open and relational theologies group...

2010 MEETING

"Religious Love Redefined"
Sunday, October 31, 2010, 3:00pm

Presentors:

Namsoon Kang, "A Theology of Natality: Neighbor-Love as Passion for the Impossible Newness"
Jessica Smith, "In the Company of the Angels: Love and Alterity in the Human-Divine Relation"
Craig A. Boyd, "Classical and Open Theism: The Doctrine of Perichoresis"
Gregory Love, "The Root of Sin and the Mistrust of God: Problems With an Ambivalent, Violent God-Image" (view/download paper)

Session Respondent: Thomas Jay Oord

"Agape, Eros, and Alterity"
Monday, November 1, 2010, 4:00pm

Presentors:

Risto Saarinen, "Intimate agape?"
Andrea Hollingsworth, "Eros' Aporiae: Relationality and Impossibility in the Love Poetry of John Donne" (view/download paper)
J. Aaron Simmons and John Sanders, "Justice than which None Greater Can Be Conceived: Defending an Open Approach to Alterity and Responding to John Caputo"
Clayton Crockett and Jay McDaniel, "From an Idolatry of Identity to a Planetization of Alterity: A Relational-Theological Approach to Hybridity, Sin, and Love" (view/download paper)

Session Respondent: LeRon Shults (view/download paper)