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CALL FOR PAPERS. Canadian Jacques Maritain Association

CALL FOR PAPERS

Canadian Jacques Maritain Association

 

Annual Symposium

Friday, October 27 and Saturday, October 28, 2017

Dominican University College of Philosophy & Theology, 96 Empress St., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

 

The CJMA welcomes proposals from individuals who are interested in presenting a paper at its 2017 fall conference.

 

Theme: Renaissance Humanism, the Protestant Reformation, and Jacques Maritain

 

Acknowledging 2017 as the 500th anniversary of the year which marks the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, it is appropriate that we consider Jacques Maritain's views concerning the Renaissance and Reformation as a pivotal period in history. For Maritain, this period introduces the turn toward the individual and the subsequent emergence of anthropocentric humanism, whereby humanity turns inward for nourishment sustaining growth toward maturity.

     While applauding the march toward greater autonomy within the secular sphere, Maritain remained consistently adamant in his critique of the Renaissance and Reformation as harbingers of a modernity which would derail authentic progress. Maritain contends that the Renaissance and Reformation fostered egocentrism and greed, leading to liberal bourgeois society with its fixation on consumption, and inevitably to the totalitarian nightmares of the previous century. Maritain proposes a theocentric, other focused humanism, which recognizes each human person as the image of God, endowed with inalienable rights and attaining personhood through friendship and loving relationships in community.

     Papers are welcome considering Maritain's treatment of the period from his famous/infamous sketch of Martin Luther in Three Reformers (1925) to his words on the Protestant denominations in his post Second Vatican Council contribution, On the Church of Christ (1970). Maritain's reflections on the Renaissance and Reformation can be gleaned from Freedom in the Modern World (1933), Integral Humanism (1936), his often neglected Moral Philosophy (1960), and shorter pieces. We welcome examination and evaluation of any material from Maritain's corpus contributing to his understanding of the Renaissance and Reformation in relation to subsequent historical, political, economic, philosophical and theological developments. 

     We encourage papers that refer explicitly to the work of Maritain, although we are open to papers examining the legacy of Renaissance Humanism and the Protestant Reformation from other perspectives.

 

We invite papers, in English or French, relating to the conference theme. Selected papers will be published in Études maritainiennes-Maritain Studies.

Those who wish to present a paper should send a one-page abstract or proposal to:

Dr. Walter J. Schultz

1201-1201 Walden Circle

Mississauga, ON L5J 4M9 Canada

Voice: 905-823-4490

Email: wschultz@isabout.ca

Deadline for submission of proposals: August 4, 2017

Papers should not exceed 35 minutes reading time.


 April 26, 2017