Karl Barth Conference

Dates held: Jun 19 2022 – Jun 22 2022

About

The 2022 Annual Karl Barth Conference will be hosted by the Center for Barth Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary from June 19–22, 2022. The Conference takes as its theme on this occasion “Karl Barth and Reformed Theology: Tradition, Dialogue, and Construction”. The primary aim of the Conference is to explore some of the ways in which Karl Barth as a Reformed theologian interacted with the Reformed and other traditions, along paths both expository and critical, and to reflect upon the possibility that his creative engagement might encourage and resource generative work in theology in the contemporary era. A wide range of speakers of diverse perspectives has been assembled for the event, all of whom share an interest in the work of Karl Barth and a commitment to constructive theological dialogue around substantive issues affecting church and world. The Conference will also serve as an appropriate occasion to mark the retirement of Professor Bruce L. McCormack from Princeton Theological Seminary in 2022.

Plenary Speakers include:

Matthew Aragon Bruce (Western Theological Seminary)
Brandon Gallaher (University of Exeter)
Beverly Roberts Gaventa (Princeton Theological Seminary)
Kevin Hector (University of Chicago Divinity School)
Keith Johnson (Wheaton College)
Cambria Kaltwasser (Northwestern College)
Adam Neder (Whitworth College)
Paul Nimmo (University of Aberdeen)
Alexandra Pârvan (University of Pitești)
Rinse Reeling Brouwer (Protestant Theological University)
Michelle Sanchez (Harvard Divinity School)
Katherine Sonderegger (Virginia Theological Seminary)
Thomas J. White, OP (Thomistic Institute)

Virtual/Hybrid Conference

The 2022 Annual Karl Barth Conference will be hosted as a hybrid event for the first time this year on the platform Airmeet. This will allow us to expand the reach of our conference to many who have not been able to attend before, whether due to distance, finances, disabilities, or other reasons. Airmeet has a number of built-in tools to allow online conference attendees to interact with speakers at the conference as well as other online participants. We hope this model will provide an interactive experience for those who can not join us in-person.

Virtual Attendee: $100
Virtual Student Attendee: $50

PTS Community (Students/Faculty/Staff): Free

Plenary Speakers

Matthew Aragon Bruce

Matthew J. Aragon Bruce teaches in the Calvin Prison Initiative, a partnership between Calvin University and Calvin Theological Seminary that provides a Christian liberal arts education to inmates at the Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia, MI. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, MI. He holds an MDiv (2006) and PhD in the History of Christian Doctrine (2014) from Princeton Theological Seminary and an MTh from the University of Edinburgh (2007). His research focuses on Modern European Theology and Medieval Theology. He is the author of numerous book reviews and articles. He is currently working on a monograph titled Theology without Voluntarism: The Love and Freedom of the Creative Trinity in Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth. He is a candidate for the ministry in the Presbyterian Church (USA).

Brandon Gallaher

Brandon Gallaher is Senior Lecturer of Systematic and Comparative Theology at the University of Exeter (Devon, UK). His publications include Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), co-editor (with Paul Ladouceur) of The Patristic Witness of Georges Florovsky: Essential Theological Writings (London: T & T Clark-Bloomsbury, 2019) and co-editor (with John Chryssavgis) of The Living Christ: The Theological Legacy of Georges Florovsky (London-Bloomsbury: T & T Clark, 2021). His recent research focuses on ecclesiology, comparative theology, Sergii Bulgakov and Eastern Orthodoxy and modernity.

Beverly Gaventa

Beverly Roberts Gaventa is Helen H.P. Manson Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis Emerita at Princeton Theological Seminary.  Her publications include Our Mother Saint Paul (Westminster John Knox, 2007), The Acts of the Apostles (Abingdon, 2003), I and II Thessalonians (Westminster John Knox, 1998), Mary: Glimpses of the Mother of Jesus (University of South Carolina, 1995; Fortress, 1999), and From Darkness to Light: Aspects of Conversion in the New Testament (Fortress, 1986), and When in Romans: An Invitation to Linger with the Gospel according to Paul (Baker Press, 2016). In 2020, Gaventa received the Burkitt Medal by the British Society for Arts and Humanities, an annual award in biblical studies rarely bestowed on an American scholar. In 2016 she was president of the Society of Biblical Literature, the largest professional organization of biblical scholars in the world. She has lectured widely in the U.S. as well as in Canada, Europe, South Africa, and Australia.  Dr. Gaventa is a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. and a member of the University Presbyterian Church, Austin, Texas.

