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October 8-10, 2026
Boston College, Boston, MA, and Dover Retreat Center, Dover, MA
Contact bloechl@bc.edu or gschwandtner@fordham.edu for more information
Plenary Speakers
Werner Jeanrond (University of Oslo)
Jean-Luc Marion (Paris)
Natalie Depraz (University of Paris, Nanterre)
Judith Wolfe (Boston College)
Richard Kearney (Boston College)
Brian Robinette (Boston College)
Thursday, October 8, 2026 - Boston College
(Heights Room of the Corcoran Commons on campus)
09:30am – 11:00am
Parallel Paper Sessions
Paper Session 1A
Moderator: Shunci Cao (Boston College)
Thomas Elbourn III (Boston College & Assumption University), “The Face and the Cross: Ethics as Revelation in Levinas and Anabaptist Thought”
David Robertson (Australian Catholic University), “Expressions of the Absolute: Diverse Revelations in Light of the Traditionalist School”
Paper Session 1B
Moderator: Jeremie Kinzamba (Boston College)
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”
11:00am – 11:30am
Break
11:30am – 1:00pm
Parallel Paper Sessions
Paper Session 2A
Moderator: Magnus Imber (Boston College)
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
Moderator: Jesse Goodman (Boston College)
Charles A. Gillespie (Sacred Heart University), “Mythopoetic Hermeneutics and Dubious Revelation”
William Radovic (Australian Catholic University), “Revelation, Art, and Clearings: Where Does Revelation Happen?”
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Lunch
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Parallel Paper Sessions
Paper Session 3A
Moderator: Jeronimo Ayesta (Boston College)
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
Moderator: Nicolò Maggioni (UC Louvain)
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”
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Plenary Talk 1: Werner Jeanrond (University of Oslo), “Revelation and Belonging”
Moderator: Jeffrey Bloechl (Boston College)
Friday, October 9, 2026 - BC Connors Center (in Dover, MA)
All "A" Sessions are in the Charles River Room on the first floor.
All "B" Sessions and plenary talks are in the Chapel Room across from the main entrance.
09:30am – 11:00am
Plenary Talk 2: Natalie Depraz (University of Paris, Nanterre), “Revelation: The Surprise of God?”
Moderator: Crina Gschwandtner (Fordham University)
11:00am – 11:30am
Coffee Break
11:30am – 01:00pm
Parallel Paper Sessions
Paper Session 4A
Moderator: Julia Ji (Princeton Theological Seminary)
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
Moderator: Joshua Taccolini (Saint Louis Community College)
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”
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Lunch
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Parallel Paper Sessions
Paper Session 5A
Moderator: Anna Wera Wilms (Boston College)
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
Moderator: Matthew Kruger (Boston College)
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”
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Plenary Talk 3: Jean-Luc Marion (Académie Française), “Negative Conditions for a Thought of Revelation”
Moderator: Stephen Lewis (Franciscan University of Steubenville)
6:00pm
Reception followed by Dinner
Saturday, October 10, 2026 - BC Connors Center (in Dover, MA)
9:00am – 10:30am
Plenary Talk 4: Brian Robinette (Boston College), “Between Manifestation and Interruption: Registers of Revelation in an Upside-Down World”
Moderator: Brian Treanor (Loyola Marymount University)
10:30am – 11:00am
Coffee Break
11:00am – 12:30pm
Parallel Paper Sessions
Paper Session 6A
Moderator: Lauren Vick (Harvard Divinity School)
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
Moderator: Anselm Flores, OSB (Boston College)
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”
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Lunch
3:00pm – 4:30pm
Parallel Paper Sessions
Paper Session 7A
Moderator: Nathan Graves (Boston College)
Harris B. Bechtol (Texas A&M University - San Antonio), “Faith e(s)t Revelation”
Teresa Bartolomei (Catholic University of Portugal), “The Vision and the Word: Animadverte Sermonem, et Intellige Visionem”
Paper Session 7B
Moderator: Otniel Kish (Durham University)
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”
4:30pm – 6:00pm
Plenary Talk 5: Judith Wolfe (University of St. Andrews & Boston College), “Revelation and Imagination”
Moderator: Tamsin Jones
6:00pm
Dinner followed by reception
Sunday, October 11, 2026 - BC Connors Center (in Dover, MA)
09:00am – 10:30am
Parallel Paper Sessions
Paper Session 8A
Moderator: Kyril Wolfe (Franciscan Univ., Steubenville)
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
Moderator: Ella Mercer (Villanova University)
Lily Marie Kerhulas (Fordham University), “Revelation in Creation”
Erica Kath (UiT The Arctic University of Norway), “Bearing the Given: Receptivity, Revelation, and Virginia Woolf’s 'Moments of Being”
10:30am – 11:00am
Coffee Break
11:00am – 12:30pm
Plenary Talk 6: Richard Kearney (Boston College), “Revelation: A Tale of Two Trees”
Moderator: Neal DeRoo (Institute for Christian Studies)
1:00pm
Departure
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