<p> 51st Annual Meeting of the Wesleyan Theological Society Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, California March 11-12, 2016</p><p>Friday, March 11 th </p><p>8:00-8:30 a.m. Registration</p><p>8:30-9:00 a.m. Opening Worship/Eucharist</p><p>9:00-10:00 a.m. Plenary Address: Oliver Davies, Kings College, London</p><p>10:00-10:30 a.m. Break/Refreshments</p><p>10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.Concurrent Sessions</p><p>1. Biblical Studies</p><p>Moderator: William H. Malas Jr., Eastern Nazarene College</p><p>Presenters: Robert W. Wall, Seattle Pacific University, “New Birth in the Letter to the Hebrews”</p><p>Abson Prédestin Joseph, Indiana Wesleyan University, “The Background and Implications of the Language of the New Birth in 1 Peter”</p><p>Kimberly Majeski, Anderson University, “Birth and Barrenness: An Apocalyptic Vision”</p><p>2. Historical Studies</p><p>Moderator: </p><p>Presenters: Luther J. Oconer, United Theological Seminary, “From New Birth to Fundamentalism: E. J. Pace and His Vision of the Christian Life in Cartoons” </p><p>Joseph Wood, Nazarene Theological College, “Throwing the Baby Out with the Font Water”: A Wesleyan Critique of Baptism and Membership in the Church of the Nazarene”</p><p>Bernie A. Van De Walle, Ambrose University, “Saving the Gospel: Defending A. B. Simpson’s ‘Fourfold Gospel’ from Theological Misunderstanding” </p><p>3. Historical Studies</p><p>Moderator:</p><p>Presenters: Ryan Nicholas Danker, Wesley Theological Seminary, “The Politics of the New Birth” </p><p>Steven T. Lane, Florida State University, “Sibling Rivalry: A Socio-Historical Account of Evangelical Political Engagement” </p><p>Gregory R. Coates, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, “Constructing a Wesleyan Political Theology” </p><p>4. Historical Studies</p><p>Panel: “Uncovered Treasure: Premiering the Digital Archives of the Wesleyan Theological Society”</p><p>Moderator: </p><p>Panelists: Steven Hoskins, Trevecca Nazarene University David Bundy, Seoul Theological University Bill Kostlevy, Archivist, Church of the Brethren</p><p>Respondent: Russell Richey, Duke Divinity School</p><p>5. Practical Theology</p><p>Moderator: Nell Becker Sweeden, George Fox University</p><p>Presenters: Kayla Crouso, Indiana Wesleyan University, “Becoming like a child: John Wesley’s doctrine of childhood”</p><p>Constance M. Cherry, Indiana Wesleyan University, “Child Dedication Alternative Rites for Wesleyans: Some Possible Models for Contemporary Practice”</p><p>Dean Blevins, Nazarene Theological Seminary, “Catechesis and the New Birth: A Wesleyan Meditation” 6. Science and Theology and Society for the Study of Psychology and Wesleyan Theology</p><p>Panel: “Transforming Transgender Perspectives”</p><p>Moderator: Thomas Jay Oord, Northwest Nazarene University</p><p>Panelists: Craig Keen, Azusa Pacific University Brandon Arbuckle</p><p>7. Systematic Theology</p><p>Moderator: </p><p>Presenters: Natalya A. Cherry, Ph.D. Candidate, Southern Methodist University, “Wesley’s Doctrinal Distinctions in Developing the Faith that Marks the New Birth” </p><p>Michael Falgout, “Proclaiming the New Birth: The Grounds of Regeneration and the Contemporary Evangelical Case for Paedobaptism” </p><p>Hilde Marie Øgreid Movafagh, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Oslo and the United Methodist Seminary, Oslo, “Grace at Birth and Grace at the New Birth – the Connection of Prevenient Grace and the New Birth in Contemporary Methodist Theology” </p><p>8. Systematic Theology</p><p>Moderator:</p><p>Presenters: Sean McGever, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Aberdeen, “Distinguishing Between Conversion and the New Birth in the Theology of John Wesley” </p><p>Christopher D. O’Brien, Ph.D. Candidate, Fuller Theological Seminary, “A Broader Vision of New Birth: Bringing John Wesley into Conversation with Jürgen Moltmann” </p><p>Jonathan Platter, Trinity Church of the Nazarene, “The Ontic Significance of God’s Eschatological Word: Robert Jenson’s Potential Via Media between Impartation and Imputation.” 