Papers Presented at Meetings prior to 2010

 

2005 – Annual Meeting

  • Bennet B. Brabson, “Climate Change and Environmental Justice.”
  • The Rev. Canon J. Robert Wright, “The Earliest Translations of the Book of Common Prayer.”
  • Karen Evans-Romaine, “Pasternak and Music.”
  • Edward Hansen, “The Shores of the Great Lakes.”

2004 – Annual Meeting

  • Edward Henderson and David Hein. “An Overview of Captured by the Crucified: The Practical Theology of Austin Farrer.”
  • Jon Wakelyn, “The Southern Episcopal Church and Confederate Unity and Morale.”
  • Sanford Schwartz. “C. S. Lewis in Outer Space: A Tour of His Science-Fiction Trilogy.”
  • Charles Huttar, “Deep Lies the Sea-longing: Inklings of Home.”

2003 – Annual Meeting

  • Bruce Saylor, Sacred Places, the City, and a Great Hymn for the City of God
  • Lewis Overaker, The Visual Arts and Worship: A Guide to Chartres Cathedral
  • David Middleton, “Of Words and the Word: On Selecting Verse as Poetry Editor for The Anglican Theological Review.“

2002 – Annual Meeting

  • John M. Krantz, “Scientific Authority and the Nature of God’s Action in the World.”
  • Charles R. Forker, “Shakespeare’s Richard II, Authority, Unstable Identity, and the Divine Right of Kings.”
  • Kitty Ferguson. “Why Tycho Brahe Didn’t Live in Vain: An Eccentric Historical Case Study in the Evolution of What Appears Authoritative in Science.”
  • Bethany K. Dumas, “Authority in Legal Process: Juries as Experts on Facts.”

 2001 – Annual Meeting

  • David Hein on the Right Rev. Noble Powell, Bishop of Maryland
  • John Whittaker on the problem of evil
  • Lillian Robinson on money in the New Testament

2000 – Annual Meeting

  • John Watterson spoke on college football.
  • Charles Huttar on C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, and Milton’s “Nativity Ode”
  • Marianne Ward on Frankenstein

1999 – Annual Meeting 

  • Margaret Morgan Lawrence, “The Eucharist: One African-American Life”
  • John V. Fleming, “Chaucer’s Thirsty Women and Other Acts of Poetic Exegesis”
  • Frederic A. Van-Catledge, Sr., “Some Defining Moments in (Organic) Chemistry”
  • David Evett, “Shakespeare, Darwin, and the Collect for Peace; or, What Do You Mean, Altruism?”

1997 – Annual Meeting 

  • David Holmes
  • Paul Valliere

1996 – Annual Meeting 

  • Marsha Dutton spoke on the Canterbury Tales

 1987 to 1995 – Annual Meeting

We are still gathering information on these papers

1986 -Annual Meeting 

  • Alvin Skardon, Guild of Scholars: The First 50 Years-The Second 50
  • Pardon Tillinghast, What is Truth in Writing the Life of a Saint?
  • Manning Pattillo, Solzhenitsyn: His Ideas on Western Culture
  • Curtis G. Smith, Ethical Problems in Contemporary Neuro-Pharmacology

1985 – Annual Meeting

  • Paul Ward, Philosopher Malgré Moi
  • Betty Jo McGrade, Mental Health and the Practice of Religion
  • Donald Ferree, Public Polls, Choice, Responsibilities: Survey Research
  • Dante Germino , The Loss of the Center and Disorder of the Modern World

1984 – Annual Meeting 

  • Joseph Summers, George Herbert and the Anglican Tradition
  • John Gatta, Divinity at Play in the Poetry of Edward Taylor
  • Baird Whitlock, 1984: Have We Made It?
  • Dabney Hart, Three 20th-Century Wise Men: Haldane, Lewis, Snow

1983 – Annual Meeting 

  • Ursula Niebuhr, The Glory of God in the Bible
  • Richard Hocking, Nietzsche: The Driven Lutheran
  • James Litton, Glory in the Music of the Church
  • Elaine Smith, God and Nature in 19th-Century America
  • David Billington, The Glories of Technology

1982 – Annual Meeting

  • Cleanth Brooks , The Beauty of Holiness Manifest in the Seventeenth-Century Poem
  • Robert Strider, The Cambridge Platonists and “The Candle of the Lord”
  • The Rev. Canon J. Robert Wright, The Role of Mary in Anglican Worship and Devotion
  • Henry Veatch, Philosophy, Thou Art in a Parlous State

1981 – Annual Meeting 

  • Alec Wyton, Singing Our Way into the Twentieth Century
  • The Rev. Canon Edward Nason West, Art at the Service of Religion
  • James A. Houck, Religion and Literature
  • Gary Niswonger, What Artists See

