Ιnternational Conference: «UNDERSTANDING PERSONS» in Thessaloniki

WEDNESDAY 14, MAY 2014

Location: School of Theology, Aristotle University

6:00-6:30 Alexis Torrance, Introductions, opening remarks on conference theme Keynote

6:30-7:30 Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) of Diokleia, “In the Image and Likeness of God”: the Human Person in Greek Patristic Theology

THURSDAY 15, MAY 2014

Location: University Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki

SECTION I

10:00-10:30 Christos Karakolis, Personal relationship as condition of ethical imitation according to the Apostle Paul

10:30-11:00 Ekaterini Tsalampouni, Άνακεκαλυμμένω προσώπω την δόξαν κυρίου κατοπτριζόμενοι: the exegesis and reception history of 2 Cor 3:18 in the context of a theology of personhood

11:00-11:30 Paul Blowers, Emotional “Scripts” and Personal Moral Identity: Insights from the Greek Fathers

11:30-12:00 Coffee

Keynote

12:00-1:00 Jean-Claude Larchet, Hypostasis, person and individual according to St. Maximus the Confessor (Hypostase, personne et individu selon saint Maxime le Confesseur)

1:15-2:45 Lunch break

SECTION II

3:00-3:30 Nicholas Marinides, Anastasius of Sinai: Soul, Body, and Person in Polemical and Ascetical Theology

3:30-4:00 Nicholas Prevelakis, Eastern Christian conceptions of personhood and their political significance

4:00-4:30 Mary Cunningham, Mary, the Mother of God, in Dialogue: The Drama of Personal Encounter In the Byzantine Liturgical Tradition

4:30-5:00 Coffee

Keynote

5:00-6:00 Marie-Hélène Congourdeau, Nicholas Cabasilas of Thessaloniki: The Historical Dimension of the Person (Nicolas Cabasilas de Thessabnique: La Dimension Historique de la Personne)

SECTION III

6:15-6:45 Vasilios Tsigkos, “Perichoresis” as mode of the true persons life according to God

6:45-7:15 Fr Demetrios Harper, The Exemplar of Consubstantiality: St. Gregory Palamas’ Hesychast as an Expression of a Microcosmic Approach to Personhood

7:15-7:45 Matthew Briel, Freedom, necessity and the laws of nature in the thought of Gennadios Scholarios

FRIDAY 16, MAY 2014

Location: University Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki

Keynote

9:00-10:00 Fr. Nicholas Loudovikos, Consubstantial Selves: Orthodox Personalism, Modern Psychology, and Philosophy

SECTION IV

10:15-10:45 Chrysostom Stamoulis, The adventures of the person in later Orthodox theology

10:45-11:15 Fr. Gregory Stamkopoulos, The Orthodox Person within the Information Age

11:15-11:45 Nikos Asproulis, N. Nissiotis, the “theology of the ’60s” and personhood: continuity or discontinuity?

11:45-12:15 Coffee

12:15-12:30 Symeon Paschalidis, Summary of Conference followed by Roundtable Discussion