Continental philosophy of religion has increasingly turned to questions regarding love. This conference showcases that interest and provides a forum for further reflection and discussion. Program papers address the themes of both agape and eros, covering such writers as Derrida, Irigaray, Kant, Kierkegaard, Marion, Levinas, Ricoeur, and Zizek.

Speakers & Schedule

Friday, March 18, 2005

1:00-2:30pm Speaker: AMY LAURA HALL (Duke University Divinity School)

"You Better Find Somebody to Love: Kierkegaard and Biotechnological Mastery"
CHAIR: Norman Wirzba (Georgetown College)

2:30-2:45 Coffee Break
2:45-3:45 Speaker: BRIAN TREANOR (Loyola Marymount University)

"Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder"
CHAIR: Matthew Halteman (Calvin College)

3:45-4:45 Speaker: CHRISTINA GSCHWANDTNER (University of Scranton)

"Love as a Declaration of War? On the Absolute Character of Love in Jean-Luc Marion's Phenomenology of Eros"
CHAIR: Mary Jeanne Larrabee (DePaul University)

4:45-5:00 Coffee Break
5:00-6:00 Speaker: MARK GEDNEY (Gordon College)

"A Love as Strong as Death: Ricoeur's Reading of the Song of Songs"
CHAIR: Chris Watkin (Cambridge University)

6:00-7:00 Speaker: ED MOONEY (Syracuse University)

"Love as Requisite to Wisdom: Reading Kierkegaard"
CHAIR: Kurt Richardson (McMaster University)

7:15-8:30 Reception

Saturday, March 19, 2005

9:15-10:15am Speaker: JAMES OLTHUIS (Institute for Christian Studies)

"Creatio Ex amore"
CHAIR: Dianne Bergsma (Brock University)

10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:30 Speaker: RUTHANNE PIERSON CRAPO (Institute for Christian Studies,Vrije Universiteit)

"The Genesis of Love: An Irigarayan Reading"
CHAIR: Sarah Borden (Wheaton College)

11:30-11:45 Coffee Break
11:45-12:45pm Speaker: TYLER ROBERTS (Grinnell College)

"Acts of Love: Zizek's Turn to Religion"
CHAIR: Gregory A. Clark (North Park University)

12:45-2:30 Lunch
2:30-3:30 Speaker: BERTHA ALVAREZ (Purdue University)

"Why There Is No Either/Or in Works of Love: A Kantian Defense of Kierkegaardian (Christian) Unconditional Love"
CHAIR: Stephen D. Lake (Trinity Christian College)

3:30-4:30 Speaker: B. KEITH PUTT (Samford University)

"A Love that B(l)inds: Reflections on an Agapic Agnosticism"
CHAIR: Sharon Baker (Southern Methodist University)

4:30-5:00 Coffee Break
5:00-6:30 Speaker: JOHN D. CAPUTO (Syracuse University)

"But Love in Itself, if There is Such a Thing, is Not Deconstructible"
CHAIR: Bruce Ellis Benson (Wheaton College)

7:00-9:00 SCPT Banquet