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C-67 Conference |
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THE HOPE OF
RECONCILIATION
TODAY
Sunday, February 3, 3:00pm--Monday,
February 4, 4:30pm
Stony Point Conference Center, Stony
Point, NY
The Confession of 1967
Now and for the Future
An Event for Pastors, Educators, Lay
Leaders and Students
Sponsored by the Third Way Project:
Hudson River Presbytery;
Co-sponsors to be announced.
Mission in the World and Wholeness
in the Church
| Check out an update
on plans for this event, with detailed bio sketches of all
the speakers. |
What does the Presbyterian Church (USA) stand for? Have we forgotten
what God was teaching us in 1967? How does our mission today reflect the
justice marks of the church laid out by that Confession, as well as its
basic theology of grace?
At this conference we will celebrate the 35th
Anniversary of the Confession of 1967, update its concerns, and reclaim
the full confessional heritage of a reconciling church. The Confession
of 1967 understood the Word of God to be Jesus Christ, witnessed through
the Scriptures to a Church guided by The Book of Confessions, confirming
a range of biblical interpretation essential to the Reformed tradition.
Come Help Do Constructive Confessional Work
to Meet 21st Century Challenges!
You will recognize the names of our speakers and
panelists as forward thinking scholars and pastors concerned with the
future of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Through this conference (and
other projects) we seek to develop strategies that make for wholeness in
church and society: peace, racial justice, economic progress,
environmental stewardship, ecumenism and inclusive church leadership.
We have seen the costs of intolerance in society and
in our church in recent years and months. The Third Way Project focuses
on education and dialogue--the theological high ground-- for a Church
that is both free and faithful to our God of grace and peace.
More Information: Phone 914-941-1142
For the conference program and bio sketches of the
leaders, check our web page.
Conference Schedule:
SUNDAY
Afternoon Session Open to All Members in Supporting
Presbyteries
3:00pm Registration; Book Table
3:30pm The Book of Confessions and the Progress of the
Church.
 | Douglas Ottati, Professor of Theology, Union
Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia |
4:45pm On Grace, Conscience and the Struggle over Gay Ordination.
| Paul Capetz, Professor of Church History, United
Theological Seminary, Twin Cities, MN |
6:00pm Dinner
7:30 pm Three New Marks of the Church: Mission and
Justice since 1967
Theology For Sustainable Development; Humanity Within
Creation.
| Carol Johnston, Professor of Theology, Chris-tian
Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, IN |
"Indifferent To Poverty Evades Responsibility In Economic
Affairs?"
| Annie Rawlings, Director, Bertram Beck Institute on
Religion and Poverty, Fordham University, New York City. |
Reconciliation, Forgiveness, Peace: "Even At Risk To National
Security?"
| Donald Shriver, President, Professor of Ethics
Emeritus, Union Theological Seminary, NY. |
9:30pm Refreshments and Fellowship at the Gilmor-Sloane House
MONDAY
7:45 am Breakfast
8:45am On Globalization, Multi-Faith Encounter And
International Christian Mission.
| Philip L. Wickeri, Flora Hewlett Professor of
Evangelism and Mission, San Francisco Seminary, San Anselmo,
California |
A Response In Light Of Business And Technological
Changes.
| Richard Hong, President, Hawk Scientific Systems,
Kinnelon, New Jersey |
10:15am Break
10:30am Race and Gender Since 1967: Empowerment,
Self-determination, Cultural Identity versus Racism.
| Curtis Jones, Pastor, Madison Avenue Presbyterian
Church, Baltimore, Maryland |
On Feminist Theology, Women's Ordination And Organizations.
| Heidi Hadsell, President, Hartford Seminary,
Hartford, Connecticut. |
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Reconciliation In The Church? (Or, how do we
get back on track?)
Toward a Reconciliation Ecclesiology
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Can the Confessions Guide Us?
| Eugene TeSelle, Professor of Historical Theology
Emeritus, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, Tennessee. |
A Response in Light of Trends in the "Mainline" Protestant
Churches
| Lewis Daly, Director, Religion Project, Institute
for Democracy Studies, NY, NY. |
Responses from Professors Ottati, Capetz, and other speakers.
Celebration of Communion
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