Congresses/Seminars by Symeon Paschalidis
We are very pleased to announce the organization of a Conference dedicated to the eighty-year ann... more We are very pleased to announce the organization of a Conference dedicated to the eighty-year anniversary of Sources chrétiennes with the cooperation of academic institutions from Greece and France. Specifically, the School of Social Theology and Christian Culture of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, the Patriarchal Institute for Patristic Studies, the Sources chrétiennes Institute, the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Lyon and the Catholic and Protestant Theological Faculties of the University of Strasbourg have come together to organize an International Conference to celebrate the eightieth anniversary of the publication of the first volume of the series Sources Chrétiennes (1943-2023).
The aim of the Conference is to highlight the continuing relevance of patristic preaching for the modern world. Renowned university professors and scholars from Greece, France and abroad have been invited to participate in the proceedings in order to bring to light patristic teaching on a series of topics that are widely discussed in our own day: the relationship of man with the natural environment, the equality of the sexes, the equitable distribution of wealth, and the gap between the rich and the poor. Additionally, conference participants will attempt to decode the message that the writings of the Fathers hold for us today about the freedom of the human being as an acting social subject as well as the distinct roles played by Church and State.
The Conference proceedings will take place in the lecture hall of the Society for Macedonian Studies while the special session about the “Patristic Hermeneutics in Dialogue” and the closing ceremony, which will coincide with the feast day of the Apostles Peter and Paul, will be held in the auditorium of the Patriarchal Foundation for Patristic Studies.
An International Conference dedicated to “The Theological Legacy of Fr Georges Florovsky,” is org... more An International Conference dedicated to “The Theological Legacy of Fr Georges Florovsky,” is organized under the auspices of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and jointly sponsored by the Patriarchal Institute of Patristic Studies, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary since he fell asleep in the Lord.
Fr Florovsky was a pioneer thinker and formative theologian—in the words of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, arguably “the dean of the Orthodox theologians in the 20th century.” Florovsky’s visionary call for theologians to return to the patristic sources and acquire the mind of the Fathers, as well for the Church to dialogue with the historical and ecumenical challenges of our time, has proved profoundly influential on Christian thinkers to this day.
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Les récits hagiographiques donnaient aux Byzantins de base leurs seules présentations narratives ... more Les récits hagiographiques donnaient aux Byzantins de base leurs seules présentations narratives de l'histoire byzantine. En combinaison avec les portraits sur les monnaies, la série des indictions et les monuments impériaux, c'étaient les seuls moyens par lesquels l'homme moyen pouvait obtenir des données plus ou moins précises sur les phases, les règnes et les événements principaux de l'empire. Tandis que les récits historiographiques restaient la préoccupation des literati et n'étaient lus que dans les cercles impériaux et patriarcaux, des lectures des vies des saints, des martyres et des miracles s'écoutaient dans des églises et monastères. Si, en Byzance en général, on avait une notion narrative de l'histoire de l'empire, c'est dans les milliers de manuscrits qui conservent les textes hagiographiques que nous allons la trouver.
Pour en savoir davantage et pour formuler des idées sur l'histoire de l'homme de la rue à Byzance, nous proposons de monter un workshop sur l'histoire byzantine telle qu'elle se présentait à l'homme du commun en Byzance. L'âge des persécutions décrit dans les récits des martyrs sera important. La Palestine, même hors des monastères, prend une place centrale dans l'œuvre de Cyrille de Scythopolis, et les destins d'autres régions seront également présentés dans des textes hagiographiques destinés à exposer des miracles et vies angéliques. Le ménologe du Métaphraste nous donne une version complète datant de la fin du dixième siècle, mais d'autres textes hagiographiques et d'autres ménologes nous en donnent d'autres, tous marquées par les intérêts et les renseignements disponibles pour les hagiographes. De cette manière, des moines et des fidèles byzantins avaient l'occasion de s'orienter sur toute l'histoire impériale dès l'arrivée du christianisme et de temps en temps même sur des époques antérieures. Des empereurs, des impératrices, des évêques et pas mal d'autres personnes leur seraient donc connus. Et l'on pouvait même se renseigner sur des coins lointains ou perdus de l'empire et sur des lieux hors des frontières.
