Friends,

We have three potentially stimulating sessions at the AAR meeting this November 18-21, in Washington D.C. Here are the sessions and the paper presenters....

1. What God Does, Might, or Cannot Know about the Future
(Official Open and Relational Theologies Session)

Chair: Thomas Jay Oord (Northwest Nazarene University)

The Hope of God vs the Knowledge of God, Karen Winslow (Azusa Pacific University)

Surprising God: Prayer, Partnership, and the Divine Adventure, Bruce Epperly (Lancaster Theological Seminary)

An Adventurous Sovereignty: Risk Taking and the Infinite Intelligence of God, Gregory Boyd (Woodland Hills Church)

I Know Who Holds the Future, But Not the Future, John Culp (Azusa Pacific University)

Response: Terrence Fretheim (Luther Seminary)

2. Intelligent Design: Theological Considerations
(Open and Relational Theologies sponsored Hot Topics Session)

Chair: Thomas Jay Oord (Northwest Nazarene University)

Intelligent Design & Theology: What Place for the Creator? Taede Smedes (Leiden University)

The Theological Stakes of Intelligent Design, Anna Case-Winters (McCormick Theological Seminary)

Implications of Intelligent Design Theory for Cosmos as Creature and God as Creator, Brian Madison (Duke University)

The Theological Failure of ?Intelligent Design? and a Whiteheadian Alternative, Palmyre Oomen (Radboud University Nijmegen / Heyendaal Institute)

Response: Jim Miller (American Academy for the Advancement of Science)

3. Are Openness and Relational Theologies Biblical?
(Joint Session with AAR Open and Relational Theologies group and the SBL group, Latter Day Saints and the Bible)

Chair: Lynne Faber Lorenzen (Augsburg College) and John Welch (Brigham Young University)

Clear as Day: Metaphorical and Literal Readings of Scripture in the Open Theism Debate, John Sanders (Hendrix College)

Open Readings of Genesis: Jacob Boehme?s Mysterium Magnum and Joseph Smith?s Books of Moses, Abraham, and The Book of Mormon, James M. McLachlan (Western Carolina University)

The Human's Naming of the Creatures as the World's (and God's) Open Future: A Conflict of Interpretations among Jews, Muslims and Mormons, Michael Lodahl (Point Loma Nazarene University)

Opening the Bible: Open Canon and Openness Theology, David Paulsen (Brigham Young University)

We encourage you to join us for the discussion!

Tom