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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Speaker pay-scale
The way we pay Christian speakers is an indication of how much we value their time and expertise. Read John Stackhouse's views on this.
Good article, but I wonder if there's another side there--self-styled Christian celebrities charging exorbitant fees from the faithful. I'm sure Stackhouse isn't one of them, but I recall one time (back in my hard-core Calvinist days) paying some ridiculous amount to hear RC Sproul give a couple talks.
My guess is that for the popular 'big names' not. More lesser-well-known academic types, however, often use conferences to present new work or in-progress stuff that hasn't been published. This is completely unrelated, but do you know about the Generous Orthodoxy blog? You probably do...
GOTT? I saw a piece by K. Corcoran defending physicalism a while back (although I think physicalism can be defended philosophically, I'm not quite convinced that it can be biblically. I'm sticking to substance dualism for now... as long as I don't have to defend it myself). I also saw a link to the philosophical gourmet that I clicked on, where I saw that your school was ranked number 1. After clicking the link I browsed the directory and saw your name. After getting to your page I saw the paper you wrote (note I said 'saw' not 'read'...not yet anyway. Have to gird up my mental loins to read something like that). All that is a long-winded way of saying, yes, I know about the GOTT. Anything interesting there currently? And does the fact that it took its name from McLaren's book mean that the people posting there are pro-Emergent/Emerging? (unless McLaren stole the name from the thinktank).
My paper's pretty darned boring. I wouldn't read it if I were you! Life's too short.
I'm sympathetic to Corcoran's position--he spent a whole semester trying to convince some of us it was true, but I'm still a bit on the fence. Not for biblical or theological reasons, though--you must have seen Corcoran's article in Books & Culture where he spends some time giving the Xian rationale for it? There's another good article by philosopher Lynne Rudder Baker (whose view is similar to Kevin's) called "Should Xians be Mind-Body Dualists? No". I'll have to dig up the reference, or I might actually have it in PDF.
Is your email somewhere on this site? I can send you the Baker piece and, if you want, a more interesting paper of mine, the one discussed at Prosblogion, that I'm currently doing the conference rounds with. Yes, there's some really interesting discussion on Calvinism and philosophy going on at GOTT right now. You should check it out!
Oh, and yes, my impression is that most of the people at GOTT would be sympathetic to McLaren, though I'm not sure if that's where the name came from. I could be wrong about this too...
My email used to be in the profile section but it's gone. I'll send you my email via email (I think I still have it). That paper sounds interesting. Thanks.
I'm a bit behind in my B&C reading. I'll have to get caught up...
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Good article, but I wonder if there's another side there--self-styled Christian celebrities charging exorbitant fees from the faithful. I'm sure Stackhouse isn't one of them, but I recall one time (back in my hard-core Calvinist days) paying some ridiculous amount to hear RC Sproul give a couple talks.
Good point. I wonder if there's anything a scholar/writer can say in a talk that isn't already said and explained in his/her writings somewhere.
My guess is that for the popular 'big names' not. More lesser-well-known academic types, however, often use conferences to present new work or in-progress stuff that hasn't been published. This is completely unrelated, but do you know about the Generous Orthodoxy blog? You probably do...
GOTT? I saw a piece by K. Corcoran defending physicalism a while back (although I think physicalism can be defended philosophically, I'm not quite convinced that it can be biblically. I'm sticking to substance dualism for now... as long as I don't have to defend it myself).
I also saw a link to the philosophical gourmet that I clicked on, where I saw that your school was ranked number 1. After clicking the link I browsed the directory and saw your name. After getting to your page I saw the paper you wrote (note I said 'saw' not 'read'...not yet anyway. Have to gird up my mental loins to read something like that).
All that is a long-winded way of saying, yes, I know about the GOTT.
Anything interesting there currently? And does the fact that it took its name from McLaren's book mean that the people posting there are pro-Emergent/Emerging? (unless McLaren stole the name from the thinktank).
My paper's pretty darned boring. I wouldn't read it if I were you! Life's too short.
I'm sympathetic to Corcoran's position--he spent a whole semester trying to convince some of us it was true, but I'm still a bit on the fence. Not for biblical or theological reasons, though--you must have seen Corcoran's article in Books & Culture where he spends some time giving the Xian rationale for it? There's another good article by philosopher Lynne Rudder Baker (whose view is similar to Kevin's) called "Should Xians be Mind-Body Dualists? No". I'll have to dig up the reference, or I might actually have it in PDF.
Is your email somewhere on this site? I can send you the Baker piece and, if you want, a more interesting paper of mine, the one discussed at Prosblogion, that I'm currently doing the conference rounds with. Yes, there's some really interesting discussion on Calvinism and philosophy going on at GOTT right now. You should check it out!
Oh, and yes, my impression is that most of the people at GOTT would be sympathetic to McLaren, though I'm not sure if that's where the name came from. I could be wrong about this too...
My email used to be in the profile section but it's gone. I'll send you my email via email (I think I still have it). That paper sounds interesting. Thanks.
I'm a bit behind in my B&C reading. I'll have to get caught up...
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