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Meeting Program Units

2015 Annual Meeting

Atlanta, GA

Meeting Begins11/21/2015
Meeting Ends11/24/2015

Call for Papers Opens: 12/17/2014
Call for Papers Closes: 3/4/2015

Requirements for Participation

Ethics and Biblical Interpretation


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: The Ethics and Biblical Interpretation Section will host two session for the 2015 Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA. The FIRST session will be an OPEN session on the topic Change. Calls for change abound in biblical tradition. The Hebrew prophets call for reformation of political and social structures, insisting that the honoring of covenantal obligations toward God and neighbor requires transformation of the heart and communal politics alike. New Testament texts take up issues of political, social, and personal change in richly diverse ways. In contemporary political and social discourse, the cry for change has become urgent. Yet what exactly is change? Who are the ones who need to change and why? How is change best accomplished? And what is the relationship between change and power in ethical discourses that draw on Scripture? We invite papers that explore dimensions of this topic. The SECOND session will also be an OPEN session co-hosted with the Bible and Film Section. We invite papers on the various ways in which film (and other media) shapes personal, communal, or social ethical/moral imagination. How might such ethical rhetorical interests in cinema relate to the ways in which biblical texts shape ethical/moral imagination?

Program Unit Chairs

David J. Downs
Amy C. Merrill Willis

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