March 29, 2010

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Contents ...... 1

Schedule ...... 2

Presenters - History and Musicology ...... 3

Presenters - Biology ...... 4-5

Presenters - Music ...... 5

Presenters - English ...... 6-8

Presenters - Behavioural Science ...... 8-9

Presenters - Behavioural Science/Business ...... 9-10

Presenters - Theology ...... 10-11

Presenters - Christian Studies ...... 12

Plenary Session with Marvin J. Fritzler, PhD MD FRCP(C)...... 13-14

Conference notes ...... 15-16 2 schedule

Monday Time Program Room

9:30 - 10:25 History and Musicology A2112 Biology A2210 English (Start time for English is 9:00) A2141 Behavioural Science A2131 Theology A2133

10:30 - 10:55 Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:55 History Round Table Discussion A2212 Music Performance Music Wing English (Start time for English is 10:45) A2141 Behavioural Science & Business A2131 Theology A2133 Christian Studies A2210

12:00 - 1:00 Main speaker – Marvin J. Fritzler A2131

1:00 - 1:30 Coffee Break 3 presenters

History and Musicology

Uniquely Gould: Glenn Gould, one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, was The Interpretive Style also one of the most controversial. Idolized by some and criticized by others, of Glenn Gould in his interpretations often flagrantly opposed accepted performance standards during an era when the movement towards historically-informed performance Contrast to Historical practice was becoming more prevalent and influential. This raises two important Performance questions: What is the role and responsibility of a performer when interpreting Practice. a piece of music? Secondly, were Glenn Gould’s unconventional interpretations a violation of a musician’s artistic duties? This paper will explore some of the Alyssa Michaud implications of historical performance research on the interpretation of music Time: 9:30 – 10:25 from the baroque era, and then examine Gould’s unique interpretive practices and the reasoning behind them. In light of this research, this paper aims to Room: A2112 propose an approach to these questions that integrates musicologically sound perspectives with individual artistic freedom.

Dana and Danish immigrants made up a small but vital part of the mass influx of Dannevang: newcomers to Alberta in the first decades of the twentieth century. As members of an ethnic group respected by the governing authorities and by Examples of Danish the great majority of Canadian citizens, the Danes had a unique opportunity to Folk School projects preserve their ethnic culture that groups like the Ukrainians did not. The Danish in Alberta. Folk Schools that developed in the province of Alberta in the early twentieth Kirstin Bouwsema century were one venue through which the immigrants negotiated between maintaining their Old World cultural heritage and their desire to adapt and Time: 9:30 – 10:25 assimilate into the homesteading community of Alberta. Room: A2112

Preaching Towards Recent debates about religion in the Third Reich have reasserted the importance the Führer: of ideology in Hitler’s Germany and revived several important questions: Was National Socialism itself a political religion or simply a mass movement engaged Pro-Nazi Protestants in religious politics? To what extent did the ideas of neo-pagan racial theorist and Religion in Alfred Rosenberg represent the viewpoint of the National Socialist movement? Hitler’s Germany What plans did Hitler and his associates have for the German churches? One way to approach these questions is to consider how German church leaders, Kyle Jantzen parish clergy, and ordinary Christians understood what Hitler’s government Time: 9:30 – 10:25 was doing to and with their churches. This paper examines the case of a Berlin parish group, the Christian Unity Movement of Germany, to argue that, in the Room: A2112 early years of Hitler’s rule, both Christians and National Socialists (and Christian National Socialists) were convinced that Hitler wanted to partner with the Christian churches to undertake a moral and political renewal of Germany.

History Round Moderator: Kyle Jantzen Table Discussion: Presenters: Taylor Glass, Jonathan Hollett, Andrea Penonzek, Kate Poffenroth Christian Approaches to Description: History is never static. Rather, as a dialogue between the past, Writing History present, and future, it always reflects the wider world in which it is written. Moreover, while historians strive to write accurately and fairly, they cannot write Time: 11:00 – 11:55 objectively, as if there were no personal or ideological influences upon their Room: A2112 work. Working from those assumptions, these presenters will outline aspects of their personal approaches to writing history from Christian perspectives. 4 presenters

