Philosophy & Liturgy Conference: Calvin May 20-22
18 Apr 2008
I’m going to this conference at Calvin next month (20-22 May). The title is ‘Philosophy and Liturgy: Ritual, Practice, and Embodied Wisdom’.
Anyone reading this going? I’ve had a couple of people who are going email me after reading the piece I wrote for the Church and Postmodernity site.
Would be great to meet any of you who read this who are going, or are in the area. Would be great to find some more people to drink beer and process the event with.
The event is described as “bringing together leading scholars in philosophy and theology to investigate key themes in worship with the tools of philosophy, with the ultimate goal of informing practice. There is also the reciprocal goal of letting liturgical practice become a fund for philosophical reflection on classic questions and themes. The conference will thus stage a reciprocal encounter between philosophy and liturgy, with the goal of generating a liturgical philosophy, and a philosophically-informed liturgy.”
I’m going as a part of my PhD research, given the topic and that some of the main speakers are authors of key texts I have just been reading.
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Comment by Charlie Boyd
12.43 pm on 19 Apr 2008
Sounds like you need Meister Eckhart to go with you to this conference!Unfortunately he is unavailable and presently enjoying the unknown directly in the afterlife!
Only visiting this planet
Charlie
Comment by Adrian Roberts
12.04 am on 20 Apr 2008
Jason
I was intrigued the fact that your conference is at a place called Calvin College. Is there any significance in the name? I have tended to assume that anyone who identifies themselves as relating to the emerging church is unlikely to be a Calvinist. Or maybe the college is just a convenient place for a conference?
[And you do identify yourself with the emerging church as you say in this quote:
"I betray my second locations for this post, of being within ‘emerging church’ discussions and conversations (whether others consider me legitimately located within this context is another question)".]
If I ask if you are a Calvinist, I’m not trying to apply some kind of doctrinal test or start an argument; I would be genuninely interested to know!
Perhaps this could lead to a discussion about whether the Emerging Church has to tend in one or other of those directions. Personally, I would tend to think that, quite apart from the Free Will debate, Calvinism is too rigid doctrinally to sit well with a movement that tries to relate to Postmodern thinking. But maybe others do not see it that way?
Comment by Jason Clark
3.07 pm on 21 Apr 2008
I’m not a Calvinist, and there is some antipathy amongst some emerging church people to calvinism.
Cheers, Jase
Comment by Jason Reid
6.45 pm on 21 Apr 2008
I am a Calvinist (4.5 points anyway), and I don’t have any antipathy to the emergent church.
Ciao
Comment by Adrian Roberts
1.51 am on 22 Apr 2008
I tend towards Arminianism (but I’m not sure if I’d want to go as far as Boyd’s “open theology”). My impression was roughly what Jason Clark said, but Jason Reid’s reply is a welcome confirmation that we don’t have to fit into a stereotype.
There was an article in Christianity magazine this month, that said the Calvinist/Arminian debate looks like becoming big in evangelicalism again. All I can say is, I sincerely hope not; I had hoped the church had risen above all that; we need a return to that battlefield like we need a hole in the head.
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