Schedule

7:30 p.m.—Reception—Ken Olsen Science Center, DEC Loggia (TBC)
8 p.m.—The Richard F. Gross Distinguished Lecture Series
Ken Olsen Science Center, MacDonald Auditorium
Greeting & Introduction: D. Michael Lindsay, President of Gordon College
Speaker—Mark Noll, University of Notre Dame, “The Chaotic Coherence of Sola Scriptura”

8:15 a.m.—Conference begins—Ken Olsen Science Center (KOSC), Chairman’s Room
Greetings—Tal Howard, Director of Center for Faith and Inquiry, Gordon College; Janel Curry, Provost, Gordon College; Rodney Petersen, Boston Theological Institute
9 a.m.—Tal Howard, Opening Remarks—“Reformation Commemorations, Then & Now”
9:30 a.m.—John Witte Jr.—“Protestantism and the Shaping of Western Law”
10:30 a.m.—Coffee Break—KOSC, DEC Loggia
11 a.m.—Brad S. Gregory—“The Reformation and Modernity: Explaining the Causal Nexus”
12 p.m.—Sarah Hinlicky Wilson—"Martin Luther at 500 and the State of Global Lutheranism"
*1 p.m.—Box Lunch provided for speakers and registered guests—Ken Olsen Science Center
2:30 p.m.—Karin Maag—“The Reformation and Western Higher Education”
3:30 p.m.—Coffee break—KOSC, DEC Loggia
3:45 p.m.—Matthew Lundin—“Myth and History in Interpreting Protestantism: The State of Current Historiography”
4:45 p.m.—Announcements / End of Day

8:30 a.m.—Conference Resumes—Ken Olsen Science Center, Chairman’s Room
Greetings / Announcements—Tal Howard
9 a.m.—Philip Jenkins—“What hath Wittenberg to do with Lagos? Sixteenth-Century Protestantism and ‘Global South’ Christianity”
10 a.m.—Sung-Deuk Oak—“Protestantism Comes East: the Korean Example”
11 a.m.—Coffee Break—KOSC, DEC Loggia
11:30 a.m.—Herman J. Selderhuis—“The Protestant Reformation and Post-Christian Europe”
*12:30 p.m.—Box lunch provided for registered guests—KOSC
2 p.m.—Matthew Levering—“Aquinas, Calvin, and the Church”
3 p.m.—Closing Speaker: Timothy George—“Interpreting the Reformation in Light of the New Ecumenism”
4 p.m.—Concluding Discussion, Moderator, Mark Noll
5 p.m.—Conclusion of Conference