Conference Sessions

1. Theological and Philosophical Context for Communication

G. Mazza:
“Communicate by Listening: Announcement, Consent, Communication”

Craig Baron:
“The Best of Times and the Worst of Times: Christian Theology in the Media Age”

John M. Phelan:
“The Shared Urgent Relevance of Communication and Theology Studies”

Jose Palakeel:
“What has Athens to do with Jerusalem! Implications of transmediatization of Christian Theology from Oral to Written Culture”

Peter Lobo:
“Inter-Faith Dialogue as Communication in a Multi-Context: A Christian Viewpoint”

2. Methodology of Communicating Theology

Phillip Lee:
“Toward A Theology of Communication Rights”

Thomas Bauer:
“Believe to Know and Know to Believe: Communication as a Unit of Difference, Distinction and Assimilation. Good Reasons for a Social Theory of Faith”

Jacob Srampickal:
“Inter-Religious Dialogue is for Developing Relations, Not Just for Dialogue: A Communications Perspective”

Jim McDonnell:
“Fabric of Our Lives: Theologial Perspectives on the Internet”

3. Theology in the Public Square

Robert Badillo:
“From the Unwarranted Limits of Habermas’ Communicative Reason to the Open Horizon of Ratzinger’s Communicative Logos to Its Grounding via Rielo’s Genetic Metaphysics”

Donn James Tilson:
“The 2006 Olympics and the Shroud of Turin: A Confluence of Town, Robe and Media”

Maria Way:
“Cartoons and Theology”

Frances Forde Plude:
“Ecclesiological Dialogue: An Analysis of Pope Benedict’s Visit to the U.S.”

Peter Feuerherd: “Media Images and Male Spirituality”

4. Theology Expressed in the Arts

Robert Lauder:
“Revelation and Revelations: God and the Movies”

Damian Armana:
“Hierophany in Nollywood and its Theological Import”

Glenn Statile:
“Communication, Consecration and the Catholic Novel”

Eileen D. Crowley:
“Theological Reflection on Communal Co-Creation of Liturgical Media Art”

Rose Pacatte:
“Lights, Camera…Faith! The National Film Retreat as Pastoral Communication”

5. Finding God in the Virtual World

Deborah Greh:
In Search of God in Second Life”

Kathryn G. Shaugnessy:
“WWW and God”

Jean-Pierre Ruiz:
“Between Babel and Babble: Bible Scholarship on the Blogsphere”

Ellen K. Boegel:
“Soundbites and Sermons: Faith-Based Politics in the United States”