Holy Metropolis of Demetrias

Volos Academy for Theological Studies

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Neo-Patristic Synthesis or Post-Patristic Theology: Can Orthodox Theology be Contextual?

June 3-6, 2010, THESSALIA CONFERENCE CENTER,

(MELISSIATIKA), VOLOS

The conference is organized in collaboration with the Orthodox Christian Studies Program of Fordham University, the Chair of Orthodox Theology of Münster University, and the Romanian Institute for Inter-Orthodox, Inter–Confessional, and Inter-Religious Studies (INTER) Cluj-Napoca

                                                                                PROGRAMME

THURSDAY, JUNE 3rd 2010

18.00-18.30          Registration

18.30-19.00          Opening – Greetings

Session I

Moderator: Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis

Director of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies

19.00-19.30                          Rev. Dr. Vladan Pericic, Professor of Patrology, former Dean of the Theological Faculty, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Liturgical Theology as Contextual Theology in the Patristic Era and Today

19.30-20.00                          Dr. George Martzelos, Professor at the School of Theology, University of Thessaloniki, Greece

The Role of Contextual Theology in the Orthodox Tradition

20.00-30                                Discussion

20.30                                      Dinner

FRIDAY JUNE 4th 2010

Session II

Moderator: Dr. George Demacopoulos

Associate Professor of Theology, Co-Founding Director,

Orthodox Christian Studies Program of Fordham University

09.00-09.30                          Dr. Marcus Plested, Director of Studies, Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, UK

The Emergence of the Neo-Patristic Synthesis: Content, Challenges and Limits

09.30-10.00                          Rev. Dr. Pavel L. Gavrilyuk, Associate Professor, University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, USA

Florovsky’s Christian Hellenism: A Critical Evaluation

10.00-10.30                          Rev. Dr. John Behr, Dean, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, New York, USA

                                                Going Beyond Neo-Patristic Synthesis

10.30-11.30                          Discussion

11.30-12.00                          Coffee-break

Session III

Moderator: Dr. Bruce Beck,

Director, Pappas Patristic Institute, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology,

Brookline, Massachusetts

12.00-12.30                          Archbishop Dr. Hilarion Alfeyev of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, Russia            

Orthodox Tradition and Contextual Theology

12.30-13.00                          Dr. Tamara Grdzelidze, Programme Executive, Faith and Order, WCC

Contextualisation of the Church Fathers in the Context of Ecumenism

13.00-13.30                          Discussion

13.30-15.00                          Lunch

Session IV

Moderator: Dr. Tamara Grdzelidze

Programme Executive, Faith and Order, WCC

15.00-15.30                          Dr. Daniel Ayuch, Associate Professor, St. John of Damascus Orthodox Theological Institute of University of Balamand, Lebanon

The Relationship between Biblical and Theological Disciplines

15.30-16.00                          Dr. John Fotopoulos, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Saint Mary's College at Notre Dame, USA

Orthodox Theology and the Historical-Critical Method

16.00-16.30                          Discussion

16.30-17.00                          Coffee-break

Session V

Moderator: V. Rev. Dr. Maxim of Western America

Serbian Orthodox Church,

Professor at the School of Theology, University of Belgrade

17.00-17.30                          Dr. George Demacopoulos, Associate Professor of Theology, Co-Founding Director, Orthodox Christian Studies Program of Fordham University, New York, USA

History, Post-Colonial Theory, and Some New Possibilities for Retrieving the Theological Past

17.30-18.00                          Alexei V. Nesteruk, Senior Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, University of Portsmouth, UK; Visiting Professor, St. Andrew’s Biblical Theological Institute, Moscow, Russia

Orthodoxy in the Scientific Age: From a Neo-Patristic Synthesis to Radical Theological Commitment

18.00-18.30                          Rev. Dr. Demetrios Bathrellos, Visiting Lecturer, Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, UK;  Priest of the Aghia Sophia Greek Orthodox Church, Drafi, Attica, Greece

