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Reformation 500 Conference

Preliminary Schedule

Thursday, March 9

6 p.m. Dinner (Grant Center)
7 p.m. Plenary Lecture 1 - Timothy George (Grant Center)
8:30 p.m. Concert - Union University Department of Music (Savage Memorial Chapel)

Friday, March 10

Breakfast on your own
10 a.m. Chapel Service - Nathan Finn (Savage Memorial Chapel)
"The Baptist Contribution to the Reformation"
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11:15 a.m. Lunch (Grant Center)
Noon Feature Film (Grant Center)
2 p.m. Parallel Session 1 (White Hall Classrooms)
  • 101 - Gavin Richardson – "Antipapal Rhetoric on the Eve of the Reformation" - Watch Online
  • 102 - Jim Patterson – "Baptists and Anabaptists: Are We Really Close Kin?" - Watch Online
  • 202 - Jimmy Davis – "Reformation: The Spark that Ignited Modern Science" - Watch Online
3:30 p.m. Parallel Session 2 (White Hall Classrooms)
  • 101 - Christian George – "The Lost Sermons of C. H. Spurgeon"
  • 102 - Chris Mathews – "Do you Hear the People Sing?: Songs of the Reformation" - Watch Online
  • 201 - Justin Barnard – "'Comfortable Words': Reforming the Lord's Supper" - Watch Online
  • 202 - Ted Kluck – "Blue Collar Man: On Vocation, Entitlement, and Loving a God Who Both Gives and Takes Away" - Watch Online
5 p.m. Dinner (Grant Center)
6 p.m. Plenary Lecture 2 - Carl Trueman (Grant Center)
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7:30 p.m. Theater - Peculiar People present "Martin and Katie" (Powell Theater)

Saturday, March 11

Breakfast on your own
8:30 a.m. Parallel Session 3 (White Hall Classrooms)
  • 101 - Hal Poe – "The Preached Word of God and the English Reformation" - Watch Online
  • 102 - Walt Padelford – "The Reformation and Modern Economy" - Watch Online
  • 201 - Ray Van Neste – "Evangelism & Missions in the Reformation" - Watch Online
  • 202 - Henry Allen – "Martin Luther and the Making of History: His Historiographical Legacy" - Watch Online
9:45 a.m. Parallel Session 4 (White Hall Classrooms)
  • 101 - Nathan Finn – "Baptist Identity as Reformational Identity" - Watch Online
  • 102 - Hunter Baker – "'Luther's Error'?: Martin Luther and the Question of Political Quietism" - Watch Online
  • 201 - George Guthrie – "The Reformation: Why You Have Your Own Copy of the Bible Today" - Watch Online
  • 202 - John Netland – "The Religious Dissenter in Victorian Fiction: Reformation Themes in 19th Century English Novels" - Watch Online
11:15 a.m. Plenary Lecture 3 - David Lyle Jeffrey (Grant Center)
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12:30 p.m. Lunch (Grant Center)
1:30 p.m. Plenary Lecture 4 - Peter Leithart (Grant Center)
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