9. Theological Education</p><p>Moderator:</p><p>Presenters: David F. Watson, United Theological Seminary, “What Should We Do When We Don’t Like the Bible? Teaching Our Students the Art of Biblical Interpretation"</p><p>Philip C. Tallon, Houston Baptist University, “Toward a Theology of Confirmation"</p><p>10. Theology and Popular Culture</p><p>Moderator: John Bechtold, Iliff School of Theology/University of Denver</p><p>Presenters: Joy J. Moore, Fuller Theological Seminary, “New Birth and the Politics of Identity”</p><p>William Andrew Schwartz , Ph.D. Candidate, Claremont Graduate University, “Bruce to Caitlyn: Gender and Transformation in a Wesleyan Theology of New Birth”</p><p>Steven Vredenburgh, Student; Fuller Theological Seminary, "New Birth in Ida."</p><p>11. Theology and Preaching</p><p>Moderator: </p><p>Presenters: Michael Pasquarello, Fuller Theological Seminary, “The Rebirth of Preaching in the Wesleyan Tradition” </p><p>Rev. Timothy Brooks, South Portland Church of the Nazarene, Portland Maine, Associate Editor, Preacher’s Magazine, and Ph.D. Candidate, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Manchester, England, “The New Birth: Nicodemus and the Spoken Word of Jesus”</p><p>Rev. Levi Caleb Jones, Cornerstone Community Church of the Nazarene, Wagoner, OK, and Associate Editor, Preacher’s Magazine “New Life from the Barren Womb: Words that Burst Forth”</p><p>12. Women’s Studies</p><p>Panel: “On Ordaining Women Panel” Moderator: Ben Wayman</p><p>Panelists: Priscilla Pope-Levison, Perkins School of Theology/Southern Methodist University Howard Snyder, Asbury Seminary and Manchester Wesley Research Centre Karen Strand Winslow, Azusa Pacific Seminary Ben Wayman, Greenville College</p><p>12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch</p><p>Meeting of the Executive Committee</p><p>1:30-2:30 p.m. Presidential Address: Doug Koskela, Seattle Pacific University</p><p>2:30-3:00 p.m. Break/Refreshments</p><p>3:00-4:30 p.m. WTS Business Meeting</p><p>4:45-6:15 p.m. Concurrent Sessions</p><p>1. Biblical Studies</p><p>Moderator: Brad E. Kelle, Point Loma Nazarene University</p><p>Presenters: Mary K. Schmitt, George Fox University, “The Communal Dimensions of Birth Imagery in Paul’s Epistles”</p><p>Ryan K. Giffin, Asbury Theological Seminary, “Through Christ, From God, Based on Faith: Reading Justification in Philippians”</p><p>Kara J. Lyons-Pardue, Point Loma Nazarene University, “The Old and New Births of Onesimus”</p><p>2. Ecumenical Studies</p><p>Moderator: Kelly Yates, Southern Nazarene University</p><p>Presenters: Richard Rice, Loma Linda University, "Perfection and Salvation: Adventist Variations on a Wesleyan Theme"</p><p>Jacob Lett, Ph.D. Candidate, Mid America Nazarene University, "Inclusion in Christ: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Mission-Christology"</p><p>Rustin Emery Brian, Renton Church of the Nazarene and Northwest Nazarene University, “Birth, The New Birth, and the Eternally Begetting/Begotten God, Part I”</p><p>3. Historical Studies</p><p>Panel: “Forty Years of ‘Discovering an Evangelical Heritage,’ 1976-2016”</p><p>Moderator: Douglas M. Strong, Seattle Pacific University</p><p>Panelists: Kristina LaCelle-Peterson Howard Snyder Dawk Mahn Bae</p><p>Respondent: Donald Dayton</p><p>4. Historical Studies</p><p>Moderator:</p><p>Presenters: Paul Kwabena Boafo, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, “Greater Love for God and Neighbour – The Fruit of the New Birth: A Missiological Justification for the Propagation of the Gospel by the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society in Ghana” </p><p>William T. Purinton, Seoul Theological University, “Bishop J. H. King and Pentecostal-Holiness Readings of the ‘New Birth’” </p><p>David Bundy, Seoul Theological University, “The British Roots of the Korean and Japanese Holiness Churches” </p><p>5. Intercultural Studies</p><p>Panel: “Language and Experience in Cultural Contexts”</p><p>Moderator: Patrick A. Eby, Indiana Wesleyan University Panelists: Abson Prédestin Joseph Larisa Igorevna Levicheva Lena Crouso, Indiana Wesleyan University</p><p>6. Moral Theology</p><p>Moderator: Greg Van Buskirk, Ph.D. Candidate, Boston University</p><p>Presenters: Jamie Gates, Point Loma Nazarene University, and Kelli McCoy, Point Loma Nazarene University, “White Slavery, Human Trafficking, and a Wesleyan Theopolitical Imagination: From the commodification of all things to the reconciliation of