1980 – Annual Meeting

  • Stan Stenson, God’s Glassy Essence
  • Richard Toner, Thermodynamics and Theology
  • Curtis Smith, The Evolution of the Soul
  • Marshall Walker, The Ethical Responsibility of the Scientist

1979 – Annual Meeting

  • The Most Rev. John M. Allin, Address by the Presiding Bishop
  • Rowland Collins, Tenth-Century English Sermons: Blickling Homilies
  • Baird Whitlock, John Donne: To Doubt Wisely
  • Manning Pattillo, William Temple and Political Freedom

1978 – Annual Meeting

  • J. Robert Wright, Anglican-Roman Catholic Relations
  • Richard Hocking, Present Help from Hooker’s Ecclesiastical Polity
  • Henry Veatch, Natural Law in Aquinas and Hooker
  • Stephen McGrade, Hooker and the Present State of the Church

1977 – Annual Meeting

  • William M. Hale, Ordination Examinations of the Episcopal Church
  • Boyce Bennett, Ordination Examinations of the Episcopal Church
  • William Banner, Theology According to Saint Augustine: The Knowledge, Love, and Enjoyment of God
  • Stephen McGrade, A Medical Model for Theology? The Challenge to Theology in W. G. Perry’s Data
  • Paul Ward, Student Interviews

1976 – Annual Meeting

  • Roland Foster, Theological Education
  • Rowland Collins, Evaluation of Seminarians
  • Alec Wyton, Theology of Music and the Allied Arts in Liturgy
  • Hugh Caldwill, Do Iotas Really Matter?

1975 – Annual Meeting 

  • Dante Germino, Voegelin’s Framework for Political Evaluation
  • Frank Harrison, Plucking Minerva’s Owl
  • Manning Pattillo, Reflections on Undergraduate Education
  • Robert Jordan, Sacred and Secular

1974 – Annual Meeting

  • T.G. Hereford, Social Structure: Prison or Playground?
  • Henry Veatch, What Has Recent Philosophy Done to Philosophy?
  • Ursula Niebuhr, Wystan Auden, and the Religious World of the Forties
  • Robert Terwilliger, Education for Theology

1973 – Annual Meeting

  • Sydney Barr, The Servant Church
  • Alvin Skardon, Muhlenberg and Maurice: A Comparison
  • Stephen Bayne, Changing Models of Education
  • William Banner, Robert Jordan, Sten Stenson Discussion

1972 – Annual Meeting 

  • Baird Whitlock, The Ethical Import of the Genetic Revolution
  • Donald Pease, The Issues of Population Control
  • Richard Toner, New Issues in Medical Ethics
  • Richard Hocking, Justification for Manipulation of Mind and Behavior

1971 – Annual Meeting

  • Robert Wright, Interaction of Christian Worship and Historical Change
  • Frederick Pottle, Thomas Barnard’s Treatise on the Sacrament
  • Henry Thatcher, Computing in Liberal Education: An Apologetic
  • Frank Harrison, What Kind of Beings Can Have Rights?

1970 – Annual Meeting

  • George Burch, Diana
  • Stan Stenson, The Constitution of Religious Consciousness
  • Pardon Tillinghast, Leisure
  • Richard Hocking, De ordine of St. Augustine

1969 – Annual Meeting 

  • Virginia Harrington, American Religion in the 19th and 20th Centuries
  • Cleanth Brooks, The Present Decay of Language
  • Robert Jordan, Behold What We Shall Be in the End without End
  • Henry Veatch, Natural Norms

 1968 – Annual Meeting

  •  Frank Harrison, Language, Logic, and God
  • Sydney Barr, Biblical Critique and Situation Ethics
  • James Baxter, Psychology and Religion
  • Marshall Walker, Cybernetics and the Humane Use of Human Being

1967 Papers
Myths and Symbols in: (a) The Old and New Testaments

(b) Early Christianity and Development of the Eucharist

(c) Literature

(d) The Graphic Arts


1966 – Annual Meeting

  • Stan Stenson, The Liberating Essence of Religion
  • Marshall Walker, An Empiricist Looks at Ethics
  • John Wild, The Ethics of William James
  • W. H. Auden, Of Words and the Word

1965 – Annual Meeting

  • Norman Pittenger , Truth and Tradition
  • Hugh Caldwell, The Uses of Science
  • Thomas Govan, Whose Service is Perfect Freedom
  • Lawrence Jones, The Poetic Score: A Linguist’s View of Verse Structure

1964 – Annual Meeting

  • Paul Ward, Historical Perspective as a Heightened Sense of History: Its Vicissitudes since Petrarch
  • ThomasRobert Jordan, The Prestige of the Finite Scott-Craig, History as Inquiry: Chronological and Aspectual
  • Robert Jordan, The Prestige of the Finite
  • Frederick Pottle, Notes for a Theory of Literary History

1963 – Annual Meeting

1962 – Annual Meeting

  • Albert Martin, The Theologians’ Idea of the University
  • Robert Jordan, The Place of Theological Studies in the University
  • Richard Hocking, Theology and the Liberal Arts
  • Dante Germino, Theology of the Social Sciences

