Spirituality
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A Conference for: Faculty,
Post-Doctoral Fellows, Graduate Students
Professional Students and Undergraduate Students
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Saturday
February 10th, 2007 University of
Southern California Los Angeles, CA |
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Conference
Summary This is a one
day conference for student scholars and faculty from across Southern
California held at USC. Dallas
Willard will be giving the keynote address.
This
will be followed by 3 faculty responders: Stephen T. Davis Russel K.
Pitzer Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, Linda A.
Livingstone Dean and Associate Professor of Management at the Graziadio
School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University and Francis
Edward Su Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. There will
be a time of open discussion with continued discussion in discipline
specific groups. After
lunch we will be
taking advantage of two photo exhibits at USC the first The Rwanda
Genocide: Portraits of Survival and Hope, Photographs by Jerry Berndt
and the second The Soul of Los Angeles: Portraits of Faith, Hope and
Social Transformation, Photographs by Jerry Berndt. The day will
conclude with a more pastoral approach to the topic by Pastor Michael
Koh and a time of worship and prayer.
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Program Spirituality for Smarties by
Dallas Willard This talk is about
spirituality and intellect. We begin by getting clear on our
terms; "spirit," "spirituality," "intellect," and so forth.
Then
some comments about spirituality and our contemporary situation,
especially as spirituality is working its way back into the academy on
the coat-tails of "diversity." How spirituality got crosswise
of
intellect over the last century or so. What went wrong. By
contrast, the natural harmony and mutual support of intellect and
spirit. Atheism and materialism as "secular
spiritualities." Secular Humanism. Spiritualities manque.
Religion and spirituality--some problems. What it would mean
for
the academy actually to be without spirituality. It is not
"whether" spirituality, but only "which one." The specifically
Christian brand of spirituality and intellectual vocation today.
What the Christian intellectual might aim for and
hope for. The Rwanda Genocide:
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Speakers Dallas Willard is
a Professor in the School of Philosophy at the University of Southern
California in Los Angeles. He has taught at USC since 1965, where he
was Director of the School of Philosophy from 1982-1985. He has also
taught at the University of Wisconsin (Madison), where he received his
Ph. D. in 1964, and has held visiting appointments at UCLA (1969) and
the University of Colorado (1984).
His
philosophical publications are mainly in the areas of epistemology, the
philosophy of mind and of logic, and on the philosophy of Edmund
Husserl, including extensive translations of Husserl's early writings
from German into English. His Logic and the Objectivity of Knowledge, a
study of Husserl's early philosophy, appeared in 1984.
He
also lectures and publishes in religion. Renovation of the Heart was
published in May 2002, The Divine Conspiracy was released in 1998 and
selected Christianity Today's "Book of the Year" for 1999. The Spirit
of the Disciplines appeared in 1988, and Hearing God (1999) first
appeared as In Search of Guidance in 1984 (2nd edition in 1993).
He
is married to Jane Lakes Willard, a Marriage and Family Therapist with
offices in Van Nuys and Chatsworth, California. They have two children,
John and Rebecca (married to Wm. Heatley) and a granddaughter, Larissa.
They live in Chatsworth. |
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Stephen T. Davis
Professor
of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College
M. Div. Princeton Theological Seminary Ph.D. Claremont Graduate University Research Interests History of Philosophy (Ancient) |
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Linda A. Livingstone
Dean
and Associate Professor of Management at the Graziadio School of
Business and Management at Pepperdine University Ph.D., M.B.A. Oklahoma State University Research Interest Creativity in organizations as influenced by the fit between the individual and the organizational environment |
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Francis Edward Su
Professor of Mathematics Harvey Mudd
College Ph.D., Harvard University Research Interests Random walks on groups, combinatorial topology, mathematical economics and fair division |
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Michael Koh
Senior Pastor of Vision Christian Fellowship While growing up in a
Malaysian Christian home, Michael Koh says he truly met God in college.
It was there that he asked God to reach his non-Christian friends, and
he then witnessed 100 of them choose to follow Jesus. After graduation,
he continued to lead the college group as he pursued a Masters in
English Literature. Sensing God’s call,
Michael entered into full-time ministry. He grew in depending on God,
as his training required him to not ask anyone for financial support.
This established a foundation of deep trust in God as Michael prayed
and saw him provide every time, often minutes before the money was due. After planting six
churches in Malaysia and leading the church planting movement he was
involved in, Michael came to Pasadena in 1990 to study at Fuller
Theological Seminary. God had told him that he would meet a group of
people he was to disciple, from which a new movement of God would arise. |
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Schedule 9:30am Dr. Willard’s Address 10:30am Faculty Responder’s and Open Discussion 12:00pm Discipline Specific Discussions — box lunches provided 2:00pm Photo Exhibits 4:00pm Worship and Response With Pastor Michael Koh 6:00pm Conclude |
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Cost $15 Undergraduate, Graduate and Professional Students |
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On-line Registration
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Location
University
of Southern CaliforniaTaper Hall Room 102 Campus Map http://www.usc.edu/private/about/visit_usc/upc_bw.pdf |
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Sponsored by:
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Questions
Contact: Lynn Gill Southern California Team Leader Graduate & Faculty Ministries InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Lynn_Gill@ivstaff.org |
