We wish all of you traveling to the AAR 2014 Annual Meeting a pleasant journey. This year, the Ecclesiological Investigations Unit will host three sessions, and we wanted to highlight them for you:
A23-118: Violence, Non-Violence and Peacemaking Churches
Saturday, 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 400A (Fourth Level)
Britta Meiers Carlson, Boston University, Presiding
This session explores the idea of violence and nonviolence in relation to borders, global migration and Christianity. Borders are spaces of death and life. Established identities are stretched, at times inciting conflict and at other times transformation. New identities emerge. The papers in this session will cross the issues of migration and Catholic Social Teaching, as well as indigenous peoples and ecclesial membership.
Jeremy M. Bergen, University of Waterloo
Anabaptist Martyrs and the Ambivalence of Mennonite (Non-)Violence
Rebekah Mui, Virginia Tech
Fellowship of His Suffering: An Anabaptist Exploration of Cruciform Ecclesiology in Light of Gendered and Sexual Violence
Russell Johnson, University of Chicago
Power in Dialogue: Mennonite Decision-Making and the Virtues of Dissent
John D. Dadosky, University of Toronto
The Significance of Early Quakerism for Contemporary Ecclesiology
A24-210: 500 Years of Christianity and the Global Filipin@: Postcolonial Perspectives Book Panel
Sunday, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 400A (Fourth Level)
Cristina Lledo Gomez, BBI Australian Institute for Theological Education, Presiding
This session features the co-edited volume by Cristina Lledo Gomez, Agnes Brazal and Ma. Marilou Ibita , “500 Years of Christianity in the Philippines and the Global Filipino/a: Postcolonial Perspectives” published in February, 2024. Panelists will discuss issues around indigeneity, being Filipino/a, and Christian colonialism.
S. Lily Mendoza, Oakland University
Back from the Crocodile’s Belly: Christian Formation Meets Indigenous Resurrection Redux
Antonio D. Sison, Catholic Theological Union
Indigenous Inculturation: A Hermeneutics of Serendipity
James W. Perkinson, Ecumenical Theological Seminary
Re-Baptizing Spirit in Land and Ancestry: An Approach for Un-Doing Christian Colonialism
Jamina Vesta Jugo, Ateneo de Manila
Inang Diyos Inang Bayan The Virgin Mary and Filipino Identity
A24-311: Borders, Migration, Violence and Christianity
Sunday, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
Jason Welle, Boston College, Presiding
This session explores the idea of violence and nonviolence in relation to borders and global migration. Borders are spaces of death and life. Established identities are stretched, at times inciting conflict and at other times transformation. New identities emerge. The papers in this session will cross the issues of migration and Catholic Social Teaching, as well as indigenous peoples and ecclesial membership.
Brett O’Neill, Boston College
Borders, Immigration, and the Prism of Private Property in Catholic Social Teaching
Elaine Padilla, University of La Verne
Rose Blooms in Desert Lands: A College’s Story on Brethren Westward-Movements into the San Gabriel Valley
Business Meeting
Cristina Lledo Gomez, BBI Australian Institute for Theological Education, Presiding
Dennis Doyle, University of Dayton, Presiding