Call for Papers

The CSC invites submissions of papers and posters to be presented at the 2023 annual meeting. We seek proposals for more than 25 sections across the disciplines.

The following sections are formed to create peer review, generative, panel (working group), poster and performance sessions within their respective disciplines. Section leaders and their committees typically represent a diversity of institutions and are responsible for two to three sessions each year.

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CSC Section Committees

The following sections are formed to create peer review, generative, panel (working group), poster and performance sessions within their respective disciplines. Section chairs (designated by an email address) and their committees typically represent a diversity of institutions and are responsible for two to three sessions each year.

American Religion

The Arts and Spirituality

Business and Economics

Centers for Faith and Learning

Christianity, Literature and Language

Church and Academy

Civil Rights

Computer Science

Congregational Science

Creative Writing

John Struloeff, Pepperdine University, Chair, john.struloeff@pepperdine.edu
Terry Engle, Harding University
Nancy Posey, Lipscomb University

The Creative Writing Section develops two types of panels: 1) Reading Panels, where the panelists read their own creative works of poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction and 2) Writers Discussion Panels, where the panelists analyze, interpret, and discuss creative works by contemporary or past authors; significantly, the Section approaches these panel subjects primarily as writers: concerned with craft, author choices, how the work stands out or functions from a writer's perspective, understanding the structure of the work, how form matches content, how we can learn from the style or project of each book, how the work has influenced our own writing.

Early Career Scholars in Theological Disciplines

Film Studies

Health Science

Hermeneutics of Unity in and after Scripture

Landon Saunders Section: The Human Being at the Nexus of World and Faith

John D. Barton, Pepperdine University, Chair, john.barton@pepperdine.edu
Landon Saunders, Heartbeat, Co-Chair
Kathy Pulley, Missouri State University
Arthur Sutherland, Loyola University, Maryland
Lee C. Camp, Lipscomb University
Mike Cope, Midland, Texas

The History of the Landon Saunders Endowed Lecture:

2022, Kristen Kobes du Mez, "Lecture, Interview and Interaction with Kristen Kobes du Mez"
2021, Miroslav Volf, "Meanings and Dimensions of Flourishing: A Programmatic Sketch"
2019, Miroslav Volf, "Religion 2068: Why Technological Advances Will Make Religion More Needed than it is Now"
2018, James Walters, "The 'World' as Context: Paul's Moral Reasoning in 1 Cor 5:1-11:1"
2017, Landon Saunders, "Toward a Relevant Theology in/for Public Spaces"
2016, Landon Saunders, "On Being Human as the Nexus of World and Faith"

Mission and World Christianity

New Testament

Old Testament (Roberts Lecture in OT Studies)

Mark W. Hamilton, Abilene Christian University, Chair, mark.hamilton@acu.edu
Rick Marrs, Pepperdine University
Mark Sneed, Lubbock Christian University
Phillip Camp, Lipscomb University
Tim Willis, Pepperdine University

The History of the Roberts Endowed Lecture

2022, Ellen Davis, "What Are Humans that God Should Even Notice? Reading Psalms in the Anthropocene"
2021, Steven McKenzie, "Four Questions from Jonah"
2019, Katharine Dell, "Woman Wisdom and Her Afterlife"
2018, Carol Myers, "The 'Gender Gap': Textual and Archaeological Images of Israelite Women"
2017, Carol Newsom, "Making Moral Agents in Biblical Israel: Alternative Strategies for Alternative VIsions"
2016, Chip Dobbs-Allsopp, "Isaiah's Love Song: A Reading of Isa 5:1-7"
2015, Coon-Leong Seow, "The Book of Job in its Cultural Milieu"

Patristics (Everett Ferguson Lecture in Early Christian Studies)

Tera Harmon, Abilene Christian University, Chair, teraharmon@gmail.com
Jeff Childers, Abilene Christian University
Trevor W. Thompson, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
James E. Walters, Rochester University

The History of the Everett Ferguson Endowed Lecture

2022, Laura Nasrallah, "Speaking in Tongues"
2019, Brian E. Daley, S.J., "The Beginning of His Ways: Christ as God's Personified Wisdom in the Early Greek Fathers"
2018, Robin Darling Young, "'That I May Enter the Temple And Astonish the Jews!': Early Christians and the Holy of Holies"
2017, Margaret M. Mitchell, "John Crysostom on Love, Marriage and Magic: Assessing the Evidence of a Previously Untranslated Homily (hom. in 1 Cor 7:2)"
2016, Sydney Griffith, "Christians at Home in the 'World of Islam': The Legacy of Christian Theology in Arabic"
2015, Robert Louis Wilken, "The Vocation of the Christian Scholar: Love of Learning and the Desire for God"
2014, Elizabeth A. Clark, "Women and the Family in the Nineteenth Century Protestant Imaginary: Between Ascetic Renunciation and the Women's Movement"