Donc, la question posée n'est pas ce que nous pouvons en extraire comme données historiques, mais quelles conceptions de l'histoire impériale et même ecclésiastique l'homme du commun en Byzance pouvait avoir sur la base de ces textes. Quelles constructions idéologiques y sont les plus répandues ? L'homme du commun pouvait-il se poser des questions critiques en se confiant à ces présentations ? Et les images impériales sur des monnaies, dans des places et sur les monuments confirmaient-elles cette historiographie simplifiée accessible aux Byzantins communs?
Hagiography offered the only narrative presentations of Byzantine history to the common Byzantine. In combination with portraits on coins, the series of indictions and the imperial monuments, hagiographical texts were the only means through which the average person could obtain more or less precise data on the phases, reigns and main events of the empire. While historiographical accounts remained the preoccupation of the literati and were read only in aristocratic, imperial and patriarchal circles, readings of the lives of saints, martyrs and miracles were heard in churches and monasteries. If in Byzantium in general there was a narrative notion of the history of the empire, we shall find it in the thousands of manuscripts preserving hagiographical texts.
In order to learn more and to formulate ideas on the history of the common person in Byzantium, we propose a workshop on Byzantine history as it presented itself to the average person. The age of persecution described in the accounts of martyrs will be important. Palestine, even outside the monasteries, takes centre stage in the work of Cyril of Skythopolis, and the destinies of other regions were also highlighted in hagiographical texts intended to expose miracles and angelic lives. The Metaphrastic Menologion gives us a complete version dating from the end of the tenth century, but other hagiographical texts and menologia give us others, all marked by the interests and information available to the hagiographers. In this way, Byzantine monks and devotees had the opportunity to orient themselves in the entire history of the empire from the arrival of Christianity, and sometimes also in earlier periods. Emperors, empresses, bishops and many others would be known to them. One could even learn about distant or lost corners of the empire and about places beyond the borders.
Accordingly, the question is not what we can extract as historical data, but what conceptions of imperial and even ecclesiastical history one could have on the basis of these texts. Which ideological conceptions were most widespread? Could the average persons ask themselves critical questions by entrusting themselves to these presentations? And did the imperial images on coins, in public squares and monuments confirm this simplified historiography accessible to the common Byzantines?
