Explorations in Theology and Apocalyptic—Session II
M20-308
“Jacob Taubes and Christian Theology”
Sunday, November 20th, 2011
6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Room: MM-Sierra C
Each of these four papers will engage in constructive theological reflection on the themes and arguments of Taubes’ Occidental Eschatology (Stanford University Press, 2009) and the essays collected in From Cult to Culture: Fragments toward a Critique of Historical Reason (Stanford University Press, 2009).
Paper Presenters:
- Sam V. Adams (St. Andrews University, Scotland)
‘The Apocalyptic Cosmic Imaginary: Time and Space in Taubes, Moltmann, and Barth’
- Ben Myers (Charles Sturt University, Australia)
‘Jacob Taubes: Apocalyptic Time and the Retreat from History’
- David Congdon (Princeton Theological Seminary)
‘Eschatologizing Apocalyptic: A Reconsideration of the Messianic Event’
- Virgil Bower (Chicago Theological Seminary/Northwestern University)
‘Embodied Eschatology: Jacob Taubes on Paul, Marx & Kierkegaard’
Chair: Christopher Morse (Union Theological Seminary)
