Flourishing: Adventism and the Good Life

Date: November 17-18, 2016

Location: San Antonio, TX – The Emily Morgan Hotel (Library)

Keynote address: Niels-Erik Andreasen (Andrews University, retired)

Schedule:

8:30am – Welcome and Introduction

“Witness to a Life Worth Living”
– Aleksandar S. Santrac (Washington Adventist University)

9:00-10:30am – Session 1: Liberalism and the Good Life

“Toward a Theological Ethics of Democratic Flourishing and Virtue”
– Yi Shen Ma (Claremont School of Theology, Ph.D. candidate)

“Religious Liberty, Natural Rights, and Human Flourishing”
– Gary V. Wood (Andrews University)

10:30-12:00pm – Session 2:  Authenticity and the Good Life

“Flourishing and Expressive Individualism”
– Ronald E. Osborn (Association of Peripatetic Philosophers)

“Foucault, Truthfulness, and Flourishing”
– Ante Jerončić (Andrews Theological Seminary)

12:00-1:30pm – Lunch

1:30-3:00pm – Session 3: Secularism and the Good Life

“Despicable Me: Defeating Flourishing Egoism”
– Marina F. Garner (Boston University, Ph.D. student)

“Humanism(s), Flourishing, and Grace”
– Charles Scriven (Association of Adventist Forums)

3:00-5:00pm – Session 4

Keynote Address: Niels-Erik Andreasen