November 2023 Conference

Come and Let us Reason Together: Exploring the Porous Boundaries between Philosophy and Theology


James J. Londis & Family Lecturer

Dr. Gary Chartier (Distinguished Professor of Law and Business Ethics at the Zapara School of Business, La Sierra University)

Date: November 16th, 2023 | Venue: Hampton Inn & Suites River Walk, San Antonio, Texas

Video recordings of conference presentations available here


8:30 am Welcome and Introductions

8:45 – 10:15 Session 1: Reasoning from Historical Sources

“Maimonides or the Synergy Between Faith and Reason”

- Abi Doukhan

“Immanuel Kant on The End of All Things: Philosophical Eschatology as Theo-Political Critique”

- Daniël Muller

10:30 – 12:00 Session 2: Reasoning from Hermeneutical and Intercultural Perspectives 

“Slates or Circles?: (Adventist) Theology and the Hermeneutical View of Reason”

- Zane Yi

“Dancing in the Buffer Zone of Philosophy and Theology: An Intercultural Perspective”

- Chuanshan Liang

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 3:20 Session 3: Reasoning from Contemporary Sources

“Christ! Philosophy and Doctrine after Wittgenstein”

- Charles Scriven

“Jesus Christ as the Wisdom of God: A Study of Jesus Christ as Divine Wisdom Through the Creaturely

Metaphysics of Fr. Erich Przywara”

- Norman Yazid

“On the Love of Wisdom and the Mind's Desire”

- Daryll Ward

3:30 – 5:15 Session 4: 2023 Londis & Family Lecture 

Presentation: Gary Chartier

Response: Matthew Burdette