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CALL FOR PAPERS CTSA CONVENTION: Albuquerque, 2017 CONVENTION THEME: Ecology: Theological Investigations TOPIC SESSION: Theology and Science Topic Session ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM: Catherine Wright (Convener) Paul Schultz Heidi Russell SESSION DESCRIPTION: This 2017 session will focus on the potential and limitations of theological and biblical traditions to address the current ecological and environmental crises in light of contemporary science. Given the history of tensions between theology and science, how can theologians and scientists continue to cooperate in this common project? The committee invites proposals that address the following questions: a) How does a keener sense of the relational ontology that constitutes all creation and creatures foster and impact ecological commitments? b) How has a technocratic worldview led to ecological devastation and a loss of meaning in theological terms ‘encounter’ and ‘solidarity’ with creation and the Creator God? c) How have traditional lenses on the environment that privileged the human contributed to the ecological and environmental crises? What other theological lenses in dialogue with science can focus this blurred vision? d) What theologians or theological lines of thought in dialogue with science have proposed creative paradigms to reimagine how we live and love in and with our common home? e) How is human responsibility for ‘our common home’ impacted by the move from anthropocentrism to a more complex understanding of the place of human beings in the universe as proposed by contemporary science? f) In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis poses numerous challenges to the world concerning “care for our common home.” How might theologians draw upon the insights of contemporary science to develop and advance Francis’ ecological challenges in the Anthropocene? g) The committee also invites other creative proposals that address the theme Ecology: Theological Investigations. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Proposals should not exceed 250 words. In the submission, please provide your name, institution, and contact information (including e‐mail), as well as a 100-word précis to be posted on the CTSA website should the paper be accepted. Presenters must be members, associate members, or applicants for membership of CTSA; proposers must also ensure that their dues to CTSA are paid. It is important that proposals indicate whether any audio-visual equipment wwould be required for the presentation. Additionally, no member may present a paper/respond to a paper/participate on a panel more than once at a given convention. An exception is made for under-represented groups, but exceptions are not made for presentations made to the Women’s Consultation on Constructive Theology. Presenters may not present a paper/participate on a panel/respond to paper or panel at the CTSA convention more two years in a row. Deadline for the submission of proposals is September 1, 2016. Please submit proposals to: Catherine Wright at [email protected]. You will be notified by e‐mail whether your paper has been accepted by September 14, 2016.