Biology

Citizen Science: “Citizen Science” describes the collection of scientific data by largely untrained How Birdwatchers’ amateurs. Birders are citizen scientists par excellence: they have been collecting scientific data for more than a century via such initiatives as the Christmas Bird Observations Count and the Breeding Bird Survey. Birders also contribute to ornithological Enhance knowledge by visiting regions where little research has been done. Two Ornithological such regions are the Kinshasa capital region and the province of Bas-Congo, Knowledge: An Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The avifauna of the DRC have received Example from the a good deal of scientific attention, but most research has concentrated on the interior of the country, and, in particular, on the Albertine Rift, which holds most Democratic Republic of the country’s endemic species. Nevertheless, the intra-country distribution of the Congo of many species remains poorly known. This is particularly true of Kinshasa Sandy Ayer and Bas-Congo, which have received little ornithological attention during the past 50 years. During the summer of 2009 I spent three weeks in these regions. Time: 9:30 – 10:25 During that time, I made a number of observations that contributed to the Room: A2210 understanding of species distribution. I have presented these in an article that will be published in the September 2010 issue of Malimbus: Journal of West African Ornithology . This presentation is a summary of these observations.

Comparing the The Achilles tendon, also known as the calcanean tendon, functions to connect Strength and the lateral and medial gastrocnemius muscle as well as the soleus muscle (these muscles compose the calf muscles) to the calcaneus also known as the heel Stretch ability of bone. The Achilles tendon functions to lift the heel up by the contraction of the Achilles tendons calf muscles which transfers the weight onto the toes. The tendon is mainly in Plantigrade, comprised of collagen, a very inelastic connective tissue. The Achilles tendon Digitigrade, and changes shape, length, and morphology depending on the animal’s gait. An Unguligrade plantigrade animal is flat-footed, while a digitigrade foot (eg. Cat) is more elevated. Extreme elevation is seen with the unguligrade animal, such as a Animals deer. With the changes in tendon morphology and length, the mechanical properties of the tendon may also differ. As an animal’s body size increases, the properties of the tendons may also change, both morphologically and Joel Ulrich and Scott mechanically. Differences may also be seen between fore and hind limbs. Willms Mechanical testing includes stretching the tendons on a measuring device that Time: 9:30 – 10:25 records stress and strain, as well as testing the collagen content. This study examines both the mechanical and morphological differences in tendons Room: A2210 between species and animal sizes, and analyzes if foot gait and leg structure affects these properties.

Transferrin binding 1 Departments of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and 2 Biochemistry and proteins of Neisseria Molecular Biology, University of Calgary. sp. The human body maintains extreme scarcity of free iron as part of its innate immune system to inhibit bacterial growth. However, pathogenic bacteria Jessmi M.L. have evolved multiple mechanisms to acquire iron from host molecules. Ling1, Collin H. Pathogenic bacteria in the Neisseriaceae family posses a surface receptor that Shima1, David mediates iron acquisition from human transferrin. This receptor consist of a C. Schriemer2, transmembrane iron transporter (TbpA) and a surface-exposed lipoprotein and Anthony B. (TbpB). In this study, we used hydrogen/deuterium exchange coupled to mass spectrometry (H/DX-MS) to elucidate the effects on transferrin by interaction Schryvers1, 2 with TbpB. We have found that the despite differences in amino acid sequence, the overall interaction is conserved between transferrin and TbpB from Time: 9:30 – 10:25 different Neisseria strains. Room: A2210 5 presenters

Biology cont.

A 2-D FE Modelof During pulmonary artery constriction (PAC), an experimental model of RV the Heart pressure overload, the inter-ventricular septum flattens and inverts. Finite Demonstrates Element (FE) analysis has shown that the septum is subject to axial compression and bending when so deformed. This study examines the effects of PAC on the the Role of the LV freewall, and the role the pericardium may play in these effects. Pericardium in Ventricular In 8 open-chest anaesthetized dogs, LV, RV, aortic, and pericardial pressures Function were recorded under control conditions and with PAC. Minor-axis images of the heart were acquired with 2-D echocardiography, from which the model Carol A. Gibbons dimensions were derived. At control, with the pericardium intact, FE analysis Kroeker, Ph.D showed that the septum remained concave to the LV, that stresses in the LV, RV and septum were low and that the pericardium was subject to circumferential Samer Adeeb, Ph.D. tension. With PAC, RV pressure exceeded LV pressure and the septum inverted. Nigel G. Shrive, Ph.D. Compressive stresses developed circumferentially in the septum out to the RV insertion points, forming an arch-like pattern. A sharp inflection occurred John V. Tyberg, M.D., Ph.D near the insertion points, accompanied by flattening of the LV free wall. When the pericardium was removed, the deformations and stresses were different. Time: 9:30 – 10:25 The RV became much larger, especially with PAC. With PAC the arch-like Room: A2210 circumferential stresses still developed in the septum, but their magnitudes were reduced, compared with the pericardium-present case. There was no free-wall inversion and flattening was less.

