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Conferences
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April 16-19, 1998
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CSWR Newsletter Article about the Conference
Opening Sessions and Plenary Addresses
Lawrence Sullivan, Director, CSWR
Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, Conference Coordinators
Dieter Hessel, Rosemary Radford Ruether, and Richard Clugston, Conference Convenors
Welcoming remarks
Steven Rockefeller, Middlebury College
Plenary Address - Ethical Principles Underlying the Earth Charter - ABSTRACT
Respondents - Larry Rasmussen, Union Theological Seminary, and Jonathan Tucker, Park School
Plenary Addresses: Cosmology and Creation
Chair - Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University
Thomas Berry, Fordham University
The Cosmological Dimensions of Christianity - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Tu Weiming, Harvard University
Elizabeth Johnson, Fordham University
Losing and Finding Creation in the Christian Tradition - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Gordon Kaufman, Harvard University
Relation between Nature and Ethics
Michael McElroy, Harvard University
Opening comments
Chair - Dieter Hessel, Theological Education to Meet the Environmental Challenge
James Nash, Churches Center for Theology & Public Policy
Seeking Moral Norms in Nature - ABSTRACT
Respondents - Cristina Traina, Northwestern University, and Douglas Sturm, Bucknell University
Concurrent Sessions:
The Spirit in an Ecological Context
Chair - Nancy Wright, co-author, Ecological Healing: A Christian Vision
Mark Wallace, Swarthmore College
Recovering the Spirit in an Age of Radical Ecology - ABSTRACT
Respondents -Eleanor Rae, The Center for Women, the Earth, and the Divine, and John Chryssavgis, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
Responses to Population and Consumption Growth
Chair - Harvey Cox, Harvard University
Daniel Maguire, Marquette University
Population-Consumption-Ecology: The Triple Problematic - ABSTRACT
Respondents - Susan Power Bratton, Whitworth College, and James Martin-Schramm, Luther College
Broadening the Scope of Ethics
Chair - Loyal Rue, Luther College
Daniel Cowdin, The Catholic University of America
The Moral Status of Otherkind and Christian Ethics - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Chai-sik Chung, Boston University
Calvin DeWitt, University of Wisconsin
Behemoth and Batrachians in the Eye of God: Responsibility Toward Otherkind in Biblical Perspective - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Paul Waldau, Oxford University
Ecology, Ecumenism, and Interreligions Dialogue
Chair - John Carman, Harvard University
Paul Knitter, Xavier University
Deep Ecumenicity vs. Incommensurability: Finding Common Ground on a Common Earth - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Lennard Swidler, Temple University
Peter Lee, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Hong Kong Vancouver School of Theology
A Christian-Chinese View of Goodness, Beauty, and Holiness - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Heup Young Kim, Kang Nam University, Korea
Chair - Lisa Sowle Cahill, Boston College
Rosemary Radford Ruether, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Ecofeminism: The Challenge to Theology - ABSTRACT
Respondents - Heather Eaton, St. Paul University, and Carol Wayne White, Bucknell University
Chair - Wesley Wildman, Boston University
Sallie McFague, Vanderbilt University
Ecological Christology: Does Christianity Have It? - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Kwok Pui-Lan, Episcopal Divinity School
Concurrent Sessions:
Chair - Vittorio Falsina, former Weaver Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation
Theodore Hiebert, McCormick Theological Seminary
The Human Vocation: Origins and Transformations in Christian Traditions - ABSTRACT
Respondents - Michael Northcott, University of Edinburgh, and Stephen Scharper, St. Paul University
Christian Influences in Nature Writing
Chair - John Grim, Bucknell University
Douglas Burton-Christie, Loyola Marymount University
The Word Incarnate: A Christian Theopoetics of the Natural World - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Lawrence Buell, Harvard University
Human Intervention in Natural Processes
Chair - Janet Nelson, Bucknell University
Roger Shinn, Union Theological Seminary, Emeritus
The Mystery of the Self and the Enigma of Nature - ABSTRACT
Respondents - Audrey Chapman, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Ian Barbour, Carleton College, Emeritus
Public Policies for Sustainability
Chair - Scott Paradise, Episcopal Divinity School
Timothy Weiskel, Harvard University
Doing Theology on a Small Planet - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Richard Clugston, Center for Respect of Life and Environment
William French, Loyola University of Chicago
A Christian Ethics of Restraint for Public Policy - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Preston Williams, Harvard University
Chair - Jamie Hoyte, Harvard University
Vernice Miller, Environmental Justice Initiative, National Resources Defense Council
The Environmental Justice Movement and the Church
Respondents - Joan Martin, The Episcopal Divinity School, and Jaycee Hanson, United Methodist Church
Chair - Kimberley Patton, Harvard University
Catherine Keller, Drew University
No More Sea: On the Lost Chaos of the Eschaton - ABSTRACT
Respondents - Mary Ann Hinsdale, Holy Cross College
Barbara Rossing, Lutheran School of Theology
Chair - William Moomaw, Tufts University
David Hallman, World Council of Churches
Climate Change: Ethics, Justice, and Sustainable Community - ABSTRACT
Respondent - William Somplatsky-Jarman, Presbyterian Environmental Justice Program
Chair - Brennan Hill, Xavier University
Louke van Wensveen, Loyola Marymount University
Christian Ecological Virtue Ethics: Transforming a Tradition - ABSTRACT
Respondents - Steven Bouma-Prediger, Hope College, and Christine Firer Hinze, Marquette University
Chair - John Berthrong, Boston University
John Cobb, Claremont School of Theology, Emeritus
Ecology and Economics: Reflections from Christian Theology - ABSTRACT
Respondents - Dean Freudenberger, Luther Seminary Northwest, Emeritus, and Neva Goodwin, Tufts University
Chair - Larry Shinn, Berea College
Marthinus Daneel, Zimbabwean Institute of Religious Research
Church and Eco-justice at the African Grass Roots - ABSTRACT
Respondent - Martin Robra, World Council of Churches
Panel on Praxis of the Churches
Chair - Mary Evelyn Tucker, Bucknell University
Walter Grazer, U. S. Catholic Bishops Conference
Stan LeQuire, Evangelical Environmental Network
Patricia Mische, Global Education Associates
William Somplatsky-Jarman, Presbyterian Environmental Justice Program