Οι μοναχοί του Χιλανδαρίου -φύλακες των κτημάτων της Mονής τους στη Σερβία Mirjana Živojinović Σε... more Οι μοναχοί του Χιλανδαρίου -φύλακες των κτημάτων της Mονής τους στη Σερβία Mirjana Živojinović Σερβική Ακαδημία Επιστήμων και Τεχνών Η Σερβική Ιερά Μονή Χιλανδαρίου, χάρη σε πλουσιοπάροχες δωρεές, πρωτίστως των βυζαντινών βασιλέων και των Σέρβων ηγεμόνων, και άλλων αξιοσέβαστων αρχόντων, τόσο της Βασιλείας όσο και του σερβικού μεσαιωνικού κράτους, απέκτησε μεγάλα κτήματα και στο ίδιο το Βυζάντιο και στη Σερβία. Οι μοναχοί του Χιλανδαρίου, μεριμνώντας για τα κτήματά τους, τα οργάνωσαν σε μετόχια τα οποία φρόντιζαν οικονόμοι, μοναχοί που στέλνονταν από το Μοναστήρι. Κάποιες φορές οι γείτονες του μετοχίου προσπαθούσαν να σφετεριστούν είτε κάποιο μέρος του κτήματος είτε το δικαίωμα του μοναστηριού σε αυτό (π.χ. τη χρήση βοσκοτόπων). Αυτό το φαινόμενο επιδεινώθηκε και από τους σερβο-βυζαντινούς πολέμους, όταν οι σχέσεις μεταξύ του Αγίου Όρους και της Σερβίας διακόπηκαν, όπως συνέβη τις τελευταίες δύο δεκαετίες του 13ου αιώνα. Οι ηγούμενοι του Χιλανδαρίου με τους πιο αξιοσέβαστους εκπροσώπους του Μοναστηριού απευθύνονται στον βυζαντινό βασιλέα και στον Σέρβο ηγεμόνα για να ανακτήσει το μοναστήρι τα δικαιώματά του. Θα κάνουμε μία ανασκόπηση σχετικά με τις επισκέψεις του ηγουμένου ιερομονάχου Γερβασίου στον κράλη Στέφανο Ούρεση τον Γ΄, τον Σεπτέμβριο του 1327 και του ιερομονάχου Δωροθέου στη Συνέλευση στο Krupišta τον Μάιο-Ιούλιο του 1355 για να διεκδικήσουν εκ νέου τα απωλεσθέντα δικαιώματα του μοναστηριού. Σλαβικά τοπωνύμια και μικροτοπωνύμια στα έγγραφα των μονών του Αγίου Όρους Αγγελική Δεληκάρη Επίκ. Καθηγήτρια της Μεσαιωνικής Ιστορίας των Σλαβικών Λαών Τμήμα Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας του Α.Π.Θ. Η εξέταση των σλαβικών τοπωνυμίων και μικροτοπωνυμίων του ελληνικού χώρου αποτέλεσε αντικείμενο μελέτης κυρίως ξένων επιστημόνων, με επικεφαλής τον Max Vasmer που δημοσίευσε το 1941 στο Βερολίνο τη μελέτη του Die Slaven in Griechenland. Έκτοτε ασχολήθηκαν αρκετοί ξένοι με ζητήματα του σλαβικού παρελθόντος της Ελλάδας, δίνοντας ιδιαίτερη βαρύτητα στην πληθώρα των σλαβικών ονομασιών οικισμών (πριν τις μετονομασίες τους κατά την δεύτερη κυρίως δεκαετία του 20ου αι.), ορέων, λιμνών, ποταμών, καθώς και μικροτοπωνυμίων. Τον Μάιο του 2016 συστήθηκε μετά από πρότασή μου μία ομάδα από Έλληνες και ξένους επιστήμονες διαφόρων ειδικοτήτων (Αγγελική Δεληκάρη, Γιώργος Τσότσος, Χαρίτων Καρανάσιος, Δημήτρης Δημητρόπουλος, Ελισάβετ Χατζηαντωνίου, Γιώργος Λεβενιώτης, Ανδρέας Γκουτζιουκώστας, Φωκίωνας
Η Αγιορειτική Εστία, μετά την ολοκλήρωση των 10 διεθνών επιστημονικών συνεδρίων, που πραγματοποίη... more Η Αγιορειτική Εστία, μετά την ολοκλήρωση των 10 διεθνών επιστημονικών συνεδρίων, που πραγματοποίησε την δεκαετία 2006-2015, εγκαινιάζει από φέτος ένα νέο ετήσιο θεσμό για την προβολή και παρουσίαση του επιστημονικού και ερευνητικού έργου για το Άγιον Όρος, αυτόν των Διεθνών Επιστημονικών Εργαστηρίων.
Κατά τη διάρκεια των ετησίων Διεθνών Επιστημονικών Εργαστηρίων, στα οποία δεν θα υπάρχει συγκεκριμένο θεματολόγιο, θα παρουσιάζονται επιστημονικές ανακοινώσεις και ερευνητικές εργασίες, πρωτότυπες και καινοτόμες, ατομικές ή συλλογικές, καθιερωμένων αλλά και νέων επιστημόνων, για την ιστορία, την τέχνη, την θεολογία, την αρχιτεκτονική, το φυσικό περιβάλλον, κλπ. της Αθωνικής Πολιτείας.
Το Πρώτο Διεθνές Επιστημονικό Εργαστήριο, θα πραγματοποιηθεί το διήμερο 9 και 10 Δεκεμβρίου 2016, οργανώνεται από την Αγιορειτική Εστία με ευθύνη Επιστημονικής Επιτροπής, η οποία συγκροτήθηκε ειδικά για το σκοπό.