Kevin Hector

Kevin Hector is Professor of Theology and of the Philosophy of Religions at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 2007.  He is the author of two books, Theology without Metaphysics (2011) and The Theological Project of Modernism (2015), and has another one due out soon: Christianity as a Way of Life: A Systematic Theology.  His next major project analyzes the relationship between memory, identity, and religious practices of self-narration.

Keith Johnson

Keith L. Johnson is Professor of Theology at Wheaton College, where he also serves as the Director of Theological Integration at the Center for Faith and Innovation. He has authored and edited several volumes related to Barth, including The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Karl Barth, co-edited with George Hunsinger (Blackwell, 2020), The Essential Karl Barth: A Reader and Commentary (Baker Academic, 2019), and Karl Barth and the Analogia Entis (2010). He currently is president of the Karl Barth Society of North America.

Cambria Kaltwasser

Cambria Kaltwasser is assistant professor of theology at Northwestern College, Iowa, where she teaches courses in historical and systematic theology. Her research examines the relationship between Barth’s covenantal theology and his account of human agency as responsibility before God. Her wider interests include theological anthropology and Christian hope. Kaltwasser is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA).

Adam Neder

Adam Neder is the Bruner-Welch Professor of Theology at Whitworth University. He is the author of Theology As a Way of Life: On Teaching and Learning the Christian Faith and Participation in Christ: An Entry Into Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics. He teaches a wide range of popular courses and has been voted Most Influential Professor by a number of Whitworth senior classes.

Paul Nimmo

Paul Nimmo holds the King’s (1620) Chair of Systematic Theology at the University of Aberdeen, having previously held positions at the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh. His own studies were undertaken in Cambridge, Edinburgh, Princeton, and Tübingen. His first monograph, Being in Action: The Theological Shape of Barth’s Ethical Vision, was awarded a John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and he has since published Barth: A Guide for the Perplexed, and co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Reformed Theology and the Oxford Handbook of Karl Barth. He is the Senior Editor of International Journal of Systematic Theology, and a Translation Fellow at the Center for Barth Studies at Princeton Seminary. He is also a former co-Chair of the AAR Reformed Theology and History Group Steering Committee, and has served as the Treasurer of the Society for the Study of Theology. An ordained elder in the Church of Scotland, he participates actively in the life of the church at local and national levels, and is currently a member of the CPCE delegation for ecumenical dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church.

Alexandra Pârvan

Dr. Alexandra Pârvan is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of Pitești, Romania. She has degrees in Psychology (BSc) and Philosophy (MA, PhD) from the University of Bucharest and the Romanian Academy. Following her PhD dissertation (Problema răului în filosofia lui Augustin – The Problem of Evil in Augustine, 2008), she published on Augustine’s theory of evil, theory of knowledge, and biblical exegesis, and is a multiple entry contributor to the two major current tools of Augustine scholarship (Augustinus Lexikon, 1986- , and The Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine, 2013). In addition, her singular, systematic attempt to show the usefulness of Augustine’s ideas in clinical contexts led her to introduce a new field of investigation, called “metaphysical care”, through award-winning research (Prize for Excellence, European Society for Person Centered Healthcare, London, 2018). Her publications cover expertise in fields such as: patristics, early medieval studies, philosophical theology, philosophy of culture, art theory, philosophy of medicine, philosophy and psychotherapy, arts and humanities in medicine. She published the monograph Dublul și diferența (The Double and the Difference, 2004) and two poetry books (2001, 2013). She is a multi-award and prize-winning poet.

Rinse Reeling Brouwer

Rinse H. Reeling Brouwer is Professor Emeritus on the Miskotte/Breukelman Chair for Theological Hermeneutics of the Bible at the Protestant Theological University (Amsterdam) and was senior Lecturer in the History of Christian Doctrine at the Protestant Theological Faculty (Kampen and Groningen). Besides his edition of Frans H. Breukelman, The Structure of Sacred Doctrine in Calvin’s Theology (ET 2009) and textbooks on Calvin (2004) and the History of Systematic Theology (2009), he published books on Karl Barth and Marxism (1988), Spinoza and Reformed Theology (1998), and Karl Barth and Post-Reformation Orthodoxy (2015). From 2009 till 2019 he was (co-)editor of the Journal of Dialectical Theology and coordinated the cooperation of Protestant Theological University with the Karl Barth Center of Princeton Theological Seminary.