all things to God in Christ”</p><p>Thomas J. Oord, Northwest Nazarene University, “The Problem of Good and the Problem of Evil: Using Values to Argue That God Exists and What God Exists”</p><p>Rusty Brian, Renton Church of the Nazarene, “Birth, The New Birth, and the Eternally Begetting/Begotten God, Part II”</p><p>7. Practical Theology</p><p>Moderator: Rebecca Laird, Point Loma Nazarene University</p><p>Presenters: Dirk Ellis, Grace Chapel Church of the Nazarene, Hooksett, New Hampshire, “‘Holy Fire Fell and Melted the Saints and Sinners’: Language and Bodily Response in Early Nazarene Religious Experience”</p><p>Reginald G. Watson, Professional Counselor, “Nazarene Clergy Responses to Homosexuality and Interaction with LGBT People”</p><p>8. Science and Theology</p><p>Moderator:</p><p>Presenter: Steven Sandage, Boston University, “Calvinism, Arminianism, Gender Views, and Relationality: An Empirical Investigation of Worldview Differences”</p><p>Respondent: Donald Thorsen, Azusa Pacific University 9. Systematic Theology</p><p>Panel: “Christopher Payk, ‘Grace First: Christian Mission and Prevenient Grace in John Wesley.’”</p><p>Moderator:</p><p>Panelists: James E. Pedler, Tyndale Seminary J. Gregory Crofford, Education Coordinator, Church of the Nazarene, Africa Region Howard A. Snyder, Manchester Wesley Research Centre David Bundy, New York Theological Seminary and Seoul Theological University </p><p>10. Systematic Theology</p><p>Moderator:</p><p>Presenters: Brent Peterson, Northwest Nazarene University, “Baptism: God’s Work of New Birth for the Believer and Infant” </p><p>Sam Powell, Point Loma Nazarene University, “Born Again Hermeneutics and Reading the Bible in Christian Community” </p><p>Laurence Wood, Asbury Theological Seminary, “A Reassessment of the Meaning of the New Birth in John Wesley, with Special Reference to Charles Wesley, John Fletcher, and the Anglo- Catholic Tradition”</p><p>11. Systematic Theology</p><p>Moderator:</p><p>Panel: Katherine Sonderegger, Princeton Theological Seminary, “Systematic Theology: Volume 1, The Doctrine of God.” </p><p>Panelists: Panel Chair: Jason Vickers, Asbury Theological Seminary John Drury, Indiana Wesleyan University Justus Hunter, United Theological Seminary Craig Keen, Azusa Pacific University 6:30-8:30 p.m. Banquet</p><p>8:30-9:30 p.m. IBOE Reception</p><p>NTC Manchester Reception Saturday, March 12 th </p><p>8:00-8:50 a.m. Meeting of Program Units Committee and Section Chairs</p><p>9:00-9:30 a.m. Worship</p><p>9:30-10:00 a.m. Break/Refreshments</p><p>10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.Concurrent Sessions</p><p>1. Biblical Studies</p><p>Moderator: Peter Benjamin Boeckel, Southern Methodist University</p><p>Presenters: Karen Winslow, Azusa Pacific University, “Daughters and Fathers in the Bible”</p><p>Daryll Gordon Stanton, Africa Nazarene University, “The Impact of the New Birth on the Lev”</p><p>Laura Ziesel, Azusa Pacific University, “‘Like a Weaned Child’: Breastfeeding Practices in the Biblical Period”</p><p>Timothy W. Reardon, Fuller Theological Seminary, “John the Baptist and the Knowledge of Salvation: The Nature of the Forgiveness of Sins in the Benedictus”</p><p>2. Charles Wesley Society</p><p>Moderator: Russ Richey, Duke Divinity School</p><p>Presenters: Steven Hoskins, Trevecca Nazarene University, “Insects, Energumens, and Illicit Affairs—Oh My!: The Role of the Georgia Sojourn in Charles Wesley’s New Birth Experience”</p><p>Ryan Danker, Wesley Theological Seminary, “Charles Wesley and the Politics of the New Birth”</p><p>Respondent: Mark Mann, Point Loma Nazarene University</p><p>3. Charles Wesley Society Moderator: Rebecca Laird, Point Loma Nazarene University</p><p>Presenters: Jennifer Woodruff Tait, Christian History Magazine, "Too hot to handle: the new birth and the editing of Charles Wesley's texts by American Episcopalians"</p><p>Patrick Eby, Indiana Wesleyan University, “God’s Presence in a Season of Pain: Charles Wesley’s Poetry on Loss”</p><p>Respondent: Constance Cherry, Indiana Wesleyan University</p><p>4. Historical Studies</p><p>Moderator:</p><p>Presenters: Scott Thomas Kisker, United Theological Seminary, “Justification, the New Birth, and the Confusing Soteriological Passages in John Wesley’s Writings” </p><p>Mark