fully human; theological anthropology and human flourishing in the 21st century
December 7
Conference Schedule
8:00-9:00: Registration; Coffee – James Chapel
9:00 – 9:10: Bishop Seraphim Sigrist: Welcome Talk
9:10 – 9:40: Fr. Lev Smith: Plenary
9:40 – 10:00: Coffee Break – Chapel Rotunda
10:00 – 11:00: Pia Chaudhari: Plenary – Roundtable
11:00-12:00: Lunch Break
12:00 – 1:30: First Sort Presentation Session
1:30 – 2:00: Coffee Break - Chapel Rotunda
2:00 – 3:30: Second Short Presentation Section
3:30 – 4:00: Break
4:00 – 4:50: Matthew Ally: Plenary
4:50 – 5:00: Break
5:00 – 6:00: John Behr: Plenary
6:15 – 6:45: Justin Cheng: Screening of Most People Don't Even Realize What is Coming
PLENARy TALKS — James Chapel
Fr. John Behr: From Adam to Christ: From Male and Female to Being Human
Matthew Ally: Context is Everything: Theological and Philosophical Anthropologies after the Holocene
Fr. Lev Smith: Who Am I? The Apophaticism of the Human Person
Pia Chaudhari: Saving Beauty: Aphrodite, Maximus and the Digital Age
Roundtable:
First Responder: Fr. John Behr
Second Responder: VK McCarty
Moderator: Laura Josephson
PANEL SCHEDULE
Rooms 205A, 205, 303, and 307
First Short Presentation Section: 12:00 – 1:30
First Panel (Room 205A): Female Sainthood and Modern Exegesis:
1. Stuart Dean: Macrina’s Ἀποκατάστασις
2. Victoria McCarty: St. Macrina: Living Midrash of Gregory of Nyssa’s Doctrine of Epéktasis
3. Judith Scott: Patristic Writers, the Orthodox Church and Black Liberation and Womanist Theologies
Second Panel (Room 205): Transhumanism, Cyber-Humanity and the Future of Humankind:
1. Fr. Athanasius Inti Yanes-Fernandez: Man is a Constant Effort. A Contrast of Two Anthropological Paradigms in the Light of Orthodox Anthropology.
2. The Rev. Hasan Azad: The Future of an Illusion: Transhumanism and the Death of Religion
3. Liza Anderson: Fake News, Technological Surveillance, and Patristic Demonology: Spiritual Discernment in a Digital Age
Third Panel (Room 303): Law, Sin and the Human Soul
1. Jess Gilbert: “The Perfect Law of Liberty”: Free Will in the Theological Anthropology of Irenaeus of Lyons.
2. The Rev. Mary Jett: They did not Know Their Left from Their Right” (Jonah 4.11) and the Patristic Denial of Original Sin
3. Brian Pinter: Dreams: Tailor-Made Pilgrimages Just for You
Fourth Panel (Room 307): Psychology, Education and Spirituality
1. Eirini Artemi: Christian Anthropology and the relation with Positive Psychology and Human Flourishing in the 21st Century through the Orthodox Christian Teaching
2. Fr. Felix Dovgan: The Cult of the Holy Great Martyr John the New of Sociava - Protector of Trading (1330-2018)
3. Julia Ji: Spiritual Critical Friendship: One Approach towards Flourishing in the Praxis of a Local Parish
4. Justin Cheng: Transcendental Potentials of Camp
Second Short Presentation Section: 2:00 – 3:30
Fifth Panel (Room 205A): Patristics
1. Marcin Podbielski: St Maximus the Confessor, the Accidental Unity of Human Being
2. Anna Zhyrkova: John Damascene’s Account of Existential Unity of Human Individual.
3. Márton Hoványi: A Theology of Desire in the Works of Eastern Church Fathers and Today
Sixth Panel (Room 205): Theology, Philosophy and Ecumenical Concerns
1. Yual Chiek: Pre-Established Harmony in Leibniz’s Mill Argument against Materialism
2. Matthew Bucherri: Being Catholic. Becoming Human
3. Roberto Alejandro: Legacy and Responsibility: Theological Anthropology in the Public Sphere
Seventh Panel (Room 303): Unredeemed Humanity and the Issues of Evil
1. The Rev. Conrad Fischer: Humanity, Terror and its Logos
2. Fr. David Pratt: Unliberal Theosis and Secular Sin: Whose Flourishing?
3. Yahya-Clifford Halliwell: Credit, Creed, and Rationality. On the Possibility of an Islamic Institutional History
4. Fr. Sergey Trostyanskiy: The Nature of Evil and Human Practical Reason
Eighth Panel (Room 307): Body, Soul and the Self
1. Paul Kucharski:What Does It Mean to Make a Gift of Self
2. Fr. Philip Zymaris: Theological Bubble Language: A Literalist View of the Fall and its Connection with a Denigration of the Human Condition
3. Stemenka Antonova: Basil: Human Anthropology and Basil’s Askesis of Body and of Soul
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