Michelle Sanchez

Michelle C. Sanchez is associate professor of theology at Harvard Divinity School where she teaches courses on the Protestant Reformations, Protestant theologies, critical theories of modernity, and theories and methods on the study of religion. Her first book, Calvin and the Resignification of the World (Cambridge University Press, 2019) performs a close reading of Calvin’s 1559 Institutio in conversation with theories of embodiment, practice, political theology, and secularization. She is drafting her second book, tentatively titled “Thinking God’s Thoughts”: Power, Imagination, and the Invention of Worldview Christianity, which will examine the theological adaptation of “worldview” by late nineteenth-century Neo-Calvinists, with an eye to its anthropological, cultural, and political impact.

Katherine Sonderegger

Katherine Sonderegger holds the William Meade Chair in Theology at Virginia Theological Seminary where she has taught since 2002.  Prior to her service at Virginia, she taught for 15 years at Middlebury College in Vermont.  Kate is a priest of the Episcopal Church, resident in the diocese of Virginia.  She is also at work on a Systematic Theology, two volumes of which have appeared (Fortress Press 2015, 2020) and a third on the Missions of the Divine Persons is underway.  Karl Barth has been a guiding influence on her theology since divinity school days.

Thomas Joseph White, OP

Fr. Thomas Joseph White is the Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum) in Rome. He is the author of various books and articles including Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: A Study in Thomistic Natural Theology (Sapientia Press, 2011), The Incarnate Lord, A Thomistic Study in Christology (The Catholic University of America Press, 2015) Exodus (Brazos Press, 2016),The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism (Catholic University Press, 2017), and The Trinity: On the Nature and Mystery of the One God (Catholic University Press, 2022). He is co-editor of the journal Nova et Vetera, a Distinguished Scholar of the McDonald Agape Foundation, and a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Schedule

Sunday, June 19:

6:00 – 7:30 PM – Registration – Outside Stuart Hall 6

7:30 – 9:00 PM — Lecture 1 – Stuart Hall 6
Katherine Sonderegger: Karl Barth and the Reformed Tradition

Monday, June 20:

9:00 – 10:00 AM —  Lecture 2 – Stuart Hall 6
Paul Nimmo: Karl Barth and Huldrych Zwingli

10:15 – 10:45 AM — Break with coffee and refreshments

10:45 – 11:45 AM — Lecture 3 – Stuart Hall 6
Michelle Sanchez: Revisiting Calvin and Barth on Natural Theology, Soteriology, and Political Theology

Noon – 1:00 PM – Lunch Break

1:15 – 1:45 PM — Chapel
Preacher: Adam Neder

2:00 – 3:00 PM – Lecture 4 – Stuart Hall 6
Kevin Hector: Karl Barth and Friedrich Schleiermacher

3:00 – 3.30 PM – Break with coffee and refreshments

3:30 – 4:30 PM – Lecture 5 – Stuart Hall 6
Thomas Joseph White: “Karl Barth and Roman Catholicism: Sacra Doctrina and the Analogy of Being”

4:30 – 7:15 PM – Break

7:30 – 9:00 PM – Event on the Göttingen Dogmatics – Stuart Hall 6

Tuesday, June 21:

9:00 – 10:00 AM – Lecture 6 – Stuart Hall 6
Brandon Gallaher: ”His claim upon our whole life’: The legacy of the Barmen Declaration’s revelational-exegetical politics as seen in Eastern Orthodoxy and Chinese Evangelical Christianity.”

10:00 – 10:45 AM – Break with coffee and refreshments

10:45 – 11:45 AM – Lecture 7 – Stuart Hall 6
Keith Johnson: “Karl Barth’s ‘Farewell’ and the Challenge of Christian Nationalism in America.”

Noon – 1:00 PM – Lunch Break

1:15 – 1:45 PM – Chapel
Preacher: Cambria Kaltwasser

2:00 – 3:00 PM – Lecture 8 – Stuart Hall 6 
Beverly Roberts Gaventa: “Karl Barth’s Scripture Principle: A Reflection on the Göttingen Dogmatics.”