K. Olson, Nazarene Biblical College, Indiana Wesleyan University, “The New Birth in the Early Wesley” </p><p>J. Gregory Crofford, Coordinator for Education and Clergy Development, Africa Region, Church of the Nazarene, “From Justification to Fall from Grace: Charles Wesley’s Theology of Backsliding”</p><p>5. Historical Studies</p><p>Moderator:</p><p>Presenters: John Wesley Wright, Point Loma Nazarene University, “Out of Egypt into Canaan: The Exegetical Way of Salvation in the Holiness Movement and Origen” </p><p>Colleen Derr, Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University, “A Theology of Love through Song: A Study on the Lessons Taught in Hymns for Children” </p><p>Philip Harrold, Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry, “The New Birth as Renewal of Agency in the ‘Spiritual Camaraderie’ of John Newton and John Wesley” </p><p>6. Intercultural Studies Moderator:</p><p>Presenters: Jonavern Pascual Lungub, United Theological Seminary, “The Mission’s Paradigm of the United Brethren in Christ’s Early Missionaries in the Philippines and Their Concept of New Birth Experience (1901-1908)”</p><p>Jo Anne Lyon, General Superintendent of The Wesleyan Church, “Don’t Be Overcome with Evil, But Overcome Evil with Good”</p><p>7. Moral Theology</p><p>Moderator: Rusty Brian, Renton Church of the Nazarene</p><p>Presenters: Nathan Willowby, Ph.D. Candidate, Marquette University, “Egalitarian New Birth: Influence of Great Awakenings on Wesleyan Faith in Action”</p><p>Josh Sweedon, George Fox Evangelical Seminary, “Neither Baptism nor Propositional Assent: New Birth as Wesley’s Counter-Constantinianism”</p><p>Greg Van Buskirk, Ph.D. Candidate, Boston University, “Iconic Dignity and the New Birth”</p><p>8. Practical Theology</p><p>Moderator: Mark Maddix, Northwest Nazarene University</p><p>Joe Gorman, Northwest Nazarene University, “John Wesley and the Salvation of the Whole Person: Fully Human, Fully Alive”</p><p>Sangwoo Kim, Th.D. Candidate, Duke University, “Nurturing Faith and Desire in Prayer: The new birth and sanctification in E. M. Bounds works on prayer”</p><p>Amy G. Oden, Saint Paul School of Theology at Oklahoma City University, “Wesleyan Framework for Holiness in Virtual Contexts”</p><p>9. Science and Theology</p><p>Moderator: Bernie A. Van De Walle, Ambrose University Presenters: Robert Branson, Olivet Nazarene University, “Science, the Bible, and the Human Anatomy”</p><p>Joseph Bankard, Northwest Nazarene University, “Possible Theological Implications in Light of Evolution”</p><p>Laura Ziesel, Azusa Pacific University, “Effects of Biblical Interpretations of Texts Relating to Childbirth on Medical Practices”</p><p>10. Systematic Theology</p><p>Moderator:</p><p>Presenters: John Drury, Indiana Wesleyan University, “Resurrection and Regeneration.” </p><p>John Kenneth M. Loyer, Spry United Methodist Church and Messiah College, “The Necessity, and Mystery, of the New Birth.” </p><p>Tom Noble, Nazarene Theological Seminary, “Born from Above, A Christocentric Doctrine of the New Birth.” </p><p>11. Systematic Theology</p><p>Panel: “Nothing New Under the Sun? History, Eschatology and the Radical Novelty of New Birth.”</p><p>Moderator:</p><p>Panelists: Craig Keen, Asuza Pacific University, “Nothing New Under the Sun: On Standing Out Into the Peace That Is Not” </p><p>Christina Smerick, Greenville College, “The Once and Future (Messiah): Messianic In-Breaking and Walter Benjamin”</p><p>Eric Severson, Nazarene Theological Seminary, “Broken Repetition: Kierkegaard and Radical Novelty”</p><p>12. Theology and Preaching Moderator:</p><p>Presenters: David M. Stark, Th.D. Candidate, Duke Divinity School, “Lo! For Us the Wilds Are Glad”: Charles Wesley’s Proclamation of Isaiah”</p><p>Lenny Luchetti, Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University, “A Homiletic New Birth: How Empathy Drove John Wesley to the Fields”</p><p>13. Women’s Studies Moderator:</p><p>Presenters: Daniel Sipes, Nazarene Theological Seminary, “Understanding the Metaphor of New Birth’ as Redemptive to Barren Women in the Honor-Shame Cultures of the Bible and Today”</p><p>Katie Manning, Point Loma Nazarene University, “The Bleeding Woman, Motherhood, and Lectio Divina: Poetry of Transformation”</p><p>12:00-1:30 p.m. Lunch</p>