Schedule

Day 1

October 7

1:00 – 1:30

Sign in

Adorjan Hall: First Floor Common Area

1:30 – 1:45

Welcome

Chris Holland
Saint Louis University

1:45 – 4:45

Session One

Adorjan Hall: Room 142
Session Chair: Montaque Reynolds

Hopeful Universalism and Proper Direction of Fit

Austin McCoy
Baylor University

Commentator: Derek Estes

God’s Caring and Evil

Troy Seagraves
Purdue University

Commentator: Michael Cevering

Aquinas on Dispassionate Theodicy

Nick Hadsell
Baylor University

Commentator: Thes Kascsak

5:00 – 6:15

Keynote

Adorjan Hall: Room 142

The Problem of Heavenly Grief

Eric Reitan
Oklahoma State University

6:30

Dinner

Catholic Studies Centre, Boileau Hall*

* Our thanks to the Catholic Studies Centre for proving this venue free of charge.


Day 2

October 8

8:30 – 9:00

Coffee

Adorjan Hall: First Floor Common Area

9:00 – Noon

Session Two

Adorjan Hall: Room 142
Session Chair: Chris Holland

God, Suffering, and the Irrelevance of the Doctrine of Doing and Allowing

Ryan Kulesa
University of Missouri - Columbia

Commentator: Ata Hashemi

There Is a Free-Will Defense: A Response to James P. Sterba

Brandon Johnson
Baylor University

Commentator: James Pepe

Seemings, Virtue, and Acquired Contemplation

Thomas Duttweiler
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary

Commentator: Adrian Patrick McCaffery

Noon – 1:30

Lunch

Adorjan Hall: First Floor Common Area

1:30 – 3:30

Session Three

Adorjan Hall: Room 142
Session Chair: Adrian Patrick McCaffery

Divine Personality and the Problem of Hell

Anna Judd
Baylor University

Commentator: Jacquelyn Harootunian-Cutts

Embodied: How the ‘thisness’ of Christ Refutes the Problem of Evil

David Mau
Colorado Christian University

Commentator: Charles Freiberg

3:45 – 5:00

Keynote

Adorjan Hall: Room 142

The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning

Eleonore Stump
Saint Louis University