International Conference on St. Maximus the Confessor
The Architecture of the Cosmos
Helsinki, September 2nd - 4th 2013
Conference Programme
Monday, September 2ndModerator: Pauli Annala
9.30 Words of Welcome His Eminence Metropolitan Ambrosius, Bishop of Helsinki Opening Pauli Annala (Univ. of Helsinki) 9.45−10.30 Antoine Levy (Univ. of Joensuu and Helsinki) "γωνία - Looking Into the Corners of St. Maximus' Cosmic Architecture" 10.45−11.30 Vladimir Cvetković (Univ. of Aarhus) "The Mystery of Christ as Revived Logos Theology" 11.30−12.15 Christophe Erismann (Univ. of Lausanne) "Maximus on the ontological structure of reality" [Delivered in absentia] Lunch 14.00−14.45 István Perczel (Central European Univ. Budapest) "Saint Maximus on the Lord’s Prayer: An Inquiry into his relationship to the Origenist tradition" 14.45−15.30 Grigory Benevich (Russian Christian Academy for the Humanities, St. Petersburg) ”Maximus Confessor’s teaching on God's Providence” [Delivered in absentia] 15.30−16.30 Discussion Tuesday, September 3rdModerator: Istvàn Perczel
9.30−10.15 Pauli Annala (Univ. of Helsinki) "The Exterior and the Interior Space in the Mystagogia of St. Maximus the Confessor" 10.15−11.00 Torstein T. Tollefsen (Univ. of Oslo) "The Concept of the Universal in the Philosophy of St Maximus" 11.15−12.00 Nikolaos Loudovikos ( Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki) "Inner and Outer Worlds: Maximus the Confessor’s Eucharistic Gnosiology" [Delivered inabsentia] Lunch 14.00−14.45 Pascal Mueller-Jourdan: (Catholic University of the West, Angers, France) ”The metaphysical position of the divine as ‘desirable’ in Proclus’ Platonic theology and Maximus Confessor’s thought” [Delivered in absentia]. 14.45−15.30 Alexei Nesteruk (Univ. of Portsmouth) "World Cosmos and Church Cosmos: St. Maximus the Confessor and Modern Cosmology" 15.30−16.30 Discussion |
Wednesday, September 4thModerator: Torstein T. Tollefsen
9.30 - 10.15 Simo Knuuttila (Univ. of Helsinki) "Apatheia in Maximus the Confessor" 10.15 - 11.00 Ana Palanciuc (Univ. of Paris VII - Diderot) "Change, Motion and Place in Maximus Confessor's Ambigua" 11.15 - 12.00 Peter Van Deun (Leuven Univ.) "Exploring some unedited or neglected texts attributed to Maximus the Confessor" Lunch 14.00 - 14.45 Christian Boudignon (Aix-Marseille Univ.) "Pseudo Macarius as explicit but unnoticed source of the cosmic liturgy of Maximus Confessor" 14.45 - 15.30 Valery V. Petroff (Russian Academy of Sciences) "Ὑπάρχω and ὑφίστημι in Maximus the Confessor’s Ambigua" 15.30 - 16.30 Discussion 16.30 Final words - Antoine Lévy |