Schedule

Wheaton Theology Conference 2013
“Christian Political Witness”

Barrows Auditorium, Billy Graham Center

Thursday, April 4, 2013

10:00            Registration opens
1:00-1:30    Welcome and opening worship
1:30-2:10    Scot McKnight, "Jesus and Kingdom Politics"
2:10-2:50    Timothy Gombis, "Paul's Political Vision"
2:50-3:20    Q & A with McKnight and Gombis
3:20-4:00    Coffee break
4:00-4:40    George Kalantzis, "A Witness to the Nations: Early Christianity and
                        Narratives of Power"
4:40-5:00    Q & A with Kalantzis
5:00-7:30    Dinner break
7:30-8:45    Archbishop David Gitari, "John 17: In the World, but not of the World"

Friday, April 5, 2013

9:30-10:10    Peter Leithart, "Violence"
10:10-10:30  Q & A with Leithart
10:35-11:15   Chapel: Archbishop David Gitari, speaker
11:15-1:10      Lunch break
1:10-1:50        Jana Bennett, "Not So Private: A Political Theology of
                           Church and Family"
1:50-2:30       William Cavanaugh, "Citizen and Consumer: A Theological View of
                           the Relationship of the State and the Market"
2:30-3:00       Q & A with Bennett and Cavanaugh
3:00-3:30       Coffee break
3:30-4:10       Daniel Bell, "Just War and Christian Discipleship"
4:10-4:50       Jennifer McBride, "Repentance as Political Witness"
4:50-5:20       Q & A with Bell and McBride
5:20-7:30       Dinner break
7:30-8:45       Stanley Hauerwas, "Church Matters"

Saturday, April 6, 2013

9:00-9:40        Mark Noll, "The Peril and Potential of Scripture in Christian
                            Political Witness"
9:40-10:20      David Gushee, "Christian Political Witness in Key Current Debates"
10:20-10:50    Q & A with Noll and Gushee
10:50-11:15     Coffee break
11:15-12:15     Panel discussion with Gitari, Bennett, Gushee, Leithart, and Noll

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