Academic Conference

Prophetic Voices: Confronting Theological Challenges of the Next Century

Candler Centennial Academic Conference: March 18-20, 2015

Overview

Candler brought together a dozen renowned theologians to discuss theological challenges facing the church, the world and the shape of theological education in the next century.

The three-day conference sought to be prophetic—in the sense of truth-speaking rather than future forecasting—about the pressing theological issues facing the world in the next 100 years, and the resources for engaging them.

Candler faculty delivered five major addresses, each followed by panel presentations by guest scholars. The program included times for worship and discussion among participants.

The conference was presented in collaboration with the McDonald Agape Foundation.

Watch the recordings from the Prophetic Voices Centennial Academic Conference.

Audience

The conference was open to scholars and students of theology at Emory and other institutions throughout the country. The goal was to generate ongoing conversation throughout American theological education on these conference’s themes.

Calendar of Events

Wednesday, March 18
7 pm	Keynote Address: “Meeting the Theological Challenges of the New Century” Keynote Speaker: Luke Timothy Johnson, R.W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Candler School of Theology
Thursday, March 19
9 am	Logos: Theological Imagination and Secularization
	Speaker: Ted A. Smith, Associate Professor of Preaching and Ethics, Candler School of Theology
	Moderator: Elizabeth M. Bounds, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Candler School of Theology
	Panelist: Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
	Panelist: Janet Soskice, Chair of the Faculty of Divinity at the University Cambridge and President of Jesus College, Cambridge University
11:15 am	Worship Preacher: Thomas G. Long, Bandy Professor of Preaching, Candler School of Theology Organist: James Abbington, Associate Professor of Church Music and Worship, Candler School of Theology
12 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm	Person: The Image of God in the Contemporary World
	Speaker: Ellen Ott Marshall, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics and Conflict Transformation, Candler School of Theology
	Moderator: Ian A. McFarland, Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs and Professor of Theology, Candler School of Theology
	Panelist: Steven J. Kraftchick, Professor in the Practice of New Testament Interpretation, Candler School of Theology
	Panelist: M. Shawn Copeland, Professor of Theology, Boston College
3:30 pm	Cosmos: God’s Creation and the Care of the Earth
	Speaker: Carol A. Newsom, Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament, Candler School of Theology
	Moderator: Jonathan Strom, Associate Professor of Church History, Candler School of Theology
	Panelist: Norman Wirzba, Professor of Theology and Ecology, Duke Divinity School
	Panelist: The Rev. Canon Sally G. Bingham, President and Founder Interfaith Power and Light and The Regeneration Project
6 pm	Dinner
6 pm	Student Discussions
Friday, March 20
9 am	Polity: The Kingdom of God and Global Pluralism
	Speaker: Jehu J. Hanciles, D.W. and Ruth Brooks Associate Professor of World Christianity, Candler School of Theology
	Moderator: Elizabeth Corrie, Assistant Professor in the Practice of Youth Education and Peacebuilding, Candler School of Theology
	Panelist: Dana L. Robert, Truman Collins Professor of World Christianity and the History of Mission, Boston University
	Panelist: Daniel Jeyaraj, Professor of World Christianity, Liverpool Hope University
11:15 am	Worship Preacher: Teresa Fry Brown, Professor of Homiletics, Candler School of Theology Organist: James Abbington, Associate Professor of Church Music and Worship, Candler School of Theology
12 pm	Lunch and Departure

Presented in collaboration with the McDonald Agape Foundation, which supports lectures and other public presentations that deal creatively and imaginatively with the person and teachings of Jesus as they shape and form culture.

Academic Conference

Prophetic Voices: Confronting Theological Challenges of the Next Century

Candler Centennial Academic Conference: March 18-20, 2015

Overview

Audience

Calendar of Events

By 1937, 270 bachelor of divinity degrees had been conferred. Of those alumni, one wrote the Emory alma mater, one wrote Emory's centennial history, one became dean of Oxford College, and one became president of the University of Chicago.