human families: identities, relationships, and

College Theology Society

Human Families:

Identities, Relationships, and Responsibilities

Sixty-Sixth Annual Convention in conjunction with

The National Association

of Baptist Professors of Religion

Thursday, May 28 – Saturday, May 30, 2020

Thursday Evening Opening 5:30-6:30pm (CT)

Online Auditorium

Welcome, Business Meeting, Award Presentations

Mary Doak University of San Diego (CA)

President, College Theology Society

Thursday Plenary 7:00-8:30pm (CT)

Online Auditorium

Convention Co-Chair and Session Moderator

Jacob Kohlhaas, Loras College

Identifying Patterns in the Relationship between

Christianity, Culture, and the Family

Stephanie Coontz

Evergreen State College

Stephanie Coontz is the Director of Research and Public Education for the Council on Contemporary Families

and emeritus faculty of History and Family Studies at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She

currently serves as an advisor to MTV for its anti-bias campaign.

Coontz's articles have appeared in both popular and academic media, from The New York Times and the Wall

Street Journal to the Chronicle of Higher Education, and the Journal of Marriage and Family. Read selected

articles.

She is the author of five books on gender, family, and history, including Marriage, A History: How Love

Conquered Marriage, which was cited in the US Supreme Court decision on marriage equality. She has edited

and contributed chapters to more than 25 other books, and her writings have been translated into a dozen

languages. See a complete list of her books.

As a passionate advocate for academics in public life, Coontz conducts media training workshops around the

country, both for professional groups and at academic institutions, including Notre Dame, Columbia, and UCLA.

Learn more about Coontz's speaking and workshops.

https://www.stephaniecoontz.com/articles

https://www.stephaniecoontz.com/articles

https://www.stephaniecoontz.com/books

Friday, May 29

9:00-10:30am (CT)

Online Room #1

National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion

Mark Medley, Baptist Seminary of Kentucky (KY)

(Convener)

Theme: Contemplation, Transformation, and Resistance: The Work and

Influence of Howard Thurman, Part One

You are a Child of God: A Humble Habitus in Howard Thurman, Julia

Foote, and Sojourner Truth

Rev. Kate Hanch, First St. Charles United Methodist Church, St.

Charles (MO)

Devastating Sincerity: Creative Iconoclasm as Non-Violent Strategy

Marc Boswell, Together for Hope (LA)

Friday, May 29

9:00-10:30am (CT)

Online Room #2

American Catholic Life & Thought

Louis T. Albarran, Holy Cross College (IN)

Paul G Monson, Sacred Heart Seminary & School of Theology (WI)

(Conveners)

Families of Women Religious in the South: Race, Mission, and Conflict

The Sinsinawa Dominicans and the Civil Rights Movement in Mobile

John Waldmeir, Loras College (IA)

Friday, May 29

9:00-10:30am (CT)

Online Room #3

Systematic Theology

George Gilmore, Spring Hill College (AL)

(Convener)

W.E.B. Du Bois’ Practical and Discursive Struggle for Freedom: A Pathway

for a Constructive Understanding of Peoplehood

Joseph Drexler-Dreis, Xavier University (LA)

Respondent: Chanelle Robinson, Boston College (MA)

Neither Confirm Nor Deny: Theologies of Passing Comments and

Iconography of Family

Charles A. Gillespie, Sacred Heart University (CT)

Respondent: Craig A. Ford, Jr., Saint Norbert College (WI)

Friday, May 29

9:00-10:30am (CT)

Online Room #4

Sexuality, Relationships, Marriage, & Family Life

Mary Beth Yount, Neumann University (PA)

Craig A Ford, Jr., Saint Norbert College (WI)

(Conveners)

Dulles and the Digital: The Church and Family in the 21st Century

Katherine G. Schmidt, Molloy College (NY)

Red hats, the Green Mile, and the Pale Horseman: Cardinals, Catholics, and

the Death Penalty Debate

Michael Canaris, Loyola University Chicago (IL)

Friday, May 29

9:00-10:30am (CT)

Online Room #5

Spirituality

Daniel P. Horan, Catholic Theological Union (IL)

