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Travel
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Campus Bookstore
(Located in Marbeck Center)
Hours:
Thurs., June 25 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Fri., June 26 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Sat., June 27 Closed
Sun., June 28 Closed
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On campus dining options
All meals are at Marbeck Center Commons
Fri., June 26 breakfast in cafeteria $5.50
Fri., June 26 lunch in cafeteria $7.00
Fri., June 26 banquet $18.00
Sat., June 27 breakfast in cafeteria $5.50
Sat., June 27 lunch in cafeteria $7.00
Sat., June 27 dinner in cafeteria $8.50
Sun., June 28 breakfast in cafeteria$5.50
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Off campus dining options
Luke’s Bar & Grill *
133 N. Main St.
Tu Pueblo (Mexican) *
142 N. Main Street
China Wok
555 N. Main St.
East of Chicago (carry out only)
407 N. Main Street
419-358-8622 Padrone’s Pizza (carry out only)
147 N. Main Street
419-358-0825
(*) Within walking distance of campus
Fast food restaurants located on State Route 103, near the Comfort Inn of Bluffton: Arbys, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonalds, Subway, Taco Bell
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Driving Directions
Traveling south on I-75:
Take exit 142 and turn right (west) onto State Route 103. At first stop sign, turn left onto Main Street. At the third stop light, turn right onto College Avenue, which runs right into campus.
Traveling north on I-75:
Take exit 140 and turn left (west) onto Bentley Road. At the first stop sign, turn right onto Main Street. At the first stop light, turn left onto College Avenue, which runs right into campus.
Driving directions to Bluffton University are available at http://www.bluffton.edu/about/directions/
A printable campus map is available at http://www.bluffton.edu/about/location/map07.pdf
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Parking
Visitor parking available in the lots beside Founders Hall and across the street from Yoder Recital Hall.
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Airports
Toledo Express Airport (www.toledoexpress.com , 1 hour from Bluffton)
Dayton International Airport (www.daytonairport.com , 1 ½ hours from Bluffton)
Port Columbus International Airport (www.port-columbus.com , 2 hours from Bluffton)
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On Campus Lodging Information
Single-occupancy and double-occupancy dorm rooms are available in Ramseyer Hall.
Ramseyer Hall is handicapped accessible.
Cost is $21.50 per person per night for single-occupancy and double-occupancy rooms.
Linen packets are available for $7.50. The linen pack includes 2 sheets, 1 bath towel, 1 washcloth, and 1 bar of soap.
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Schedule
Bluffton University
June 25-28
Thursday, June 25
1:00-2:30 p.m. ASAA business session
2:00-5:00 p.m. CRR Reference Council meeting
3:00-4:30 p.m. ASAA A-MSN joint meeting
5:00 p.m. Dinner
5:30 p.m. Anabaptist Colloquium roundtable
7:00-9:00 p.m. Registration and refreshments
Friday, June 26
7:00 a.m. Breakfast
7:30 a.m. Prayer Service
8:45 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
James Harder, President, Bluffton University
9:00 a.m. Keynote Address
John Rempel, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary: “Critically Appropriating Tradition: Pilgram Marpeck’s Experiments in Corrective Theologizing”
9:45 a.m. Coffee break
10:15 a.m. Concurrent Sessions
Marpeck and other Brethren
Leonard Gross, Goshen, Ind., “Pilgram Marpeck and the Swiss Brethren”
Jonathan Seiling, University of Toronto, “The Sword in the East: Clemens Adler (1529) and David von Schweintz (1530) in the Silesian/Moravian Context”
James Stayer, Queens University, “Pilgram Marpeck and the Austerlitz Brethren”
William Klassen, École Biblique, “’Spiritual Warfare’ as unifying motif in Marpeck and Scharnschlager”
Ecclesial Practices after Marpeck
Michael Eldridge, Fuller Theological Seminary, “Sacrament, Ecclesiology, and Christology in Marpeck’s Theology of the Lord’s Supper”
Anthony Siegrist, Prairie College, “Where is Jesus Now? On the Road with Marpeck and Others toward a non-Rationalist and non-Spiritualist Construal of Church Practices”
Joshua Weaver, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, “Idolatry, Baptism, and the Theology of Pilgram Marpeck”
12:15 p.m. Lunch (Marbeck Commons)
1:30 p.m. Concurrent Sessions
Marpeck and other Brethren
Jason J. Graffagnino, Leonard Enterprises, “Leupold Scharnschlager and his Defense before the Strasbourg Council (1534)”
Joanna Shenk, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, “Hans de Ries: Recommended Reading for Students of Pilgram Marpeck”
Mike Wilkinson, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, “The Impact of Leonhard Schiemer and His Writings”
Soteriology after Marpeck
Matthew Eaton, Covenant Christian School, “Towards an Anabaptist Covenantal Soteriology: A Dialog with Balthasar Hubmaier and Contemporary Pauline Scholarship”
Walter Klaassen, University of Saskatchewen, “Sin and Fear in the Thought of Pilgram Marpeck “
Kent Yoder, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, “Marpeck and the Doctrine of Justification”
3:00 p.m. Coffee Break
3:30 p.m. Plenary Session
Marpeck and Public Theology
Duane Friesen, “Bethel College, “Practicing Incarnation: A Contemporary Political Model”
Scott Holland, Bethany Theological Seminary, “Marpeck’s Europe, Whitman’s America, and Obama’s Cosmopolitan Body”
Stephen Boyd, Wake Forest University, “Toward a Post-Constantinian Understanding of the Relationship of Christian Faith and Public Life”
5:30 p.m. Banquet Celebration of Recent Marpeck Scholarship
Announcement of the Winners of the Student Paper Contest
Honoring Neal Blough, William Klassen, Walter Klaassen, John Rempel, Martin Rothkegel, Malcolm Yarnell
7:30 p.m. Keynote Address
Martin Rothkegel, Theologisches Seminar Elstal, “Fellows of the Covenant: The Short History of the Rise and Decline of an Anabaptist Denominational Network”
Saturday, June 27
7:00 a.m. Breakfast
7:30 a.m. Prayer Service
8:30 a.m. Plenary Session
Believers’ Church Theological Method after Marpeck
Tom Finger, Bethany Theological Seminary, “Does Marpeck Provide a Paradigm for the Believers’ Church Theology?”
