April 23-24, 2015
Antwerp, Belgium
Organized by: The European Observatory of Religion and Secularism (Laïcité) in partnership with Faculty of Comparative Studies of Religions, CESNUR and CLIMAS (Bordeaux)
Venue: Faculty of Comparative Studies of Religions (FVG). Wilrijk (Antwerpen) Belgium
Website : www.AntwerpFVG.org
Thursday April 23, 2015
- 9h -10 h Registration
- 10h 30: Pr. Chris Vonck. Rector of the Faculty: Welcome speech.
- 11h. Keynote speaker: Gordon Melton, Baylor University: “Placing Eddy in the Historical Flow: The Role of the Key to the Scriptures”
- 11h 30: Régis Dericquebourg, Université de Lille, CNR “Christian Science: the first healing Church.”
- 13h 30. Shirley Paulson, University of Birmingham “Christian Science and its Christian origin”
- 14h. Nawal Issaoui, Université Bordeaux Montaigne: “Christian Science’s faith healing practice in the United States and Canada: an overview from a historical and legal perspective.”
- 14h 30. Robert Harragin, Claremont Fan Court School, UK: “The Impact of Christian Science on Political Women in the early 20th Century in UK.”
- 15 h. Timothy Rider: “How does Christian Science Relate to Orthodox Theology?”
- 15h 30. Donald Westbrook, Claremont Graduate University (USA): “Christian Science and Scientology: Ecclesiologies”
- 16 h. Bernadette Rigal-Cellard, Université Bordeaux Montaigne : “The penetration of Mary Baker Eddy’s doctrines in Canada”
Friday April 24. 2015
- 9h 30 Guy Bucumi: “La théologie de la prospérité chez les évangéliques et la Science chrétienne”
- 10h. Sally Lessiter, Oxford Brookes University: “Architecture of the Church of the Christian Science.”
- 10h 30. Massimo Introvigne, CESNUR: “The Christian Scientist as Artist: From Violet Oakley to Joseph Cornell”
- 11h Concluding discussion