Centre for Eastern Christianity Study Day, 14 January

The Centre for Eastern Christianity, Heythrop College, University of London

In association with the Society of St John Chrysostom

Research Study Day

Eastern Christianity: modern histories, theologies and contemporary contexts

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10.30-11.00: Arrive and Introduction

11.00 – 11.45: Nikodemos Anagnostopoulos, St.Mary’s College: “The development of the Ecclesiology and the Political Theology of the Ecumenical Patriarchate  of 
Constantinople and the Autocephalous Greek Orthodox Church in response to 
Muslim-Christian relations in the contemporary context of modern Greece and 
Turkey until 2014’.

12.00 – 12.30: Kristian Girling, Heythrop College: "The Chaldean Catholic Church: A study in modern history, ecclesiology and church-state relations (2003-2013)".

12.30 – 13.15: David Derrick, Heythrop College: “Kenneth Cragg, Charles Malik and Dag Hammarskjöld – some thoughts on the question of mysticism and the `public square’”

13.15-14.00: Lunch Break

14.00 – 14.45: Stefanie Hugh-Donovan, Heythrop College:  ‘Olivier Clément: 
French Thinker and Theologian of the Eastern Orthodox Church in dialogue 
with Western Catholic Thought on Ecclesiology, Theology and the Identity of 
Europe’.

14.45-15.30: Peter Colwell, CTBi and Heythrop College: “Reflections on Arab Christian Political and Theological Thought in the modern Holy land”

15.30-16.00 Break

16.00-16.45: Anthony O’Mahony, Heythrop College: “The Desert Fathers of modern Egypt: The Theological Exchange between Shenouda III and Matta el Meskin”

 

10.30 am to 5. pm on Thursday  14^th January  2016

Heythrop College, University of London, Kensington Square, London W8 5HN

All are welcome.

Details from Dr John Flannery -  j.flannery@heythrop.ac.uk

 www.heythrop.ac.uk  - www.orientalelumen.org.uk