Keynote Speakers

We are pleased to feature three distinguished scholars on the relationship between religion and the natural world. If unfamiliar with their work, we suggest the following texts. Click on each speaker’s name for a full biography.

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Marilyn McCord Adams

Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy

Rutgers University

 Friday Keynote: “The Theology-Delusion: Positive Purpose in This World without a Personal God?”

 

 

 

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Leigh Schmidt

Edward C. Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities

Washington University Saint Louis

Saturday Keynote: “Visible Secularism”

 

 

 

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Dyan Elliott

Peter B. Ritzma Professor of the Humanities and Professor of History

Northwestern University

Sunday Keynote: “Eunuchs for God in a Natural Body: The Sexual Trials of the Medieval Clergy”

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