Parallel Paper Sessions

Paper Session 1A

• Thomas Elbourn III (Boston College & Assumption University), “The Face and the Cross: Ethics ‘For the Least of These’ as Revelation in Levinas and Anabaptist Thought”

• David Robertson (Australian Catholic University), “Revelation Among the Plurality of Religions”

Paper Session 1B

• David Schütz (Australian Catholic University), “Ratzinger on Bonaventure on Revelation, and Schmaus’ Critique and Ratzinger’s Correspondence with Rahner in 1956”

• Sarah Griffin-Troutner (Boston College), “The Contemplation of Nature in Maximus’s Ambigua to John: The Theological Significance of Creation as a Symbol”

Break 

Parallel Paper Sessions

Paper Session 2A

• Matías Ignacio Pizzi (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), “Performativity and Verbum: Toward a Language of Revelation in the Nouvelle Phénoménologie Française”

• William C. Woody, SJ (Boston College), “Prophetic and Pathetic Speech: Human Horizons for a 'Pathos-With' the Divine”

Paper Session 2B

• Charles A. Gillespie (Sacred Heart University), “Mythopoetic Hermeneutics and Dubious Revelation”

• William Rodovic (Australian Catholic University), “Revelation, Art, and Clearings: Where Does Revelation Happen?”

Lunch 

Parallel Paper Sessions

Paper Session 3A

• Maria Gallego-Ortiz (Boston College), “Paul Ricoeur on Productive Imagination and the Hermeneutics of Revelation”

• B. Keith Putt (Samford University), “Divine Disclosure and the Risk of Testimony: Revelation as Anamorphic, Anatheistic, and Apophatic”

Paper Session 3B

• Robyn Horner (Australian Catholic University), “Revelation: Tracing God in Experience”

• Andreas Gonçalves Lind, SJ (Pontificia Università Gregoriana/Loyola University Chicago - John Felice Rome Center), “How Is Revelation Possible? From Phenomenological Reduction to Hermeneutic Decision”

Plenary Talk 1: Werner Jeanrond (University of Oslo), “Revelation and Belonging”

Plenary Talk 2: Natalie Depraz (University of Paris, Nanterre), “Revelation: The Surprise of God?”

Coffee Break 

Parallel Paper Sessions 

Paper Session 4A

• Jodie McNeilly (Australian Catholic University), “Constituting Religious Belief in Experiencing Faith: A Husserlian Contribution to Revelation”

• Neal DeRoo (Institute for Christian Studies), “Godly Experience: Thinking Revelation Beyond Experiences of God”

Paper Session 4B

• Thomas Breedlove (Duke University), “Manifestation as a Possibility of Revelation: Reconsidering Finite and Infinite in Jean-Luc Marion and Gregory of Nyssa”

• Lucas Scott Wright (Texas A&M University), “Love Strong as Death: Revelation, Orientation and History in Rosenzweig and Marion”

Lunch 

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Paper Session 5A

• Paola Pruett-Vergara (Villanova University), “The Incarnation, the Sculptural Body, and the Work of Art in Gadamer’s Truth and Method”

• Richard Colledge (Australian Catholic University), “The Known, the Believed, and the Revealed: Of Plato, Gadamer, Merleau-Ponty, and the Possibility of Theology”

Paper Session 5B

• Stephen Lewis (Franciscan University of Steubenville), “Anamorphosis and Communion”

• Walter Schweidler (Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingoldstadt), “The Needed Surprise: Temporality in Jean-Luc Marion’s Concept of Revelatory Experience”

Plenary Talk 3: Jean-Luc Marion (Académie Française), “Critical Conditions of Revelation”

Dinner followed by reception

Plenary Talk 4: Brian Robinette (Boston College), “Between Manifestation and Interruption: Registers of Revelation in an Upside-Down World”

Coffee Break 

Parallel Paper Sessions 

Paper Session 6A

• Jack Nuelle (Loyola University Chicago), “Eucharistic Revelation: The Eucharist as Site of Personal and Ecclesial Interpretation”

• Bruno Cassarà (Fordham University), “Luigi Giussani’s The Religious Sense: Prolegomena to a Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Religious Experience”

Paper Session 6B

• Zafar Iqbal (University of Karachi / IEF – Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos, Universidade de Coimbra), “Givenness and Presence: A Phenomenology of Revelation through Marion and Ibn 'ArabīZ. Iqbal”

• Kadir Filiz (Marmara University, Istanbul), “The Human as Mirror: Miʿraj and the Phenomenology of Revelation”

Lunch 

Parallel Paper Sessions 

Paper Session 7A

• Harris B. Bechtol (Texas A&M University - San Antonio), “Faith e(s)t Revelation”

• Teresa Bartolomei (Catholic University of Portugal), “From Vision to Apparition: The Interdependence of the Phenomenological and Hermeneutical Approaches in Reconstructing the Experience of Faith as the Reception of God’s Self-Revelation”

Paper Session 7B

• Brady DeHoust (Texas A&M University), “The Problem of Communicability and the Promise of Philosophical Hermeneutics: Sketching a Gadamerian Phenomenology of the Revealed Word”

• Max Schaefer (University of Prince Edward Island), “Revelation Beyond Interpretation: Pre-Interpretive Genesis and the Limits of Sense”

Plenary Talk 5: Judith Wolfe (Boston College), “Revelation and Imagination”

Dinner followed by reception

Parallel Paper Sessions 

Paper Session 8A

• Carl Scerri (St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, Ireland), “From Event to History: Rethinking the Phenomenology of Revelation”

• Jesse D. Hill (McMaster Divinity College), “Nihilation Preceding Revelation: A Structural Element in Christian Practice”

Paper Session 8B

• Lily Marie Kerhulas (Fordham University), “Revelation in Creation”

• Erica Kath (UiT The Arctic University of Norway), “If Everything Saturates! Revelation, Phenomenological Indeterminacy, and Woolf’s ‘Moments of Being’”

Coffee Break 

Plenary Talk 6: Richard Kearney (Boston College), “Incarnations from Below”

Departure