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Open Theology & Science Seminar


If you have any questions about the schedule, or would like to attend any of the the lectures or paper sessions, contact Dan Messier at 617-847-5929 or daniel.a.messier@gmail.com

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Azusa Pacific University locations listed in blue. For maps and directions to APU, click here.

Thursday, April 10th
6:00 p.m. Registration - Upper Turner Campus Center

7:00 p.m. Francis Collins Keynote Lecture and Q&A - Upper Turner Campus Center


Friday, April 11th
8:30 a.m. Devotional with T. Scott Daniels - Darling 411

9:15 a.m. Paper Session 1
Clark Pinnock: "Theology After Darwin" - Duke 106
David Basinger: "Religious Belief Formation: A Kantian Perspective Informed by Science" - Duke 120

10:15 a.m. Break

10:30 a.m. Paper Session 2
Anna Case-Winters: "Rethinking Divine Presence and Activity in World Process" - Duke 106
Robin Collins: "Prayer and Open Theism: A Participatory, Co-Creator Model" - Duke 120

11:30 a.m. Lunch

After lunch please note that paper presentations will be held on Azusa Pacific University's East Campus.
1:00 p.m. Paper Session 3
Craig A. Boyd: "The Goodness of Creation and the Openness of God" - Ronald 109
John Culp: "Laws of Nature and Exceptions: Novelty and Order in Science and Theology" - Ronald 113

2:00 p.m. Break

2:15 p.m. Paper Session 4
William Hasker: "We Need a Bigger God" - Ronald 109
Richard Rice: "Forgiveness: The Final Form of Love" - Ronald 113

3:15 p.m. Break

3:30 p.m. Paper Session 5
Michael Lodahl: "The (Brief) Openness Debate in Islamic Theology -- And Do Christology and Pneumatology  Make Any Difference?" - Wilden 227
Alan Padgett: "Does Heisenberg Uncertainty Apply to God? A Faithful Model of Divine Foreknowledge" - Wilden 229

7:00 p.m. Greg Boyd Keynote Lecture: "A Flexible Sovereignty: A Biblical Understanding of Providence and the Nature of the
Future" - Wilden Lecture Hall


Saturday, April 12th
8:30 a.m. Paper Session 6
John Sanders: "Theological Muscle-Flexing: How Embodiment Shapes Our Discourse About God" - MMED 1
Alan Rhoda: "The Fourfold Openness of the Future" - MMED 2

9:30 a.m. Break

9:45 a.m. Paper Session 7
Karen Winslow: "The Earth is Not a Planet: Implications for Theology and Science" - MMED 1
Brint Montgomery: "Reality and the Primary Mind: Contemplating the Mind of God" - MMED 2

10:45 a.m. Break

11:00 a.m. Paper Session 8
David Woodruff: "Relational Time and Problems for Presentism" - MMED 1
Greg Boyd: "Satan and the Corruption of Creation: A Biblical Understanding of 'Natural' Evil" - MMED 2

12:00 p.m. Lunch

1:30 p.m. Paper Session 9
Dean Blevins: "Emergence as Transformation: Exploring Personal Religious Experience as Promise in Open and Relational Theology" - MMED 1
Jeffrey Koperski: "Metatheoretic Shaping Principles, Theism, and Openness" - MMED 2

2:30 p.m. Break

2:45 p.m. Paper Session 10
Dean Zimmerman: "Simple Foreknowledge, Open Theism, and Providential Control" - MMED 1
Thomas Jay Oord: "Creatio ex Nihilo, a Loving Creator, and the Problem of Evil" - MMED 2

3:15 p.m. Break

4:00 p.m. Panel: "Answering the Critics" - Wilden Lecture Hall

5:30 p.m. Conference Concludes

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