"My Ways are Not Your Ways": The Character of the God of the Hebrew Bible
September 10-12, 2009 at the University of Notre Dame
Divine Evil?: The Moral Character of the God of Abraham (Oxford University Press) contains the papers presented at the conference, and is available here.
Watch conference presentations:
Thursday, September 10
I. Philosophical Perspectives
A. Problems Presented
7:30pm - 9:00pm Louise Antony – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
"Does God Love Us?"
- Comments: Eleonore Stump – Saint Louis University
- Chair: Stephen Wykstra – Calvin College
Friday, September 11
9:00am - 10:30am Edwin Curley – University of Michigan
"The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob"
- Comments: Peter van Inwagen – University of Notre Dame
- Chair: David Dudrick – Colgate University
10:45am - 12:15pm Evan Fales – University of Iowa
"Satanic Verses: Moral Chaos in Holy Writ"
- Comments: Alvin Plantinga – University of Notre Dame
- Chair: Thomas Crisp – Biola University
B. Solutions Proposed
1:45pm - 3:15pm John Hare – Yale University
"Animal Sacrifices"
- Comments: James L. Crenshaw – Duke Divinity School
- Chair: James Vanderkam – University of Notre Dame
3:50pm - 5:00pm Mark C. Murphy – Georgetown University
"God Beyond Justice"
- Comments: Wes Morriston – University of Colorado, Boulder
- Chair: Patrick Kain – Purdue University
7:30pm - 9:00pm Elenore Stump – Saint Louis University
"The Problem of Evil and the History of Peoples: Think Amalek"
- Comments: Paul Draper – Purdue University
- Chair: Joseph Levine – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Saturday, September 12
9:00am - 10:30am Richard Swinburne – Oxford University
"What Does the Old Testament Mean?"
- Comments: Wes Morriston – University of Colorado, Boulder
- Chair: Susan Brower-Toland – Saint Louis University
10:45am - 12:15pm Nicholas Wolterstorff – Yale University
"Reading Joshua"
- Comments: Louis Antony – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- Chair: Stephanie R. Lewis
II. Theological Perspectives
1:30pm - 3:00pm Gary Anderson – University of Notre Dame
"What about the Canaanites?"
- Comments: Nicholas Wolterstorff – Yale University
- Chair: R. Andrew Compton – University of California, Los Angeles
3:15pm - 4:45pm Christopher Seitz – Wycliffe College, University of Toronto
“Canon and Conquest: The Character of the God of the Hebrew Bible”
- Comments: Evan Fales – University of Iowa
- Chair: Robert Garcia – Texas A&M University
5:00pm - 5:30pm Howard Wettstein – University of California, Riverside
Concluding Remarks
- Chair: Stephen Davis, Claremont McKenna College
5:30pm - 6:15pm Panel Discussion
- Gary Anderson – University of Notre Dame
Paul Draper – Purdue University
Daniel Howard-Snyder – Western Washington University - Chair: Stephen T. Davis – Claremont McKenna College