Open Lectures on Luther and Christian Ontology on September 9th and 10th

​A group of relational ontology scholars from Italy,  the Ricerche di Ontologia Relazionale (ROR)  group, is visiting Helsinki in September to deepen their knowledge of Finnish Luther studies and the field of ontology here. The visit is a follow-up to the scholarly meeting Re-thinking Ontology with Luther held in Rome last May. Part of the visit to Helsinki is a two-day seminar of open lectures under the heading Luther and Christian Ontology from Antiquity to Modern Theology. 

Luther and Christian Ontology
from Antiquity to Modern Theology
Open Seminar at the Studium Catholicum
Monday September 9th at 13:30-18:30 &
Tuesday, September 1oth at 9-12:30

Registration and programme:
www.lyyti.in/ontologia 

The guests from Italy include: prof. Giulio Maspero & prof. Ilaria Vigorelli (Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Roma), prof. Lubomir Zak (Pontificia Università Lateranense Roma), prof. Robert Wozniak (Pontifical University of John Paul II, Krakova) &  assistant prof. Maria Benedetta Curi (Istituto Universitario Sophia, Loppiano).

The Finnish lecturers participating are Antti Raunio, Tuija Mannström, Olli-Pekka Vainio, Tomi Karttunen & Ari Ojell.
 
Please register for the seminar by September 3rd at www.lyyti.in/ontologia. Welcome!

Open Lectures

Monday, September 9th at 13:30-18:30

• Olli-Pekka Vainio​: Deification as a philosophical problem
• Giulio Maspero: Gift and Relation: rethinking ontology in an ecumenical perspective
• Tuija Mannström: The Self-giving Love of the Triune God in Luther

     Coffee break

• Ilaria Vigorelli: Trinitarian Ontology and Anthropology in Gregory of Nyssa’s uses of schesis
• Tomi Karttunen: Participation in the Triune God and Communion Ecclesiology. Augustinian Trinitarian Ontology in Luther’s and Bonhoeffer’s Theologies
• Lubomir Zak: Luther's Criticism to Scholastic Metaphysics from the perspective of the metaphysical renewal in Orthodox Russian Philosophy and Theology between the 19th and the 20th century

 

Tuesday, September 10th at 9-12:30

• Robert Wozniak: Ontology in Ratzinger’s ’Jesus of Nazareth’
• Antti Raunio: The Human Being and Personhood in Luther

     Coffee break

• Ari Ojell: Created in the Image of Love: Anthropos in Gregory of Nyssa
• Sini Mikkola: Bodiliness in the Composition of the Human Nature in Luther