Programme

	PROGRAMME Great Romania – ‘The Garden of the Mother of God’ and the ‘patriarch’ of Romanian Theology and Spirituality, Father Dumitru Stăniloae, Timișoara, 1-4 October 2018
Monday, 1 October	Monday, 1 October 2018
13.00-16.00	Arrival and Registration – Archdiocese of Timișoara, Main Building C.D. Loga 7, Timisoara
17.00-17.30	*Room: Central University Library –* Opening Session Introductions by DANA PERCEC – Dean of the Faculty of Letters, History and Theology His Grace, IOAN SELEJAN, Archbishop of Timișoara and Metropolitan of Banat Acad. PĂUN ION OTIMAN, President of Timişoara branch of the Romanian Academy MARILEN GABRIEL PIRTEA, Rector of West University ELISABETH THEOKRITOFF, Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies of Cambridge** Followed by wine reception
17.30-18.30	Opening Lecture – Central University Library Introduction of Plenary Speaker: SILVIU BUNTA, University of Dayton, Ohio Plenary Speaker: His Grace ALEXANDER GOLITZIN Marquette University *Wedding Feast and Holy War: Macarian Homily I.50 and Aphrahat*
18.30-20.30	DINNER Program: Orthodox Choir
Tuesday, 2 October	Tuesday, 2 October2018
7.00-8.30	BREAKFAST
9.00-10.00	Morning Plenary Presentation Introduction: His Grace, ALEXANDER GOLITZIN, Marquette University Plenary Speaker: ANDREW LOUTH Durham University “*The Mother of God in the Orthodox Dogmatic Theology of Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae*”
10.00-10.30	Coffee & Tea Break
Room	Session 1-A (Room: Central University Library)	Session 1-B (Room: 101)
Panel
Chair	NICOLAOS LOUDOVIKOS, University Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki	LUCIAN TURCESCU, Concordia University, Montreal
10.30-11.00	ELISABETH THEOKRITOFF, Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies of Cambridge “Liturgy and Cosmology in Staniloae and beyond”	CRISTINEL IOJA, Orthodox Theological Faculty “Ilarion V. Felea”, University „Aurel Vlaicu” of Arad Father Dumitru Staniloae and Renewal Orthodox Dogmatic in Romanian Theology
11.00-11.30	CHRYSOSTOM KOUTLOUMOUSIANOS, Heythrop College, University of London “Liturgy and Nepsis: ancient unity, modern uncoupling”	OVIDIU SFERLEA, Faculty of Orthodox Theology “Bishop dr. Vasile Coman”, University of Oradea Interpretation and Reception of the theory of epektasis in Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae
11.30-12.00	MARIUS PORTARU, Patristic Institute Augustinianum, Rome “On the Mutual Sustenance between Hesychasm and Eucharist and on Its Acknowledgement in Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae’s Eucharistic Doctrine”	BĂJĂU CONSTANTIN, Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the University of Craiova, The existential-ontological relation between the human being and God in the theology of Rev. Professor Dumitru Staniloae
12.00-12.30	CHRYSOVALANTIS KYRIACOU, Royal Holloway, University of London “Reading history through theology: Nikolai Berdyaev, Dumitru Stăniloae and Alexandre Kojève’s ‘end of history’”	ADRIAN D. COVAN, West University Timișoara “Touching Saints in a Kiss” or the Icon Experience in Professor Father Dumitru Stăniloae „the Confessor”
12.30-15.00	LUNCH