(Convener)

The Wounds We Carry

Sandra Yocum, University of Dayton (OH)

Resistance, Persistence, and Solidarity: Practicing Spiritual Wisdom in/as

Families Today

Marcus Mescher, Xavier University (OH)

Friday, May 29

9:00-10:30am (CT)

Online Room #6

Theology, Ecology, & Natural Science

Lucas Briola, Saint Vincent College (PA)

Paul Schutz, Santa Clara University (CA)

(Conveners)

One Touch of Nature Makes the Whole World Kin

Benjamin J. Hohman, Boston College (MA)

Understanding (in) Our Ecological Family: Hermeneutic Insights

James Dechant, Fordham University (NY)

Friday, May 29

9:00-10:30am (CT)

Online Room #7

Anthropology, Psychology, & Religion

Kim Humphrey, Boston College (MA)

Julia Brumbaugh, Regis University (CO)

(Conveners)

Trauma and the Black Gaze of God

Burton Fulmer, Christian Brothers University (TN

Amoris Laetitia and Haidt's Moral Elevation

Sandra A. Ham, Center for Health and the Social Sciences, University

of Chicago

Friday, May 29 Coffee Break

Friday, May 29

10:45am-12:15pm (CT)

Online Room #1


Steve Harmon, Gardner-Webb University (NC)

(Convener)

Theme: Baptist Reflections on the Question of Universal Salvation

Ambiguities of Eternity: Baptistic Reflections on Recent (and Ancient) Turns

to Universalism

Spencer Boersma, Acadia Divinity College (Nova Scotia, Canada)

“Saving” Universalism (?): A Baptistic Assessment of Universal Salvation’s

Viability

Rev. Christopher Johnston, MA student, Acadia Divinity College

(Nova Scotia, Canada)

Friday, May 29

10:45am-12:15pm (CT)

Online Room #2

The Art & Practice of Teaching Theology

Timothy Hanchin, Villanova University (PA)

Tracey Lamont, Loyola University New Orleans (LA)

(Conveners)

Teaching Our Students to Fail (like Jesus)

Andrew Staron, Regis University (CO)

Stress and the Need to Succeed: Reimaging the Stories We Tell Young

Women about What Really Matters

Jessica Wrobleski, Saint Joseph Academy (OH)

Friday, May 29

10:45am-12:15pm (CT)

Online Room #3

Scripture

Christopher McMahon, Saint Vincent College (PA)

(Convener)

Women in Leviticus: The Legislation and the Legislators

James Zeitz, Our Lady of the Lake University (TX)

Who’s Who in the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats (Matt. 25:31-46)

Alexis Doval, St. Mary’s College (CA)

Self-Exaltation, Material Possessions, and Hating One’s Family: A Narrative

Reading of Luke 14

Kevin Schemenauer, Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of

Theology (IN)

Friday, May 29

10:45am-12:15pm (CT)

Online Room #4

Symbol, Ritual, & Sacrament

Xavier Montecel, Boston College (MA)

Randall Woodard, Saint Leo University (FL)

(Conveners)

Worship and family structures in an Anglo-Latino parish

Pierre Hegy, Adelphi University (NY)

The Long Vigil: Exploring the Rituals and Spiritual Practices that Shaped

One Family’s Experience of Illness and Death

Katherine A. Greiner, Carroll College (MT)

Friday, May 29

10:45am-12:15pm (CT)

Online Room #5

History of Christian Life & Thought

Darius O. Makuja, LeMoyne College (NY)

Sandra Ham, Independent Scholar

(Conveners)

The Ascent of Mount Carmel Macchiato? The Promise, Perils, and Limits of

Monastic Spirituality for Busy People in a Consumer Society

George Faithful, Dominican University of California (CA)

Daniel Lord, S.J. “The Restless Flame” on Human Families: Identity,

Relationships, and Responsibilities

Stephen Werner, Saint Louis University (MO)

Broken For Us: Christ, Covenant, and the Hypostatic Union

Brandon R. Peterson, University of Utah (UT)

Friday, May 29

10:45am-12:15pm (CT)