From these FE results, the presence or absence of the pericardium is seen to have a significant influence on the structural behaviour of the septum, the LV and RV free-walls, and the stresses which develop in these structures. Further, the deformations of the heart are also dependent on the presence or absence of the pericardium.

Music

Music Performance Sonatina ...... B Bartok Michelle Walde - piano Time: 11:00 – 11:55

Music Wing Sonata in a- movements 1 and 2 ...... C.P.E. Bach Alysha Bulmer - flute

Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better ...... I Berlin Emilia Hoffman and Trevor Maekelburger - vocal duet

Arioso ...... JS Bach Stacy Thiessen - trumpet

Nocturne in Em ...... F Chopin Lena MacLeod - piano

Ridente la calma ...... Mysliveček-Mozart Memory...... AL Webber Ellen Bemis - vocal solo 6 presenters

English Christianity and Literature

To Wonder, or How In construing faith with the choice of believing “the better story,” Yann Martel The Life of Pi Invites has been criticized for reducing belief in God to an aesthetic preference within his novel The Life of Pi (70). I contend that Martel instead positions belief as a Belief. willingness to encounter wonder rather than remain disenchanted. In particular, Martel invites the reader to discover wonder in the presence of the animal, Shane Riczu which, like the divine, remains always partially mysterious to humanity. I argue that this rubric of belief and wonder has a rich heritage within Christianity, Time: 9:00-10:25 most notably in God’s exhortation to wonder at the natural world in response Room A2141 to Job’s anguished questions.

Crying Out to In Sinclair Ross’s novel As For Me and My House, Philip Bentley demonstrates God in Twentieth- the passive night of the spirit described by St. John of the Cross. Philip is, as Century Canadian John describes, “[stripped of his] faculties, outward and inward, leaving the understanding dark, the will dry, the memory empty and the affections in the Literature: deepest affliction, bitterness and constraint” (John 97). However, according to Manifestations of the John, God rescues individuals from the passive night of the spirit. This essay Dark Night of the examines the similarities between Philip’s spiritual state and the characteristics Soul in As For Me of the passive night of the spirit and analyzes how God facilitates the rescue of and My House the immobile, but tortured Philip through the flawed but ultimately redeeming actions of Mrs. Bentley. When understood in light of the passive night of the Amy Lin spirit, Philip’s spiritual desolation and Mrs. Bentley’s actions become part of God’s larger plan, rendering Mrs. Bentley’s success in freeing Philip from the Time: 9:00-10:25 town (and subsequent lifestyle) of Horizon a distinctly spiritual triumph. Room A2141

Bricolage and My paper explores the ways in which the Bible as special revelation interacts Belief: Christianity with the Canadian landscape—general revelation—to specifically produce Canadian literature. The roots of my methodology lie in the theories of and Canadian Northrop Frye and Jacques Derrida, from which I will create from the standpoint Literature of my Christian belief a sort of bricolage by erecting God, Christ, and the Bible (Frye’s “One Story”) as the metaphysical origin(s) in the vacuum of Derrida’s Emily Kemp metaphysical “de-centre.” My thesis, therefore, insists that the makeup of Canadian literature, as a fragment of the “One Story,” gives credence to Frye’s Time: 9:00-10:25 thesis, and thus it is certainly valid for us as Christian scholars to view the Bible Room A2141 and God as the ultimate origin of literature and the best possible source for the future of Canadian literature as well.

The Four Quartets: T.S. Eliot makes his critical and creative home in the realm of paradox: he Finding Christ at the describes himself as conservative in his values, yet he expresses himself in a modern and experimental way; he believes in the value of tradition, yet “Still Point of the he sees it as something that is protean which changes itself as it interacts Turning World” with innovation; he struggles with the inadequacy of words, yet commits to finding a literary way to express meaning. Eliot’s long poem The Four Caitlin Lucas Quartets thematizes the paradoxes that Eliot was so committed to and the poem seeks to resolve, or at least engage, them with the Christian Incarnation. Time: 9:00-10:25 Some examples of the paradoxes present in The Four Quartets are: action and Room A2141 stillness (specifically how one can be still while moving or be moving while still), eternity and transience (specifically how a moment can last for eternity 7 presenters

English cont.

