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9:45-10:50 a.m.
SLC Conf. Rooms UI Classrooms
*Papers and Presentations - Session 1
1-1 “The Lost Sheep Parable Seen through the Lens of Spiral Dynamics” Lauri L. Boyd, Master’s Student, Unity Institute
1-2 “From Natural to Artificial Law and Back Again” Mark Chustz, Doctoral Student, Nelson Mandela School of Public Policy
1-3 “Democratizing Mystical Experience through the Use of the Twelve-Step recovery Method” Patrick Emmett, Doctoral Student, U of CA-Riverside
1-4 “Recent Artists on Neo-Platonic and Christian Theological Themes” Jonathan Yegge, Doctoral Student, Catholic University of
Leuven, Belgium
11:00-12:15 a.m.
SLC Conf. Rooms UI Classrooms
*Papers and Presentations - Session 2
2-1 "Philo, Fillmore, and the Future: Is Metaphysical Interpretation Still Valid?" Mark Fuss, Certificate in Ministry Student, Unity Institute
2-2 “The Reception of C.S. Lewis in America” Stephanie Derrick, Master of Church History Student, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
2-3 “The Sartorially Challenged Wedding Guest: Matthew 22:10- 14 in the Light of Jewish Thought” Rabbi Zev-Hayyim Feyer, Doctoral Student, Claremont University School of Religion
2-4 “Worldly Christian Spirituality and Politics: The Relationship between Bonhoeffer’s Later-Phase Understanding of the Church-World Relationship and His Forms of Political Involvement” David M. Gides, PhD
*Papers and Presentations - Session 3 3-1 Ethics and Contemporary Religion
“Behind Good and Evil: Toward Ethics without Morality” Rev. Scott W. Gustafson
“Network Theology: Thinking about God in the Age of Democracy, Evolution, and Global Capitalism” PhD Adam S. Miller, PhD
“Certainty Versus Uncertainty: Postmodernism and the Emerging Church” Shawn David Young, Doctoral Student, Michigan State University
3-2 Healing in History, Geopolitics, and Individual Experience
“Healing in the Middle Ages: A Radical Challenge to Literary Science” Michael P, McGlynn
“Religion, War and Healing: Faith to Survive War and Heal Emotional Wounds” PhD Mlen-Too Wesley Proffesor Penn State University
“Ernest Holmes and Religious Science: The Healing Trinity of Prayer, Treatment, and Meditation” , , PhD Pamela L. Bozeman, Master’s Religious Studies Student, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
3:15-5:15 p.m
SLC Conf. Rooms UI Classrooms. *Papers and Presentations - Session 4
4-1 Cross-Cultural Issues
“Media Bias and Religion: How Showtime’s Mini Series Sleeper Cell Frames Islam” Samuel Oduyela, M.A., Communications, Trinity University, Washington, D.C.; M.A., Religious Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
“Religion, War and Healing: Faith to Survive War and Heal Emotional Wounds” Mlen-Too Wesley, PhD
SLC Conf. Rooms UI Classrooms 4-2 Constructive Theology: Re-Thinking Christianity for the Twenty-First Century
“Theobionome: An Alternative Approach to the Death of Jesus” “Reimagining Incarnation” Marcus Croom, Master’s Student, Shaw University Divinity School
“Why Every Christian Should ‘Quite Rightly Pass for an Atheist’” Aileen M. Fitzke, M.A. Jon Stanley, Doctoral Student, University for Christian Studies, Toronto, Canada
11-12:15 SLC Conf. Rooms UI Classrooms
*Papers and Presentations – Session 6
6-1 “‘The entire universe is a sea of love’: Toward a Mystical Theology of Love in St. Teresa of Avila and St. John of the Cross” Cristobal Serran-Pagan Y Fuentes
6-2 “Separate but Equal: The New Paradigm for Evangelical Complementarians” PhD Courtney VanLacy, Master of Religious Studies Student, University of Missouri–Columbia
6-3 “Unity’s Fifth Principle: Social Action or Spiritual Practice?” Kelly Isola, Master’s Student
6-4 “Plato and the Platonic Tradition’s Contribution to Spiritualism in Western Civilization” Unity Institute Jerry Dell Ehrlich, PhD
3:15-5:15 p.m.
SLC Conf. Rooms UI Classrooms *Papers and Presentations - Session 7
7-1 “The Church of the Future” Panel Discussion: Unity Institute Student Presenters and Visiting Students from other Academic Institutions
Moderator: Robert Fish, PhD., Faculty, Unity Institute
7-2 New Voices of Feminism
“Pluralists, Feminists, Panentheists: The Cosmological Shift to Panentheism for Theologies of Unity” Aimee Upjohn Light, PhD
“Christian Feminism without Racism and Anti-Semitism?: The Challenge of Creating a Liberating Christianity” Karen Seat, PhD
“Who Do I Say That I Am?” (Feminist Trinitarian Theology) Elizabeth A. Lee, Doctoral Student-Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California
1-2:15 pm
SLC Conf. Rooms UI Classrooms *Papers and Presentations - Session 9.
9-1 “Mysteries of the Bible: Clues in the Papers of Charles Fillmore” Eric E. Page, Archivist/Master’sStudent, Unity Institute
9-2 “Rock in the Road: Fall-Redemption Theology & Human Creative Potential” Connie Munro, Student, Licensed Unity Teacher
9-3 "Transfiguring Desire: Hearts of Flesh & the Breath of God" Deborah Rasa, M.A.
9-4 “How Will Today’s Church Fill the Pews Tomorrow?” Edwin Dee King, Unity of Nashville, TN