2010 Acton University Schedule

Tuesday, June 15

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Arrival and Registration

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Opening Reception

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Dinner

6:00 PM - 7:15 PM

Dinner

7:15 PM - 8:30 PM

Welcome: Thoughts on Human Dignity

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Hospitality

Wednesday, June 16

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 AM - 8:50 AM

Foundation Session 1

FND 101 Christian Anthropology

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Alumni Session 1

ALUM Social and Economic Context of the New Testament

ALUM Alexis de Tocqueville: Philosopher of Civil Society

ALUM Banking and Finance

ALUM Why Keynesianism Failed

9:50 AM - 10:00 AM

Foundation Break

10:00 AM - 10:50 AM

Foundation Session 2

FND 201 Christianity and the Idea of Limited Government

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Alumni Break

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Alumni Session 2

ALUM Natural Law and Protestant Public Theology

ALUM Economic Science and the School of Salamanca

ALUM Christianity and the Scottish Enlightenment

ALUM Wealth and Poverty in Scripture

10:50 AM - 11:10 AM

Foundation Break

11:10 AM - 12:00 PM

Foundation Session 3

FND 301 Economic Way of Thinking

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Alumni Lunch

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

Foundation Break

12:15 PM - 2:00 PM

Foundation Lunch

2:00 PM - 2:50 PM

Foundation Session 4

FND 401 Foundations of a Free and Virtuous Society

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Alumni Session 3

ALUM Centralization and Civil Society

ALUM The Ecumenical Movement and Economics: A Critique

ALUM The Limits of Markets: Law and Moral Culture

ALUM Christian Poverty in an Age of Prosperity

2:50 PM - 3:10 PM

Foundation Break

3:10 PM - 4:00 PM

Foundation Panel Discussion

FND 501 Panel Discussion

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Alumni Break

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Alumni Session 4

ALUM Medieval Economics: The Untold Story

ALUM Cultural Decay in Free and Planned Economies

ALUM The Federalist Debate: Balancing Liberty and Order

ALUM Natural Law and Economics

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Afternoon Break

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Alumni Break

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Dinner

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Evening Program

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Hospitality

Thursday, June 17

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Session 5

CST 101 Introduction to Catholic Social Teaching

ECN 101 Economics and Human Action

FAM 101 Market Economics and the Family

PSE 101 Evangelical Social Thought: Justice Grounded in Love

GLB 101 Theology of Globalization

STW 101 Theology of Stewardship

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Session 6

CST 101 Introduction to Catholic Social Teaching

ECN 101 Economics and Human Action

FAM 101 Market Economics and the Family

PSE 101 Evangelical Social Thought: Justice Grounded in Love

GLB 101 Theology of Globalization

STW 101 Theology of Stewardship

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

Break

12:15 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Session 7

PSE 201 The Bad News about the "Prosperity Gospel"

ECN 201 The Nature and Function of Money

GLB 201 Entrepreneurship and the Developing World

STW 201 Stewardship, Generosity, and Charitable Giving

Social Justice: Fair and Victimless v. Free and Virtuous

Entrepreneurs in the Muslim World

Virtue and Liberty in the American Founding

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Break

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Session 8

ENV 101 Biblical Theology and Environmental Ethics

PSE 202 The Emergent Church

FAM 201 Beyond Contracts: Marriage and the Sustainable Markets

GLB 203 Africa: New Pathways for Development

Rousseau, Equality and Modernity

The New Deal and the Great Society: Moral and Economic Failure

GLB 202 Latin America: Populism and the New Left

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Break

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Evening Program

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Hospitality

Friday, June 18

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast

9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Session 9

ENV 201 Evangelicals and the Green Movement

CST 201 Liberation Theology

PSE 203 Bonhoeffer's Social Ethics

GLB 204 Development, Microfinance and Foreign Direct Investment

STW 202 Your Case Study: The Essential Tool Most Often Forgotten In Non-Profit Resource Leadership

Perils of the Inner City

Cultural and Social Critiques of Globalization

Pope Benedict XVI and the Crisis of Europe

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM - 12:00 PM

Session 10

ENV 202 Environmental Sustainability: Creature Care Beyond Stewardship

CST 202 Pope Benedict XVI and Caritas in Veritate

FAM 202 Divorce: Cultural and Economic Consequences

GLB 205/ STW 203 Breaking Dependency: Stewardship and the End of Aid

GLB 206 Fair Trade v. Free Trade

Pensions and Social Security

Subsidiarity and Serving the Poor

Islam, Markets and the Free Society

12:00 PM - 12:15 PM

Break

12:15 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Session 11

PSE 204 Intergration of Sound Economics into Expository Preaching

CST 203 Distributivism: The Theory and a Critique

ECN 202 The Ethics of Capital and Interest

GLB 207 Poverty in the Developing World

Business as a Moral Enterprise -Theology of Work

Population, Prosperity and Demographic Decline

Envy and the Search for Fairness in Our Economic Relationships

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Break

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Session 12

Faculty Panel Discussions

5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Break

5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Closing Reception

6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Dinner

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM

Dinner Lecture: Piety and Technique

8:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Hospitality