James Orr • Daniel Philpott • Charles Mathewes • Patrick Smith • Eric Gregory • Krishan Kumar • Baroness Onora O’Neill
CALL FOR PAPERS: Students and scholars are now invited to contribute essays for publication in The Jonathan Edwards Miscellanies Companion, Volume 3, Foreword by Rhys Bezzant, Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center Australia, Senior Lecturer, Ridley College, Melbourne. Participants in this project must have at minimum a master’s degree in history, theology, philosophy, religious studies, literature, or related fields, or be able to demonstrate their qualifications to contribute to the project. Essays should be 5000–7000 words and not previously submitted or published elsewhere. Visit https://jesociety.press/call-for-papers-miscellanies-companion-vol3/.
The LATC conference scheduled for spring of this year (2022) has been reschedule to March 15-17, 2023. The announcement from the LATC website is copied below.
“Dear Friends and Supporters of the Los Angeles Theology Conference (LATC) series,
We are writing to let you know that after much careful thought and reflection, we have decided to reschedule LATC 2022 to 2023. This is due to the ongoing situation with the pandemic, and the complications this raises for in-person conferences like ours. We have always maintained that the in-person experience is vital to the success of LATC, which is all about discussion, engagement, and reflection on the Christian tradition of the past for the purposes of constructive systematic theology for today and tomorrow. For this reason we have decided to reschedule rather than to move the conference online. We remain committed to the vision of LATC, and to its future. But we think it would not be responsible to run the conference this March given the current state of affairs. So, we will now have the conference on March 15-17, 2023 at Biola University in La Mirada, California. The theme remains the same: ecclesiology. We trust that you will understand the reasons for this change given the extraordinary circumstances we are all having to navigate, and look forward to seeing you in California in March 2023!
—Oliver, Fred, and Katya (the LATC Team)”
Speakers and breakout topics are the same as originally scheduled, for now. (Images and content are from LATC website .
Kimlyn J. Bender, George W. Truett Theological Seminary
“Confessing Christ, Confessing the Church”
Beau Branson, Brescia University
Jordan Wessling, Lindsey Wilson College
“The Church as a Singular, Persisting Institution”
Joshua Cockayne, University of St. Andrews
D. T. Everhart, University of St. Andrews
“‘Members of One Another’: Towards a Kierkegaardian Ecclesiology”
Stephen T. Davis, Claremont McKenna College
Eric T. Yang, Santa Clara University
“God’s Story and the Sameness of the Church Over Time”
Steven Duby, Phoenix Seminary
“‘Bond of Peace’: Ecclesial Unity as Participation in the Son and Spirit”
Daniel L. Hill, Dallas Theological Seminary
“Bound Together in the Holy Fire: Purgation and the Unity and Holiness of the Church”
Jonathan Hill, University of Exeter
“Communion of Saints: Knowledge and Love in Heaven and Earth”
Alex Irving, St. Mellitus College, East Midlands
“The Body of Christ: A Soteriological Basis for the Theological Marks of the Church”
Matt Jenson, Torrey Honors College, Biola University
“Either/Or: On the Necessary, But Maverick, Distinction between Church and World”
Adam Johnson, Torrey Honors College, Biola University
“The Cruciform Ministry of the Church: Refracting the Saving Work of Christ”
Marguerite Kappelhoff, University of Divinity, Melbourne
“The Marks of the Church and the Triune God: ‘Seeking and Creating Fellowship’”
Kimberley Kroll, Grand Canyon University
“Holy Branches: A Constructive Model of the Spirit’s Presence in the Church”
Steven Nemes, North Phoenix Preparatory Academy
“The Church and Infallibility”
Open Theology (https://www.degruyter.com/OPTH) invites submissions for the topical issue “Cultural Trauma and the Hebrew Bible,” edited by Danilo Verde (KU Leuven) and Dominik Markl (Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome).
