Truth Matters

Date: November 21-22, 2019

Location: San Diego, CA (San Diego City College, MS140)

Keynote address: David Bentley Hart (Fellow, Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study

Schedule:

8:35 am – Welcome and Introductions

9:00-10:30am – Session 1: Truth and Reason

“The Rational Mystics: Bonaventure and Al-Ghazali on Truth and Religious Experience”
– Marina Garner (Boston University, PhD student)

“Nature, Reality and Truth in Brothers Karamazov”
– Glen Graham (Burman University)

10:45-12:15pm – Session 2: Truth and Virtue

“On Not Being a Schwein: Sentimentality and Epistemic Worthiness”
– Ante Jeroncic (Andrews University)

“The Sorites Paradox and Ambiguous Truth: Implications for Church Leadership”
– Gilbert Valentine (LaSierra University)

12:00-1:00pm – Lunch

1:00-2:00 – Reflections on a Decade of Conversations (Fernando Aranda Fraga, Roy Benton, Abigail Doukhan, Zane Yi)

2:15-3:45 pm – Session 3: Truth and Scripture

“The Truth in God’s Testing of Abraham”
– Arlyn Drew (Andrews University, PhD student)

“Truth and Power in the Fourth Gospel”
– Kendra J. Haloviak (LaSierra University)

4:00-5:30pm – Session 4 – Truth and Beauty

Inaugural James J. Londis & Family Lecture: “A Sense of Style: Beauty and the Christian Moral Life” – David Bentley Hart (Fellow, Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study)

Response: Ronald Osborn (LaSierra University)