Sun, 25 July 2021

 

                  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)
 

 

Mon, 26 July 2021

 

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 19^th 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)

 

 

Tue, 27 July 2021

 

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 19^th century Deaconess Institute to the Diaconical Enterprise in the 21^st 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

 

 

Wed, 28 July 2021

 

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