(Dec. 1-3, 2003)
Program Committee: Tom Chulak, Kendra Ford, Josh Pawelek, Bill Gardiner, Martha Niebanck, and Gail Seavey
Theme: The Postmodern Challenge to Liberal Theology
Special Presenter: Paul Rasor
Anchor: Anita Farber-Robertson
3:00pm Check in. Be on time to respect the disciplines of the group
5:15pm Happy Hour
6:00pm Dinner (Graces to assigned by Vice Moderator)
7:00pm Program: Major Paper “ Modernity and Liberal Theology”
Presponder: Tracey Sprowls (Sets the context for the presentation grounded in your own life))
Presenter: Paul Rasor
9:00pm Chapel: Frank Carpenter
Chapel is not to be related to the theme and should be uplifting in nature. It is usually 20 minutes. Provide your own music, chalice, etc.
Tuesday
7:30am Chapel Marta Flanagan
9:00-10:15 Program: Major Paper “Postmodernity and Liberal Theology”
Presponder: Gail Seavey
Presenter: Paul Rasor
10:30-11:45am Program: Major Paper “Living in the Spirit of the Age: Postmodernity and Liberal Religious Faith”
Presponder: Brian Kopke
Presenter: Paul Rasor
12:00-3:00pm- Lunch and Free Time
3:00-5:00pm - Small Groups
5:00-5:30pm - Happy Hour
5:30pm - Dinner
7:00pm - Change of Pace Nannanne Gowdy
9:30pm - Chapel Josh Pawelek
Wednesday
7:30am - Chapel Rosemarie Smurzynski
9;00am-10:00am Further Reflections on Postmodernity and it’s Challenges to Liberal Theology.
10:00am - Business Meeting
11:30am - Chapel Frank Carpenter
12:00pm- Lunch
Required Reading
David Lyon, Postmodernity (1994)
Paul Lakeland, Postmodernity: Christian Identity in a Fragmented Age (1997)
Sharon Welch, Sweets Dreams in America (first Three chapters)
Cornell West, The Cornel West Reader (pages 51-118)
Recommended Reading:
Linell Cady, ”Resisting the Postmodern Turn: Theology and Contextualization” (pages 81-98 in Theology at the End of Modernity edited by Sheila Greeve Davaney)
David Lyon, Jesus in Disneyland: Religion in Postmodern Times (2000)
Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity (1990)
Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies