The annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences will be held this year from May 27 – June 2, 2017. Congress is the gathering of over 70 scholarly associations each holding their annual conference. Faculty and students will represent MDC at the meetings for the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies (CSBS), Canadian Evangelical Theological Association (CETA), Canadian Society of Patristic Studies (CSPS), and Canadian Society of Church History (CSCH). Please find a list of the presenters and their topics below with the date and time they will be presenting. For more information on Congress, click here.
Name
Faculty/Student/Alumni
Topic
Conference
Time/Date
Andrew Dyck
Student (LOA)
The Form and Function of the Biblical Preterite Yiqtol in Psalms 1-41
CSBS
May 27, 9:30am
Ambrose Thomson
Student
Righteousness, Repentance, and the Discovery of Divine Wealth: A Discourse-Analytic Approach to Luke 15:11-32
CSBS
May 27, 10:15am
Paul Evans
Faculty
Sennacherib’s Invasion and the War of 1812: Adventures in Myth-Making and Nation-Building
CSBS
May 28, 8:30am
Mark Boda
Faculty
The Land is Unable to Endure All His Words: Perspectives on Land in the Book(s) of the Twelve
CSBS
May 28, 9:00am
Jennifer Brown Jones
Student
The Return to Yehud as Religiously Motivated Migration
CSBS
May 28, 10:15am
David Fuller
Student
The Sublime Object(s) of Idolatry: Prophetic Aniconism and the Ideological Formation of the Subject
CSBS
May 28, 1:30pm
Zachary Dawson
Student
The Meaning above the Text: A Literary-Intertextual Discourse Analysis of the Noahide Laws in Acts 15 and 21
CSBS
May 28, 3:45pm
Stanley Porter
Faculty
Presiding: Pauline and Catholic Epistles
CSBS
May 29, 8:30am
Christopher Land
Faculty
Torah Observance without Faith: The Interlocutor of James 2:18 as a Critic of Jesus-Faith
CSBS
May 29, 10:15am
Joshua Liu
Student
Peter’s Sermon on Christological Prophecy: A Register Analysis on Acts 3:12-26
CSBS
May 29, 10:15am
Mary Conway
Faculty
Jephthah: Savvy Diplomat or Bungling Negotiator?
CSBS
May 29, 2:30pm
Shannon Baines
Alumni
Strategies for Living Through Injustice in Habakkuk
CSBS
May 29, 3:45pm
Shannon Baines
Alumni
Responding to Injustice: A Theology of Divine Punishment in the Twelve
CETA
May 28, 8:45am
David Fuller
Student
Intertextuality in Habakkuk 2:12-14: A Lemkean Approach
CETA
May 28, 8:45am
Gus Konkel
Faculty
Chair: Session One, Section B
CETA
May 28, 8:45am
Lee Beach and Steve Studebaker
Faculty
Emerging Christianity and the Future of Evangelicalism
CETA
May 28, 8:45am
Matthew Lowe
Alumni
Chair: Session Two, Section A
CETA
May 28, 1:15pm
Don Springer
Student
Spirituality in Tension: The Conflict Between Grace and Virtue in Justin Martyr’s Apologies
CETA
May 28, 1:15pm
Michael Krause
Student
Henri de Lubac: The Patron Saint of Evangelical Theology
CETA
May 28, 1:15pm
Pat Sutherland
Student
Can Transformation be Manufactured? An Examination of Contemporart Homiletics Through the Work of Albert Borgmann
CETA
May 28, 3:00pm
Shannon Baines
Alumni
Chair: Session Three, Section B
CETA
May 28, 3:00pm
Alexander Stewart
Student
Becoming Native to These Places: Glimpses of Ecological and Moral Landscapes in Old Testament Ethics (Gen 1; Ps 104; Ps 74; Amos 4)
CETA
May 28, 3:00pm
Andrew Dyck
Student
Babel or Babylon? A Lexical Grammatical Analysis of Genesis 10:10 and 11:9
CETA
May 28, 3:00pm
Sid Sudiacal
Student
When Religion and Psychology Collide: Examining the Donatist Controversy in light of Disgust Psychology
CSPS
May 30, 3:15pm
Don Springer
Student
On the other Hand… A Re-evaluation of Irenaeus’ favourite Trinitarian Motif
CSPS
May 28, 4:45pm
James Robertson
Alumni
Chair: Session 2 – The Lion, A Switch and the Black Robe: Colonialism, Imperialism & Evangelism in the Nineteenth Century
CSCH
May 31, 11:00am
Gordon Heath
Faculty
Chair: Session 3 – Empire from the Margins: Religious Minorities in Canada and the South African War, 1899-1902
CSCH
May 31, 12:45pm
James Robertson
Alumni
Chair: Session 8 – “Have we not heard enough on this subject?” Revisiting the Life and Career of Egerton Ryerson in Transcontinental and Transatlantic Perspectives
CSCH
June 1, 3:30pm
Gordon Heath
Faculty
Watson Kirkconnell’s Covert War against Communism
CSCH
June 1, 4:45pm
Wendy Porter
Faculty
From Polyphony to Hymns to Worship Songs: A Byrd’s Perspective on English Reformation Church Music and Its Influence on Worship Music Today
CSCH
June 2, 1:30pm