Program

(updated July 4, 2023)

Tuesday,  July 4th
9.00 Registration opens
11.00 Welcome and Keynote 1 by Andreas J. Beck: ‘Jonathan Edwards on Rationality, Moral Necessity, and the Sense of the Heart’ (chapel)
12.00 Break (Book Table Sale – LCCS 0103)
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Parallel Sessions 1 (LCCS 0101 & 0102) > Go to paper presenters and abstracts
14.30 Break
15.00 Keynote 2 by Wim van Vlastuin: Retrieving Edwards’ doctrine of the indwelling Spirit in postmodern context (chapel)
16.00 Reception & Group Photo (terrace)
17.00 Break
18.00 Dinner
 
Wednesday, July 5th
9.00 Morning Devotions (chapel)
9.30 Keynote 3 by Amy Pauw: “No Form nor Comeliness”: Lutheran Moments in Jonathan Edwards’s Aesthetics (chapel)
10.30 Break
11.00 Parallel Sessions 2 (LCCS 0101 & 0102) > Go to paper presenters and abstracts
12.00 Break (Book Table Sale – LCCS 0103)
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Keynote 4 by Lisanne Winslow: Jonathan Edwards’ Ecospirituality Offers a Contemporary Entrance into the Communication of God’s Divine Love through Nature (chapel)
14.30 Break
15.00 Parallel Sessions 3 (LCCS 0101 & 0102) > Go to paper presenters and abstracts
16.00 Break
16.30 Keynote 5 by Michael McClymond: “What I Felt Within, I Could Not Express to God”: Jonathan Edwards, the Ineffable, and the Limits of Theological Language (chapel)
17.30 Travel to Leuven
18.00 Congress Banquet (off campus)
 
Thursday, July 6th
9.00 Morning Devotions (chapel)
9.30 Keynote 6 by Doug Sweeney and Jan Stievermann: “Ways of Recovering Edwards for Today: Lessons from Editing the Oxford Handbook of Jonathan Edwards.” (chapel)
10.30 Break
11.00 Parallel Sessions 4 (LCCS 0101 & 0102) > Go to paper presenters and abstracts
12.00 Break (Book Table Sale – LCCS 0103)
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Parallel Sessions 5 (LCCS 0101 & 0102) > Go to paper presenters and abstracts
14.30 Break
15.00 Keynote 7 by Philip Fisk: ‘Edwards and the Art of Beautiful Thinking: Methodological Repercussions’ (chapel)
16.00 Break
16.30 Closing Panel Discussion and Farewell Remarks (LCCS 0101)
17.30 End of Conference
Dinner is not provided but you can enjoy dinner in Leuven, the choices are plentiful.