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Meeting Program Units

2022 Annual Meeting

Denver, Colorado

Meeting Begins11/19/2022
Meeting Ends11/22/2022

Call for Papers Opens: 1/19/2022
Call for Papers Closes: 3/18/2022

Requirements for Participation

Bible and Practical Theology


Program Unit Type: Section
Accepting Papers? Yes

Call For Papers: Bible and Practical Theology will host three sessions. The first session will be an open session: We invite papers on any issue emerging out of the intersections of biblical interpretation and practical theology (liturgy, formation, education, administration, pastoral care, and public theology) that encourages relational and interactive readings of both human situations and biblical texts. We encourage papers that address issues of resiliency and positive practices that respond to the culture of violence in America, particularly gun violence and mass shootings. The second session will be a joint session with the African American Biblical Hermeneutics Section. We welcome papers that address issues of borders and difference in the biblical world in conversation with the range of global, political issues that have arisen around racialized violence, immigration, and xenophobia. The third session welcomes papers that include a focus on the January 6, 2021 political insurrection at the United States Capitol. We encourage papers that deal with biblical interpretations that are informed by family systems, community division, and issues of mental health.

Program Unit Chairs

Terry Ann Smith
Yolanda Norton

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