Online Room #6

Comparative Theology

Mara Brecht, Loyola University Chicago (IL)

Axel M. Oaks Takacs, Seton Hall University (NJ)

(Conveners)

Marriage as Covenant and Covenant as Marriage: Rethinking Catholic

Theology through Jewish Insights

Sam Zhai, Boston College (MA)

A Comparative Theological Examination of Family—through the lens of

religio-legal discourse

Shoshana Razel Gordon-Guedalia, Harvard University, (MA)

Friday, May 29

10:45am-12:15pm (CT)

Online Room #7

Justice & Peace

Linda Land-Closson, Regis University (CO)


(Conveners)

Centering the Margins of Race and Sexual Orientation

Loving the Other through Loving One’s Own: Leveraging the Imagery of

Family to Fight Racism

Stephen Calme, Marquette University (WI)

Love and Struggle: LGBTQ Homeless Youth Perspectives on Faith and

Family

Barbara Anne Kozee, Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara

University (CA)

Friday, May 29

10:45am-12:15pm (CT)

Online Room #8

Ecclesiology

Jennifer Kryszak, St. Thomas University (FL)

Susan Reynolds, Candler School of Theology at Emory University

(GA)

(Conveners)

African Plural Marriage: A Challenge to the Church in Africa as God's

Family

Darius Makuja, LeMoyne College (NY)

Ecclesiological Developments in the Majority World

Joseph Ogbonnaya, Marquette University (WI)

Friday, May 29 Lunch

Friday, May 29

1:00-2:30pm (CT)

Online Room #1


Mark S. Medley, Baptist Seminary of Kentucky (KY)

(Convener)

Theme: “For here we have no lasting city, but we are looking for the city that

is to come” (Heb 13:14): Engaging the Ecclesiological Visions of Gerald

Schlabach’s A Pilgrim People and Barry Harvey’s Baptists and the Catholic

Tradition

Engaging Gerald Schlabach’s A Pilgrim People

Elizabeth Newman, Independent Scholar

Response: Gerald Schlabach, St. Thomas University (MN)

Engaging Barry Harvey’s Baptists and the Catholic Tradition

Kelly Johnson, University of Dayton (OH)

Response: Barry Harvey, Baylor University (TX)

Friday, May 29

1:00-2:30pm (CT)

Online Room #2




(Conveners)

Cancelling the Drag Show: GLBTQIA ‘Identity, Relationships, and

Responsibilities’ Case Study at a Jesuit University

James Bretzke, John Carroll University (OH)

Addressing the Unaddressed: The Experience of Institutional Change around

Sexuality in Catholic Higher Education—Theological Insights

Mark Levand, Villanova University (PA)

Friday, May 29

1:00-2:30pm (CT)

Online Room #3

Justice & Peace

Julie Rubio, Jesuit School of Theology (CA)

Jason King, St. Vincent College (PA

(Conveners)

Sex, Love, & Families: Connecting Family Ethics and Social Justice

Born This Way?: The Challenge of Trans/Gender Identity for Catholic

Theology

Craig A. Ford, Jr., Saint Norbert’s College (WI)

Make a Ruckus! Youth Protest, Solidarity, and the Common Good

Mary M. Doyle Roche, College of the Holy Cross (MA)

Mixed Status Families, Solidarity, and Love

Victor Carmona, University of San Diego (CA)

Friday, May 29

1:00-2:30pm (CT)

Online Room #4

Book Panel:

Full, Conscious, and Active: Lay Participation in the Church’s Dialogue with

the World (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2019).

