Tuesday
12 June |
| 2:00 |
Vigen Guroian: "The Liturgy of Creation" |
| 3:15 |
break |
| 3:30 |
Charles Harvey: "Creation in Evening: Theological
Perspective from the Proemial Psalm of Vespers" |
| 5:00 |
Vespers |
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Dinner |
| 7:30 |
“Evolving Visions of the Orthodox Priesthood in America,” Patriarch Athenagoras Orthodox Institute Presentation on the Survey of Orthodox Clergy:
- Alexey Krindatch, Research Director, PAOI
- Respondents:
- Anton C. Vrame, Holy Cross Greek Orthodoxy School of Theology
- Peter C. Bouteneff, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary
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Wednesday
13 June |
A Medical Bioethics Colloquium:
An Orthodox Consensus on Embryonic Stem Cell Research (ESCR) and In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
Sponsored by the Orthodox Church in America’s Department of Christian Witness and Service |
| 7:30 |
Matins, Breakfast |
| 8:40 |
Introduction and Welcome by Fr John Behr, OTSA President |
| 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 |
| 10:00 |
Coffee/Refreshment Break |
| 10:30 |
Juliana Orr Weaver: “Looking to Science for the Questions: The Scientific Basis of Stem Cell Research: ESC (Embryonic Stem Celss), ASC (Adult Stem Cells), SCNT (Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer-Cloning), ANT (Alternative Nuclear Transfer), Stem cells from placentas and amniotic fluid” |
| 11:30 |
Questions and discussion |
| 12:00 |
Lunch |
| 1:30 |
Protodeacon Basil Andruchow: “Introduction to the Afternoon Session” |
| 1:35 |
Gayle Woloschak: “Bioethics and Stem-Cell Discussions of the SCOBA ‘Social and Moral Issues Commission’ (SMIC)" |
| 2:15 |
Discussion: “An Orthodox Consensus on ESCR and IVF?” (Fr. John Breck, Moderator) |
| 3:00 |
Coffee/Refreshment Break |
| 3:30 |
Round Table/Panel Discussion, continued |
| 4:30 |
Fr John Breck Summary and Closing Statements |
| 4:45 |
Protodeacon Basil Andruchow: “Some Next Steps” |
| 5:00 |
Vespers, dinner |
| 7:30 |
Florovsky Lecture
His Eminence, Metropolian NIKOLAOS (Hatzinikolaou): “Orthodox Bioethics: From an Ethics of Dilemmas to a Theology of Transcendence” |
| 8:45 |
Reception |
Thursday
14 June |
| 7:30 |
Matins, breakfast |
| 9:00 |
Vasiliki Eckley: "Human dimorphism, the tripartite soul
and the development of men and women into the image and likeness of God:
Towards full personhood individuated yet related" |
| 10:15 |
Break |
| 10:30 |
Valerie A. Karras: "Antiochene Views of the Postlapsarian
Loss of the Imago Dei in Woman" |
| 12:00 |
Lunch and Annual Business Meeting |