Systematic Theology as a New Form of Orthodox Theology

18.30-19.30                          Discussion

SATURDAY JUNE 5th 2009

Session VI

Moderator: Dr Demetrios Moschos

Lecturer at the Scholl of Theology, Athens University

09.00-09.30                          Dr. Assaad Elias Kattan, Director of the Center of Religious Studies and Chair of Orthodox Theology, University of Münster, Germany

Essentialism Reconsidered: The Myth of a Non-Hermeneutical Approach to Orthodox Tradition

09.30-10.00                          Rev. Dr. John Panteleimon Manoussakis, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, College of Holy Cross, Worcester, USA

God. Being and Event: The Intersection between Theology and Ontology

10.00-10.30                          Discussion

10.30-11.00                          Coffee-break

Session VII

Moderator: Dr. Aristotle Papanikolaou

Associate Professor of Theology, Co-Founding Director,

Orthodox Christian Studies Program of Fordham University

11.00-11.30                          Metropolitan John Zizioulas, Member of the Academy of Athens, Ecumenical Patriarchate

                                                Actuality and Temporality of the Neo-Patristic Synthesis

11.30-12.00                          Fr. Andrew Louth, Professor of Patrology, University of Durham, UK

The Authority of the Fathers in “post-patristic Orthodox theology”

12.00-12.30                          Discussion

12.30-14.00                          Lunch

Session VIII

Moderator: Dr Vassilios Makrides

Professor of Sociology of Orthodox Christianity at Erfurt University (Germany)

14.00-14.30                          Dr. Michail Neamtu, Senior Fellow of CADI/ Eleutheria, Romania

Ethno-theology as a Particular Case of Contextual Theology

14.30-15.00                          Dr. Radu Preda, Associate Professor of Social Theology, Babes-Bolai-University, Cluj-Napoca, Director of the Romanian Institute for Inter-Orthodox, Inter-confessional, Inter-Religious Studies-INTER, Romania

Orthodox Social Theology as Contextual Theology

15.00-15.30                          Dr. Aristotle Papanikolaou, Associate Professor of Theology, Co-Founding Director, Orthodox Christian Studies Program of Fordham University, New York, USA

                                                Orthodox Liberalism: Political Theology after the Empires

15.30-16.30                          Discussion

16.30-17.00                          Coffee-break

Session IX

Moderator: Dr. Radu Preda

Associate Professor, Babes-Bolai-University, Cluj-Napoca,

Director of the INTER (Romania)

17.00-17.30                          Dr. Peter Bouteneff, Associate Professor, St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, New York, USA

Liberation Theologies: Challenges for Contemporary Orthodoxy from Contextual Theologies

17.30-18.00                          Dr. Eleni Kasselouri, Teaching at the Hellenic Open University, Member of the Academic Team of Volos Academy for Theological Studies, Greece

Feminist Theology and its Contextuality: A Challenge or an Opportunity for Orthodox Theology?

18.00-18.30                          Discussion

SUNDAY JUNE 6th 2010

Divine Service at the Christ’s Ascension Church, Volos

Departure of the buses for Thessalia Conference Center, Melissatika: 10.45

Session X

Moderator: Dr. Assaad Elias Kattan

Director of the Centre of Religious Studies

and Chair of Orthodox Theology, University of Münster

11.30-12.00                          Rev. Dr.  Emmanuel Clapsis, Professor of Dogmatics, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, Brookline, USA

                                                Gospel and Cultures:  Toward a Theology of Religions

12.00-12.30                          Dr. Athanasios N. Papathanasiou, Editor in Chief of the Theological Journal Synaxis, Greece

Mission as a Challenge for Orthodox Contextual Theology

12.30-13.00                          Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis, Director of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies, Greece

Toward a Post-Patristic Theology?

13.00-14.00                          Discussion

14.00                                      End of the Conference-Lunch