Deadline – March 31, 2022
In his work titled Trauma: A Social Theory, American sociologist Jeffrey C. Alexander argues: “Cultural trauma occurs when members of a collectivity feel they have been subjected to a horrendous event that leaves indelible marks upon their group consciousness, marking their memories forever and changing their future identity in fundamental and irrevocable ways” (p. 19). From this perspective, the mere occurrence of historical catastrophes or collective traumas does not necessarily result in cultural trauma, since cultural trauma only emerges when a collective catastrophe indelibly shapes a group’s collective memory and produces a profound revision of that group’s collective identity. Cultural trauma studies by no means constitute a single, monolithic research paradigm; yet, scholars in this field largely agree that cultural traumas “are for the most part historically made, not born” (Neil J. Smelser, Psychological Trauma and Cultural Trauma, 37), in the sense that they are the result of complex social processes.
Assuming the perspective of cultural trauma studies in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament scholarship involves understanding how texts and traditions that eventually formed the HB/OT both represented and shaped ancient Israel’s collective identity as profoundly disrupted and in need of recreation. The HB/OT frequently refers to collective experiences of disasters and crises. We accept papers that investigate the interrelationship between biblical representations of collective suffering and the creation of collective identity in ancient Israel and early Judaism in light of cultural trauma theory. Authors will explore biblical texts such as collective laments, curses, narratives, etc. not only as texts representing and voicing the community’s experience of catastrophic events, but also as tools to shape cultural trauma in ancient Israel and early Judaism. Authors are also encouraged to explore relevant texts as “equipment for living” (see Kenneth Burke, Literature as Equipment for Living, 593-598) for the addressed community, namely as the literary and religious heritage through which the carrier groups of biblical texts attempted to build social resilience by coping with and giving meaning to collective suffering. Among others, topics or areas of focus might include:
Authors publishing their articles in the topical issue will benefit from:– Transparent, comprehensive, and efficient peer review.
– Free language assistance for authors from non-English speaking regions. Because Open Theology is published in Open Access, as a rule, publication costs should be covered by so called Article Publishing Charges (APC), paid by authors, their affiliated institutions, funders or sponsors. Authors without access to publishing funds are encouraged to discuss potential discounts or waivers with Managing Editor of the journal Katarzyna Tempczyk (katarzyna.tempczyk@degruyter.com) before submitting their manuscripts.
HOW TO SUBMIT – Submissions will be collected by March 31, 2022, via the on-line submission system at http://www.editorialmanager.com/openth/
Choose as article type: Cultural Trauma and the Hebrew Bible
Before submission the authors should carefully read over the Instruction for Authors, available at:
https://www.degruyter.com/publication/journal_key/OPTH/downloadAsset/OPTH_Instruction%20for%20Authors.pdf
All contributions will undergo critical peer-review before being accepted for publication.
Further questions about this thematic issue can be addressed to Danilo Verde at danilo.verde@kuleuven.be. In case of technical or financial questions, please contact Managing Editor of the journal Katarzyna Tempczyk at katarzyna.tempczyk@degruyter.com
(This announcement is a second call)
“Open Theology” (https://www.degruyter.com/opth) invites submissions for the topical issue “After the Theological Turn: Essays in (New) Continental Philosophical Theology”, edited by Martin Koci (University of Vienna).
DESCRIPTION
This topical issue aims to explore, interrogate and reflect on the ways in which contemporary continental philosophy, and phenomenology in particular, unfolds and advances the development of philosophical theology. What does it mean to practice theology after the philosophical return to religion? During the last few decades, the renewal of theology has been much discussed in light of philosophical lectures that have revisited fundamental Christian concepts. However, the debate seems to be stuck on rather formal questions about whether the theological turn happened or not, whether it has been a legitimate or illegitimate development, and whether theology and philosophy can benefit at all from reconsidering their disciplinary borders. Moreover, from the theological perspective, crucial issues continue to be unresolved: What should the proper propaedeutic framework for theological work be in a secular context? How to formulate theologically valid as well as contextually plausible truth-claims? What kind of grammar should be employed in theology to create not only rational but also credible discourse? The working hypothesis behind this thematic issue is that philosophical—in particular phenomenological—engagement with theological concepts transforms the fundamental theological practice, revisits its rigor, and provides the possibility of developing an intelligible grammar for articulating normative theological claims.