3:00 – 3:30 PM – Break with coffee and refreshments

3:30 – 4:30 PM – Lecture 9 – Stuart Hall 6
Matthew Aragon Bruce: “Divine Agency in Karl Barth’s Doctrine of Election: A Conversation with Scholasticism”

4:30 – 7:15 PM – Break

7:30 – 9:00 PM – Reception on the Retiral of Bruce McCormack – Wright Library Atrium

Wednesday, June 22:

9:00 – 10:00 AM – Lecture 10 – Stuart Hall 6
Rinse Reeling Brouwer: Reformed Kenoticism in Historical Perspective

10:00 – 11:30 AM – Break with coffee and refreshments – Check out from the Erdman Center  by 11 AM

11:30 – 12:30 PM – Lecture 11 – Stuart Hall 6
Alexandra Pârvan: “Reformed and Romantic Kenoticism: The Old, the New, and the Novel, or ‘How to Paint the Bird in Flight’”

Dates held: Jun 16 2019 – Jun 19 2019

The 2019 Annual Karl Barth Conference will be hosted by the Center for Barth Studies from June 16-19, 2019 on the campus of Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey. Fifty years from Barth’s own death and on the centenary of the publication of the Römerbrief, the conference takes as its theme, “The Finality of the Gospel: Karl Barth and the Tasks of Eschatology”. Our central purpose is to consider how fresh encounters with various aspects of Karl Barth’s dogmatic theology and biblical exegesis might stimulate, inform, shape, and challenge contemporary reflection on the range of eschatological themes in Christian theology. Plenary papers from leading theologians and biblical scholars from North America and Europe will be supplemented by the contributions of other scholars to be offered in two concurrent sessions during the conference.

Plenary Speakers include:
John Barclay, University of Durham
Douglas Campbell, Duke University
Christophe Chalamet, University of Geneva
Nancy Duff, Princeton Theological Seminary
Susan Eastman, Duke University
Beverly Gaventa, Baylor University
Karen Kilby, University of Durham
Grant Macaskill, University of Aberdeen
Kenneth Oakes, Notre Dame University
Christoph Schwöbel, University of St. Andrews
Christiane Tietz, University of Zurich
Philip G. Ziegler, University of Aberdeen

Plenary Speakers

John Barclay

John Barclay is Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at the University of Durham where he teaches New Testament having previously been on the faculty of the University of Glasgow for many years. His research encompasses a wide-range of topics in New Testament exegesis, biblical theology and the history of early Christianity including its social history and relation to contemporary Judaism. He is currently serving as the President of the British New Testament Society. Among his recent publications are Paul and the Gift (2015), Pauline Churches and Diaspora Jews (2011), and Against Apion: Flavius Josephus Translation and Commentary (2007).

Douglas Campbell

Douglas Campbell is Professor of New Testament at the Duke Divinity School. His research concentrates upon the life and theology of the apostle Paul with particular reference to soteriological models rooted in apocalyptic as against justification or salvation-history, and making use of disciplinary methods both ancient or modern. His recent publications include Paul: An Apostle’s Journey (2018), Framing Paul: An Epistolary Biography (2014), and The Deliverance of God: An Apocalyptic Rereading of Justification in Paul (2009).

Christophe Chalamet

Christophe Chalamet is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Geneva. A member of the Center of Theological Inquiry (Princeton), for many years previously he taught theology as a member of the faculty of Fordham University. His research concerns topics in modern and contemporary Protestant theology, the doctrine of God, and christology. He is the author of Dialectical Theologians: Wilhelm Herrmann, Karl Barth, and Rudolf Bultmann (2005) and Revivalism and Social Christianity (2013).

Nancy J. Duff

Nancy J. Duff is the Stephen Colwell Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary. She earned her M.Div. from Union Presbyterian Seminary in Virginia and her Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in New York. An ordained Presbyterian minister, Nancy focuses her research on the theological foundations of Christian ethics. Writing from the Reformed tradition and informed by both Pauline apocalyptic and feminist concerns, she explores how theological claims identify the church’s responsibility in the world. She teaches courses in the theology and ethics of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, issues in biomedical ethics, issues in human sexuality, the doctrine of vocation, and the ethics of the Ten Commandments. She is the author of Humanization and the Politics of God: The Koinonia Ethics of Paul Lehmann(1992) and Making Faithful Decisions at the End of Life(2018).

