23/05/2024 16:30 - 17:30

HALL: LA PIRA - ROOM 4

Proponent: Grizzell A.

Chair: N. Hopkins D.

Speaker: Carr R., Grizzell A., N. Hopkins D.

This panel focuses on comparatives between two European and two African American Theologians. Systematic theologian Raymond Carr explores the musicality of theology by employing "the aesthetic thinking of the jazz legend Thelonious Monk to reconceptualize, restructure, and advance the theologies" of Swiss theologian Karl Barth and African American theologian James Hal Cone. And historian of religions scholar Aaron Grizzell explores the purposiveness of nature through a comparative investigation of the thought of Immanuel Kant and twentieth century theologian Howard Thurman. By first stabilizing and isolating the meaning of 'purposiveness' through Kant's Critique of Judgment, Grizzell then attempts to bring Kant and Thurman into comparative dialogue through the concept of nature in order to discover possible connections. Dwight N. Hopkins, the Alexander Campbell Professor at the University of Chicago, serves as respondent and then moderates the panel colloquy.