Schedule

Friday, April 5th

• Registration, 1:00 pm—4 :00 pm (Grand Foyer, Business Building)
• Concurrent Session 1, 2:00 pm—3:15 pm
• BUSB 251
• Scott B. Key, "The Moral Aesthetic of Perelandra"
• Berniece Bruinius, "Steven's Hope for a Future: Imagining the Good Life in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day"
• BUSB 253
• B. Jesse Bettinger, "In Defense of Religion from a Scientific Metaphysics and Mind-Body Ontology"
• Roger N. Overton, "Virtues and the Case for Christ: Virtue Apologetics as the Connection Between Character Development and Evangelism"
• Concurrent Session 2, 3:30 pm—4:45 pm
• BUSB 251
• A. Jeff Mooney, "Jazz and Human Flourishing: Richard Weaver's Ideas Do Have Consequences"
• Dr. David A. Horner and Danny Simpson, "Music and the Moral Life: The Aesthetics of Eudaimonia"
• BUSB 253
• B. Jen Prickett, "Quakers and Human Flourishing"
• Jody McElrath, "Christian Apologetics in Community: the Schaeffers and L'Abri"
• Dinner break, 5:00 pm—7:00 pm
• Key Note Speaker, 7:00 pm—8:30 pm
• BUSB 132 
• James K.A. Smith, "Erotic Comprehension: The Bodily Basis of Meaning"

Saturday, April 6th

• Registration & Check in , 8:00 am—9:00 am (Grand Foyer, Business Building)
• Concurrent Session 3, 9:00 am—10:15 am
• BUSB 250
• A. Terry Mathis, "A Christian Account of Flourishing"
• Andrew Gustafson, "Christian Living in a Liquid Modernity: Faith Affections and Habits in the Face of Uncertainty"
• BUSB 251
• Jim Taylor, "Apologetics, Argumentation, and Imagination: A Strategy for the Whole Person"
• Edward Matusek, "The Good Life and the Coherence Criterion: A Corrective to James Peters’ 'Human Flourishing” Apologetic'"
• BUSB 253
• C. Adam Groza, "Berkelean Idealism and the Good Life"
• Joshua Harris, "Christian Philosophical Theology and the Ontological Difference: Heidegger as Hero and Villain"
• Key Note Speaker, 10:30 am—11:30 am
• BUSB 132
• James K.A. Smith, "Sanctified Perception: How Worship Works"
• LUNCH, 11:45 am—1:00 pm. Alumni Dinning Commons, included with registration.
• Concurrent Session 4, 1:15 pm—2:30 pm
• BUSB 250
• Robert Boyd, "General Revelation and the Theology of Religions"
• Jerry Buckner, "Orthodoxy and Human Flourishing"
• BUSB 251
• Jack Hafer, "Beauty as Truth: the Gospel in Film"
• David Isaacs, Erika Travis, Jennifer Tronti (Panel), "Profitable Inventions: Dystopian Visions, the Zombie Apocalypse, and the Good Life"
• BUSB 253
• Undergraduate Paper Session: Michael Sutherlin, "The Word and words"
• Undergraduate Paper Session: Aubrey Jakob, "A Fusion of Horizons and Human Flourishing" 
• Concurrent Session 5, 2:45 pm—4:00 pm
• BUSB 251
• Keith Hess, "How Significant is Religious Disagreement?"
• Melisa Williamson, "Neither Tree Nor Tumbleweed: Reimagining Christian Orthodoxy"
• BUSB 253
• Matthew Emerson, "Human Flourishing Through Re-Imagining Communion in Revelation 19: Confronting Evil by Incorporating Christ's Vistory"
• Kevin Wong, "Hardened Hearts and Free Pharaohs"