Archives: Pro Ecclesia Conference 2017

Repentance and Forgiveness

June 5 – 7
Loyola University Baltimore

Reconciliation is the heart of Christianity. It is the point of the Incarnation, the cross, and the exaltation of Christ: that all people be drawn to God, and that it be possible for all people to be drawn to God. The good news of reconciliation is at the same time a call to repent and to be forgiven, and then, concomitantly, to forgive.

It is time to reexamine these fundamental Christian claims. The 2017 annual conference of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology will return to the biblical sources to help us understand reconciliation afresh. It will raise questions about repentance and forgiveness from various perspectives: Jewish, Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant. It will also consider our present-day context, what has been called the “technoculture,” as well as the practice of repentance and forgiveness.

The conference will offer opportunity for question, discussion, and reflection on these fundamental matters in the context of common Christian prayer.

Speakers

Peter Bouteneff, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary
How to Be a Sinner: Negotiating the Church’s Language of Self-Condemnation

John Burgess, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Is Reconciliation Still Relevant? Reflections on a Theological Theme in an Era of Diversity and Inclusivity

Ellen Charry Moore, Princeton Theological Seminary
Repentance and Forgiveness Between Christianity and Judaism

Dominic Langevin OP, Dominican House of Studies
The Virtue of the Sacrament of Penance: Individual and Hierarchical

Brent Waters, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Confession and Repentance in the Emerging Technoculture

Stephen Westerholm, McMaster University
Biblical Foundations

Banquet address: Carl Braaten, Co-founder, CCE