2019 SSCE Conference

Christian Ethics: Teaching and Formation

London School of Theology
5-7 September 2019

 

Keynote Speakers

  • Prof Darlene Fozard Weaver, Professor of Theology, Duquesne University: 'Christian Formation and Moral Pluralism: Challenges and Opportunities' 
     
  • Prof John de Gruchy, Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch: 'On Knowing Whether "To Seize the Wheel": Christian Formation and the Ethics of Necessity'
     
  • Prof Morwenna Ludlow, Professor of Christian History and Theology, University of Exeter: 'Christian Discourse and Formation: Making and Being Made'
     
  • Prof Ian McFarland, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Theology, Candler School of Theology at Emory University: 'Being Perfect: A Lutheran Perspective on Ethical Formation'
     

And a roundtable discussion on the conference theme, chaired by Prof Brian Brock (University of Aberdeen), featuring:

  • Rt Hon & Rt Rev Dame Sarah Mullally DBE, Bishop of London
  • Prof Jana Bennett, Professor of Moral Theology, University of Dayton
  • Prof Jennifer Beste, Koch Chair for Catholic Thought and Culture, St John's University
  • Dr Anna Abram, Principal, The Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology
  • Dr Guido de Graaff, Director of Studies and Tutor for Christian Doctrine and Ethics, St Augustine's College of Theology

Short Paper Presentations

  • Elizabeth Sweeny Block, 'Doing and Teaching Christian Ethics: Forming Consciences, Expanding Worldviews, Igniting Moral Imaginations'
  • Robert W. Heimburger, 'Does Colombia need forgiveness to achieve peace? Colombian conflict survivors' Christian vision of forgiveness in dialogue with Martha Nussbaum's philosophy of forgiveness'
  • Brett McCarty and Warren Kinghorn, 'Therapy for Healthcare: Christian Ethics and the Formation of Medical Practitioners'
  • Brian Brock, 'Beyond the monologue: A Theological inquiry into pedagogical style'
  • Paul Martens, 'Reviewing Christian Ethics and Moral Theology Textbooks'
  • Nicholas Townsend, 'Reviewing Christian Ethics and Moral Theology Textbooks'
  • Jana Bennett, 'Reviewing Christian Ethics and Moral Theology Textbooks'
  • Mark J. Allman, 'Nones, iGen, and teaching Christian Ethics in the 21st Century'
  • Andrew Hayes, 'The place of disruption/deconstruction in learning and formation: questions emerging from a theological action project'
  • Jennifer Beste, 'Integrating Christian Ethics with Ignatian Spirituality'
  • Andrew Errington, 'Wisdom, practical knowledge, and Christian ethics'
  • Edward A. David, 'A Tale of Two Thomases: the theology of Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-first Century'
  • Maja Whitaker, 'The Disabled Resurrection Body and Human Flourishing: Allowing Eschatological Possibilities to Inform Ethics
  • Brandy Daniels, 'An Ethics of Unformation? Identity, Different, and Privilege: A Negative Theopolitical Proposal'
  • Jeffrey P. Bishop, 'Tekhne, Liturgy, and participation'
  • Margaret D. Kamitsuka, 'How Might One Teach Controversial Ethics Issues Ethically?'
  • Margaret B. Adam and David Clough, 'Ethics in Academy and Church: Challenging and Encouraging Churches to Align Faith and Practice'
  • Stacey Rand, 'Applying Volf's ethical framework of Work in the Spirit to unpaid care'
  • Gary P. Hall, 'Dialectical tensions and relational dynamics: exploring theological formation, ethics and autography with Thomas Merton'
  • Matthew Mason, 'Contemplation and moral formation in John Webster's moral theology'
  • Seongho Kang, 'Assimilation of Narratives and Moral Crisis'
  • Ondrej Fischer, 'From Professional to Christian Ethics?'
  • Taylor D. Holleyman, 'A Method for Christian Ethics: Reviving Emil Brunner's Moral Theology'
  • Louise Prideaux, 'Against polarization: forming a sense of "otherness" from a conversation between anthropology and neo-Calvinism'
  • Ximian Xu, 'Herman Bavinck's Doxological Account of Dogmatics and Ethics'
  • Medi Ann Volpe, 'Montessori and moral formaton: what her method has to teach us about teaching Christian ethics'
  • Rory Philips, 'Christian ethics as an ethics of Freedom: A Lutheran perspective'
  • Zachary Brigante, 'Teaching Ethics More Effectively: The Effects of Public Declaration and the Perception of Judgment'