open and relational theologies group...
2008 Meeting
The Person, Role, and Significance of Jesus Christ
Open and Relational Theologies Consultation
Saturday, November 1, 2008 (4:00-6:30 pm)
Description: Open and relational theologies often engage questions about the person, role, and significance of Jesus the Christ. This session explores Christology from an open and relational perspective. Among the topics addressed are Jesus’s relation to God, incarnation, miracles and message, role as prophet-priest-king, ministry, and engagement with political forces. Feminist, panentheist, process, and openness resources are used as the presenters explore biblical and theological implications of Christology.
Presiding: Lynne Faber Lorenzen, Augsburg College
- Anna Case-Winters, McCormick Theological Seminary: "Reframing Incarnation: A Process-Panentheist Proposal"
- Daryll Ward, Kettering College: "Identity and Temporality: Exploring Perfection and Incarnation"
- Michael Zbaraschuk, Pacific Lutheran University: "Creative, Responsive, Loving/Jesus? Mining Process Theology for Resources for an Open and Relational Christ"
- Marit Trelstad, Pacific Lutheran University: "Atonement through Covenant: A Process Feminist Approach"
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Atonement
Open and Relational Theologies Consultation and Wesleyan Studies Group
Monday, November 3, 2008 (1:00-3:30 pm)
Description: This session features paper presentations that address issues of atonement. The papers were selected for their fresh interpretations of classic theories of atonement or innovative atonement theories arising from Wesleyan, open, or relational perspectives.
Presiding: Thomas Oord, Northwest Nazarene University, Presiding
Sarah Heaner Lancaster, Methodist Theological School, Ohio, Presiding
- Larry Shelton, George Fox University: "Relational Atonement: Covenant Renewal as a Wesleyan Integrative Motif"
- Jeanyne Slettom, Claremont School of Theology, "Reconfiguring Atonement: A Process-Relational Soteriology"
- Ted Campbell, Southern Methodist University: "'The Lamb Slain from the Foundation of the World': Some Methodist Grounds for Belief in Divine Self-Limitation"
- Gregory W. Love, San Francisco Theological Seminary: "Abyssal Compassion or Acquiescence to Violence?: Reconfiguring Abelard for a Non-Violent Theory of Atonement"
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