Susan Grove Eastman

Susan Grove Eastman is Associate Research Professor of New Testament at the Duke Divinity School. Her research focuses on Paul’s letters in relationship to the formation and transformation of Christian identity. Among her most recent books, Paul and the Person: Reframing Paul’s Anthropology (2017)—a study of identity formation through a close reading of key Pauline texts in conversation with contemporary experimental psychology, philosophy, and neuroscience—and Recovering Paul’s Mother Tongue (2007). Ordained in the Episcopal Church, she has served churches from New York to Alaska.

Beverly Gaventa

Beverly Gaventa is Distinguished Professor of New Testament Interpretation at Baylor University, as well as Helen H.P. Manson Professor Emerita of New Testament Literature and Exegesis at Princeton Theological Seminary. She has written on a wide variety of New Testament texts and issues. Among her recent books are When in Romans: An Invitation to Linger with the Gospel According to Paul (2016) and Our Mother Saint Paul(2007).In 2016, Dr. Gaventa was president of the Society of Biblical Literature. Dr. Gaventa is a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. and a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Waco, Texas.

Karen Kilby

Karen Kilby is Bede Professor of Catholic Theology at the University of Durham University, having held previous posts at the Universities of Nottingham, Birmingham and St. Andrews. In addition to 20th century Catholic theology, her research interests embrace a range of themes in constructive theology, including in particular the doctrine of the Trinity, the place of mystery in Christian thought, and the problem of suffering and evil. In 2016-18 she served as the President of the Society for the Study of Theology (UK). Among her recent books are Balthasar: A Very Critical Introduction (2012), The SPCK Introduction of Karl Rahner (2007), and Karl Rahner: Theology and Philosophy (2004).

Grant Macaskill

Grant Macaskill is Kirby Laing Professor of New Testament Exegesis at the University of Aberdeen, having previously held posts at the University of St Andrews. His research examines the New Testament as a coherent body of theological literature emerging from the diverse contexts of late Second Temple Judaism. He is currently investigating the place of persons with autism in Christian communities, and how the Bible might shape thought and practice with respect to this. His recent publications include The New Testament and Intellectual Humility (2019), Union with Christ (2013), and Revealed Wisdom and Inaugurated Eschatology in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity (2007).

Kenneth Oakes

Kenneth Oakes is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Karl Barth on Theology and Philosophy (2012) and Reading Karl Barth: A Companion to Karl Barth’s Epistle to the Romans (2011), and he is also the editor of Christian Wisdom Meets Modernity (2016). His research concerns issues in modern Protestant thought as well as contemporary systematic and constructive theology. He has special interests in the theology of Karl Barth, theologies of creative retrieval, and theological appropriations of and engagements with modern and postmodern philosophy.

Christoph Schwöbel

Christoph Schwöbel holds the 1643 Chair in Divinity as Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of St. Andrews. He has previously held posts for many years at the Universities of Tübingen and Heidelberg. Among his recent books are counted Gott in Beziehung: Studien Zur Dogmatik (2018), Die Religion Des Zauberers: Theologisches in Den Grossen Romanen Thomas Mann (2008), and Christlicher Glaube Im Pluralismus: Studien Zu Einer Theologie Der Kultur (2003). Within the wide field of modern Protestant theology, his research has focused in particular on ecumenical questions, the doctrines of God, Christology and the church, and more recently on Christian-Muslim dialogue.

Christiane Tietz

Christiane Tietz is Professor for Systematic Theology at the University of Zurich where she oversees the Institute of Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion. She was the former president of the German language section of the International Bonhoeffer Society, and her main areas of research include Martin Luther, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Karl Barth, classical doctrinal questions, and hermeneutics. Her most recent publications include Theologian of Resistance: The Life and Thought of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2016), and Martin Luther im interkulturellen Kontext (2008).Last fall, she published a new biography on Karl Barth entitled Karl Barth. Ein Leben im Widerspruch (2018).

