Conference Schedule

The conference will be held in the Phillips Building on the Emmanuel Hill side of campus (number 47 on the campus map).
Here is a link to the campus map.

NOTE: Conference schedule is subject to change as paper titles are submitted to the organizers.
If you would like to give a paper but are not on the schedule below please contact David Kiger: dwkiger@milligan.edu.

Friday October 10

9:00am-10:15—Registration/Coffee Hour—Seminary Library Conference Suite (Phillips Building) 

10:15-10:30—Opening Welcome Dr. Stephen Waers President of Milligan University

10:30am-12—Group A

  • Jordan Wood: Gregory of Nyssa’s Distinctive Influence on Maximus the Confessor

  • Alden Bass: The Gift of Tears: Augustine's Emotional Hermeneutics in Biblical Preaching

  • Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent: Divine Feeding in Isaac of Nineveh [via zoom]

 

12-1:30--Lunch 

1:30-3:00—Group B

  • Marcus Plested: Theology of History in St Maximus the Confessor: Footnotes to Paul Blowers [zoom]

  • Alyssa Elliott: A Mansion of Futility and a Little House for the Soul: An Exhortation to the Virtuous Life in Gregory of Nyssa’s In Ecclesiasten Homiliae 3

  • Fr. Andrew Summerson: Bearing Dionysius’s Cross: Maximus as illuminator of Dionysius the Areopagite’s theologia crucis [zoom]

3:00-3:30—Coffee Break

 

4-5—Group C

  • Mark Weedman: Nicene Trinitarianism in 2025: Rethinking the Structure of Pro-Nicene Thought

  • Clifton Ward: On Life-Writing and Clement of Alexandria

  • Daniel Edwards: Wounds of Love and the Sufferings of Christ: Apatheia in the Macarian Writings

5:30-7:30—Dinner

 

7:30-9:30—After Dinner Reception

Saturday October 11

9am-10:30— Group D

  • David Eastman: Theatricality and the Creation of Heretics in Early Christianity

  • Cody Glen Barnhart: ‘For Words Do Not Alter Nature’: The Timaeus Commentary Tradition and the Nicene Creed"

  • David Kiger: The Persians as the Christians Saw Them: (Re)-Locating Ephrem’s Context

 

10:30-11--Coffee Break

11-12—Final Session

  • Marius Portaru: A Theological History of Cyril of Alexandria’s henosis kath'hypostasin'

  • Donnie DeBord: Apollinarian Christology: Formation, Rejection, and Revival