Performance-based identity in the Reformation and today

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Performance-based identity in the Reformation and today

Veranstalter
Reformation Research Consortium; Wittenberg Center for Reformation Studies (Leucorea Conference Center)
Ausrichter
Leucorea Conference Center
Gefördert durch
REFORC, Coram Deo Program
PLZ
06886
Ort
Lutherstadt Wittenberg
Land
Deutschland
Findet statt
In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
11.10.2024 - 12.10.2024
Deadline
30.09.2024
Website
https://www.wittenbergcenter.net
Von
Andreas Stegmann, Wittenberg Center for Reformation Studies

The Reformation Research Consortium (REFORC) and the Wittenberg Center for Reformation Studies (WCRS) invite the interested public to a scholarly conference on performance-based identity.

Performance-based identity in the Reformation and today

“Performance-based identity” is a concept developed in pastoral counseling for elite athletes. Sport is just one example of the modern quest for an identity based on performance. In the history of Christianity, there has always been an interest in the relationship between divine and human agency, and advocates of renewal have often emphasized the importance of humanity’s relationship with God being focused on divine gift rather than human achievement. How does the modern emphasis on being defined by one’s accomplishments relate to the Christian understanding of identity being rooted in a relationship with God? Within Christianity, how are divine and human agency understood to initiate, develop, and deepen the relationship between Christ and his body?

Focusing on the Reformation, the conference will show how Western Christianity has understood the relationship between justifying faith and human performance, and will look more closely at the modern challenge of performance-based identity in professional sports. On the first day, a series of 30-minute papers will introduce early modern approaches to performance-based identity. How does divine agency relate to human agency in the eyes of major streams of Western Christianity? We will look at Lutheranism, Calvinism, Anglicanism, and Roman Catholicism. A contribution from a historian will consider ideas of human optimization in early modern culture. On the second day, a second series of 30-minute papers will focus on current debates about performance-based versus relationship-based identity. Various facets will be evaluated: religion, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. There will be time to discuss the papers and to consider two core questions: Is the modern search for a relationship-based identity a result of the renewal of Western Christendom in the sixteenth century? Can the memory of this renewal help us to question the idea of performance-based identity?

Programm

Introduction to the conference (Dr. Ashley Null/Dr. Benjamin Houltberg)

Section 1: Early modern Christianity and performance-based identity

Martin Luther’s ethics and the modern “moralization of Christianity” (Dr. Andreas Stegmann, Wittenberg Center for Reformation Studies)

Does Tridentine Catholicism advocate performance-based identity? (Dr. Colin Donnelly, University of Limerick)

‘Reformation Anglicanism’ and relationship-based identity (Dr. Ashley Null, Wittenberg Center for Reformation Studies)

Did early modern Reformed Christianity contribute to the rise of performance-based identity? (Prof. Gert van den Brink, Theologische Universiteit Apeldoorn)

Optimizing oneself and creating a new man: mentalities, discourses, and practices in the early modern period (Dr. Georg Eckert, Universität Freiburg)

Concluding discussion: Historical perspectives on relationship-based and performance-based identity (chair: Prof. Dorothea Wendebourg)

Section 2: Performance-based identity today

‘Identity’ and ‘performance’ as key concepts of the modern world (Prof. Günter Thomas, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Religion and performance-based identity today (Dr. Laura Upenieks, Baylor University)

Psychological research into performance-based vs. purpose-based identity (Dr. Benjamin Houltberg, Search Institute)

Sociological research into performance-based identity – The example of professional football players (Dr. Graham Daniels, University of Cambridge)

Philosophical analysis of performance-based identity (Prof. Sabrina Little, Christopher Newport University)

Sport and religion: in dialogue with Roman-Catholic perspectives from the 20th and 21st centuries (Dr. Robert Ellis, University of Oxford)

Concluding discussion: The Reformation as a resource for today? (chair: Prof. Jörg Dierken, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)

Kontakt

stegmann@wittenbergcenter.de

https://www.wittenbergcenter.net
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