The Canonical and Ethical Responses of Eastern Orthodoxy to the Challenges of Modernity
(Please note we are now in the process of gathering and editing the proceedings from this conference.)
December 6, 2019
9:00 – 9:15: Registration; Coffee – James Chapel
9:15 – 9:30: Peter Von Berg: Welcome Talk
9:30 – 10:15: Patricia Fann Bouteneff: Plenary
10:15 – 10:30: Coffee Break – Chapel Rotunda
10:30 – 11:15: Conrad Fischer: Plenary
11:15 – 12:30: Lunch Break
12:30 – 2:00: First Sort Presentation Session
2:00 – 2:15: Coffee Break - Chapel Rotunda
2:15 – 3:45: Second Short Presentation Section
3:45 – 4:00: Break
4:00 – 4:50: David Pratt: Plenary
4:50 – 5:00: Break
5:00 – 6:00: Concert: Alessandro Simone, et al.
Plenary Talks – James Chapel
Patricia Fann Bouteneff: How We Became Axia.
Conrad Fischer: The Orthodox Response to Anger.
David Pratt: Sovereignty and Identity: Quo Vadis Orthodox Theology?
Book Signing – James Chapel
11:15 am - 6:00 pm (during the breaks)
Roberto Alexandro, Rick Levine, Pia Chaudhari, Conrad Fischer and Jess Gilbert.
Panels Schedule: James Chapel, Stewart Room & Room 207
First Short Presentation Section: 12:30 – 2:00
First Panel. James Chapel: Eros, Thumos and the Unreality of Evil
Byron Belitsos: Orthodox Theology and the Problem of Evil: Sketches for an Apophatic Theodicy.
Pia Chaudhari: Eros and Ethics; an Exploration of the Immediate.
Conrad Fischer: Orthodox Ethos and Spiritual Practices.
Second Panel. Stewart Room: Women and Christian Ethos
VK McCarty: St. Helena: From Roman Concordia to Christian Caritas.
Asha Mathai: Menstruation and the Holy Eucharist in the Third Century: An Analysis of Dionysius of Alexandria’s Letter to Basilides and the Didascalia Apostolorum.
Judith Scott: Woman with the Issue of Blood.
Third Panel. Room 207: Law and Authority
Roberto Alexandro: Christology, Personhood and American Law.
Brandon Paradise: Crime and Punishment, Justice and Forgiveness.
Alexander Bitis: Orthodox Ethics: The Beginning of the End of Slavery in Byzantium.
Dumitrita Filip: Social Changes and the Issue of Ecclesiastic Authority in the 18th Century Transylvania.
Second Short Presentation Section: 2:15 – 3:45
Fourth Panel. James Chapel: Orthodox Perspectives on Deliberation; From Division
to Unification
Jess Gilbert: Maximus the Confessor on the Human Will.
Nickolas Sooy: Which Just War Theory?
Felix Dovgan: The Canonical Situation in Ukraine and the Prospective for Division of the Orthodox World.
Julia Ji: Orthodoxy and Spiritual Friendship.
Fifth Panel. Stewart Room: Orthodoxy, Arts & Rights
Peter Von Berg: Orthodoxy in the Theater in the Modern World.
Alessandro Simone: Spiritual and Liturgical Connections in Musical Examples by S. Rachmaninov, A. Scriabin, and the Anonymous Composer D.F., Their Relationship to Political Displacement, and Consideration of Children Subject to Crisis.
Sergey Trosatyanskiy: The Meaning of Orthodox Ethos in the Modern World.
Eirini Artemi: Is really the Ethic of Eastern Orthodoxy against the “Modernity” of Human Rights?