2008 Symposiums

February

1st: "The Mega-Church Mistake"

  • Dr. David Naugle

8th: “Stirring Us Up By Way of Reminder: Canvassing the Content of a Biblical Worldview”

  • Jake Rodgers

15th: "Musing and Amusing: A Scientist as Poet and a Poet as Scientist"

  • Prof. Brian Thomas

22nd: “What is the Role of Profit in Business? Divergent Christian Perspectives”

  • A DBU Panel Discussion Led by Prof. Jekabs Bekis

29th: “The Origin of Switchfoot and the Search for Meaning” Keynote lecture, 11th Annual PCS Student Conference

  • Charlie Peacock

March 

7th: “The Forerunner of Chinese Theology: Zhao Zichen”

  • Dong Zeyan

28th: “Poems, Prayers, and Promises: Faith and Verse in China Today”

  • Annie and David Day

April

4th: "The Christian Writer in the Age of Unbelief”

  • Dr. Jill Baumgartner

11th: “From Texas Lotto Winner to Sunday School Teacher: The Robert Chody Story”

  • Robert Chody

18th: “Politicking at the Intersection of Church & State: Faith, Public Life and the 2008 Presidential Race"

  • Dr. Stephen Stookey

25th: “I Want Some Freedom for My People: Academic Liberty, Baptists, and the Great Texts”

  • Dr. Philip Mitchell

May

2nd: “Destiny and Work: Are Some Lives More Significant Than Others?”

  • A DBU Panel Discussion Led by Dr. Philip Mitchell

September

12th: "After Learning: On the Liturgical Consummation of Worldviews"

  • Dr. David Naugle

19th: "Have the Peace of God which Passes all Understanding in Your Hearts; Have No Peace with the World as You Find It"

  • Bono Video

26th: "Presidential Praise: Our Presidents and Their Hymns"

  • Dr. Edward Spann

  • Michael Williams

October

3rd: "Faith in the Halls of Power; How Evangelicals Joined the American Elite"

  • Dr. D. Michael Lindsay

17th: "God's Humility: Reflections on an Unappreciated Atribut of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit"

  • Glenn Kreider

24th: "Theological Essentials for Civic Engagement"

  • Dr. David Gushee

31st: "Preserving the Word of God: The Work of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts"

  • Dr. Daniel Wallace

November

7th: Reordered Love, Reordered Lives: Learning the Deep Meaning of Happiness

  • Dr. David Naugle

14th: "Sex and the City of God"

  • A DBU Panel Discussion

21st: "The way up and down is one and the same: T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, the Problem of Evil and History"

  • Dr. Philip Mitchell

December

5th: "The Use and Interpretation of the Psalms in the History of Christian Devotion"

  • Jim Houston