J. Denny Weaver, Bluffton University, “Moderate or Specific to Jesus? Pilgram Marpeck and John Howard Yoder”
Malcolm Yarnell, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, “The Progress and Potential of Pilgram Marpeck within Baptist Theology”
10:00 Coffee Break
10:30 Concurrent Session
Two-Kingdom Theology after Marpeck
Richard Klinedinst, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, “Rethinking Politics as Statecraft: Alternative Traditions in Anabaptist History and Theology”
Gerald J. Mast, Bluffton University, “Patient Separation in Marpeck’s Theological Rhetoric”
Anna Yoder, Bluffton University, “Being the Essence of Christ: The call to service in the writings of Pilgram Marpeck ”
Anabaptist Politics after Marpeck
Reuben Glick Shank, Charlottesville, VA , “Theology and Anabaptist Political Diversity with Reference to Marpeck”
Tommy Airey, Fuller Theological Seminary, “Marpeck’s Political Theology and Engagement”
David Neufeld, University of Waterloo, Pilgram Marpeck’s Vision of the Church and its Relationship to the World: An Ecclesiology for His Acculturated Theological Descendents
12:00 noon Lunch
1:30 Concurrent sessions
ASAA Session
Leo Driedger, Winnipeg, MB, Marpeck in Winnipeg: A Good Mennonite Fit?
James Hurd, Bethel University, Continuing high fertility in a culturally-embedded Mennonite farming society
Incarnational Theology after Marpeck
Trevor Bechtel, Bluffton University, “Creation in Pilgram Marpeck, Nancey Murphy, and Kathryn Tanner”
Andrea Dalton, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, “Canon and Criticism after Marpeck”
Javan Lapp, Faith Builders, “Captive to the Humanity of Christ”
3:00 Coffee Break
3:30 Concurrent sessions
Anabaptist Hermeneutics after Marpeck
Jonathan Sauder, Faith Mennonite High School, “Two Kingdoms, Two Wisdoms, Two Logoi: Aporias in Marpeck’s Dispensationalist Theo-logic
Michael Hardin, Preaching Peace, “Reconnecting Anabaptists with the God of Jesus: A Neo-Anabaptist Hermeneutic”
Anabaptist Politics after Marpeck
Steven Siebert, Nota Bene, “Political Theology in the Shadow of Marpeck”
Phil Stoltzfus, University of St. Thomas, “‘God’s Good Order?’: Pilgram Marpeck’s Approach to Social-Political Engagement as ‘Multi-Track’ Nonviolent Peacebuilding”
4:30 Discussion Panel
A Catholic and Methodist appreciation of Marpeck
Trevor Bechtel, moderating
Michael Cartwright, Dean for Ecumenical & Interfaith Programs,
University of Indianapolis
Michael Schuck, Director of the Joan and Bill Hank Center for Catholic Intellectual Heritage, Loyola University Chicago
5:30 Dinner
7:00 Keynote Address
Neal Blough, Mennonite Mission Network, “The Relevance of Marpeck for the Contemporary Church”
8:30 Entertainment
Anabaptist Bestiary Project Concert
Sunday, June 28
9:15 Worship and Keynote Address (First Mennonite Church)
Heidi Miller Yoder, Eastern Mennonite Seminary, “Worship and the Gathered Body in the Lord’s Supper after Marpeck”
10:45 Christian Education Hour and Conference Reporting (First Mennonite Church)
12:00 Potluck Feast and Conference Conclusion (First Mennonite Church)