Mount Athos Centre after the completion of ten international scientific conferences, that were organized during the decade 2006-2015, launches this year a new annual event for the promotion and presentation of scientific and research work on Mount Athos, the one of International Scientific Laboratories.
During the annual International Scientific Laboratories, in which there will be no specific agenda, there will be presented scientific papers and research works, original and innovative, individual or collective, of established or young scientists, in history, art, theology, architecture, natural environment, etc. of Mount Athos.
The first International Scientific Workshop will be held during the weekend of December 9 and December 10, 2016, is organized by the Mount Athos Center with liability of the Scientific Committee which is specially set up for this purpose.
A series of 10 seminars on the Russian Diaspora takes place at the Free University of the Books' ... more A series of 10 seminars on the Russian Diaspora takes place at the Free University of the Books' Arcade (Stoa tou Vivliou) with speakers covering various aspects of the topic.
The International Symposium on Christian apocryphal literature will focus on the place that the C... more The International Symposium on Christian apocryphal literature will focus on the place that the Christian apocryphal texts occupy within the reservoir of ancient Christian literature and will investigate important aspects of the relation between these texts and the canonical textual and artistic tradition of the Church in the early Christian as well as in the Early Mediaeval and Byzantine period. Moreover, since the apocryphal Christian texts have generally been regarded as a textual corpus outside the canonical tradition of the Church as well as the communication vehicle of various heretical groups, the major issue of their acceptance and of their direct or indirect reception by the Chris-tian writers of the Patristic and Byzantine period remains an intriguing subject in the field of theological research. The aim of the symposium is, therefore, to deal with these issues and to demonstrate the fundamental relation and contribution of the apocryphal texts to the formation of the Church tradition until the end of the Early Mediaeval and Byzantine period.
Le colloque est organisé dans le cadre du programme de recherche de l’Equipe de Recherches sur le... more Le colloque est organisé dans le cadre du programme de recherche de l’Equipe de Recherches sur le christianisme ancien et médiéval pour 2013-2017 : « Théologie de la création : des animaux et des hommes ». Relire sous cet angle les œuvres des philosophes et théologiens anciens et médiévaux n’est pas sans résonance avec les préoccupations les plus actuelles dans notre société et parmi les chercheurs : c'est le cas d'une réflexion de plus en plus attentive sur la redéfinition du statut juridique des animaux, de la part, en même temps, des philosophes, des théologiens, mais aussi des juristes et des hommes politiques.
Les intervenants du colloque, biblistes, patrologues, médiévistes et philosophes souhaitent aborder le thème complexe du statut des animaux dans la pensée chrétienne ancienne et médiévale selon une perspective eschatologique, en se concentrant, en particulier, sur la question du salut des animaux dans le projet divin. Dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire, exposés et discussions susciteront, nous l’espérons, une réflexion féconde.
Research Project on the theme “Jesus Christ and the new humanism”
Facoltà Teologica dell’Ita... more Research Project on the theme “Jesus Christ and the new humanism”
Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale
Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose di Milano
Arcidiocesi di Milano
Progetto Culturale CEI
In collaboration with:
“Ss Cyril and Methodius” School of Post-Graduate and Doctoral Studies – Russian Orthodox Church
“St. Tikhon” Orthodox University – Moscow
St. Petersburg Theological Academy – St. Petersburg
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration - Moscow
National Research Nuclear University - Moscow
Theological School of Halki – Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople - Istanbul
School of Theology of the Aristotle University – Thessaloniki
Hellenic College Holy Cross – GreekOrthodox School of Theology – Boston, MA
Institut de Théologie Orthodoxe Saint Serge – Paris
“St. Vladimir” Orthodox Theological Seminary – New York
“Mihail Kogălniceanu” University’s Theological Faculty – Bucharest – Romania
“Dumitru Staniloae” Orthodox Theological Faculty – Iasi – Romania
"Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Orthodox University – Iasi – Romania
Presentation
This project is the result of an initiative by the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy (FTIS) that – collecting some indications from the Church of Milan – integrates the availability of other universities.
