SSCS Governing Board Meeting
Monday 9 November 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
SSCS at the AAR 2009
Montréal, Québec Friday 6 November – Tuesday 10 November 2009
Pedagogical Engagements: The Arts and Spiritual Transformation (AAR session M6-209)
Co-sponsored by The Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality and The Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies (SARTS)
Friday 6 November 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
The creative process in the arts and the transformative process of the spiritual journey share much. This workshop will explore pedagogies of the arts and spiritual process, specifically as these engage one another. please feel free to bring your ideas for teaching and learning in the overlap between art and spirituality as well as resource suggestions you find helpful. All are welcome. For more information on SARTS, please visit WebLink
Michael O’Sullivan, Milltown Institute of Philosophy, Theology, and Spirituality, Dublin, Ireland, Presiding
Presenters:
Mark Burrows, Andover Newton Theological Seminary, Newton Centre, MA
Lisa Dahill, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, Columbus, OH
Robin Jensen, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN
Janet Walton, Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY
Filmmaking as Spiritual Practice: An Evening with Macky Alston (AAR session M6-403)
Co-sponsored by the Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies (SARTS) and the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality
Friday 6 November 7:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Macky Alston is Executive Director of Auburn Media at Auburn Seminary in New York City, an award-winning documentary filmmaker, an educator on issues of media and religion, an organizer within the worlds of philanthropy and media making, and a regular writer and reviewer on media and religion. Alston will show clips from his work and discuss the spiritual dimensions of making films. The presentation (which begins at 7:30 pm) will be preceded and followed by a reception and conversation. All are welcome.
2009 Presidential Address and Business Meeting (AAR session M7-115)
Saturday 1 November 9:00 – 11:30 a.m.
9:00 a.m. Presidential Address: Arthur Holder, Graduate Theological Union, President
The Problem with “Spiritual Classics”
10:30 a.m. Business Meeting
Steven Chase, Western Theological Seminary, President-elect, Presiding
Sessions of the Christian Spirituality Group of the AAR
(Locations will be assigned later in the summer and are subject to change; for the most up-to-date information, check the AAR Website.)
Spiritual Traditions: Dead or Alive? (AAR session A7-314)
Saturday 7 November 4:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Bernadette Flanagan, All Hallows College, Presiding
Panelists:
Douglas Burton-Christie, Loyola Marymount University
Donna Freitas, Boston University
Mark S. Burrows, Andover Newton Theological School
Hosffman Ospino, Boston College
Responding:
Philip F. Sheldrake, University of Durham
Business Meeting:
Wendy Wright, Creighton University
The Interface between Christian Spirituality and Girardian Theory (AAR session A8-215)
Co-sponsored by the Christian Spirituality Group and the Colloquium on Violence and Religion
Sunday 8 November 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Bruce H. Lescher, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, Presiding
Denise Starkey, College of St. Scholastica
Towards a Spirituality of Natality: Transforming Trauma for Survivors of Violence
John Roedel, Graduate Theological Union
An Argument in Support of the Effectiveness of Principled Nonviolence Using Girardian Mimetic Theory
Gregory W. Love, San Francisco Theological Seminary
Trauma, the Cross, and the Christian “Virtue of Self-Sacrificial Love”: Is Girard a Help, or a Problem?
Responding:
Ann W. Astell, University of Notre Dame
Practices of Christian Healing and Which S/spirit?: Christian Spirituality and Scientific and Esoteric Rhetoric (AAR session A9-216)
Monday 9 November 1:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Mary Frohlich, Catholic Theological Union, Presiding
1) Practices of Christian Healing
Sonia Waters, Princeton Theological Seminary
Desiring the Image: Contemplative Prayer with Icons and Sacred Images as a Healing Practice for Trauma Survivors
Elizabeth Gordon, Graduate Theological Union
Trouble the Water: Spirituality and Healing from Slavery to Katrina and the White House
Matthew Moser, Baylor University
Open Heavens but Greedy Graves: Kingdom Theology, the Prayer of Healing, and the Question of Bodily Suffering in the Modern Power–Evangelism Charismatic Movement
2) Which S/spirit?: Christian Spirituality and Scientific and Esoteric Rhetoric
Kevin Mongrain, University of Notre Dame
Valentin Tomberg and the Rhetoric of Spirit and Spirituality
Wolfgang Vondey, Regent University What S/spirit? The Impact of Scientific Paradigm Shifts on Christian Spirituality
PAST MEETINGS
2007 SSCS/AAR Annual Meetings --Sessions: