Str. Emmanuel de Martonne, nr. 1 PROGRAMME

Str. Emmanuel de Martonne, nr. 1 PROGRAMME

The conference is co-organized by Volos Academy for Theological Studies, Romanian Institute for Inter-Orthodox, Inter-Confessional and Inter-Religious Studies/INTER (Cluj-Napoca), Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University (New York), Chair of Orthodox Theology at Münster University, Christian Cultural Center / Institute for the Study of Culture and Christianity (Belgrade), St Andrews Biblical Theological Institute (Moscow), and European Forum of Orthodox Schools of Theology/ EFOST (Bruxelles), in collaboration with the Metropolis of Cluj and the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at Babes-Bolyai-University/UBB (Cluj-Napoca). The conference is supported by State Secretariat for Religious Denominations, Mayor and Council of Cluj-Napoca, County Council of Cluj, Monasteries and Companies.

rd THURSDAY, May 23 10.30-11.00 Press Conference 16.30-17.30 Registration 17.30-18.00 Opening Greetings Acad. Prof. Ioan-Aurel Pop, Rector of UBB Rev. Prof. Ioan Chirila, Senate President of UBB His Eminence Andrei, Metropolitan of Cluj Public Authorities Session I Moderator: Ass. Prof. Radu Preda (Cluj-Napoca) 18.00-18.30 Rev. Dr. Igumen Calinic (Berger), Priest of the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of America, Pennsylvania, USA Trinity 18.30-19.00 Dr. Petros Vassiliadis, Professor at the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Eucharistic Ecclesiology 19.00-19.45 Discussion 20.00 Dinner offered by the Rector of UBB [5]

FRIDAY, May 24 Session II Moderator: Prof. Dorin Oancea (Sibiu) 09.00-09.30 Deacon Dr. Paul Gavrilyuk, Associate Professor, St Thomas University, Minnesota, USA, The Epistemological Contours of Florovsky's Neopatristic Theology 09.30-10.00 Rev. Dr. Radu Bordeianu, Associate Professor, Duquesne University, President of the Orthodox Theological Society in America (OTSA), Pennsylvania, The Holy Spirit Makes the Church Contextual: Diversity and Unity, Charisms and Institution, Already Here but Not Yet 10.00-10.30 Dr. Aristotle Papanikolaou, Professor, Co-Founding Director of Orthodox Christian Studies Center, Fordham University, New York, USA, Personhood, Virtue and War 10.30-11.30 Discussion 11.30-12.00 Coffee-break Session III Moderator: Prof. Assaad Elias Kattan (Münster) 12.00-12.30 Dr. John Fotopoulos, Associate Professor, St Mary's College, USA, Let Us Exercise in the Field of Scripture : The Correspondence between Jerome and Augustine of Hippo for Issues in Contemporary Orthodox Biblical Scholarship [6]

FRIDAY, May 24 12.30-13.00 Dr. Spyridoula Athanassopoulou-Kypriou, Lecturer, Hellenic Open University, Athens, Greece, The Eschatological Body: Constructing Christian Orthodox Anthropology Beyond Sexual Ideology 13.00-13.45 Discussion 14.00-15.30 Lunch Session IV Moderator: Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis (Volos) 15.30-16.00 Dr. Rasko Jovic, Religious Teacher at the Secondary Education, Belgrade, Serbia, Theology with a Human Face 16.00-16.30 Dr. Michael Hjälm, Dean of Sankt Ignatios Theological Academy, Södertälje, Sweden, and Theological Secretary, Diocese of Helsinki, Orthodox Church in Finland, The Role of the Church in Financial Crises On the Relation between Moral Prejudices, Commodities and Reification 16.30-17.15 Discussion 17.15-17.45 Coffee-break Session V Moderator: Rev. Grigorios Papathomas (Athens/Paris) 17.45-18.15 Rev. Dr. Zosim-Dorin Oancea, Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Sibiu University, Romania Ecology and Environment [7]