Philip Ziegler

Philip Ziegler is Professor of Christian Dogmatics at the University of Aberdeen. Educated at the Royal Military College of Canada, the University of Toronto, the University of St Michael’s College, Regis College, and Emmanuel College of Victoria University, his studies is systematic and historical theology, ecumenics, and the philosophy of religion culminated in a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Religion. After teaching for several year at the Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax, Canada, he joined the faculty of the University of Aberdeen in Divinity & Religious Studies in 2006. He is the author of Doing Theology When God is Forgotten: The Theological Achievement of Wolf Krötke (2007) and Militant Grace: The Apocalyptic Turn and the Future of Christian Theology (2018). He has edited and co-edited a number of works in including The Providence of God, Explorations in Christian Theology and Ethics: Essays in Conversation with Paul L. Lehmann, Christ, Church and World: New Studies in Bonhoeffer’s Theology and Ethics, and Eternal God, Eternal Life: Theological Investigations into the Concept of Immortality. Phil is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Reformed Theology and also serves, together with Ian MacFarland and Ivor Davidson, as series editor of T&T Clark Studies in Systematic Theology. Phil is a General Secretary of the Karl Barth Society of North America, and serves on the executive committee of the English language section of the International Bonhoeffer Society and the steering group of the ‘Bonhoeffer and Social Analysis’ section of the AAR. An ordained minister of the United Church of Canada, Phil is formally associated with the Kirk Session of the Cathedral Church of St. Machar in Aberdeen.

Concurrent Speakers

Peter Anders

Peter Anders is an independent scholar with graduate degrees in theology and religious studies from Wheaton College (MA), Yale Divinity School (MAR), and the University of Oxford (DPhil). He was also Visiting Research Fellow in Modern Intellectual History at Harvard University. Peter has taught theology and religious studies at a number of Christian colleges and seminaries across the country. Among Peter’s publications is “Nonviolence and the Immanent Logic of Christian Trinitarian Monotheism,” in Violence in Modern Society: Monotheism Guilty?, edited by Alejandra Vanney (Georg Olms, 2013). Peter’s current book project is an intellectual history of Barth’s recovery of Luther’s theologia crucis as a modern theological corrective.

Matthew Frost

Matthew Frost is a doctoral student in systematic theology and ethics at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. His dissertation work seeks to widen our basis for understanding Barth’s soteriology by moving forward from Barth’s mature doctrine of election into the threefold economy grounded in it. His other research interests include comparative theology and the development of the Pauline canon. Matthew has facilitated classroom and community dialogues with the Zygon Center for Religion and Science, conversations that inevitably turn on issues of ethics in contemporary society, and can be found writing at Speaking Freely.

Steven Harris

Steven Edward Harris (PhD, Durham) is Part-time Instructor in Religion and Theology at Redeemer University College and Research Scholar at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto. He works across systematic theology and the history of biblical interpretation, with a focus on retrieving premodern exegetical insights for contemporary theology. He is the author of God and the Teaching of Theology: Divine Pedagogy in 1 Corinthians 1-4 (UNDP, 2019) and works at present on the doctrine of resurrection.

Timo Helenius

Dr. Timo Helenius received his PhD in philosophy from Boston College in 2013, and he has been a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Religious Studies at Brown University since 2016. Helenius has taught philosophy and ethics at Boston College, Mount Ida College, and—most recently—at the University of New Brunswick Saint John as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy. Helenius’s research has focused on contemporary Continental philosophy in general and in Paul Ricoeur in particular. His work, Ricoeur, Culture, and Recognition: A Hermeneutic of Cultural Subjectivity, was published by Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield) in 2016. Helenius is currently working on another book-length project that focuses on the implied phenomenology of religious expressivity.

Declan Kelly

Declan Kelly is currently a PhD student in Systematic Theology at the University of Aberdeen. Swapping the west coast of Ireland for the east coast of Scotland, he arrived in Aberdeen in 2015 where he continues to reside with his wife Raquel and their daughter Alva. His research has focused on reading Karl Barth as an apocalyptic theologian, looking in particular at the “three-agent drama” that governs his soteriology. Other research interests include the doctrine of God, theological ethics, and theological exegesis. Beyond the world of theology, he enjoys films, sports, and has a particular fondness for a good card game.

Mitchell Mallary

Mitchell Mallary is a second year Ph.D. candidate in the School of Divinity at the University of St Andrews, studying under the tutelage of Professor N. T. Wright and Dr. A. B. Torrance. He previously received a Bachelor’s degree (Honors) from Judson University, where he majored in both Christian Theology and Biblical Studies. Currently, he is serving as a research assistant to Professor Wright and planning a forthcoming interdisciplinary conference on Christology.

