Christian
Faith and the Historian’s Vocation
The 2004 Conference on Faith and History Biennial Meeting
Hope College, Holland, Mich.
October 14-16, 2004
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, October 14, 2004
5:00 pm Registration (Haworth Conference Center Lobby)
7:00 pm PLENARY SESSION #1
Haworth Ballroom III
Welcome: Fred Johnson, Hope College
Chair: John Fea, Messiah College
Faith Seeking Historical Understanding
Mark Schwehn, Valparaiso University
8:30: Reception
(Location TBA)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15. 2004
7:30 am Registration (Haworth Conference Center Lobby)
8:00 am CONCURRENT SESSIONS (Haworth Conference Center)
Session 1: On Prudence and Historical Inquiry
Chair:
Paul Otto, George Fox University
On Prudence and Historical Inquiry
Thomas Albert Howard, Gordon College
Comments:
Robert Sweetman, Institute for
Christian Studies
J. Gillis Harp, Grove City College
Session 2: Panel Discussion: The Historian as the Guardian
of Christian Orthodoxy
Chair:
Samuel Smith, Liberty University
Panelists:
Richard Englehardt, Kentucky
Mountain Bible College
Steven M. Studebaker, Emmanuel College
E. Jerome Van Kuiken, Vennard College
Jeffrey Barbeau, Oral Roberts University
Comment
Richard Pierard, Gordon College
Session 3: Modernism, Truth, and the Moral Imagination
Chair:
Sonja Wentling, Concordia College-Moorehead
(MN)
Enlightenment
History, Objectivity, and the Moral Imagination
Michael
Kugler, Northwestern College (IA)
The
Historian as vertitas defensor
Michael Hofstetter, Southwest State University (MN)
Comment:
William Katerberg, Calvin College
9:30: MORNING BREAK
10:00: CONCURRENT SESSIONS (Haworth Conference Center)
Session 4: Rethinking Integration as a Model for the Task of
the Christian Historian
Chair:
Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Calvin College
The
Historian as Priest
Andrew
S. Finstuen, Boston College
The
Integration of Faith and Learning:
The History and Usefulness
of an Educational Ideal
Albert
Beck, Baylor University
Comment:
Douglas Sweeney, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Session 5: European History and the Post-Modern Turn: Two Christian
Perspectives
Chair:
Carol Woodfin, Palm Beach Atlantic
University
Myths
and Realities in 19th and 20th Century Historiography:
The Positivist Turn That Nerver Happened
Paul Michelson, Huntington
College
The
Historian as Interpreter of Culture:
Fin-de-siecle Vienna, Modernism,
and the Eruption of the Sacred
Robert
Whalen, Queens College of Charlotte (NC)
Comment
Norman J. Wilson, Messiah College
Session 6: Teaching History as Christian Vocation
Chair:
Jacalyn Welling, Malone College
The
Historian as Tutor to Lead us to Christ: Outrageous Idea or Modest Proposal?
John J. Fry, Trinity Christian College
A Catholic’s
Contribution to United States History
Lawrence
J. McAndrews, St. Norbert College
Comment:
Robert Tracy McKenzie, University of Washington
Session 7: Panel: Christians as Historians at a Land-Grant
University
Chair:
Robert Swierenga, Hope College
Panelists:
Robert D. Linder, Kansas State University
Liam
Atchison, Emmanuel House
Keith
Bates, Union University
Alan
Bearman, Washburn University
Comment:
The Audience
11:30 am LUNCH (See registration packet for a list of
local restaurants)
1:30 pm PLENARY SESSION #2
Chair: Jay Green, Covenant College
For Teachers to Live, Professors Must Die
Lendol Calder, Augustana College
2:30 pm AFTERNOON BREAK
3:00 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS (Haworth Conference Center)
Session 8: The Search for a Christian Interpretation of History
Chair
Donald Yerxa, Eastern Nazarene
College/The Historical Society
Historical Method in the Christian Tradition
Martin Klauber, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
From "Religious History" to "Christian Historiography":
A Creational Approach to Christian Historical Interpretation
Hubert R. Krygsman, Dordt College
Comment:
Jonathan Boyd, Inter Varsity Graduate Ministries
Session 9: Biography and the Christian Historian
Chair:
Bill Svelmoe, St. Mary’s College (IN)
Learning
from Biography:
What Even Marsden and Stout
Can Learn from Edwards and Whitefield
Patricia Janzen Loewen,
University of British Columbia
The Historian
as Biographer
John
G. Turner, University of Notre Dame
Comment: Eric
Miller, Geneva College
Session 10: Panel: The Christian Historian and Women’s History
Chair:
Timothy Larsen, Wheaton College
Panelists:
Timothy Larsen, Wheaton College
Anita
Specht, Kansas Wesleyan University
Sue
Horner, North Park University
Melissa
Franklin Harkrider, Wheaton College
Comment: The
Audience
6:30 pm PLENARY SESSION #3 AND CONFERENCE BANQUET
Chair, William Vance Trollinger, University of Dayton
and Past CFH President
Presidential Address:
"History--the 'True Friend of Virtue?':
Reflections on History, Vocation and the Conference on Faith and
History."
