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Commemorating the 300th Birthday of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758)
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Session Times and Speakers Subject to Change
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2003
Capitol Hill Club, 300 First Street
5:30-6:30 p.m.: Reception
6:30 p.m.: Dinner and Opening Plenary Address
George M. Marsden, University of Notre Dame, "Jonathan Edwards in the Twenty-First Century"
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2003
Library of Congress, Mumford Room
8:30-10 a.m.: Session I
Sang Hyun Lee, Princeton Theological Seminary, "Does History Matter to God? Edwards'
Dynamic Re-conception of God's Relation to the World"
Mark A. Noll, Wheaton College, "Jonathan Edwards's Freedom of the Will
Abroad"
John E. Smith, Yale University, "Jonathan Edwards: God's Pragmatist"
10:15 a.m-12:00 p.m.: Session II
Gerald R. McDermott, Roanoke College, "Jonathan Edwards, the World
Religions, and Eighteenth-Century American Culture"
Douglas A. Sweeney, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, "'Longing for
More and More of It': The Strange Career of Jonathan Edwards's Exegetical
Exertions"
Mark Valeri, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, "Forgiveness and the Party of Humanity in Jonathan
Edwards's World"
Rachel Wheeler, Lewis & Clark College, "Lessons From Stockbridge:
Jonathan Edwards's Indian Sermons"
1:00-2:30 p.m.: Session III
Ava Chamberlain, Wright State University, "A Humbled Virgin: The Politics
of Sex in Northampton"
John Saillant, Western Michigan University, "African-American Engagements
with Edwards in the Era of the Slave Trade"
Stephen J. Stein, Indiana University, "Jonathan Edwards and the Cultures
of Biblical Violence"
2:30-4:00 p.m.: Session IV
Robert E. Brown, Princeton University, "The Sacred and the Profane
Connected: Edwards, the Bible, and Intellectual Culture"
Philip F. Gura, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "Lost and
Found: Recovering Edwards for American Literature"
Amy Plantinga Pauw, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, "The
Immanence of God: Edwardsean Legacies in America"
4:15-5:15 p.m.: Concluding Plenary
Richard R. Niebuhr, Harvard Divinity School, "Jonathan Edwards's World of
Signs"
Complimentary continental breakfast and buffet lunch will be provided.
Conference funding generously provided by the Pew Charitable Trusts,
Lilly Endowment, Inc., the Henry Luce Foundation, and Yale University.
Photo (above) of the Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress courtesy of the Library of Congress.