Jeff McSwain

Jeff McSwain is the Founder and current Director of Ministry Formation at Reality Ministries, Inc, in Durham, NC (founded 2007). The non-profit’s mission is “creating opportunities for teens and adults with and without developmental disabilities to experience belonging, kinship and the life-changing Reality of Christ’s love.” Jeff has two degrees from St. Andrews, an MLitt (2002) and a PhD (2015). He has published various articles and two books, Movements of Grace: The Dynamic Christo-Realism of Barth, Bonhoeffer and the Torrances (2010), and most recently ‘Simul’ Sanctification: Barth’s Hidden Vision for Human Transformation (2018). Keen to stay at the interface between systematic theology and practical ministry, in the last ten years Jeff and his wife Susan have helped plant a new church, CityWell, and launch the North Street Neighborhood, an intentional community (17 houses) near downtown Durham where people of various abilities share life together.

R. David Nelson

R. David Nelson (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is senior acquisitions editor for Baker Academic and Brazos Press. He is the author or editor of several books, including Jüngel—A Guide for the Perplexed (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2019), Karl Barth, The Epistle to the Ephesians (Baker Academic, 2017), and, with Darren Sarisky and Justin Stratis (eds.), Theological Theology: Essays in Honour of John Webster (Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015).

Kara Slade

The Rev. Dr. Kara Slade serves as Associate Chaplain at the Episcopal chaplaincy to Princeton University and Associate Rector at Trinity Church in Princeton. She is also a member of the faculty at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she teaches Anglican Studies and advises the Episcopal/Anglican student cohort. A native of Pensacola, Florida and lifelong Southerner, Kara received her PhD in Christian theology and ethics at Duke University in 2018, with research interests that include Karl Barth, Søren Kierkegaard, and the ethics of science, technology, and medicine. A former specialist in the dynamics of nonlinear and complex systems, she earned the BSE, MS, and PhD in mechanical engineering and materials science at the Duke Pratt School of Engineering (and served on the faculty there) before joining NASA as a research engineer. After leaving government service, she returned to Duke in 2009 as a student in the Divinity School, and stayed on for her second doctorate. She serves on the Committee for the Priesthood of the Diocese of New Jersey and the General Board of Examining Chaplains of the Episcopal Church, and is also the chair of the Society of Scholar-Priests.

Adam Tietje

Adam Tietjeis a ThD student in Theology and Ethics at Duke Divinity. He holds a MDiv from Princeton Seminary and DMin from Erskine Seminary. He served as an active duty Army chaplain for nine years, with a deployment to Afghanistan and assignments in combat arms, medical, and special operations units (decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, and Ranger Tab). He is the author of Toward a Pastoral Theology of Holy Saturday: Providing Spiritual Care to War Wounded Souls (Wipf & Stock, 2018). He is currently working on projects that bring together ethical and pastoral conversations around moral injury.

Nicola Whyte

Nicola Whyte is a PhD student in Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. She holds a Master of Arts in Theological Studies from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Master of Arts (Honours) in Divinity from the University of Edinburgh, and has also spent time working within the Church of Scotland. Her research interests include the theologies of Karl Barth and Friedrich Schleiermacher, political theology, and feminist theology.

Chelsea Williams

Chelsea Williams is a PhD candidate at Princeton Theological Seminary. Chelsea hails from Southern California, where she earned BA degrees in European History and Religious Studies at the University of California, San Diego. After also earning her MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary, she spent time in New College at the University of Edinburgh and completed an MTh degree in Theology in History, writing a thesis on a missional reading of Karl Barth’s Epistle to the Romans. Her dissertation and current research interests are concerned with eschatology, particularly theological conceptions of the kingdom of God, and ecclesiology, especially under the aspect of missional theology and the doctrine of grace.

Schedule

Sunday, June 16th, 2019

4:00 – 5:30 PM – Registration – Erdman Center

6:00 – 7:30 PM – Opening Banquet – Mackay Dining Hall

7:30 – 9:00 PM – Lecture 1 – Mackay Auditorium

• Christoph Schwöbel :: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning? Barth’s Eschatology as a Guide to the Perplexed

Monday, June 17th, 2019

7:00 – 9:00 AM – Registration – Mackay Auditorium Foyer

8:00 – 9:00 AM – Breakfast – Mackay Dining Hall

9:00 – 10:00 AM – Lecture 2 – Mackay Auditorium

• Grant Macaskill :: The Idolatrous Self and the Eikon: The Possibility of Worship