Starting from the evidence of the presence of non-Catholic Christians, the ecumenical activity of the dioceses is focused on a progressive involvement of the many Orthodox communities established in the recent years, more and more eager to gain and share a greater presence in the theological, cultural and academic life of the Ambrosian Church.
The suggestion of the Cardinal Archbishop was an intense confrontation in order to promote a fruitful exchange of teachers with the theological faculties of the Orthodox world – from the exchange of visits that took place recently with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople H.H. Bartholomew I – has sparked the availability and interest of other universities in supporting the initiative, particularly the Department of Russian Language and Culture of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan and the Class of Slavic Studies of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.
The project consists of a research seminar organized by the FTIS in agreement with some of the Orthodox Theological Faculties of different countries.
The research area is indicated by the theme of the Ecclesial Meeting of Florence in November 2015, promoted by the Italian Episcopal Conference: Christian humanism in the face of new frontiers of contemporary anthropology.
The interest shown by the orthodox theologians to begin a debate on the anthropological impact of the Christian faith nowadays (the general view of the man, the confrontation between religions in a globalized world, as well as some specific issues like the meaning of the family and the conjugal love, the issues related to the beginning and the end of the life, the new open borders from neurosciences and biotechnologies) has generated a series of conferences with many voices, both Catholic and Orthodox, on the key issues of the current " anthropological question".
This project represents the first step of a more ambitious program of cooperation at theological and academic level with the Orthodox Theological Faculties, which aims to create permanent areas of joint research and also, if possible, to establish an exchange of professors and therefore students.
The outcome of this academic research seminar will be the publication of a book on the "new Christian humanism" in a Catholic-Orthodox perspective.
The nature of the subjects treated and the particular Orthodox Catholic perspective, make this program appealing to who – engaged in the ecumenical dialogue or not – has the desire to read in depth the signs of our time.
The seminar not only enables Christian communities to meet together, but wants to take advantage of the urgencies related to social change in order to move forward in the journey toward Christian unity, which has always been at the heart of the Church, and has also been indicated by our Archbishop as a task (at least in term of awareness) for all the communities.
Professors, teachers of religion, priests, catholic, orthodox and christians from other confessions: everyone can seize the opportunity of this meetings to have an experience of confrontation and dialogue with believers from all over the world.
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Congresses/Seminars by Symeon Paschalidis
The aim of the Conference is to highlight the continuing relevance of patristic preaching for the modern world. Renowned university professors and scholars from Greece, France and abroad have been invited to participate in the proceedings in order to bring to light patristic teaching on a series of topics that are widely discussed in our own day: the relationship of man with the natural environment, the equality of the sexes, the equitable distribution of wealth, and the gap between the rich and the poor. Additionally, conference participants will attempt to decode the message that the writings of the Fathers hold for us today about the freedom of the human being as an acting social subject as well as the distinct roles played by Church and State.
The Conference proceedings will take place in the lecture hall of the Society for Macedonian Studies while the special session about the “Patristic Hermeneutics in Dialogue” and the closing ceremony, which will coincide with the feast day of the Apostles Peter and Paul, will be held in the auditorium of the Patriarchal Foundation for Patristic Studies.
Fr Florovsky was a pioneer thinker and formative theologian—in the words of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, arguably “the dean of the Orthodox theologians in the 20th century.” Florovsky’s visionary call for theologians to return to the patristic sources and acquire the mind of the Fathers, as well for the Church to dialogue with the historical and ecumenical challenges of our time, has proved profoundly influential on Christian thinkers to this day.
Pour en savoir davantage et pour formuler des idées sur l'histoire de l'homme de la rue à Byzance, nous proposons de monter un workshop sur l'histoire byzantine telle qu'elle se présentait à l'homme du commun en Byzance. L'âge des persécutions décrit dans les récits des martyrs sera important. La Palestine, même hors des monastères, prend une place centrale dans l'œuvre de Cyrille de Scythopolis, et les destins d'autres régions seront également présentés dans des textes hagiographiques destinés à exposer des miracles et vies angéliques. Le ménologe du Métaphraste nous donne une version complète datant de la fin du dixième siècle, mais d'autres textes hagiographiques et d'autres ménologes nous en donnent d'autres, tous marquées par les intérêts et les renseignements disponibles pour les hagiographes. De cette manière, des moines et des fidèles byzantins avaient l'occasion de s'orienter sur toute l'histoire impériale dès l'arrivée du christianisme et de temps en temps même sur des époques antérieures. Des empereurs, des impératrices, des évêques et pas mal d'autres personnes leur seraient donc connus. Et l'on pouvait même se renseigner sur des coins lointains ou perdus de l'empire et sur des lieux hors des frontières.