The Four Quartets: and how eternity can be found in a moment), and remembrance and forgetting cont. (specifically how one can remember that which did not happen, or that which one had no direct experience with, and how one can forget the experiences that define oneself). By writing on these paradoxes, Eliot’s poetry becomes characterized by scenes of waiting in places that are either transitional places or places that are somehow removed from space and time. As a consequence of the paradoxical and twilight ground that the poem The Four Quartets inhabits, Eliot, whose religious affiliation was Anglo-Catholic, enters a space very near to the traditional ground of the Christian mystics. For example, he writes of deeper union and communion with God, he describes purification via Pentecostal fire, he uses Julian of Norwich as an intertext, and he emphasizes waiting on God and submitting the human spirit to him. Even more telling, I think that Eliot’s ruminations upon the paradoxes that he feels defining the modern world, eventually point to Christ, and the Incarnation, as the central paradox and mystery that fuels every other paradox, yet somehow resolves them.

Canadian Literature In prairie fiction, the absence of a vertical axis, a contrast to the horizon, begs and the Cross for the divine. I find certain prairie writers call out for God in their fiction and poetry. Although this emphasis on the spiritual dimension in prairie fiction is Matt Robertson seldom remarked, my analysis of W.O. Mitchell’s, Who Has Seen The Wind (1947) and Sinclair Ross’s, As For Me And My House (1941) provides abundant evidence Time: 10:45-11:55 to support my thesis. This pattern of absence and presence can be conceived Room A2141 of in a number of ways: the vertical and horizontal characteristics of the cross, the layout and attributes of prairie towns, the association of certain characters with specific landscapes, and the description of the attributes of God in these locations. The themes of “town” and “prairie” ring throughout both novels, leaving me with many examples to explore and to defend the cry to God in Canadian literature. In my paper, I will focus chiefly on the absence of a vertical element in the prairie that begs for the presence of God by contrasting the struggle for authenticity of the Bentley’s in As For Me and My House with the ethereal but ever present wind in Who Has Seen The Wind.

Unleashing the In this paper, I will examine W.O. Mitchell’s Who Has Seen the Wind and Sinclair Word: Incarnate Ross’s As for Me and My House to show the ways in which these novels unleash prophetic characters that incarnate the word of God by crying out for justice. Speech in Mitchell In the context of recently settled Canadian prairie this cry emerges for Mitchell and Ross in the relationship between nature and culture. Saint Sammy and Uncle Sean live on the prairie and speak on behalf of the land against its exploitation, Celine Ibsen while Brian, Mr. Digby, and Miss Thompson echo the same call for justice from within town limits. Ross also explores the hypocrisy and corruption of culture— Time: 10:45-11:55 represented by main street and its false fronts—but he places the prophetic Room A2141 emphasis on the artist rather than upon nature. His prophetic characters, the Bentleys, are caught between their impulse to critique culture and their role as its guardians. Ross’s narrative centers on the question of identity for the artist who is deeply enmeshed in culture while Mitchell’s story portrays prophet and culture as distinct yet interdependent. In the relationship of prophet to culture Mitchell depends on the trope of merismus while Ross sketches masterfully in shades of grey; both authors affirm the complexity of the human condition suggesting the need for, and the presence of, grace in both the seat of power and of protest. 8 presenters

English cont.

Erotic Simultaneity: My paper examines the connection between erotic love and the realm of the Echoes of Divine divine by analyzing the central relationship in D.H. Lawrence’s controversial novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover. I will argue that through her interactions with Sexuality in Lady Mellors, Constance Chatterley unleashes the power of the erotic within herself, Chatterley’s Lover thereby transforming herself into a character that reclaims the purity of the erotic. The relationship between Mellors and Lady Chatterly thus becomes a Hannah Ayer metaphoric opportunity to view Lawrence’s text as a means of reflecting on the intimacy of the divine union found within the triune God. In addition to Time: 10:45-11:55 the novel itself, I will be relying on information taken from texts concerning Room A2141 sexuality, theology, and the traditional Greek/Christian understanding of love as eros, philia, and agape to understand the symbolic association between the physical and the spiritual.