1961 – Annual Meeting

  • John Marshall, The Impregnable Rock of Holy Scripture
  • Harry B. Porter, The Law of the Prayer Book and the Authority of Worship
  • Kenneth Woolcombe, Authority, Definitions, and Canons of the Councils of the Anglican Communion
  • Spencer Irving, Pitfalls of Ecumenicity

1960 – Annual Meeting

  • Edward Hardy, History of the Liturgy
  • Alfred Shands, The Liturgical Revival
  • Francis Brown, The Music of the Liturgy
  • Cleanth Brooks, Prayer Book Revision: Literary Style

1959 – Annual Meeting

  • Stringfellow Barr, Present State of Scriptural Scholarship
  • Richard Hocking, Culture without Revelation
  • George Burch, Culture with Revelation
  • Howard Roelofs, How Seriously Should We Take Revelation?

1958 – Annual Meeting

  • Norman Pittenger, Observations on American Religiosity
  • Howard Roelofs, Freedom: Real and Intelligible
  • John Wild, Christianity and the World of Freedom
  • Thomas Govan, Freedom and Culture: An American Perspective

1957 – Annual Meeting

  • L. Casserley, Natural and Revealed Theology
  • Theodore Odell, Natural Theology in Biological Science
  • Lewis Hammond, Natural Theology in Philosophy
  • Richard Toner, Natural Theology in Physical Science
  • Frederick Pottle, Natural Theology in Literature

1956 – Annual Meeting

  • Norman Pittenger, Movement from Liberalism in the Theology of the Church
  • John Hallowell, Disillusionment with Liberalism as Political Ideology
  • George Burch, Christianity and the Eastern Religions
  • Cleanth Brooks, Conservatism and Orthodoxy in Modern Literature and Criticism

1955 – Annual Meeting

  • Howard Roelofs, Contemporary Thought Models and the Scholar
  • William Pollard, Dark Age and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century
  • Stanley Leavy, Values in Psychiatry
  • Thomas Scott-Craig, The Christian Humanism

1954 – Annual Meeting

  • Ryusaku Tsunoda, Buddhism
  • Swami Pavitrananda Hinduism
  • T.Cheng, Confucianism
  • Edward Myers, Summary

1953 – Annual Meeting

  • Edward Myers, Toynbee on Law and Freedom
  • Henry Shepard, Law and the Christian Ethic
  • John Marshall, Hooker on Natural Law and Constitutionalism
  • Wilbur Katz, Natural Law and Positive Law

1952 – Annual Meeting

  • Brooks Otis, History and the Truth of Christianity
  • Philip Taft, The Role of Christianity in the Economic Discipline
  • Stanley Leavy, Psychological Understanding of Religion and Conscience
  • Norman Pittenger, Nature and Task of Theology in the Life of the Church

1951 – Annual Meeting

  • Mr. Lane, Professional Objectives of the Natural Scientist
  • Theodore Odell, A Biologist Looks at Christianity
  • Howard Roelofs, Science, Truth, and Religion
  • Frederick Pottle, Programs for Changing a Positivistic Climate of Opinion

1950 – Annual Meeting

  • Richard Hocking, Existentialism and the Liturgical Community
  • Thomas Scott-Craig, Development of Existentialism from Kierkegaard
  • Mr. Patterson, Theological Development of Existentialism
  • W. H. Auden, Existentialism and Literature

1949 – Annual Meeting

  • George Burch, Christian Philosophy of Love
  • John Marshall, The Theology of Christian Charity
  • Leicester Bradner, Implications of Christian Love for the Individual
  • D. Myers Implications of Christian Love for Social Action

1948 – Annual Meeting

  • Hoxie Fairchild, Failures and Resources of our Ritual and Liturgy
  • Howard Roelofs, Failures and Resources of our Theology
  • Henry Shepard, Our Failures and Resources as Churchmen

1947 -Annual Meeting

  • Lewis Hammond Theology in Theory and Practice
  • John Wild Theology and Dogma
  • George Thomas Theology and Philosophy

1946- Annual Meeting

  • No information available

1945 – Annual Meeting

  • Henry Shepard, Economics and the Brotherhood of Man
  • D. Myers, The Soviet Challenge to Christianity
  • Fr. Hartnell, Rationale of the Roman Catholic Attack on Communism
  • Orton, Religion and Academic Economics: An Historical Survey

1944 – Annual Meeting

  • Allen P. Farrell, The Role of Religion in Liberal Education
  • John Crocker, Enlarging Problems and Practical Solutions
  • M. Greene

1943 – Annual Meeting 

  • E. D. Myers, The Role of Religion in Post-war Reconstruction
  • Walter Lowrie This World and the Post-war World in the Light of Kierkegaard’s Doctrine of the Individual