Sixteenth-Century Society and Conference

The Sixteenth Century Society and Conference is coming to Fort Worth, Texas from Thu. Oct. 27 to Sun. Oct. 30. There will be a few papers on the Radical Reformation presented. So, for those unable to pay the $93 cover charge or unable to travel to dear old Ft. Worth, I will be giving updates on primary theses & arguments of these papers.

The panels I intend on attending with the relevant papers to be read in those panels will follow, although my participation may change. Also, I may not be present on Sunday if I can get tickets to the game in Houston, who will be playing my hometown team even if all I can bring for them is a misplaced hope.

Thursday 1:30-3:00

Paths to Knowing God in the Reformation

“The Spirit of the Prophets: Ludwig Haetzer on Scripture and the Voice of the Spirit.” - Geoffrey Dipple, Augustana College

“Knowing God through Dreams: Thomas Muentzer on Dream Revelations.” - Michael G. Baylor, Lehigh University

Thursday 3:30-5:00, I will attend one of these three panels

Rereading Critical Reformation Texts: Luther, Calvin, and Tyndale

Forgotten Reformer and Their (Almost) Forgotten Texts

Editing Martin Bucer, Then and Now

Thursday 6:30-7:30

Society for Reformation Research Roundtable: Holy Lands/Sacral Places/ Sacred Spaces in the Early Modern Period

Friday 8:30-10:00, I will attend either

In Memoriam Robert Kingdon: Criminality and Calvinism in Geneva and France

Protestant Perspectives on Prophecy in Sixteenth-Century Europe

or perhaps sneak over for one paper titled, “Suffering as Consolation: Thomas Müntzer, Martin Luther, and the Truth Crisis of the Early Reformation.” Vince Evener, University of Chicago Divinity School

Friday 10:30-12:00

Martin Bucer and the Radicals

“New Perspectives in Bucer’s Attitudes towards the Radicals.” - Stephen Buckwalter, Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaft

“Erasmus and Bucer on the Radical Reformation.” - Laurel Carrington, St. Olaf College

“A Most Faulty Theologian: Spiritualism and Reform in the Careers of Bucer and Franck.” - Patrick Hayden-Roy, Nebraska Wesleyan University

Friday 1:30-3:00, one of these

The Implementation of Social & Religious Reform in Early Modern Europe

Early Modern Ecclesiologies

New Approaches to the Scandinavian Reformations

Defining Tradition: Early Modern Conceptions of Tradition

Friday 3:30-5:00

Radical Theologies from Different Perspectives

“Zwingli’s Early Anabaptist Convictions: History or Mythology?” - Brian Brewer, Truett Theological Seminary

“Preaching the ‘Gospel of All Creatures’: The Radical Christology of Hans Hut.” - Marvin Anderson, University of Toronto

and I’ll have to see if I can in some way access a presentation at another panel, “Philip Melanchthon and the ‘Raving Anabaptists’: The End of Moderation.” - Rebecca Peterson, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor

Friday 6:00-7:00

“Contending with Idols: Reformation, Revolutions, Miracles, and the Disenchantment of History.” - Carlos Eire, Yale University

Saturday 8:30-10:00 either

Tales of Turning: Conversion Narratives in Early Modern England

Promise and Fulfillment in Reformed Theology

Forms of English Theology in the Early Modern Period

Saturday 10:30-12:00

Christian Life in Light of Scripture: Luther and Lutheran Perspectives

Saturday 1:30-3:00

Protestant Non-Conformity and Dissent

“Dissenting across Borders: The Development of a Transnational ‘Mennonite’ Identity among Swiss Brethren and Dutch Doopsgezinden in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.” - Troy Osborne, Bluffton University

Saturday 3:30-5:00 either

Uses of the Fathers in Early Modern Theologies

Luther in Conversation with Other Thinkers and Churches

In Memoriam Robert Kingdon: Marriage in the Reformation

So, we’ll see which ones of these I’ll make it to and I will try to post updates as they come along.