Shirley Mullen, Westmont College and President of the Conference
on Faith and History
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2004
7:30 am Registration (Haworth Conference Center Lobby)
8:00 am CONCURRENT SESSIONS (Haworth Conference Center)
Session 11: Theologians as Historians and Denominational Leaders
Chair:
Russ Reeves, Trinity Christian College
The Christian Historian as Denominational
Leader
Robert
S. Wilson, Acadia Divinity School
John
Henry Newman: Theologian as Historian
John
Halsey Wood, Saint Louis University
Comment:
Kenneth Stewart, Covenant College
Session 12: The Soul of the Graduate University: The Importance
of Community for Christian Graduate Students
Chair:
John Wigger, University of Missouri
Presenters: Christian
Esh, University of Maryland, College Park
Trisha
Posey, University of Maryland, College Park
Jonathan
W. White, University of Maryland, College Park
Andrew
J. Clark, University of Chicago
Comment:
Timothy Hall, Central Michigan University
Session 13: Christian Faith and the Culture of the Historical
Profession
Chair:
Craig Kaplowitz, Judson College
Multiculturalism:
A Problem for Christian Historians
Paul
Fessler, Dordt College
On Assimilating
the Moral Agendas of the Secular Academy
Bradley
J. Gundlach, Trinity College (IL)
Comment:
Gary Scott Smith, Grove City College
9:30 am MORNING BREAK
10:00 am CONCURRENT SESSIONS (Haworth Conference Center)
Session 14: Panel: Developing a Christian Perspective on International
Affairs
Chair:
Amy Patterson, Calvin College
Panelists:
Stephen Hoffman, Taylor University
Thomas
Jones, Taylor University
Erik
Benson, Ouachita Baptist University
Comment:
Amy Patterson
Session 15: Panel: The Historian as Social Activist:
Habitat for Humanity in the Mississippi Delta
Chair:
Perry Bush, Bluffton College
Panelists:
William Sutton, University High School, Urbana, IL
Carl Fuller, Mississippi Habitat for Humanity
Former University
High School students
Comment:
The Audience
Session 16: Theology as Theory: Using Biblical Themes to Evaluate
American History
Chair:
Kathryn Long, Wheaton College
“The Third
Book”: Interpreting Revelation and History in the American Context
Fred W. Beuttler,
University of Illinois-Chicago
Historian as
Prophet: Is “God’s Judgment” a Valid Historical Concept?
Steven J. Keillor,
Independent Scholar
Comment: George
Marsden, University of Notre Dame
11:30 am LUNCH (See registration packet for a list
of local restaurants)
1:30 pm PLENARY SESSION #4
An Open Forum on the State of the Conference on Faith
and History
Chair and Moderator: Shirley Mullen, CFH President
Panelists:
William Katerberg, Calvin College and Future Editor, Fides et Historia
Douglas Sweeney, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
William V. Trollinger, University of Dayton and Past President
of CFH
Ronald Wells, Calvin College and Editor, Fides et Historia
Carol Woodfin, Palm Beach Atlantic College and CFH Board Member
3:00 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS (Haworth Conference Center)
Session 17: Christian Historians as Custodians of Memory
Chair:
Jeffrey Cole, Geneva College
People of Hope, People
of Memory: Theologies of Memory and the Christian Historian
William Van Arragon,
Indiana University
Myth, History, and Humility:
The Christian Historian and Mythmaking
Aron Reppmann, Trinity
Christian College
Abuse of History in the
“Restoration” of the Catholic Liturgy:
What’s a Catholic Historian to Do?
Daniel Van Slyke, University of St. Mary of
the Lake/Mundelein Seminary
Comment: Eugene McCarraher,
Villanova University
Session 18: The Christian Historian as Servant
Chair:
William Vance Trollinger Jr., University of Dayton
For it is in Giving
that We Receive
Mark Norris, Grace
College (IN)
“And gladly wolde
he lerne and gladly teche”: Serving Undergraduate Students
David Ringer,
Southwest Missouri State University
Comment: A. Paul Kubricht,
LeTourneau University
Session 19: The Role of Historians in Christian Communities
Chair:
James Patterson, Union University
Historian as Missionary,
Novelist, and Theological Perspective Teacher
Gary Pranger, Oral Roberts
University
The Historian as Community
Member:
Some Uses and Abuses
of History
Glenn E. Sanders, Oklahoma
Baptist University
Comment: Jay Green, Covenant
College
4:30 pm ADJOURNMENT