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Χριστιανικών Σπουδών, που έχει έδρα το Κέϊμπριτζ, οργανώνει το Ετήσιο Συνέδριό
του, από 31 Αυγούστου έως 1 Σεπτεμβρίου.
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έχει ως εξής:
The
Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies is pleased to announce that enrolments
are now open for our annual conference, taking place between 31 August - 1
September 2018, at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. The conference will
address the topic: 'The Newness of the Old: Tradition, Doctrine and Christian
Life between Preservation and Innovation.' For more details, enrolments and
payments please go on our website here.
In Christianity, preservation of tradition and innovation are complexly
intertwined. On the one hand, an act of resistance to change can turn out to be
an original move that outperforms fashionable new ideas and practices. On the
other hand, the audacious introduction of the ‘new’ is at times the only way to
safeguard the faithful continuation of tradition. Yet innovation can also
weaken tradition and lead to its destruction, and faithfulness to tradition may
degenerate into an ossified and lifeless traditionalism. A consistently
Trinitarian theology and practice must transcend any simplistic dichotomy
between a conservative and a progressive outlook on life. Paradoxically, it is
precisely the ‘old’ that manifests itself as the ‘ever-new’. The question as to
how to balance the interplay of continuity and discontinuity remains one of the
main challenges for Orthodox theology in the twenty-first century. The aim of
the conference is to explore how the complex interrelationship between the
‘old’ and the ‘new’ is to be conceived of.
Keynote speakers:
Dr Brandon Gallaher (University of Exeter)
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Prof Nikolaos Loudovikos (University Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki)
Revd
Prof Andrew Louth (Durham University)
Prof
Jens Zimmerman (Trinity Western University)
Papers will be presented by:
Barnabas Aspray (University of Cambridge)
Lucian
George Berciu (University of Fribourg)
Richard
Choate (Graduate Theological Union and University of California, Berkeley)
Dr
Viorel Coman (KU Leuven)
Dr
Christine Mangala Frost (IOCS)
Ryan
Hacker (University of Cambridge)
Prof.
Sigríður Halldórsdóttir (University of Akureyri)
Dr
Smilen Markov (University of Veliko Turnovo / University of Oxford)
Michael
Miller (University of Cambridge)
Ben
Morris (Diocese of Sourozh)
Yuliia
Rozumna (Nottingham University)
Stefan
Zelijkovic (University of Belgrade)
A
detailed programme for the conference will be uploaded shortly on our website.