Behavioural Science

The Relationship Although studies have delved into Christian evangelistic beliefs and practices, between Personality no studies in the academic field have examined the relationship that and Evangelism: personality might have to evangelism. In order to bridge the gap in the lack of academic studies done in this area, data collected from surveys and interviews A Social Scientific were compiled to examine if there are people with certain personalities that Study of University are more likely to evangelize in some ways over others. In particular, the study Students investigated if differences existed between passive and aggressive strategies of evangelism with friends and family and then with strangers and acquaintances Andrea Tynedal in relation to an individual’s personality. Individual crosstabs indicated that a significant relationship between participants high in extraversion and both Time: 9:30-10:25 passive and aggressive approaches to evangelism with friends and family and Room A2131 a significant negative relationship between participants high in neuroticism and passive approaches to evangelism with friends and family. However, no significant relationships were found between extraversion and passive and aggressive approaches to evangelism with strangers and acquaintances and no significant averse relationships were found between neuroticism and aggressive approaches to evangelism with friends and family or aggressive and passive approaches to evangelism with strangers and acquaintances. Discussion focuses on possible reasons for these findings.

Rational Choice Central propositions in Rational Choice Theory include that: (a) individuals will Theory and Religion incur high costs to obtain desired religious rewards; (b) individuals have an inexhaustible demand for rewards that only religion provides and that religious in Canada: An supply is critical to meeting these demands; and (c) one’s confidence in religious Empirical explanations is strengthened when others express confidence in them, when individuals participate in religious rituals, and when people conserve their Joel Thiessen religious and social capital. A comparison of those who attend church weekly with those who attend mainly for religious holidays and rites of passage yields Time: 9:30 – 10:25 empirical data on specific rewards and costs involved in religious decision Room A2131 making processes (a surprising gap in Rational Choice Theory), and casts some doubt on the above propositions. Face-to-face interview data suggests that few demand religious rewards such as life after death, and confidence in religious explanations remains high regardless of the social nature of one’s religious life. 9 presenters

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Producing Since the mid-1990s, immigration policies have changed in order to increase Successful Job the numbers of immigrants accepted based on their education level, skills and professional experience, which are viewed as providing a net benefit Seekers: An to Canada. Despite the deliberate move by government to bring in higher Ethnography of a numbers of educated immigrants, researchers and policy makers understand Bridging Program for them to be experiencing barriers to the labour market in the form of a lack Immigrant Women of labour market and cultural knowledge, a language barrier and a lack of Accountants Canadian work experience. In response, government funded bridge-to-work programs have been put into place with classroom training and volunteer work Leah Soveran placements in order to address the issues deemed problematic. I observed one such bridging program set up for foreign trained immigrant women Time: 9:30 – 10:25 accountants and did interviews with the staff and participants of the project. Room A2131 This presentation focuses on the way that the program works to mould the cont. women into successful job seekers and employees by shaping their conduct, attitudes, dispositions and goals and guides the women into self-surveilling spaces within which they can do the responding self-work required as they refashion themselves to fit the prescribed profile.

Behavioural Science/Business

Relationships Many studies have been performed over the past several decades exploring between religion a variety of factors that could potentially contribute to individual gender and gender role role attitudes, but relatively few studies exploring the relationship between religious affiliation and gender role attitudes have been performed. Even fewer attitudes among studies have examined the relationship between gender role attitudes and young adults in the level of religious devoutness rather than marginal affiliation with a religious Canadian context group, particularly in the Canadian context. Research reveals that the Canadian religious landscape is unique compared to the religious landscapes of other Alana Wycoco Western nations such as the United States and Great Britain, suggesting that research involving religion performed in other countries may not be applicable Time: 11:00-11:55 to Canadian society. In light of the lacking research, this study examines the Room A2131 relationship between religious devoutness and gender role attitudes in the Canadian context. The data reveals that level of religious devoutness and involvement is significantly related to gender role attitudes and is a much stronger predictor of these attitudes than marginal religious affiliation or association.

