ANNUAL MEETING
SSCS at the AAR Annual Meeting
November 16-20, 2012
Chicago, Illinois
AAR Annual Meeing website
Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality
Twentieth Anniversary Colloquia and Reception
Swift Hall, The University of Chicago Divinity School, 1025 East 58th Street
Friday, Nov. 16
All are welcome to all events.
2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Lecture: The Founders’ Circle Prize
To recognize the best work by younger scholars in the field of Christian Spirituality, the Society established an annual competition for the SSCS Founders’ Circle Prize. A senior scholar will give a formal response to the winner’s lecture.
3:00 p.m.
Coffee break
3:30-5:30 p.m.
Spiritus as Pedagogical Resource
Moderator: Janet Ruffing, R.S.M., Yale Divinity School
In this workshop, SSCS members will describe how they have used essays from Christian Spirituality Bulletin or Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality in the classroom.
7:30-9:30 p.m., followed by a gala reception
Spirituality at the University—Twenty Years Later
Video recording available.
Panelists:
Gilberto Cavazos-Gonzalez, O.F.M., Catholic Theological Union
Douglas Burton-Christie, Loyola Marymount University
Lisa Dahill, Trinity Lutheran Seminary
Bo Karen Lee, Princeton Theological Seminary
Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago Divinity School
Timothy Hessel-Robinson, Brite Divinity School
Sandra M. Schneiders, I.H.M., Graduate Theological Union
Philip Sheldrake, Cambridge Theological Federation
Moderator:
Ann W. Astell, University of Notre Dame
Philip Endean’s “Spirituality and the University,” first published in The Way 84 (1995): 87-99, will serve as a springboard for the panel’s discussion of current theoretical and methodological questions in the field of Christian Spirituality.
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Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality
Presidential Address and Business Meeting
Saturday, 9:00-11:30 a.m.
9:00 “From Ugly Ducking to Swan: Education as Spiritual Transformation in the Thought of Edith Stein”
The 2012 Presidential Address by Ann W. Astell, University of Notre Dame
10:30 Business Meeting
Joseph Driskill (Pacific School of Religion), President-elect, presiding
All are welcome. For more information, please visit the SSCS website or contact Anita Houck, Secretary, at ahouck@saintmarys.edu.