AAR/TWW 2022 Panel Schedule
Theme: Dualisms and Nondualisms
Friday, 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM (In Person)
Sheraton Downtown-Director's Row E (Plaza Tower - Lobby Level)
Rita Sherma, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Nondualism is a source of persistent fascination and import among those who are drawn to the idea of a theology without walls. It is far, however, from being the only alternative for conceptualizing reality in the world’s religions and philosophies. This panel will explore the varieties of dualisms and nondualisms and the question of their relevance to the development of a theology without walls.Jeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College “The Many Shades of Vedanta: The Spectrum of Dualism and Nondualism amongst the Vedantic Sampradayas”Jon Paul Sydnor, Emmanuel College, Boston “Where Is Home When You’re on a Pilgrimage? An Epistemology without Walls Based on Agapic Nondualism”
Michelle Voss Roberts, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto; “Learning from Saivism: Difference within Nondualism”
Graham Schweig, Christopher Newport University “Achintya Bhedabheda in Chaitanya Vedanta: Otherness and Non-Otherness Experiences of the Divine Beloved in Traditions of Divine Love”
Patrick Beldio, Catholic University of America “Beyond Dualism and Nondualism: Meher Baba’s Exhaustivist Theology of Religions”
Perry Schmidt-Leukel, University of Muenster “Non-Dualism as the Foundation Dualism: The Case of Shinran Shonin”
M18-303
Theology Without Walls
Sheraton Downtown-Director's Row I (Plaza Tower - Lobby Level)
Joyce Konigsburg, DePaul University
M18-406
Theology Without Walls
Theme: Planning Meeting
Friday, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM (In Person)
Sheraton Downtown-Director's Row I (Plaza Tower - Lobby Level)
Jerry L. Martin, University of Colorado, Boulder, Presiding
A20-114
Theme: The Concept of Home in Comparative Theology and Theology Without Walls
Sunday, 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM (In Person)
Convention Center-Mile High 4D (Lower Level)
One of the critical issues apparently distinguishing confessional comparative theology from theology without walls is the place and role of a "home" tradition in engaging religious diversity. This roundtable brings together theologians who identify with each of these theological approaches to reflect on their respective relationship to a home tradition, and the relative role it plays in their theological reflection.