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Jonathan Edwards and Scotland: 30-31 March 2009

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Monday 30 March   
09.30-10.00  Registration (Atrium, Wolfson Medical Building) 
10.00-11.00 

Session 1: Plenary

David Bebbington, "A Historical Review of Revivals" 

11.00-11.15  Coffee (Atrium, Wolfson Medical Building) 
11.15-12.15 

Session 2: Evangelicalism and Revivalism 

David Ceri Jones, "'Sure the time here now is like New England': What happened when the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists read Jonathan Edwards?"

Chris Chun, "The Legacy of Jonathan Edwards: Eighteenth Century Catalysis for Revivals Among Presbyterians and Baptists in Scotland"

12.15-13.15  Lunch (Atrium, Wolfson Medical Building) 
13.15-14.15

Session 3: Plenary 

Wilson Kimnach, "'Unfearing Minds': A Transatlantic Brotherhood of Preachers"

14.15-15.15

Session 4: Philosophy

Natalia Marandiuc, "Jonathan Edwards on the Relation between Human Will and Divine Grace: Intuitions Rooted in Enlightenment"

Richard Hall, "Edwards and Hume on Causation"

15.15-15.30  Coffee (Atrium, Wolfson Medical Building) 
15.30-16.30 

Session 5: Continuities and Discontinuities

Michael McClenahan, "New England's Nemesis: John Tillotson and the dismantling of Puritanism"

Caleb Maskell, "A Well Travelled Path?: History in the Transatlantic Toronto Revivals (1994-2000)"

18.00

Conference Dinner:

Stravaigin
28 Gibson Street

Tuesday 31 March   
09.30-10.00 

Session 6: Plenary

Richard Hall, "A Lost Smibert Portrait of Edwards?"

10.00-11.00

Session 7: Missions and Millennium

Nicholas T. Batzig, "Edwards, McLaurin and the Transatlantic Concert of Prayer"

Kelly Van Andel, "The Geography of Sinfulness: Edwards, Indians, and Crafting Subjectivity on the Mission Frontier" 

11.00-11.15 Coffee (Atrium, Wolfson Medical Building)
11.15-12.15 Session 8: International Networks

Adriaan Neele (Yale), "Petrus Van Masstricht: Exchanges in Scotland, the Netherlands, and America"

H.G. Callaway, "Witherspoon, Edwards, and 'Christian Magnanimity'"

12.15-13.15  Lunch (Atrium, Wolfson Medical Building) 
13.15-14.15

Session 9: Edwards and the Arts

Susan Miller, "'Beauty' is truth, truth beauty, Jonathan Edwards and John Keats"

Kyle Strobel, "'A Happifying Sight': Jonathan Edwards and the Beatific" 

14.15-14.30 Coffee (Atrium, Wolfson Medical Building)