Annual Meeting 2007

12-14 June
St Vladimir's Orthodox Seminary

Program

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
  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

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
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