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*
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