Program

My Ways Are Not Your Ways: The Character of the God of the Hebrew Bible

University of Notre Dame

September 10-12, 2009

Program

Thursday – September 10, 2009

I. Philosophical Perspectives

A. Problems Presented

7:30 – 9:00pm	Louise Antony, “Does God Love Us?”
	COMMENTS: Eleonore Stump
	REPLIES: Louise Antony
	CHAIR: Stephen Wykstra

9:00pm	Reception in the Atrium

Friday – September 11, 2009

9:00 – 10:30am	Edwin Curley, “The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob ”
	COMMENTS: Peter van Inwagen
	REPLIES: Edwin Curley
	CHAIR: David Dudrick

	BREAK

10:45am – 12:15pm	Evan Fales, “Satanic Verses: Moral Chaos in Holy Writ”
	COMMENTS: Alvin Plantinga
	REPLIES: Evan Fales
	CHAIR: Thomas Crisp

	LUNCH (on own)

B. Solutions Proposed

1:45 – 3:15pm	John Hare, “Animal Sacrifices”
	COMMENTS: James L. Crenshaw
	REPLIES: John Hare
	CHAIR: James Vanderkam

	BREAK

3:30 – 5:00pm	Mark C. Murphy, “God Beyond Justice”
	COMMENTS: Wes Morriston
	REPLIES: Mark C. Murphy
	CHAIR: Patrick Kain

5:30 – 7:15pm	Dinner at The Morris Inn, Notre Dame Room (pre-registration required)

7:30 – 9:00pm	Eleonore Stump, “The Problem of Evil and the History of Peoples: Think Amalek”
	COMMENTS: Paul Draper
	REPLIES: Eleonore Stump
	CHAIR: Joseph Levine

Saturday – September 12, 2009

9:00 – 10:30am	Richard Swinburne, “What does the Old Testament Mean?”
	COMMENTS: Wes Morriston
	REPLIES: Richard Swinburne
	CHAIR: Susan Brower-Toland

	BREAK

10:45am – 12:15pm	Nicholas Wolterstorff, “Reading Joshua”
	COMMENTS: Louise Antony
	REPLIES: Nicholas Wolterstorff
	CHAIR: Stephanie R. Lewis

	LUNCH (on own)

II. Theological Perspectives

1:30 – 3:00pm	Gary Anderson, “What about the Canaanites?”
	COMMENTS: Nicholas Wolterstorff
	REPLIES: Gary Anderson
	CHAIR: Andrew Compton

	BREAK

3:15 – 4:45pm	Christopher Seitz, “Canon and Conquest: The Character of the God of the Hebrew Bible”
	COMMENTS: Evan Fales
	REPLIES: Christopher Seitz
	CHAIR: Robert Garcia

	BREAK

5:00 – 5:30pm	Concluding Remarks - Howard Wettstein
	CHAIR: Stephen Davis

5:30 – 6:15pm	Panel Discussion - Gary Anderson, Paul Draper, Daniel Howard-Snyder
	CHAIR: Stephen Davis