We invite scholars in theology and continental philosophy of religion to address the following questions: Is phenomenology a suitable ancilla theologiae to provide theologians with sufficient philosophical grammar? Is it possible to develop, after the demise of metaphysics, a phenomenological theology? How does theology look after Marion, Henry, Chrétien, Lacoste, Falque et al.? Does theology benefit from philosophical reconsiderations of fundamental Christian concepts such as Revelation, the Incarnation, the Resurrection, etc.? The nerve and, at the same time, novelty of raising the question about after the theological turn is a critical application of explicit theological perspectives to thus test both the potential of and limits to philosophical reconsiderations of the theological for formulating plausible as well as credible theology.
Authors publishing their articles in the topical issue will benefit from:
– transparent, comprehensive and fast peer review,
– free language assistance for authors from non-English speaking regions.
Because “Open Theology” is published under an Open Access model, as a rule, publication costs should be covered by Article Publishing Charges (APC), paid by authors, their affiliated institutions, funders or sponsors.
Authors without access to publishing funds are encouraged to discuss potential discounts or waivers with Managing Editor of the journal Katarzyna Tempczyk (katarzyna.tempczyk@degruyter.com) before submitting their manuscripts.
HOW TO SUBMIT
Submissions will be collected until April 15, 2022, via the on-line submission system at http://www.editorialmanager.com/openth/.
* Choose as article type: “After the Theological Turn”
* Before submission the authors should carefully read over the Instruction for Authors, available at: https://www.degruyter.com/publication/journal_key/OPTH/downloadAsset/OPTH_Instruction%20for%20Authors.pdf
* All contributions will undergo critical peer-review before being accepted for publication.
Further questions about this thematic issue can be addressed to Martin Koci at martin.koci@univie.ac.at. In case of technical or financial questions, please contact journal Managing Editor Katarzyna Tempczyk at katarzyna.tempczyk@degruyter.com.
From the 27th till the 29th of January 2022 the Winter Seminar on Progress in Theology will take place. The program schedule is now online!
We are looking forward to a great discussion on the status of the discipline of theology. Among the speakers are Katherin Rogers, Kevin Schilbrack, Benedikt Göcke and Jennifer Frey. Join the seminar to discuss the theological epistemology, the influence of secularization on the discipline of theology, the intellectual tasks of theology, and many more interesting topics.
Description
Whereas many contemporary universities originated from theological programs, over the past centuries the status of theology as a proper academic discipline has become heavily contested. Among the many allegations levelled against theology is the idea that there is no progress in theology. The aim of this Winter Seminar is to investigate under which conditions, if any, theology can still function as an intellectually respectable player in the field of public academic studies. In particular, it zooms in on the notion of progress in theology. Is there any such progress? If not, is that a problem? If so, what shape does such progress take and are there ways in which theology might make more progress?
More information and registration
The seminar is organized by the Abraham Kuyper Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, as a part of the research project on Epistemic Progress in the University.
The seminar takes place online and on location at the Pakhuis de Zwijger, Amsterdam.
Online attendance is free. Click here to register through Eventbrite.
More information can be found on the website of the Abraham Kuyper Center.
A call for papers has been issued by Open Theology for a topical issue on “Death and Religion”
This is a (second call). Submissions will be collected until April 30, 2022
“Open Theology” (https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/OPTH/html) invites submissions for the topical issue “Death and Religion”, edited by Khyati Tripathi, Jennifer Moran Stritch and Peter G.A.Versteeg.
