Daily program

XX International Ecumenical Conference on Orthodox spirituality

Bose, 5 - 8 September 2012
Man - custodian of creation
XX International Ecumenical Conference
in collaboration with the Orthodox Churches
How can this great spiritual wealth be translated today into an ethics of creation?

XX International Ecumenical Conference
on Orthodox spirituality 

MAN–CUSTODIAN OF CREATION

Bose, Wednesday, 5 September – Saturday 8 September 2012

in collaboration with the Orthodox Churches

Wednesday 5 September

9:00 am 

Opening. Greetings of the Delegations

The Safeguard of Creation
ENZO BIANCHI, Prior of Bose

Priests of Creation:
the Service of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
for the protection of Creation
? IOANNIS OF PERGAMON

3:30 am 

The Church and Ecological Problems
? AMVROSIJ OF GAT?INA, Saint Petersburg

Nature, Wounded and Healed,
in Early Patristic Thought
JOHN BEHR, New York

Thursday 6 September

9:00 am 

«The Book of Creation»:
Nature according to the Syriac Fathers
NESTOR KAVVADAS, Tübingen

Some Reflections on Maximus the Confessor's
Christological Approach to Man and Creation
ASSAAD ELIAS KATTAN, Münster

Contemplation of Nature, Gardens of the Soul
and Flowery Meadows in Byzantine Mysticism
ANTONIO RIGO, Venice

3:30 pm 

Round Table: Monasticism and creation
Chair: ? ANDREJ OF REMESIANA, Belgrade

Monastic Space and the Transfiguration of the Environment:
the Solovki Monastery and the Lessons of the North Russian Saints
PORFIRIJ ŠUTOV, Solovki
MITROFAN BADANIN, Varzuga 

Monastic Space and
the Transformation of the Environment:
the Cistercian Experience
ESTHER DE WAAL, Rowlestone, Herefordshire

Ascetics and the Natural Environment
in the Byzantine Monastic tradition
DIMITRIOS MOSCHOS, Athens

Friday 7 September

9:00 am 

Creation in the Orthodox Liturgy
JOB GETCHA, Paris

Creation and Universal Salvation
in the Eschatology of Fr Sergius Bulgakov
PAVEL L. GAVRILYUK, Saint Paul, MN

Paradise on Earth: iconography of Creation
in Sixteenth Century Moldavia
ANCA VASILIU, Paris

3:30 pm 

Round Table: Man and the Ethics of Creation
Chair: KOSTANTIN SIGOV, Kiev

Asceticism: an Ancient Resource
for a New World
? SERAPHIM OF GERMANY, Nürnberg

Creation Ethics
in Contemporary Orthodox Theology
ELISABETH THEOKRITOFF, Mount Tabor, NJ

Creation from a Scientific Point of View
ANTOINE COURBAN, Beyrouth   

 

9:30 am 

The Eucharist and Creation
? ANTONIJ DI BORYSPIL’, Kiev

How to speak today about Creation?
JOHN CHRYSSAVGIS, Boston

Conclusions of the Conference
MICHEL VAN PARYS, Chevetogne

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