Dear Friends,
AAR is coming closer. Here is the list of our AAR sessions for this year:
1) Theologies of Ecclesial Dialogue, Discernment, and Consensus-Building
A19-114, Saturday, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Hyatt Regency-Mineral B (Third Level)
Elsa Marty, University of Chicago, “Contextual Theology and Ecclesial Dialogue: Local Identities and Mutual Transformation among Adivasi Lutherans in Jharkhand, India”
Tamara Grdzelidze, Ilia State University, Georgia, “Masters of Border-Making and Misreading Boundaries: Contemporary Orthodox Ecclesiology”
Jakob Rinderknecht, University of the Incarnate Word, “Reconceiving the Quest for Unity: Ecumenism Today”
Josiah Baker, Fuller Theological Seminary, “The Function of Charisms in Pentecostal Theologies of Ecumenical Dialogue”
2) “Nothing genuinely human fails to raise an echo in their hearts”: women, men and a church for the world in Joseph Cardijn’s theological vision
In collaboration with the Vatican II Studies Unit
A21-217, Monday, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Convention Center-Mile High 4D (Lower Level)
Panelists
Alana Harris, King’s College London
Katharine Massam, University of Divinity, Melbourne
Stefan Gigacz, University of Divinity, Melbourne
Charles Mercier, University of Bordeaux
Responding
Ana Maria Bidegain, Florida International University
Alana Harris, King’s College London
Katharine Massam, University of Divinity, Melbourne
Stefan Gigacz, University of Divinity, Melbourne
Charles Mercier, University of Bordeaux
Responding
Ana Maria Bidegain, Florida International University
3) Catastrophe in the Life of the Church
Tuesday, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Hyatt Regency-Silver A (Third Level)
Hyatt Regency-Silver A (Third Level)
Christopher C. Brittain, Trinity College, Toronto, “For a Church that Looks Up Without Punching Down: Praying the Disaster in a Time of Climate Emergency”
Shannon Quigley, University of Haifa, “Women’s Religious Thought in Post-Shoah Jewish-Christian Dialogue”
Emma McDonald, Boston College, “Ecclesial Belonging and Moral Formation: A Qualitative Study of Catholic Women Coping with Infertility”
Jason Steidl, Saint Joseph’s University, New York, “Making Sense of Social and Ecclesial Catastrophe: DignityUSA, the HIV/AIDS Crisis, and Becoming Church outside the Church”
Business Meeting
In addition to a small on-site business meeting following the “Catastrophe in the Life of the Church” panel, we will be having a post-meeting zoom business meeting on Wednesday, November 30, at 4:00 pm EST at https://marymountuniversity.zoom.us/j/95482876691 .
Please join us with your ideas for our call for papers for 2023 annual meeting, both for panels related to the convention theme “La Labor de Nuestras Manos” as well as other possible topics in ecclesiology.
