Wednesday, March 02, 2005
(6:57 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
The Wesleyan Theological Society
I will be presenting my paper, entitled "Repeating Wesley," at the Philosophy session of the Wesleyan Theological Society Friday at 1:00 at Seattle Pacific University (conference theme: "The Church: Working Out the Body and Blood of Christ on the 8th Day of Creation"). My paper will address certain impasses in contemporary radical thought and some ways that John Wesley can help us think through and beyond those impasses. It makes absolutely perfect sense and is, in fact, so overwhelmingly convincing that it will likely go down in history as the foundational moment of 21st-century political theory. In my opinion, it is not, however, in keeping with the theme of the conference except in an indirect way, due to the fact that I wrote my proposal based on the previous year's CFP. As such, I fully expect to be booed off stage; those planning on attending my session should plan on either packing rotten vegetables or purchasing them on arrival.I do not plan on pursuing any blogging-related program activities Thursday through Sunday of this week. Anthony has agreed to head up the confessional this week, and I'm sure that our many co-bloggers will be able to pick up the slack for a few days.
I've really been happy with the high level of group participation we've been having for several weeks now -- even today, we had four people posting. It probably tends to reduce the comment counts for individual posts, but I think we've learned that a lot of comments are not necessarily a sign of a highly productive discussion.
On a completely unrelated note, I will be seeing many of the members of the so-called "Vanderbilt School" at the conference -- in fact, my return flight is incredibly inconvenient and sucky because it was the only time I could get with a reasonable price and that would allow me to see the hard-hitting Vanderbilt trifecta session Saturday afternoon (Theology V). Here's a brief prècis of the session:
- Joshua Davis, Vanderbilt Divinity School (Ph.D. Candidate), "'A Violence of the Instant': Narrative Ecclesiology, Michel de Certeau, and the Church's Missionary Identity."
- Nathan Kerr, Vanderbilt Divinity School (Ph.D. Candidate), "Against Ecclesiology: Mission, Event, Itinerancy."
- J. David Belcher, Vanderbilt Divinity School (M.A. Candidate), "'O Earth, O Sea, Cover Not Thou Their Blood!': Catholic Spirit and John Wesley's 'Postcolonial' Church."
I'll also note in closing that I agree totally with Angela's most recent post.
