Wednesday 15 June 2011

Victor YUDIN: The Church Fathers vis-à-vis the Neo-Platonists


This two days workshop is the result of an international co-operation between various academic institutions: University of Durham, CEU, UCL, ELTE, the University of Tbilisi, and Kiev Mohyla Academy. It brings  scholars together from the UK, Belgium, Ukraine, Hungary and Georgia.
The workshop is dedicated to the creative rapprochement between the Neo-Platonic philosophy and the Christian theology from the 3th through the 7th centuries. We discuss whether the Neo-Platonists had a significant impact on the church fathers, or whether in some cases the impact was the other way around. We also examine to what extent debates at the time concerning discrepancies in ideas have been constructive on both sides. We shed light on these issues in the seven following presentations.

Day 1
Rev Dr Cyril HOVORUN (Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Ukraine), Influence of Neo-Platonism on the formation of - theological categories in the 4th-7th centuries
Professor Dr Andrew LOUTH (Durham, UK), Maximus’ Neoplatonism
Professor Dr Istvan PERCZEL (CEU, Hungary), Origenists or Theosophers? Christian Platonists in the fifth-sixth centuries.

Day 2
Professor Dr Jean-Michel COUNET (UCL, Belgium), The idea of creative speech in Neoplatonists and Early church Fathers
Dr Gabor BUZASI (ELTE, Hungary), Julian's solar theology and its relation to the Christianity of his age
Rev Doctorandus Victor YUDIN (UCL, Belgium), (Neo)- Platonism in Augustine’s Resurrection theory
Dr Levan GIGINEISHVILI (TU, Georgia), Eros in the Theology of I.Petritsi and Sh.Rustaveli

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