Moderator:

Robert S. White, Gregorian University and Lay Centre at Foyer

Unitas, Rome, Italy

Panelists:

William Portier, University of Dayton (OH)

Nicholas Rademacher, Cabrini College (PA)

Katherine Schmidt, Molloy College (NY)

Friday, May 29

1:00-2:30pm (CT)

Online Room #5




(Conveners)

Green Solidarity: An Ecowomanist Reflection on Hildegard’s Viriditas

Chanelle Robinson, Boston College (MA)

Ecological Education for Family: An Integrated Model from Pope Francis’

Laudato Si’ and Thomas Traherne

Dung Trang, Villanova University (PA)

Friday, May 29 Coffee Break

Friday Plenary

3:00-4:30pm

Online Auditorium

Convention Co-Chairs and Session Moderators

Jacob Kohlhaas, Loras College

Mary Roche Doyle, College of the Holy Cross

Other People’s Children:

Making Solidarity Central to

Catholic Teaching about

Families

Darlene Fozard Weaver

Duquesne University

Dr. Fozard Weaver is the author of Self Love and

Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2002)

and The Acting Person and Christian Moral Life

(Georgetown University Press, 2011). She is editor of

and contributor to The Ethics of Embryo Adoption and

the Catholic Tradition (Springer/Kluwer, co-edited with

Sarah-Vaughan Brakman).

She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of

Religious Ethics and Conversations in Religion and

Theology. Her work has been supported by the

Louisville Institute, the Center of Theological Inquiry,

and the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in

Theology and Religion.

Responding

LaReine Marie Mosely, SND

Notre Dame of Maryland University LaReine Marie Mosely, Ph.D. is an assistant professor of

Religious Studies at Notre Dame of Maryland University

and a Sister of Notre Dame of the Toledo, Ohio, Province.

Saturday, May 30

9:00-10:30am (CT)

Online Room #1


Derek C. Hatch, Howard Payne University (TX)

(Convener)

Theme: Contemplation, Transformation, and Resistance: The Work and

Influence of Howard Thurman, Part Two

Contemplative Engagement: Howard Washington Thurman and Martin

Luther King, Jr. on Transformation and Resistance

Dumas A. Harshaw, Jr., Shaw Divinity School (NC)

Paul and the Disinherited: A Reflection on Howard Thurman’s Approaches

to the Pauline Epistles

David Grady, MDiv student, Baptist Seminary of Kentucky (KY)

Saturday, May 30

9:00-10:30am (CT)

Online Room #2

Ethics

Nancy M. Rourke, Canisius College (NY)

Kari-Shane Davis Zimmerman, College of St. Benedict/St. John’s

University (MN)

(Conveners)

The Vital Cell: Subsidiarity and a Family-Centered Approach to

Accompanying Persons With Mental Illness

Dana Dillon, Providence College (RI)

Respondent:


Saturday, May 30

9:00-10:30am (CT)

Online Room #3

Ecclesiology



(GA)

(Conveners)

Subsidiarity and Masculinity: Empowering Family and Church

Eric Dart, Gannon University (PA)

Keeping the Family Central: A Comparative Analysis of Quadragesimo Anno

and Familiaris Consortio

Vanesa Johnson Day, Loyola University of Maryland (MD)

Saturday, May 30

9:00-10:30am (CT)

Online Room #4

Systematic Theology


(Convener)

Desires, Pleasure and the Epistemology of the Natural Law in QPOC (Queer

People of Color) Perspective

Craig A. Ford, Jr., Saint Norbert College (WI)

Respondent: Charles A. Gillespie, Sacred Heart University (CT)

Ecclesial Re-Constitution of Sexual Difference

Kristin M. Haas, University of Notre Dame (IN)

Respondent: Vincent Birch, The Catholic University of America (DC)

Saturday, May 30

9:00-10:30am (CT)

Online Room #5

Mysticism & Politics

Eileen M. Fagan, College of Mount Saint Vincent (NY)

Janice Thompson, King’s College (PA)

(Conveners)

The Demonic in Paul Tillich’s “The Socialist Decision”

S. Kyle Johnson, Boston College (MA)

Saturday, May 30

9:00-10:30am (CT)

Online Room #6




(Conveners)

Let's Talk about Sex....Baby? Catholic Sexuality Education for Children and

Adolescents

MaryAnn Gratton, Villa Maria Academy (PA)

Toward a More Inclusive Account of Hooking up: Challenges and Lessons

from LGBTQ+ Persons

Kari Shane-Zimmerman, College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's

University (MN)

Saturday, May 30

9:00-10:30am (CT)

Online Room #8

Feminisms, Gender, & Theology

Cynthia Cameron, Rivier University (NH)

