9:00 – 9:30 – Registration, coffee, tea, rolls (3^rd floor hallway)

9:30 – 9:40 – Welcome and instructions for the day (Room 350)

9:45 – 11:45 – Paper Session 1

1A, "Metaphysics and Poetics" (Room 350):
Chair:
Lucy Pick, Lecturer in the History of Christianity in the Divinity School and Associate Faculty in the Department of History, University of Chicago

• Joseph Ballan, University of Chicago Divinity School, Abraham, Philosopher: Maimonides on the Emergence of Monotheism and the Legitimacy of Speculation
  
• George Tsakiridis, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Knowing God through the Patristic Fathers: Basil and Ambrose on the Hexameron
  
• Silas Morgan, Duke University Divinity School, Lacan, Language and the Self: A Postmodern Vision of Spirituality
  
• David Webb, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Basho's Haiku and a Deeper Relationship with God Through Creation
  

1B,"Knowing God: Methodological Considerations" (Room 302A):
Chair:
David Hogue, Professor of Pastoral Theology and Counseling, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary

• Daniel Deen, Florida State University, Why Science and Spirituality Need Each Other: Toward A Theory of Dialogue
  
• Brian Majerus, Bethel Seminary, Toward an Authentic Knowing of God: Use of the Differentiation-of-Self Construct in Relational Spirituality
  
• Arvin Gouw, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, How Do We Know God? Theological Epistemology in Light of Mind-Brain Perspectives
  
• Nicholas DiDonato, Princeton Theological Seminary, The (Pancritically) Rational Theist: Oxymoron or Option?
  

1C, "Contemplative Pathways" (Room 308):
Chair:
Mary Frolich, Associate Professor of Spirituality, Catholic Theological Union

• Zvi Bellin, Loyola College in Maryland, Searching for Meaning: An Encounter with the Sacred in Our World
  
• Daniel Durbin, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Intercessory Prayer in a post-Newtonian World: An Evaluation of Medical Studies Concerning Intercessory Prayer
  
• Greg Douras, University of Chicago Divinity School, 'Naturally': Knowing God in the Yoga Sûtra attributed to Patañjali
  

• Scott Rudolph, Oikos Student Coordinator (2008-2009), Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary
  
• Kyohei Mikawa, Oikos Networking Coordinator, Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary
  
• Ashley Horan, Oikos Student Coordinator (2009-2010), Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary
  
• Simon Leverett, Oikos Energy Analyst, Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary Facilities Manager
  

2A, "Economies of Spirituality" (Room 350):
Co-Chairs:
Barbara Strassberg, Professor of Sociology, Aurora University
Jennifer Ayers, Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics, McCormick Theological Seminary

• Stephen E. McMillin, University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration, Spiritual Capital: A Useful Scientific Framework for Describing How We Experience the Sacred
  
• Paul Voelker, Loyola University Chicago, Materialist Spirituality?
  

2B, "Images of God: Cosmic Christ, Imago Dei, Divine Sophia" (Room 302A):
Chair:
Philip Hefner, Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago

• Joshua Herzfeldt-Kamprath, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Cosmic Christ, Cosmic Trinity: Imago Dei and Cosmic Reality
• George Simon Robert Watson, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto, From Saint Augustine to Charles Darwin: Re-Imagining the imago Dei in Light of Evolution
  
• Natalia Li, McCormick Theological Seminary, Ecumenical Mysticism of Divine Sophia in the Work of Russian Orthodox Theologian Vladimir Soloviev
  

2C, "Chaos and Emergence," (Room 308):
Chair:
Grace Wolf-Chase, Research Astronomer, Adler Planetarium

• Michelle Olsen, Luther Seminary, Order, Chaos, and Scandal: A Survey of the Interactions between Pure Mathematics and the Divine
  
• Bradford McCall, Regent University, Kenosis and Emergence: A Fruitful Exchange
  
• Michael Ross, University of St. Michael's College/University of Toronto, Scared Sacred: Discovering the Divine in Chaos, Breakdown and Hope
  

3A, "Interdisciplinarity, Plurality, Ambiguity" (Room 350):
Chair:
Michael Hogue, Assistant Professor of Theology, Meadville Lombard Theological School

• Kenneth Reynhout, Princeton Theological Seminary, Ambiguous Others: Theology and Science in the Work of David Tracy
  
• William Myatt, Loyola University Chicago, From Method to Form: David Tracy as a Model for Doing Theology in a Pluralistic Context
  
• Andrea Hollingsworth, Loyola University Chicago, The Ambiguity of Transdisciplinarity: Negation, Ecstasy, and the Disciplinary Other
  

3B, "Minding God" (Room 302A):
Chair:
William Schmidt, Associate Professor of Pastoral Studies, Loyola University

• Sung-Sup Kim, Princeton Theological Seminary, How Does God Know Us? The Problem of God's Knowledge in Thomas Aquinas
  
• Chris Dowdeswell, Toronto School of Theology, Towards a "Cognitive Theology": A Theological Examination of the Cognitive Science of Religion
  

3C, "Suffering and Liberation" (Room 308):
Chair:
Sharon Welch, Provost, Meadville Lombard Theological School

• Augustine Duru, Catholic Theological Union, The Cross and the Lynching Tree: Union of Symbol and Meaning in James Cone's Soteriology of the Cross
  
• Kevin Considine, Loyola University Chicago, Creating a "Political Mysticism": Knowing God through Others' Suffering in the Theology of Johann Baptist Metz
  
• Cynthia R. Wallace, Loyola University Chicago, "Spanning the Gap": Annie Dillard as Ricoeur's Suffering Creator