Donc, la question posée n'est pas ce que nous pouvons en extraire comme données historiques, mais quelles conceptions de l'histoire impériale et même ecclésiastique l'homme du commun en Byzance pouvait avoir sur la base de ces textes. Quelles constructions idéologiques y sont les plus répandues ? L'homme du commun pouvait-il se poser des questions critiques en se confiant à ces présentations ? Et les images impériales sur des monnaies, dans des places et sur les monuments confirmaient-elles cette historiographie simplifiée accessible aux Byzantins communs?
Hagiography offered the only narrative presentations of Byzantine history to the common Byzantine. In combination with portraits on coins, the series of indictions and the imperial monuments, hagiographical texts were the only means through which the average person could obtain more or less precise data on the phases, reigns and main events of the empire. While historiographical accounts remained the preoccupation of the literati and were read only in aristocratic, imperial and patriarchal circles, readings of the lives of saints, martyrs and miracles were heard in churches and monasteries. If in Byzantium in general there was a narrative notion of the history of the empire, we shall find it in the thousands of manuscripts preserving hagiographical texts.
In order to learn more and to formulate ideas on the history of the common person in Byzantium, we propose a workshop on Byzantine history as it presented itself to the average person. The age of persecution described in the accounts of martyrs will be important. Palestine, even outside the monasteries, takes centre stage in the work of Cyril of Skythopolis, and the destinies of other regions were also highlighted in hagiographical texts intended to expose miracles and angelic lives. The Metaphrastic Menologion gives us a complete version dating from the end of the tenth century, but other hagiographical texts and menologia give us others, all marked by the interests and information available to the hagiographers. In this way, Byzantine monks and devotees had the opportunity to orient themselves in the entire history of the empire from the arrival of Christianity, and sometimes also in earlier periods. Emperors, empresses, bishops and many others would be known to them. One could even learn about distant or lost corners of the empire and about places beyond the borders.
Accordingly, the question is not what we can extract as historical data, but what conceptions of imperial and even ecclesiastical history one could have on the basis of these texts. Which ideological conceptions were most widespread? Could the average persons ask themselves critical questions by entrusting themselves to these presentations? And did the imperial images on coins, in public squares and monuments confirm this simplified historiography accessible to the common Byzantines?
Κατά τη διάρκεια των ετησίων Διεθνών Επιστημονικών Εργαστηρίων, στα οποία δεν θα υπάρχει συγκεκριμένο θεματολόγιο, θα παρουσιάζονται επιστημονικές ανακοινώσεις και ερευνητικές εργασίες, πρωτότυπες και καινοτόμες, ατομικές ή συλλογικές, καθιερωμένων αλλά και νέων επιστημόνων, για την ιστορία, την τέχνη, την θεολογία, την αρχιτεκτονική, το φυσικό περιβάλλον, κλπ. της Αθωνικής Πολιτείας.
Το Πρώτο Διεθνές Επιστημονικό Εργαστήριο, θα πραγματοποιηθεί το διήμερο 9 και 10 Δεκεμβρίου 2016, οργανώνεται από την Αγιορειτική Εστία με ευθύνη Επιστημονικής Επιτροπής, η οποία συγκροτήθηκε ειδικά για το σκοπό.
Mount Athos Centre after the completion of ten international scientific conferences, that were organized during the decade 2006-2015, launches this year a new annual event for the promotion and presentation of scientific and research work on Mount Athos, the one of International Scientific Laboratories.