Katherine Greiner, Carroll College (MT)

(Conveners)

Mothering the Dead


Performing the maternal role in a Foreign Land: Challenges and Advantages

Adeinev M. Reyes-Espiritu, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

(Belgium)

Saturday, May 30

9:00-10:30am (CT)

Online Room #7

Open Forum: Conversations in Jesuit Higher Education

Jessica Wrobleski, Saint Joseph Academy (OH)

Andrew Staron, Regis University (CO)

(Moderators)

Coffee Break

Saturday Plenary 10:45am-12:15pm (CT)

Online Auditorium

Convention Co-Chair and Session Moderator

Mary Roche Doyle, College of the Holy Cross

Mixed Status Families and Brokenness:

Will Our Fractured Relationships Heal?

Victor Carmona

University of San Diego

Victor is an Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of San Diego. He earned his

doctorate at the University of Notre Dame. Before becoming a Latino moral theologian, Victor served migrants

and urban communities with the Mexican Catholic Conference of Bishops and the Missionary Oblates of Mary

Immaculate; experiences which continue to influence his thinking and teaching. Victor authored “Theologizing

Immigration” in Blackwell’s Companion to Latino/a Theology and has also published with the Journal of Catholic

Hispanic Theologians of the United States as well as Liguorian magazine.

Saturday, May 30 Lunch

Saturday, May 30

1:00-2:30pm (CT)

Online Room #1




(Conveners)

Jesus Christ as Gender Fluid?: A Christological Approach to the Question

of Gender

Emily Jendzejec, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry

(MA)

The Anti-Social Christ

Justin Leavitt Pearl, Seton Hill University (PA) and St. Vincent

College (PA)

Saturday, May 30

1:00-2:30pm (CT)

Online Room #2

Anthropology, Psychology, & Religion



(Conveners)

Natural Law and Sexual Anthropology: A Critique of New Natural Law

Theory

Christina Astorga, University of Portland (OR)

Birth Control and Ecological Responsibility

William French, Loyola University of Chicago (IL)

Saturday, May 30

1:00-2:30pm (CT)

Online Room #3

American Catholic Life & Thought

Louis T. Albarran, Holy Cross College (IN)

Paul G Monson, Sacred Heart Seminary & School of Theology (WI)

(Conveners)

The Alabama Roots of the Missionary Cenacle Family: Panel Discussion

on William Portier's Every Catholic An Apostle: A Life of Thomas A. Judge,

CM, 1868-1933

Panelists:

Patrick Carey, Marquette University (WI)


Nick Rademacher, Cabrini University (PA)

Respondent:

William Portier, Dayton University (OH)

Saturday, May 30

1:00-2:30pm (CT)

Online Room #4

Systematic Theology


(Convener)

The Trinitarian Circumincession of Creation: New Developments in

Rahner’s Realsymbol

Henry Shea, University of Oxford (UK)

Respondent:

Brett McLaughlin, Boston College School of Theology and Ministry

(MA)

The Collective Consciousness of the Church: An Ecclesiological Application

of the Psychological Analogy of the Trinity

Vincent Birch, The Catholic University of America (DC)

Respondent:

Kristin M. Haas, University of Notre Dame (IN)

Saturday, May 30

1:00-2:30pm (CT)

Online Room #5

Justice & Peace

Linda Land-Closson, Regis University (CO)


(Conveners)

Learning from Experience

Accompanying Families in the 'Irregular Situation' of Opioid Addiction: The

Work of an Addiction Recovery Coach

Todd Whitmore, University of Notre Dame (IN)

Where Do We Fit: Interpreting the Sacred to Understand Who and What

Family is for Foster Care Youth

Kerri Tokarski, Independent Scholar (CO)

Saturday, May 30

1:00-2:30pm (CT)

Online Room #6

Philosophy of Religion

Daniel Rober, Sacred Heart University (CT)

Michael McGravey, Elms College (MA)

(Conveners)

Family as “Domestic Church” and the Credibility of Faith

Patrick X. Gardner, Christopher Newport University (VA)

Saturday, May 30

1:00-2:30pm (CT)