Room	Session 2-A (Room: Central University Library)	Session 2-B (Room: 101)
Panel
Chair	CHRYSOSTOM KOUTLOUMOUSIANOS, Heythrop College, University of London	SEBASTIAN BROCK, Oriental Institute of Wolfson College, University of Oxford
15.00-15.30	DANIEL MUNTEANU, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg & Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Valahia University, Târgoviște “The Iconic Structure of the Human Being and the World as Plasticized Rationalities of the Holy Trinity. Main Aspects of the Cosmic Anthropology of Fr. Dumitru Staniloae”	VALENTIN VESA, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Incarnation and divine knowledge in Isaac of Nineveh and John Dalyatha
15.30-16.00	NATHANAEL NEACȘU, Theological Faculty „Dumitru Stăniloae” of University of Iaşi “Personal and communitarian identity and becoming in Church. A theological perspective from Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae and Archim. Sophrony Sakharov”	IONIȚĂ APOSTOLACHE, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, University of Craiova The place and reception of the Syriac theology in the philocalic mystic of father Dumitru Stăniloae
16.00-16.30	ȘTEFAN L. TOMA, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel “The Reception of Father Dumitru Stăniloae’s Theological Thinking within the Framework of the Athonite Spirituality and of the Greek Contemporary Theology”	CĂTĂLIN-ȘTEFAN POPA, Philipps-Universität Marburg “The Virgin Mary in the East Syriac Exegesis of the 9th century. An analysis of Īšōʿdād of Merv’s Commentaries on the Gospels”
16.30-17.00	LUCIAN TURCESCU, Concordia University, Montreal The Human Person as Man and Woman: Dumitru Staniloae in Dialogue with Anca Manolache	IOAN MIHOC, Eftimie Murgu University of Reșița Thoughts on Holy Scripture and theological exegesis in Fr Dumitru Stăniloae’s studies
17.00-17.30	Coffee & Tea Break
Room	Session 3-A (Room: Central University Library)	Session 3-B (Room: 101)
Panel
Chair	DEMETRIOS BATHRELLOS, Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies of Cambridge	CALINIC BERGER, Catholic University of America in Washington DC
17.30-18.00	VIOREL COMAN, KU Leuven – University of Leuven “Orthodox Views on the Holy Spirit’s Presence in the Church: Georges Florovsky, John Zizioulas, and Dumitru Stăniloae”	AVGOUSTINOS KKARAS (University of Nicosia in Cyprus)
18.00-18.30	CIPRIAN IULIAN TOROCZKAI, Faculty of Orthodox Theology „Andrei Şaguna”, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu “Knowledge and Holiness in Vladimir Lossky and Dumitru Stăniloae. A Comparative Approach”	IRAKLIDIOS XIOUROS (University of Nicosia in Cyprus)
18.30-19.00	ARISTOTLE PAPANIKOLAOU, Orthodox Christian Studies Center at Fordham University “From Sophia to Personhood: the Development of the 20th century Orthodox Theology from S. Bulgakov through V. Lossky and D. Staniloae to Metropolitan John D. Zizioulas”
19.00- 21.00	DINNER
Wednesday, 3 October	Wednesday, 3 October 2018
7.00-8.30	BREAKFAST
9.00-10.00	Morning Plenary Presentation Introduction: LUCIAN TURCESCU, Concordia University, Montreal Plenary Speaker: SEBASTIAN BROCK Oriental Institute of Wolfson College, University of Oxford *“Typology and imagery in the hymns on Mary attributed to St Ephrem”*
10.00-10.30	Coffee & Tea Break
Room	Session 4-A (Room: Central University Library)	Session 4-B (Room: 101)
Panel
Chair	His Grace, ALEXANDER GOLITZIN, Marquette University	DANIEL MUNTEANU, Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
10.30-11.00	DEMETRIOS BATHRELLOS, Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies of Cambridge “The Trinitarian Theology of Fr Dumitru Stăniloae”	EIRINI ARTEMI, Hellenic Open University & Israel Institute of Bible Studies from Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Experience of God as Revelation and knowledge of the Triune God in the works of Dionysius Areopagite and their use in the theology of Dumitru Stăniloae
11.00-11.30	CALINIC BERGER, Catholic University of America, Washington DC The Christological Foundation of Father Stăniloae’s Person/Nature Synthesis: A New Look at Enhypostasia	IOAN TULCAN, Orthodox Theological Faculty “Ilarion V. Felea”, University „Aurel Vlaicu” of Arad, Trinitarian and Anthropological Personalism in Father Staniloae’s Vision and Its Significance for the Contemporary Man
11.30-12.00	NICOLAOS LOUDOVIKOS, University Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki What s sanctity? Fr Staniloae‘s view of Orthodox spirituality and the modern technologies of the self	NICOLAE MOŞOIU, Faculty of Orthodox Theology „Andrei Şaguna”, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu Three Theological syntheses in the work of Father Dumitru Stăniloae: the knowledge of the revealed Truth; the form of the Church; the open conciliarity (sobornicity)
12.00-12.30	IONUȚ ALEXANDRU TUDORIE, University of Bucharest – Faculty of Orthodox Theology Fr Dumitru Stăniloae and the Romanian Academic Theological Education in the Interwar Period (1926-1938)	MIHAI HIMCINSCHI, Faculty of Orthodox Theology “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia Father Dumitru Stăniloae’s Contribution to Deepening the Teachings about the Communion Relations in the Holy Trinity. About the Holy Spirit’s Resting and Shinning in and through the Son
12.30-15.30	LUNCH
Room	Session 5-A (Room: Central University Library)	Session 5-B (Room: 101)
Panel
Chair	ANDREW LOUTH, Durham University, UK	MARIUS PORTARU, Patristic Institute Augustinianum, Rome
15.30-16.00	SILVIU BUNTA, University of Dayton, Ohio The Voices of the “Triumphant Hymn”: The Orthodox Sanctus as a Christian Merkabah Text	NICHIFOR TANASE, Archdiocese of Timișoara “Show Me Your Face and I shall be saved.” The eschatological description of the Christ’s Face according to Father Stăniloae
16.00-16.30	NICOLAE TURCAN, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj Love in Fr Dumitru Staniloae’s Thought: A Phenomenological Approach	RAFAEL POVÎRNARU, West University Timișoara The Archetypal Love of the Holy Trinity and the Communion with It through the cult of the Church, according to Father Dumitru Stăniloae’s vision
16.30-17.00	Tea and Coffee Break
17.00-18.00	Panel on Education and Spirituality Moderator: His Grace, ALEXANDER GOLITZIN Participants: ELISABETH THEOKRITOFF, Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies of Cambridge ANDREW LOUTH, Durham University, UK NICOLAOS LOUDOVIKOS, University Ecclesiastical Academy of Thessaloniki DEMETRIOS BATHRELLOS, Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies of Cambridge
18.00-20.00	DINNER
Thursday, 4 October	Thursday, 4 October 2018
7.00-8.30	BREAKFAST
9.00-10.00	Plenary Meeting / Planning His Grace, IOAN SELEJAN, Archbishop of Timișoara and Metropolitan of Banat (President of the International Orthodox Theological Conference) Introduction and translation by SILVIU BUNTA, University of Dayton, Ohio
10.00-10.30	Coffee & Tea Closing Remarks & Farewell

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