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PROGRAMME

 

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon

 

Academy of Athens

 

Metropolitan John of Pergamon studied Patristics under father Georges Florovsky at Harvard Divinity School, receiving his M.T.S. in 1956, and his doctorate in theology from the University of Athens in 1965. He was consecrated as a bishop in 1986. and installed as the Metropolitan of Pergamon (Turkey) under the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople. He taught theology at the University of Edinburgh (UK) for a period, before becoming a professor of systematic theology at the University of Glasgow (UK), and he is the Chair of that department in systematic theology for some fourteen years. In addition, he went on to be Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva, King’s College London (UK), and the Gregorian University, Rome (Italy). He was also a part-time professor at the University of Thessaloniki in Greece. He is a member of the committees for dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church, and with the Anglican Church. Some of his numerous publications include books: Being as Communion: Studies in Personhood and the Church (Crestwood, NY: St Vladimirs Seminary Press, 1997), Communion & Otherness: Further Studies in Personhood and the Church (London: T & T Clark, 2007), The One and the Many: Studies on God, Man, the Church, and the World Today (Los Angeles: Sebastian Press, 2010) and Remembering the Future: An Eschatological Ontology (London: T & T Clark, 2015).

Christos Yannaras

 

Emeritus Professor of Philosophy – Panteion University, Athens

 

Born in 1935 (Athens), Christos Yannaras is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, Athens. He studied Theology at the University of Athens and Philosophy at the Universities of Bonn (Germany) and Paris (France). He is a Ph.D of the Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines of the University of Sorbonne (Paris) and a Ph.D. of the Faculty of Theology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). He has been nominated Doctor of Philosophy, honoris causa, at the University of Belgrade and also at the St. Vladimir’s Seminary, New York and the Holy Cross School, Boston; Visiting Professor at the Universities of Paris (the Catholic Faculty), Geneva, Lausanne and Crete; Professor of Philosophy at the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, from 1982 to 2002; and elected member of the Hellenic Authors’ Society. The focus of Professor Yannaras’ academic work is his long-term study and research on the differences between the Hellenic and the Western European philosophy and theological-ecclesiastical traditions. His bibliography includes: The Freedom of Morality, Crestwood, N.Y., 1984, Person and Eros, Holy Cross Orthodox Press (2008), The Meaning of Reality, Los Angeles, Sebastian Press 2011.

 

Alan J. Torrance

 

Professor of Systematic Theology – University of St Andrews

 

Alan J. Torrance (born 1956) is professor of systematic theology in the University of St Andrews. Previously to that he held a senior research fellowship at the University of Notre Dame and lectured at King's College London from 1993–1998, where he was also Director of the Research Institute in Systematic Theology. Prior to that he held positions in universities in Scotland and Germany and, for five years, served as professor of theology in Knox Theological Hall, Dunedin New Zealand where he taught in the University of Otago. In addition to various endowed lectureships in the United States, he has given the Hensley Henson lectures in the University of Oxford and also the Didsbury Lectures in Manchester. He is one of the Torrance family of Scottish Theologians. His teaching lies primarily in the areas of philosophical and systematic theology, the person and work of Christ and theological anthropology. He has published on the Trinity, christology, theological epistemology and the social implications of the doctrine of reconciliation. His publications include Persons in Communion: an Essay on Trinitarian Description and Human Participation, T&T Clark, 1996 (paperback, 2010), various edited volumes and numerous articles.

V. Rev. John Panteleimon Manoussakis

 

Associate Professor of Philosophy – College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA

 

John Panteleimon Manoussakis is an associate professor of philosophy at the College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA) and an honorary fellow of the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy at the Australian Catholic University. He received his doctorate in Philosophy from Boston College in 2005. His research area includes philosophy of religion, phenomenology, ancient Greek philosophy (especially Plato and the Neo-Platonic Tradition) and Patristics. Among other publications, he wrote God After Metaphysics: A Theological Aesthetic (Indiana University Press, 2007), edited After God: Richard Kearney and the Theological Turn in Continental Philosophy (Fordham University Press, 2005), and co-edited Phenomenology and Eschatology: Not Yet in the Now (Ashgate 2009).

CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

  • Barnabas Aspray, University of Cambridge

  • David Baird, University of St Andrews

  • Ragnar Mogård Bergem, University of Cambridge

  • Dries Bosschaert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

  • Silvianne Bürki, University of Cambridge

  • Deborah Casewell, University of Edinburgh

  • Prof. Panagiotis Christias, University of Cyprus

  • Dr Will Cohen, Assoc. Prof. of Theology, University of Scranton

  • Marc Cole, University of Leeds

  • Dr Adam G. Cooper, John Paul II Institute, Melbourne (in absentia)

  • Dr Daniel D. De Haan, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Cambridge

  • Dr Chris Durante, Visiting Assist. Prof., New York University

  • Rebekah Earnshaw, University of St Andrews

  • Dr Chryssoula Gitsoulis, Assist. Prof., City and State Universities of New York

  • Aggelos Gounopoulos,  Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

  • Miroslav Griško, University of Ljubljana

  • Raffaele Guerra, University of Salemo

  • Rev. Dr. Demetrios Harper, University of Winchester

  • Fr Daniel Isai, University of Iasi

  • Logan (Mehl-Laituri) Isaac, University of St Andrews

  • Dino Jakušić, University of Warwick

  • Milan Jovanovic, University of Belgrade

  • Dr Cullan Joyce, Lecturer, Catholic Theological College, University of Melbourne

  • Dr Andrew T.J. Kaethler, University of St Andrews

  • Dr Anne H. King, Assoc. Prof., University of St Thomas

  • Jonathan Lett, University of St Andrews

  • Victoria Lebzyak, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

  • Rev Prof. Nikolaos Loudovikos, University Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki. Visiting Prof. at IOCS Cambridge

  • Dr Michail Mantzanas, Assist. Prof. of Ancient Greek and Byzantine Philosophy, Ecclesiastical Academy of Athens

  • Andrew Marin, University of St Andrews

  • Dr Smilen Markov, Veliko Tarnovo University

  • Dragana Masic, University of Belgrade

  • Prof. Guilio Maspero, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome

  • Thomas D. McGlothlin, Duke University

  • Dr Sotiris Mitralexis, Freie Universität Berlin & Bogazici University

  • Dr Ryan Mullins, Research Assoc. and Lecturer, University of Cambridge

  • Dylan Pahman, Acton Institute

  • Joshy Parokkaran, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

  • Dr Vasil Penchev, Assoc. Prof., Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Philosophical Research

  • Dr Marcin Podbielski, Assist. Prof., Akademia Ignatianum, Krakow

  • Milica Rakic, University of Belgrade

  • Dr Daniel S. Robinson, Graduate Theological Union

  • Jared Schumacher, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

  • Dan Sgarta, Independent Researcher, Timisoara

  • Dionysios Skliris, Paris IV-Sorbonne

  • Dr Anthony L. Smyrnaios, Assist. Prof., University of Thessaly

  • Rev. Dr. Vasileios Thermos, Athens

  • Dr Luke Ben Tallon, Assist. Prof., Le Tourneau University

  • Dr Uros T. Todorovic, Athens University

  • Dr Alexis Torrance, Assist. Prof. of Byzantine Theology, University of Notre Dame

  • David Torrance, University of Cambridge

  • Dr Beata Toth, Assoc. Prof., Sapientia College of Theology

  • Isabel Troconis, Assist. Prof. of Dogmatic Theology, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome

  • Sergey Trostyanskiy, Union Theological Seminary, New York

  • Rev Dr Chrysostomos Gr. Tympas, PhD University of Essex (in absentia)

  • Dr Chris Doude Van Troostwijk, Senior Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer, Luxemburg School for Religion and Society, and Protestant Faculty of the University of Strasbourg

  • Dr Anna Varga-Jani, MTA-ELTE Hermeneutics Research Group Lecturer, Catholic Pázmány Péter University (in absentia)

  • Bishop Maxim Vasiljevic of Western America, Prof. of Theology, University of Belgrade

  • Fr Dominique Verbeke, Director of the Orthodox Theological Institute H. Johannes de Theoloog, Belgium

  • Dr Haralambos Ventis, Boston University

  • Penelope Voutsina, University of Sheffield

  • Kent Warner, University of St Andrews

  • Dan Wright, University of Virginia

  • Dr Anna Zhyrkova, Assoc. Prof. Akademia Ignatianum, Krakow

  • Prof. Jens Zimmermann, Canada Research Chair, Trinity Western University

  • Marko Zivanovic, Institute of Orthodox Theology "St. Apostle Paul", Brussels, & University in Belgrade

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