Online Room #7

Spirituality

Daniel P. Horan, Catholic Theological Union (IL)

(Convener)

‘Love on Steroids’: The Unrealized Cost of Kenotic Caregiving Among

Mothers of Children with a Disability

Melody Escobar, Oblate School of Theology (TX)

Religious Rules of Life as a Source for Formation of Families

Ramon Luzarraga, Benedictine University Mesa (AZ)

Saturday, May 30

1:00-2:30pm (CT)

Online Room #8

The Arts, Media, Literature, and Religion

Charles Gillespie, Sacred Heart University (CT)

(Convener)

From Justice to Nemesis: Watching Working Girl and 9to5 with Mary Daly

Kelly Stewart, Vanderbilt University (TN)

Big Men on the Small Screen: Masculinities, Catholicism, and Television in

the Early Twenty-First Century

Derek Hostetter, University of Dayton (OH)

National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion Presidential Address

2:45-3:30pm (CT)

Online Auditorium

Those “Damned Fundamentalists”:J.C. Massee and Non-Militant Baptist Fundamenatalism

Jason Hentschel, University of Dayton (OH)

Coffee Break

Saturday, May 30

4:00-5:30pm (CT)

Online Room #1


Philip Thompson, Sioux Falls Seminary (SD)

(Convener)

Theme: Theological Engagements with Literature

Flannery Meets Francis: Toward a Southern Gothic Theology of

Accompaniment

Derek C. Hatch, Howard Payne University, (TX)

For Want of a Nostril

Brad J. Kallenberg, University of Dayton (OH)

Saturday, May 30

4:00-5:30pm (CT)

Online Room #2

Symbol, Ritual, & Sacrament

Xavier Montecel, Boston College (MA)

Randall Woodard, Saint Leo University (FL)

(Conveners)

A Childish Proposal: Re-Introducing and Expanding the ‘Eucharistic

Prayers for Masses with Children’ in the Roman Catholic Liturgy

Peter Folan, Georgetown University (DC)

Help My Unbelief: Sacramental Theology, Catechesis, and the Family

Timothy R. Gabrielli, University of Dayton (OH))

Saturday, May 30

4:00-5:30pm (CT)

Online Room #3

The Arts, Media, Literature, and Religion

Charles Gillespie, Scred Heart University (CT)

(Convener)

It Was They Who Led Me to Your Door: Terrence Malick’s Cinematic

Redefinition of Family in Theological Perspective

Daniel Rober, Sacred Heart University (CT)

Rethinking Family: The Ballroom Scene in Popular Film and Television

Adam Beyt, Fordham University (NY)

Saturday, May 30

4:00-5:30pm (CT)

Online Room #4




(Conveners)

Reading Amoris Laetitia with Feminist Killjoys


Body and Place in the Poetry of Vassar Miller

Janice A. Thompson, King’s College (PA)

Saturday, May 30

4:00-5:30pm (CT)

Online Room #5

Ecclesiology



(GA)

(Conveners)

Catholic Politics, Digital Cruelty: The Promise and Danger of Online

Catholic Discourse

Jackson Wolford, Independent Scholar

Benedict XVI's Post-Papacy: Historical Reflections, Future Considerations

Christopher M. Bellitto, Kean University (NJ)

Saturday, May 30

4:00-5:30pm (CT)

Online Room #6




(Conveners)

Parenting for Environmental Care

Jason King, Saint Vincent College (PA)

'To the Ocean Out of Love': Introducing the Ecological Thought and Writings

of Chiara Lubich

Susan Kopp, City University of New York (NY)

Saturday, May 30

4:00-5:30pm (CT)

Online Room #7

Comparative Theology

Mara Brecht, Loyola University Chicago (IL)

Axel M. Oaks Takacs, Seton Hall University (NJ)

(Conveners)

Comparing Theologies of White Supremacy: Race and Religion from

Contemporary North America to Colonial Bengal

Bennett DiDente Comerford, Harvard University (MA)

Perry Schmidt-Leukels’ Challenge to Comparative Theology: Some

Reflections

Richard Penaskovic, Auburn University (AL)

human families: identities, relationships, and

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