10:15 – 10:45 AM – Break with coffee – Mackay Auditorium Foyer

10:45 – 11:45 AM – Lecture 3 – Mackay Auditorium

• Kenneth Oakes :: Eschatology in the Time of Expectation

Noon – 1:00 PM – Lunch – Mackay Dining Hall

1:15 – 2:15 PM – Lecture 4 – Mackay Auditorium

• Douglas Campbell :: Paul’s Account of the Future: A Case Study in Pauline Dogmatics

2:30 – 3:00 – Break with coffee and refreshments – Mackay Auditorium Foyer

3:00 – 4:00 – Lecture 5 – Mackay Auditorium

• Christiane Tietz :: ‘Standing on the Boundary Where the Now and the Yet Then Touch Each Other’: Barth on Theodicy and Eschatology

4:15 – 5:00 – Concurrent Papers – Session I

• Peter Anders – Theron Room (Library): “The Cruciform Promise of the Gospel: Theologia Crucis and the Resurrection of the Dead in Karl Barth’s Earlier Theology”
• Steven Harris – Library Room 1010: “First Corinthians 15 in the Century before Barth: Eschatology without Content?”
• Timo Helenius – Clarke Lounge (Erdman Center): “What I Am Not”: Barth’s Negative Phenomenology of Eternity
• Declan Kelly – Art Studio (Erdman Center): “Love in a Time of Apocalypse: Karl Barth’s Interpretation of 1 Corinthians 13”
• Jeff McSwain – Adams House (Living Room): “Species of Origen? Barth’s Refusal of a “self-enclosed middle” between Creation and the Eschaton”
• Nicola Whyte – Cooper Room (Erdman Center)

5:00 – 7:30 – Open Dinner in Princeton

7:30 – 8:30 – Lecture 6 – Mackay Auditorium

• John Barclay :: The Day is at Hand: Barth’s Interpretation of Pauline Eschatology

Tuesday, June 18th, 2019

8:00 – 9:00 AM – Breakfast – Mackay Dining Hall

9:00 – 10:00 AM – Lecture 7 – Mackay Auditorium

• Beverly Gaventa :: The Finality of the Gospel: Barth’s Romerbrief on Romans 9-11

10:15 – 10:45 AM – Break with coffee – Mackay Auditorium Foyer

10:45 – 11:45 AM – Lecture 8 – Mackay Auditorium

• Christophe Chalamet :: The Redemption of This World: On the Direction of Eschatology

Noon – 1:00 PM – Lunch – Mackay Dining Hall

1:15 – 2:15 PM – Lecture 9 – Mackay Auditorium

• Karen Kilby :: Death: A Hesitation

2:30 – 3:00 – Break with coffee and refreshments – Mackay Auditorium Foyer

3:00 – 4:00 – Lecture 10 – Mackay Auditorium

• Nancy Duff :: The Ethics of Resisting and Accepting Death in Karl Barth’s Theology

4:15 – 5:00 – Concurrent Papers – Session II

• Matthew Frost – Art Studio (Erdman Center): “Escaping the Outcomes of History: Barth’s Redesign of Eschatology from Protology, Forward”
• Mitchell Mallary – Theron Room (Library): “The Secularity of Revelation and the Task of History: Karl Barth Against the Theological Interpretation of Scripture”
• R. David Nelson – Library Room 1010: “Humanity at the Crossroads of Old and New: Anthropology and Eschatology in Barth’s Exegesis of Romans 5”
• Kara Slade – Cooper Room (Erdman Center): “Time and the Political Theology of Progress”
• Adam Tietje – Adams House (Living Room): “‘Be What You Are’: Barth’s Eschatological Account of Conscience.”
• Chelsea Williams – Clarke Lounge (Erdman Center): “The World Is Wide Enough: The Kingdom of God and Barth’s Critique of Pietism Today”

Open Dinner in Princeton

Wednesday, June 19th, 2019

8:00 – 9:00 AM – Breakfast – Mackay Dining Hall

9:00 – 10:00 AM – Lecture 11 – Mackay Auditorium

• Susan Eastman :: The Custody of Hope: Christian Existence in The Resurrection of the Dead

10:00 – 11:00 AM – Break with coffee – Check out from the Erdman Center by 11 AM

11:00 – 12:00 PM – Lecture 12 – Mackay Auditorium

• Philip G. Ziegler :: The First and Final ‘No’: The Finality of the Gospel and the Old Enemy

Noon – 1:00 PM – Lunch – Mackay Dining Hall