During the annual International Scientific Laboratories, in which there will be no specific agenda, there will be presented scientific papers and research works, original and innovative, individual or collective, of established or young scientists, in history, art, theology, architecture, natural environment, etc. of Mount Athos.
The first International Scientific Workshop will be held during the weekend of December 9 and December 10, 2016, is organized by the Mount Athos Center with liability of the Scientific Committee which is specially set up for this purpose.
Les intervenants du colloque, biblistes, patrologues, médiévistes et philosophes souhaitent aborder le thème complexe du statut des animaux dans la pensée chrétienne ancienne et médiévale selon une perspective eschatologique, en se concentrant, en particulier, sur la question du salut des animaux dans le projet divin. Dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire, exposés et discussions susciteront, nous l’espérons, une réflexion féconde.
Facoltà Teologica dell’Italia Settentrionale
Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose di Milano
Arcidiocesi di Milano
Progetto Culturale CEI
In collaboration with:
“Ss Cyril and Methodius” School of Post-Graduate and Doctoral Studies – Russian Orthodox Church
“St. Tikhon” Orthodox University – Moscow
St. Petersburg Theological Academy – St. Petersburg
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration - Moscow
National Research Nuclear University - Moscow
Theological School of Halki – Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople - Istanbul
School of Theology of the Aristotle University – Thessaloniki
Hellenic College Holy Cross – GreekOrthodox School of Theology – Boston, MA
Institut de Théologie Orthodoxe Saint Serge – Paris
“St. Vladimir” Orthodox Theological Seminary – New York
“Mihail Kogălniceanu” University’s Theological Faculty – Bucharest – Romania
“Dumitru Staniloae” Orthodox Theological Faculty – Iasi – Romania
"Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Orthodox University – Iasi – Romania
Presentation
This project is the result of an initiative by the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy (FTIS) that – collecting some indications from the Church of Milan – integrates the availability of other universities.
Starting from the evidence of the presence of non-Catholic Christians, the ecumenical activity of the dioceses is focused on a progressive involvement of the many Orthodox communities established in the recent years, more and more eager to gain and share a greater presence in the theological, cultural and academic life of the Ambrosian Church.
The suggestion of the Cardinal Archbishop was an intense confrontation in order to promote a fruitful exchange of teachers with the theological faculties of the Orthodox world – from the exchange of visits that took place recently with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople H.H. Bartholomew I – has sparked the availability and interest of other universities in supporting the initiative, particularly the Department of Russian Language and Culture of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Milan and the Class of Slavic Studies of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.
The project consists of a research seminar organized by the FTIS in agreement with some of the Orthodox Theological Faculties of different countries.
The research area is indicated by the theme of the Ecclesial Meeting of Florence in November 2015, promoted by the Italian Episcopal Conference: Christian humanism in the face of new frontiers of contemporary anthropology.
The interest shown by the orthodox theologians to begin a debate on the anthropological impact of the Christian faith nowadays (the general view of the man, the confrontation between religions in a globalized world, as well as some specific issues like the meaning of the family and the conjugal love, the issues related to the beginning and the end of the life, the new open borders from neurosciences and biotechnologies) has generated a series of conferences with many voices, both Catholic and Orthodox, on the key issues of the current " anthropological question".
This project represents the first step of a more ambitious program of cooperation at theological and academic level with the Orthodox Theological Faculties, which aims to create permanent areas of joint research and also, if possible, to establish an exchange of professors and therefore students.
The outcome of this academic research seminar will be the publication of a book on the "new Christian humanism" in a Catholic-Orthodox perspective.
The nature of the subjects treated and the particular Orthodox Catholic perspective, make this program appealing to who – engaged in the ecumenical dialogue or not – has the desire to read in depth the signs of our time.
The seminar not only enables Christian communities to meet together, but wants to take advantage of the urgencies related to social change in order to move forward in the journey toward Christian unity, which has always been at the heart of the Church, and has also been indicated by our Archbishop as a task (at least in term of awareness) for all the communities.
Professors, teachers of religion, priests, catholic, orthodox and christians from other confessions: everyone can seize the opportunity of this meetings to have an experience of confrontation and dialogue with believers from all over the world.