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“...what is virtue if not the free choice of what is good?”
Alexis de Toqueville
Acton University 2007 Schedule
 

Tuesday, June 10

    4:30 pm 5:30 pm Arrival and Registration
    5:30 pm 6:00 pm Opening Reception
    6:00 pm 7:00 pm Dinner
    7:00 pm 8:30 pm Dinner Lecture
          Welcome: Thoughts on Human Dignity
    8:30 pm 10:00 pm Hospitality
 

Wednesday, June 11

    8:00 am 9:00 am Breakfast
    9:00 am 10:15 am Session 1
          ALUM ADV Economic Thought Before the Enlightenment
  Acton Alumni only
          ALUM ADV Traditionalist Economics: A Critique
  Acton Alumni only
          ALUM INT Wealth and Poverty in Scripture
  Acton Alumni only
          FND 101 Christian Anthropology: Freedom and Virtue
    10:15 am 10:45 am Break
    10:45 am 12:00 pm Session 2
          ALUM ADV The Limits of Markets: Law and Moral Culture
  Acton Alumni only
          ALUM ADV Transition Economics
  Acton Alumni only
          ALUM INT Enemies of the Inner City
  Acton Alumni only
          FND 201 Christianity and the Idea of Limited Government
    12:15 pm 2:00 pm Lunch
    2:00 pm 2:45 pm Session 3
          ALUM INT Islam, Markets, and the Free Society
  Acton Alumni only
          ALUM ADV Tensions in 18th Century Liberal Thought
  Acton Alumni only
          ALUM INT Civil Rights and Social Cooperation
  Acton Alumni only
          FND 301 Economic Way of Thinking
    3:15 pm 3:45 pm Break
    3:45 pm 4:30 pm Session 4
          ALUM ADV 19th Century Christian Political Thought
  Acton Alumni only
          ALUM ADV Judaism, Commerce, and the Market Economy
  Acton Alumni only
          ALUM ADV Why Keynesianism Failed
  Acton Alumni only
          FND 401 Myths About the Market
    5:00 pm 6:00 pm Break
    6:00 pm 7:00 pm Dinner
    7:00 pm 8:30 pm Dinner Lecture
    8:30 pm 10:00 pm Hospitality
 

Thursday, June 12

    8:00 am 9:00 am Breakfast
    9:00 am 10:15 am Session 5
          CST 101 The Catholic Social Encyclical Tradition
          ECN 101 Economics and Human Action
          ENV 101 A Biblical Approach to the Environment
          FAM 101 Market Economics and the Family
          GLB 101 Theology and History of Globalization
          PST 101 Evangelical Social Thought: Justice Grounded in Love
          STW 101 A Theology of Stewardship
    10:15 am 10:45 am Break
    10:45 am 12:00 pm Session 6
          CST 101 The Catholic Social Encyclical Tradition
          ECN 101 Economics and Human Action
          ENV 101 A Biblical Approach to the Environment
          FAM 101 Market Economics and the Family
          GLB 101 Theology and History of Globalization
          PST 101 Evangelical Social Thought: Justice Grounded in Love
          STW 101 A 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
          CST 201 Social Teaching of John Paul II
  Prerequisite: CST 101 The Catholic Social Encyclical Tradition
          ECN 201 The Nature and Function of Money
  Prerequisite: ECN 101 Economics and Human Action
          FAM 201 Beyond Contracts: Marriage and Sustainable Markets
  Prerequisite: FAM 101 Market Economics and the Family
          GEN INT Private Property: Scriptural, Moral, and Economic Foundations
          GEN INT Subsidiarity and Serving the Poor
          STW 201/ENV 201 Private Property Rights and Environmental Stewardship
  Prerequisite: ENV 101 A Biblical Approach to the Environment, STW 101 A Theology of Stewardship
    3:15 pm 3:45 pm Break
    3:45 pm 5:00 pm Discussion Groups
    5:00 pm 6:00 pm Break
    6:00 pm 7:00 pm Dinner
    7:00 pm 8:30 pm Dinner Lecture
    8:30 pm 10:00 pm Hospitality
 

Friday, June 13

    8:00 am 9:00 am Breakfast
    9:00 am 10:15 am Session 8
          GEN INT Latin America: Challenges and Opportunities
          CST 202 Liberation Theology
  Prerequisite: CST 101 The Catholic Social Encyclical Tradition
          ECN 202 The Ethics of Capital and Interest
  Prerequisite: ECN 101 Economics and Human Action
          GEN INT Europe: The Future of the Social Market
          GEN INT Natural Law and Protestant Public Theology
          GLB 201 The Political Economy of Globalization
  Prerequisite: GLB 101 Theology and History of Globalization
    10:15 am 10:45 am Break
    10:45 am 12:00 pm Session 9
          ENV 202 What Should Christians Think About Global Warming?
  Prerequisite: ENV 101 A Biblical Approach to the Environment
          GEN ADV Pope Benedict XVI and His Vision for Europe
          GEN INT Business as a Moral Enterprise
          GLB 202 Christianity, International Law, International Institutions
  Prerequisite: GLB 101 Theology and History of Globalization
          PST 201 The Bad News about the Prosperity Gospel
  Prerequisite: PST 101 Evangelical Social Thought: Justice Grounded in Love
          STW 202 Stewardship and Charitable Giving
  Prerequisite: STW 101 A Theology of Stewardship
    12:00 pm 12:15 pm Break
    12:15 pm 2:00 pm Lunch
    2:00 pm 3:15 pm Session 10
          CST 203 Economic Liberty in Catholic Social Teaching
  Prerequisite: CST 101 The Catholic Social Encyclical Tradition
          FAM 202 Divorce: Cultural and Economic Consequences
  Prerequisite: FAM 101 Market Economics and the Family
          GEN INT Africa: Seperating Myth from Reality
          GEN INT Healthcare and Markets
          GLB 203 Poverty in the Developing World
  Prerequisite: GLB 101 Theology and History of Globalization
          PST 202 The Social Gospel and Protestant Liberalism
  Prerequisite: PST 101 Evangelical Social Thought: Justice Grounded in Love
    3:15 pm 3:45 pm Break
    3:45 pm 5:00 pm Discussion Groups/Networking Sessions
    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
    8:30 pm 10:00 pm Hospitality


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