2024 Colloquium Theme:
Mere Christian Social Thought
Join us for three panels of scholars presenting their cutting-edge, interdisciplinary research on this topic, as well as a plenary lecture from Dr. Micah J. Watson.
Dr. Micah J. Watson, Paul B. Henry Chair in Political Science, Director of the Henry Institute, and Director of the PPE program at Calvin University will give a keynote lunch lecture, as part of our regular Acton Lecture Series, on the topic: “The Church Should Give Us a Lead: C.S. Lewis on Modern Social Thought.”
Academics, students, educators, clergy, and general audiences are welcome to attend.
The conference will be held at the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Friday, October 25, 2024.
Schedule:
9:30am Coffee reception and Registration
9:55am Opening Remarks
10:00- 11:30am Short Paper Panel
- Jordan Ballor, “Society as Fourth Estate in Christian Social Thought”
- Michael Watson/Matthew Siebert, “Fishers and Men: Catholic and Evangelical Social Thought and Fishing Rights”
- Russell Galloway, “Protestant Natural Law, Birth Control, and The Abolition of Man”
- Eduardo Echeverria, “An Ecumenical Exchange between John Paul II and Bob Goudzwaard on Culture, Society, and Economic Life”
11:30- 12:00pm Coffee Break
12:00- 1:00pm Lunch: Acton Lecture Series Plenary Address
- Micah J. Watson, “The Church Should Give Us a Lead: C. S. Lewis on Modern Social Thought”
1:00- 1:30pm Coffee Break
1:30- 3:00pm Second Short Paper Panel
- Theresa Ramsay, “The Weight of Wealth: Magnificence in Christian Ethics”
- Paul Radich/Matthew Mehan, “Cicero at the Roots of Christian Social Teaching”
- Zachary Gochenour/Chris Fleming/Alexander Salter, “Possibilities for a Merely Christian Social Thought in the Church Fathers”
- Megan Russo, “Who is Your Neighbor? Christianity and the ‘Scandal of Particularity’”
3:00- 3:30pm Coffee Break
3:30- 5:00pm Third Short Paper Panel
- Andrew Yuengert, “Christian Social Ethics and Social Science”
- Erik Matson, “Political Economy as Mere Christian Social Thought”
- Chris Armstrong, “ServiceMaster: A Case Study in the Real-World Influence of C. S. Lewis’s Christian Humanism””
5:00- 5:30pm Closing Remarks
5:30pm End of Conference
The registration fee is $25. Group registrations (5 or more persons) are available for a discounted rate of $20 per person.
For further details, contact Dylan Pahman, executive editor, Journal of Markets & Morality, dpahman@acton.org.