The Adequacy of This case study was conducted to explore the adequacy of the public Public Education education system in educating students with ADHD. The participant was a recent high school graduate who was diagnosed with ADHD during grade five for Students with and grade twelve. The participant was asked to complete a life story narrative Attention Deficit interview and four questionnaires regarding self-esteem, self-efficacy, locus of Hyperactivity control, and resiliency. The questionnaires were scored online, where as the Disorder: A Case life story interview was scored using a thematic analysis, agency/communion Study analysis, and redemption/contamination sequences analysis (McAdams, 1993). Findings indicated that although the participant recognized she had Kendall Carter some positive educational occurrences, she felt that the overall goals set by Time: 11:00-11:55 Alberta Education were not achieved during her scholastic experiences. More Room A2131 10 presenters

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The Adequacy of specifically, the participant felt difficulties with the educational system may Public Education have contributed to her having low self-esteem and self-efficacy, as well as still struggling with social skills. Although some of these discrepancies were argued for Students with by the participant to directly stem from deficits in the educational system, Attention Deficit many negative outcomes were directly attributed to specific teachers and their Hyperactivity perceptions of ADHD. Discussion will address educational arenas that could be Disorder: modified to provide better holistic outcomes for students with ADHD.

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Accountability Universities regularly report the results of their activities to various stakeholders Disclosures at including donors, governments, parents and students. This study examines Private Christian the annual report disclosures of several private universities and colleges in North America using the Modified Accountability Disclosure index (the MAD Universities and index) developed by Australian scholars several years ago. The results of this Colleges study are then compared with earlier studies involving public universities and key differences are noted. Recommendations for improvements in annual Jason Ezeard reporting content and mediums are also discussed.

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Theology

Preparing the Central to the pursuit of leadership and leadership development is the Church for the understanding and ability to prepare leadership teams for the future. In order for church leadership to be effective in the future, they must too start preparing Future for the future. Preparing for the future begins with an understanding of the fundamental purposes of the church and the main obstacles to be overcome Kyle Miller in fulfilling these purposes; that is, achieving success. However, it may well be Time: 9:30 – 10:25 that the largest obstacle in achieving success in the church is in understanding Room A2133 where the standards and methods of achieving success should come from in the first place. More specifically, there is a current tendency within church leadership to model success after the standards of the world. We will assess the biblical principles of 1 Samuel 8 in conversation with various contemporary understandings of ecclesiology. Through this assessment we will discover: in following the words of God, the church does not look to become like the world, but looks to be the leading force in helping the world become like Christ. This is central to determining the purposes of the church and preparing the church for the future. 11 presenters

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Imagination and Imagination in the life of the Christian helps the person re-tell their story so that Creativity it lines up with the ongoing story of God’s redemptive work within creation. This process of re-narration changes the perspective of the individual and Devon Scott aligns it with Christ’s perspective. Equipped with this redeemed imagination the Christian is able to communicate the story of Christ’s work in story, song, Time: 9:30 – 10:25 dance, and any other creative expression. These creative expressions should Room A2133 communicate God’s love as it intersects with the human experience. This new narrative of the redeemed imagination should lead to creativity. The creative endeavor of the Christian should be the tangible representation of the intangible imagination. Unlike the ex-nihilo creation of God the Christian is unable to create in the strict sense. The Christian is, however, able to express creativity by synthesizing the elements that God has placed around us into meaningful expressions of the reconciliation of God to the world. If the God that Christians serve is imaginative and creative, Christians themselves should strive to be both as well. As the Christian person allows their faculties of imagination and creativity to be redeemed they become increasingly empowered and capable of communicating God’s message to the world.

The Presence of The following research has explored the relationship between the elements of Christ and Holy Holy Communion and the presence of Christ through select biblical passages Communion – a and their interpretations. Findings suggest a dissonance between doctrine and Scripture, and reveal a complexity that can only be defined as holy mystery. The Holy Mystery implications on practice and interdenominational discourse are considered, as is the pursuit of scriptural verity. Jason Legacy

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Holy Heresy? A. B. Simpson, founder of The Christian and Missionary Alliance, whose Simpson and Fourfold Gospel is understood almost universally as a seminal source for early Pentecostal theology and many Holiness groups as well, centered his theology Apollinaris after and spirituality around the necessity of mystical union with the person of Jesus 1500 Years Christ; the Saviour, Sanctifier, Healer, and Coming Lord/King. His Christology is, therefore, key to the theological system of the Fourfold Gospel and, Bernie Van De Walle consequently, influential in the birth and development of Pentecostal theology and, more particularly, Pentecostal Christology. Time: 11:00-11:55 Room A2133 Following a thorough investigation of Simpson’s printed opinions, this paper investigates the possibility that, in significant ways, (particularly in regard to the concept of “the mind of Christ”) Simpson’s Christology and spirituality bear striking similarities to the fourth century Apollinarian heresy that denied that Jesus Christ’s spirit was at all human and was, instead, solely the divine “Logos.” Following a comparison of the commonalities of and differences between Simpson’s and Apollinarian Christologies, this paper considers the consequences, that such a Christology bears on pastoral practice. Ultimately, this paper will show that while his habitual assertion that the “mind of Christ” is something ultimately divine, and while he was not always as exacting and thorough in his explication of his theology as it could have been, Simpson’s Christology holds well with his anthropology. 12 presenters