FRIDAY, May 24 18.15-18.45 Dr. Radu Preda, Director, Romanian Institute for Inter- Orthodox, Inter-Confessional and Inter-Religious Studies (INTER), Associate Professor of Social Theology, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Babes-Bolyai-University, Cluj- Napoca, Romania, Human Rights as an Example of Contextual Theology / Droits de l'homme comme un exemple de théologie contextuelle 18.45-19.15 Dr. Assaad Elias Kattan, Professor, Chair of Orthodox Theology, Münster University, Germany, The Cross as 'Islam' Georges Khodr's Approach to Islam as a Paradigm of Contextual Theology 19.15-20.15 Discussion 20.30 Dinner offered by the Faculty for Orthodox Theology, UBB th SATURDAY, May 25 Session VI Moderator: Dr. Spyridoula Athanassopoulou-Kypriou (Athens) 09.00-09.30 Rev. Hilarion Reznichenko, MA, St Petersburg Orthodox Theological Academy, Russian Federation Science and Religion: Compatibility and Balance 09.30-10.00 [8] Rev. Dr. Grigorios Papathomas, Professor, School of Theology, Athens University, and Institute of St. Sergius, Paris, President of the European Forum of Orthodox Schools of Theology (EFOST), Bruxelles, Canon Law. Today Relevance of the Canons

SATURDAY, May 25 10.00-10.45 Discussion 10.45-11.15 Coffee-break Session VII Moderator: Prof. Davor Dzalto (Niš) 11.15-11.45 Dr. Haralambos Ventis, Academic Team of Volos Academy for Theological Studies, Volos, Greece Theology and History 11.45-12.15 Skliris Dionisios, MA in Late Antiquity Studies (King's College, London) and Byzantine Studies (Université Paris IV, Sorbonne), Athens, Greece, The maximian dialectic between logos (reason), tropos (mode) and telos (goal) in a Post-modern context and its importance for a theological evaluation of race and nationalism 12.15-13.00 Discussion 13.00-15.00 Lunch Session VIII Moderator: Nicolae Turcan, Assoc. Professor (Cluj-Napoca) 15.00-15.30 Dr. Crina Gschwandtner, Associate Professor at Fordham University, New York, USA Philosophy and Theology 15.30-16.00 Dr. Vasilios Makrides, Professor of the Sociology of Orthodox Christianity at Erfurt University, Germany Orthodox Theology and Social Sciences: Outline, Analysis and Evaluation [9]

SATURDAY, May 25 16.00-16.45 Discussion 16.45-17.15 Coffee-break Session IX Moderator: Prof. Aristotle Papanikolaou (New York) 17.15-17.45 Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis, Lecturer at the Hellenic Open University (Thessaloniki), Visiting Professor at St Sergius Institute (Paris), Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University (New Jersey, USA), Director of Volos Academy for Theological Studies, Volos, Greece Theology and Literature: The Case of Nicolae Steinhardt 17.45-18.15 Dr. Davor Dzalto, Professor at Niss University, President of the Institute for the Study of Culture and Christianity, Belgrade, Serbia Orthodoxy and Contemporary Art: An (Un)Natural Alliance? 18.15-19.15 Discussion 19.00-19.30 Ecumenical Observers 19.15-20.00 Concluding Remarks 20.30 Dinner offered by the orthodox Parishes of Cluj [10]

Sunday, May 26 10.00-12.30 Holy Liturgy Free time 18.00 Vespers in the Orthodox Metropolitan Cathedral of Cluj 20.00 Dinner with Metropolitan Prof. Dr. Andrei of Cluj th th MONDAY, May 27, 2013 TUESDAY, May 28, 2013 Trip in Bukovina

Organized by: St. Andrew s Biblical Theological Institute Supported by: STATE SECRETARIAT FOR RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS CONSILIUL JUDEŢEAN CLUJ www. FANY.ro