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2009 Abbeville Institute Scholars' Conference Program

"The Older Religiousness of the South"

Liberty University, Lynchburg,Virginia

February 26-28, 2009

Thurdsay. Feb. 26
5:00 - 6:30 pm Registration
6:30 - 7:30 Supper
7:30 - 8:30 "Shadows of the Old South: the Southern Presbyterians in Korea," Dr. Stephen Linton
8:30 - Conviviality
Friday, Feb. 27
8:00 - 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00 "R. L. Dabney and Old School Presbyterianism," Dr.Roger Schultz
10:15 - 11:15 "James Henley Thornwell: A Lost Cause Theology," Dr. Bill Wilson
11:30 - 12:30 pm "Confederate Methodists: How the Methodist Episcopal Church, South Contributed to Southern Identity," Dr. Glen Spann
12:30 - 1:30 Dinner
1:30 - 4:30 Visit to Thomas Jefferson's "Poplar Forest"
4:30 - 5:30 "The Protestant Episcopal Church and the Question of Southern Identity During the War Between the States," Dr. Robert Valentine
6:00 - 7:00 Supper
7:00 - Roundtable discussion
Saturday, Feb. 28
8:00 - 9:00 am Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00 "'Its Own Encounter with God;: Persisting Patterns of Traditional Faith in the Old Confederacy," Dr. Jason Berggren
10:15 - 11:15 "Richard Weaver, The Gospel, and the Restoration of Culture," Dr. Brad Green
11:30 - 12:30 pm "The Man of Letters and the Religious Imagination: Allen Tate, Richard Weaver, and Walker Percy," Dr. Jay Langdale
12:30 - 1:30 Dinner
1:30 - 3:00 Free Time
3:00 - 4:00 "A Feudal Religion Without a Feudal Religion: Rethinking Tates Criticism of Southern Religion," Dr. Clark Carlton
4:00 - 6:00 Roundtable Discussion
6:00 Supper on your own

 

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