Christian Studies

The Charge of Whereas many argue that the charge of blasphemy is founded upon the claim Blasphemy in of Jesus that he is arrogating himself to a divine status in Mark 14:62, I argue that he implicitly identifies the Sanhedrin with the oppressive fourth beast of Daniel Mark’s Jewish Trial 7 and, hence, is guilty of blasphemy. Through an intratextual analysis of Mark’s (Mark 14:53–65) use of the Son of Man and an intertextual consideration of Daniel 7, it appears that Mark evokes the context of Daniel 7:13 at a number of points in his Gospel Dr. Rob Snow and creates a thematic sequence of intensifying hostility toward the Son of Man. This begins with initial resistance by Galileans scribes and Pharisees, progresses Time: 11:00 – 11:55 Room A2210 to three predictions of the Son of Man’s suffering and death at the hands of the Jerusalem authorities, and concludes with the unequivocal rejection of the Son of Man at the Jewish trial. In light of this thoroughgoing resistance to the Son of Man and additional allusions to Daniel 7 in the trial narrative itself, the high priest and the whole Sanhedrin play the part of the antagonistic fourth beast. Since the term “blasphemy” functions as a verbal thread in Mark which refers, inter alia, to the defamation of one’s character, not unlike its meaning in other Jewish first-century texts, Jesus, from the perspective of Mark’s Sanhedrin, is guilty of blasphemy.

Matthew 25:31- Matthew 25:31-46 highlights the different themes of the eschatological nature 46 and a Western of God’s judgment, Jesus’ identification with the needy, the identification of Christian’s Response the ‘least,’ and the importance of works. This paper argues that Matthew 25:31- 46 provides some motivation for taking action that will result in help for the to the Global global persecuted church. Persecuted Church

Bethany Love

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Prayerful Living: Individualism and consumerism pose a dangerous threat to the role that prayer Finding Silence has in Christian experience. Realigning the believer’s focus with scriptural and traditional practices such as silence and rhythm can help prevent the negative and Rhythm in a influence of these societal aspects. Materialistic Society

Clayton Androsoff

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The Value of Background Research Marvin Fritzler was born in Vulcan, Alberta and received his post-secondary education at the University of Alberta (BSc Zoology in 1978) and, under the supervision of Dr. Bob Church and the sponsorship of a National Research Council Scholarship, completed a PhD at the University of Calgary in 1971 followed by a MD degree at the University of Calgary in 1974. After his training in Internal Medicine in Calgary, he was awarded a Medical Research Council Fellowship for post-graduate research training at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA and then to the University of Colorado (1976-1978) under the mentorship of Dr. Eng Tan. In 1978, Dr. Fritzler joined the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary as an Arthritis Society Scientist and in 1981 he became an Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research (AHFMR) Marvin J. Fritzler, Scholar. Dr. Fritzler was promoted to Full Professor in 1987 and was awarded the prestigious AHFMR Medical Scientist Award in 1991. PhD MD FRCP(C) Administration and Service

Dr. Fritzler has served on numerous academic, community and government committees and boards. To highlight a few, he was Head of the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Calgary from 1985 to 1993. He served on the University of Calgary Budget Committee from 1989 to 1996 and was Chair for two consecutive terms from 1994 to 1996. Starting in 1995, he was Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Medicine before assuming the endowed Arthritis Society Chair in 1999. He served on the Alberta Health - Provincial Laboratories Management Committee, the Calgary Health (Crown) Foundation Board of Directors from 1996-1999 and the Board of Directors of Calgary Technologies Inc. from 1996 to 2002. In 1998 he was appointed by the Government of Alberta to the Alberta Science and Research Authority (ASRA) Board of Directors, an organization whose mandate is to provide strategy and policy advice to the Government of Alberta and then was appointed to two terms as of the Chair of the ASRA Board beginning in 2004. He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Genome Alberta, Alberta Prion Research Institute and Ambrose University College. He is a member of the National Advisory Board of the Norlien Foundation, which is focused on Addictions and Early Childhood development. He is a member of the McCaig Bone and Joint Institute and serves on the Executive and the Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute for Infection, Immunity and Inflammation at the University of Calgary.

