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Human Formation: A Call for Papers

Center for Faith and Culture | September 30, 2022
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How are humans formed? What factors shape our identities as humans? And what practices lend themselves to human and spiritual formation? The L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture is proud to announce Exploring Personhood: Human Formation — our second annual Exploring Personhood conference designed to address these important questions.

In conjunction with this conference, we invite submissions of abstracts on topics relevant to the conference’s theme.

To be considered, please submit a title, abstract (no longer than 250 words), and a CV to [email protected] by Tuesday, November 1, 2022. Judges will review abstracts and invite full paper submissions by Tuesday, November 15, 2022. If your full manuscript is invited, please submit it by Saturday, December 31, 2022 (no longer than 5,000 words). Judges will announce three winning papers by Monday, January 16, 2023.

The winning paper will be published in the Spring 2023 issue of the Southeastern Theological Review. The authors of the top three papers will also win cash prizes ($700, $500, and $300, respectively), and we will publicly recognize the winners at the Exploring Personhood conference in February.

We invite submissions from faculty, PhD students, and ThM students.

About Exploring Personhood: Human Formation

How are humans formed? What factors shape our identities as humans? And what practices lend themselves to human and spiritual formation? Academic disciplines answer this question in increasingly different ways. Yet how we understand human formation affects everything.

Join us as we advance the conversation at our second-annual Exploring Personhood conference, presented by the L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary on Feb. 2-3, 2023. You’ll hear from Christian Miller, Dru Johnson, Andy Davis, Jennifer Herdt, Kelly Kapic, Todd Hall and Kristin Kellen.

Exploring Personhood: Human Formation will begin with the authority of the Scriptures and Christian theology. We’ll then invite perspectives from the sciences (counseling and psychology), humanities (ethics, biblical studies, philosophy, and theology), and pastoral ministry. Our aim is to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue on the Imago Dei and embodiment — all for the glory of God and the good of the world.

This conference is part of a larger project titled “Being Human: Theology and Praxis” made possible through the support of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. We thank the Foundation for its generosity, and we pray that our efforts will prove helpful for facilitating thoughtful dialogue and fruitful ministry.

  • Date: February 2-3, 2022

  • Venue: Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina

  • Conference Speakers:Christian Miller, Dru Johnson, Andy Davis, Jennifer Herdt, Kelly Kapic, and Kristin Kellen.
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