Annual Meeting 2006

7-9 June
St Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary

Program

Tuesday, 7 June
Session I

2:00 Fr E. Pentiuc: “Between Hebrew Bible and Old Testament: Synchronic and Diachronic Modes of Interpretation”
3:15 break
3:30 Timothy Patitsas,“An Orthodox Theology of Gender.”
5:00 Vespers
Anniversary Banquet

Thursday, 8 June
Session II

7:30 Matins, Breakfast
9:30 Fr. Gabriel Rochelle, “Apophatic Preaching and the Post-Modern Mind: Liturgical Keys for the Proclamation of the Gospel in this Age”
8:45 Protodeacon Basil Andruchow: "Biomedical Ethics"
9:00 Fr John Breck: “Orthodox Anthropology: Implications for Human Stem Cell Research and Cloning”

9:45 Questions and discussion
10:45 Coffee/Refreshment Break
12:00 Lunch
2:00 Efthalia Makris Walsh, “Barren Women in the Writings of St. John Chrysostom.”
3:15 Coffee/Refreshment Break

Session III

3:30 A. Papanikolaou, “Lossky and Zizioulas on Theosis”
  V. Kimball, “Can the ‘All-holiness’ of the Theotokos be Considered Theosis”
5:00 Vespers, Dinner
7:30

Florovsky Lecture

Norman Russell: “Theosis and Gregory Palamas: Continuity or Doctrinal Change?”
8:45 Reception

Friday, 9 June

7:30 Matins, breakfast

Session IV

9:00 George Demacopoulos: “Reconsidering the Sixth-Century Dispute over the ‘Ecumenical’ Title.”
10:15 Break
10:30 D. Katos, “Humility as the Harbinger of Imageless Prayer in the Lausiac History.”
  Despina Prassas, “St. John Chrysostom's Homily on Bernike, Proskoke and Domnina: Making a Case for Martyrdom.”
12:00 Lunch and Annual Business Meeting
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