He has served on the National Board of Directors of the Arthritis Society (Canada) and was a member of and/or chaired numerous other committees and chaired research panels including the Scientific Advisory Committee of that organization.

Dr. Fritzler has been a contributor to many other provincial, national and international clinical and research organizations: he was President of the Western Section of the American College of Rheumatology (formerly the American Rheumatism Association), the Western Section of the American Federation of Clinical Research and the Canadian Society of Clinical Investigation. He served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Environmental Protection Agency (USA) Center for Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Montana, and was Chair, and is now a continuing member, of the Serology Committee of the International Union of Immunology Specialists and World Health Organization.

Research

Dr. Fritzler’s primary research focus is the identification of novel autoantigens that are the targets of the immune response in a number of autoimmune diseases and cancerincluding systemic lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, Sjögren’s syndrome, idiopathic ataxia, rheumatoid arthritis, breast cancer and astrocytomas. He was co-discoverer of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) that is highly specific for the diagnosis of systemic lupus erythematosus but 14 plenary session cont.

Marvin J. Fritzler, targets of the centromere (centromere proteins or CENPs) in the sera of patients PhD MD FRCP(C) with the limited form of systemic sclerosis. The detection of antibodies to CENPs has become an internationally used diagnostic assay for systemic sclerosis and cont. it opened an entirely new area of investigation that eventually elucidated all the components of the centromere. Similarly, Dr Fritzler’s discoveries have also lead to the identification of a number of novel components of the centrosome, mitotic spindle apparatus, Golgi complex and endosomes. But, perhaps the most significant of his discoveries was a completely novel family of proteins characterized by numerous glycine(G) and tryptophan(W) repeats that are now recognized as key components of a new cytoplasmic organelle involved in the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway and referred to as GW bodies (also referred to as ‘processing bodies). Virtually all of his innovative studies on new autoantigens have been directly translated into new diagnostic assays that are in wide use in clinical and research laboratories around the world.

Because of his expertise in these areas, he serves, or has served, as a consultant to ImmunoConcepts (Sacramento), INOVA Inc. (San Diego), Immunex (Seattle); BioRad (Hercules, CA); Innogenetics (Gent, Belgium); Euroimmun (Lübeck, Germany), Dr. Fooke Laboratorien (Neuss, Germany), Eve Technologies Inc. (Calgary), Louisville BioScience LTd. (Louisville, KY) and Mikrogen (Munich, Germany).

Dr. Fritzler has also actively studied how drugs, chemicals (xenobiotics) and other environmental agents affect the immune system and initiate autoimmune diseases. This has lead to his seminal discovery that the primary target of drug-induced lupus is nuclear histones. In addition, he has studied the role of mercury exposure in scleroderma and has conducted a number of population studies in Ft. McMurray, Swan Hills, Fort Saskatchewan, Lake Wabamun and persons living adjacent to natural gas flaring sites (SACEHEAP Study) under the sponsorship of the Department of Alberta Health and Wellness.

Biotechnology and Knowledge Translation

Dr. Fritzler is the Founder and Director of Mitogen Advanced Diagnostics (http://www.mitogen.ca/index.html), a clinical laboratory testing service that is accredited by the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons and the College of American Pathology. Through this laboratory, physicians and clinics around the world have access to state of the art testing of human and animal sera for autoantibodies to a wide range of target autoantigens and antigenic epitopes. This laboratory uses state of the technologies such as multiplexed addressable laser bead assays, line immunoassays and lateral flow. He is currently exploring nanobarcode and BioFlash technologies as autoantibody diagnostic platforms.

Funding and Publications

Since the beginning of his research career he has been continuously supported in his research endeavours by the Medical Research Council/Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Arthritis Society. He is also the grateful recipient of funding from philanthropic donors including the Lupus Society of Alberta, The Scleroderma Foundation and anonymous philanthropic foundations. He has published and co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters and is regularly invited to speak at provincial, national and international community, academic, government and industry meetings and symposia. An analysis of his productivity on the ISI Web of Science in the last quarter of 2009 showed that his 334 works have been cited 6,836 times (average citation/item 20.47; ~450 citations in 2008) with an “h-index” of 37. 15 notes

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