Death and religion share an interdependent relation. Where death is an event or state that threatens to disintegrate worlds and meaning, religion can be seen as a practice that categorizes, consoles and makes sense of this kind of disintegration. According to Oxford dictionary, death is defined as “end of life”, but behind this simple definition, there is a web of complex ideas that could be understood from not just biological but also religious or cultural perspectives. Death has been conceptualized differently in different religious traditions as their texts and practices demonstrate. According to Lifton, religion is ‘life power’ and dominates death. Similarly, Davies put forth rituals as culture’s ‘words against death’.
The relationship between death and religion should be seen as a broad scholarly query, which includes philosophical and theological questions, as well as more applied perspectives such as social work. Although death is a clinical process of organs that cease to function, dying and death are events that are surrounded by various sense-making practices, ranging from intricate traditional ceremonies as part of established religious repertoires, to more personal, individualized rituals. Social-cultural context, therefore, is of utmost importance to understand how we interact with dying persons and dead bodies, and why we do it in that particular way.
In theology we see how faith traditions historically account for the reality of death, reflecting upon its existential meaning and thus trying to understand how to deal with the event of death. As such, a theology of death raises both practical (e.g. in spiritual care) and systematical (e.g. in ethics) questions regarding death and dying.
In psychology death anxiety or fear of death invited a great deal of interest starting in the late 1950s with Fiefel’s work on death anxiety and religion. Different studies pointed at different relationships between death anxiety and religiousness; some studies found a positive relationship between the two while others found an inverse relationship. Some research argued for a curvilinear relationship between death anxiety and religiousness, explaining that moderately religious participants have more death anxiety than those who are extremely religious or not religious at all. The relationship between religion and death anxiety has been an inconclusive one because of the multidimensional nature of both religion and death anxiety. There is, however, a lack of scholarship on death anxiety and religion in non-western cultures.
In cultural anthropology, death studies have developed into a substantial research niche. There has been ample attention for practices pertaining to e.g. the process of dying, death as transition, as well as to the interaction with the dead body. Important here, too, is the global perspective on death, also in the sense of engaging with ontologies of life and death outside of the established scientific-medical spectrum.
This special issue encourages scholars from different disciplines, not just restricted to the ones we mentioned, to contribute to this debate. Of special interest are situations in which religion becomes overbearing and a burden to carry forward in times of death, or if religious practices are obstructed, for example, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. How do these crisis situations affect the relationship between religion and death? This special issue aims at invoking curiosity, enquiry and interest in looking at the different facets of this topic.
The special issue on ‘Death and Religion’ invites empirical (qualitative and quantitative), review/conceptual and analytical papers focusing on the different facets of this relationship from scholars in different disciplines such as: Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Theology, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Thanatology, Health Humanities, Social Care and Social Work. Among others, topics or areas of focus might include:
Authors publishing their articles in the topical issue will benefit from:
– transparent, comprehensive and efficient peer review,
– free language assistance for authors from non-English speaking regions.
Because “Open Theology” is published in Open Access, as a rule, publication costs should be covered by so called Article Publishing Charges (APC), paid by authors, their affiliated institutions, funders or sponsors.
Authors without access to publishing funds are encouraged to discuss potential discounts or waivers with Managing Editor of the journal Katarzyna Tempczyk (katarzyna.tempczyk@degruyter.com) before submitting their manuscripts.
HOW TO SUBMIT
Submissions will be collected until April 30, 2022, via the on-line submission system at http://www.editorialmanager.com/openth/
Choose as article type: “Death and Religion”
Before submission the authors should carefully read over the Instruction for Authors, available at: https://www.degruyter.com/publication/journal_key/OPTH/downloadAsset/OPTH_Instruction%20for%20Authors.pdf
All contributions will undergo critical peer-review before being accepted for publication.
Further questions about this thematic issue can be addressed to Khyati Tripathi at khyatitripathi27@gmail.com. In case of technical or financial questions, please contact journal Managing Editor Katarzyna Tempczyk at katarzyna.tempczyk@degruyter.com