The Scripture&Theology Forum

For the record, here’s the line up of our last panel at EuARe earlier this year in Bologna. The general topic was: The Diversity of Hermeneutical Approaches.

Wednesday, 22. July (6 hours), Plesso Belmeloro, Aula G

8:30-9:30

Relationship between Dogmatics and Exegesis I
CHAIR: Tomas Bokedal

• Jan Philipp Turck (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany):
  Dogmatics as Consequent Exegesis
• Thomas Graff (Cambridge University, United Kingdom):
  Christ the Non-Word: Holy Saturday and the Limits of Soteriology in Hans Urs von Balthasar

9:45-10:45

Relationship between Dogmatics and Exegesis II
CHAIR: Roger Revell

• Frederike van Oorschot (Forschungsstätte der Evangelischen Studiengemeinschaft (FEST), Heidelberg, Germany), Elisabeth Maikranz (Heidelberg University, Germany): Scripture as primary intertext for theology. Interdisciplinary Perspective on Theology’s relation to biblical texts

11:00-13:15

The Diversity of Hermeneutical Approaches
CHAIR: Jan Levin Propach

• Mart Jan Luteijn (Evangelische Theologische Faculteit Leuven, Belgium):
  Unity in Diversity: A Comparative Analysis of Theological and Contextual Readings
• Tomas Bokedal (NLA Bergen, Norway & University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom): Bridging the Gap Between Past and Present in Bible Translation: A Dialogue on Method with Eugene Nida, Michael Straus and Hans-Georg Gadamer
• Ryan Haecker (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom):
  Origen Against Deconstruction: A Postmodern Patristic Apologia

Lunch 13:15-14:15

14:15-15:15

Hermeneutical Tasks in Theology
CHAIR: Elisabeth Maikranz

• Lena Mausbach (Universität Münster, Germany):
  Existential Dogmatics – A perspective on the anthropological potential of sin
• Gianluca Paolucci (Istituto Italiano di Studi Germanici / Università Roma Tre, Italy): “Feel and explain”. On Herder’s Biblical Hermeneutics

15:30-16:30

The Future of Scripture and Theology
CHAIRS: Roger Revell and Michael Borowski

• Nikolaos Asproulis (Volos Academy for Theological Studies, Greece)
• Tomas Bokedal (NLA Bergen, Norway & University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
• Mark Elliott (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom)
• Georg Fischer (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
• Donald Wood (University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom)

Thursday, 23. June (3 hours) Plesso Belmeloro, Aula F

10:15-11:15

Innerbiblical Interpretation
CHAIRS: Michael Borowski and Elisabeth Maikranz

• André Villeneuve (Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, Michigan, USA):
  The Way, the Truth, and the Life in the Offices of Priest, Prophet, and King: A Theological Framework for the Restoration of the Human Person
• Georg Fischer (University of Innsbruck, Austria):
  How Jeremiah reads the Hebrew Bible, and what we can learn from it

11:30-12:30

Historical Approaches to Scriptural Interpretation
CHAIR: Georg Fischer

• Jacob Zellmer (University of California, San Diego):
  Did Spinoza Interpret Scripture Dogmatically?
• Christian Grund Sørensen (Aalborg University, Denmark):
  God of peace? Interpretations of the present and the divine. The holistic epistemology of Kaj Munk.