Arrival (before 4:30pm)
2:00pm Tour of Dubuque and the Wartburg Theological Seminary
4:30pm Opening session with presentation of participants’ publications
6:00pm Dinner
7:30pm “Wilhelm Loehe and
the Future Church” (Craig L. Nessan, Dubuque/Iowa)
8:30am Morning devotion
9:00am “Why bother with dusting off and updating Deinzer? Reflections on Writing a New Biography of Loehe” (John Stephenson, Ontario/Canada)
11:00am “Loehe about himself: Where did Loehe see the Essential in his Foundations?”(Rudolf Keller, Ansbach/Germany)
“Dogmengeschichte und Dogmenentwicklung: Loehe’s Posture Towards 19th Dogmatic Trends“ (James Ambrose Lee II, Chicago/Illinois)
12:30pm Lunch
2:30pm Presentation of papers, discussion groups
4:30pm Business meeting
6:00pm Dinner
7:30pm “A Missionary Ecclesiology: Loehe’s Contribution to contemporary discussions on the missio Dei” (K. Detlev Schulz, Fort Wayne/Indiana)
“Loehe's Legacy and Borderless Solidarity: Destigmatizing Immigrants in a Xenophobic
Nation” (Man Hei Yip, Dubuque/Iowa)
7:30am Departure to Waverly
10:00am “The Relationship of the Functional and Ontological in Wilhelm Loehe’s Theology and Practice of the Pastoral Office” (Steven J. Pietsch, Adelaide/Australia)
“The Reception of Luther's oratio, meditatio, tentatio in Loehe's Approach to Pastoral Theology” (John T. Pless, Fort Wayne/Indiana)
11:30am Guided tour of Waverly
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm Departure to Saint Sebald
3:00pm Guided tour of Saint Sebald
4:00pm Departure back to Dubuque
6:00pm Dinner
7:30pm “From the 19th century Deaconess Institute to the Diaconical Enterprise in the 21st century: The Role of the Deaconess Community in Neuendettelsau” (Matthias Honold, Neuendettelsau/Germany)
“Serving on Bended Knee, Serving on Tiptoe: The History and Future of the Diaconal Movement in the United States” (Jenny Wiley Legath, Princeton/New Jersey)
9:00pm Sociable evening
9:00am “Loehe’s Liturgical Legacy: Addressing Crises pof Identity and Mission Then and Now” (Thomas H. Schattauer, Dubuque/Iowa)
“Loehe’s Legacy Meets the Disinherited: A Conversation of Liturgies and Lives Mattering” (Jan Schnell, Dubuque/Iowa)
11:00am Summary and Devotion
12:30pm Lunch
Farewell and Departure