It seems that the Volos Conference has been underway and overviews of the specific papers have been provided via the website for the Volos Academy.
Here is a general outline:
Holy
Metropolis of Demetrias
Volos Academy for Theological
Studies
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE
Neo-Patristic Synthesis or
Post-Patristic
Theology: Can Orthodox Theology be Contextual?
June 3-6, 2010, THESSALIA
CONFERENCE CENTER,
(MELISSIATIKA), VOLOS
The
conference is organized
in collaboration with the Orthodox
Christian Studies Program of Fordham University, the Chair of
Orthodox Theology of Münster University, and the Romanian
Institute for Inter-Orthodox,
Inter–Confessional, and Inter-Religious Studies (INTER) Cluj-Napoca
PROGRAMME
THURSDAY, JUNE
3rd 2010
18.00-18.30 Registration
18.30-19.00
Opening – Greetings
Session
I
Moderator:
Dr. Pantelis Kalaitzidis
Director
of the Volos
Academy for
Theological
Studies
19.00-19.30 Rev.
Dr. Vladan
Pericic, Professor of Patrology, former Dean of the Theological Faculty,
University of Belgrade,
Serbia
Liturgical
Theology as Contextual Theology in the Patristic Era and Today
19.30-20.00 Dr.
George
Martzelos, Professor at the School
of Theology, University
of Thessaloniki, Greece
The Role of Contextual
Theology in the Orthodox Tradition
20.00-30 Discussion
20.30 Dinner
FRIDAY
JUNE 4th 2010
Session
II
Moderator: Dr. George Demacopoulos
Associate
Professor
of Theology, Co-Founding Director,
Orthodox
Christian
Studies Program of Fordham
University
09.00-09.30 Dr.
Marcus
Plested, Director of Studies, Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, UK
The Emergence of
the Neo-Patristic Synthesis: Content, Challenges and Limits
09.30-10.00
Rev. Dr.
Pavel L.
Gavrilyuk, Associate Professor, University
of
St. Thomas, Minnesota, USA
Florovsky’s Christian Hellenism: A Critical Evaluation
10.00-10.30 Rev.
Dr. John
Behr, Dean, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary, New York,
USA
Going Beyond Neo-Patristic Synthesis
10.30-11.30 Discussion
11.30-12.00 Coffee-break
Session III
Moderator:
Dr. Bruce Beck,
Director,
Pappas Patristic
Institute, Holy
Cross Greek
Orthodox School
of Theology,
Brookline, Massachusetts
12.00-12.30 Archbishop
Dr. Hilarion Alfeyev of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the
Moscow Patriarchate Department for External
Church Relations, Russia
Orthodox
Tradition and Contextual Theology
12.30-13.00 Dr.
Tamara
Grdzelidze, Programme Executive, Faith and Order, WCC
Contextualisation of the Church Fathers
in the Context of Ecumenism
13.00-13.30 Discussion
13.30-15.00 Lunch
Session IV
Moderator:
Dr. Tamara Grdzelidze
Programme
Executive, Faith
and Order, WCC
15.00-15.30 Dr.
Daniel Ayuch,
Associate Professor, St. John of Damascus Orthodox Theological Institute
of
University of Balamand, Lebanon
The Relationship
between Biblical and Theological Disciplines
15.30-16.00 Dr.
John
Fotopoulos, Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, Saint
Mary's
College at Notre Dame, USA
Orthodox
Theology and the Historical-Critical Method
16.00-16.30
Discussion
16.30-17.00
Coffee-break
Session V
Moderator: V.
Rev. Dr. Maxim of Western America
Serbian
Orthodox Church,
Professor
at the School
of Theology, University of Belgrade
17.00-17.30
Dr.
George
Demacopoulos, Associate Professor of Theology, Co-Founding Director,
Orthodox
Christian Studies Program of Fordham
University, New York, USA
History,
Post-Colonial Theory, and Some New Possibilities for Retrieving the
Theological
Past
17.30-18.00
Alexei V.
Nesteruk, Senior Lecturer, Department
of Mathematics, University of
Portsmouth, UK; Visiting Professor, St. Andrew’s Biblical Theological
Institute, Moscow, Russia
Orthodoxy in the
Scientific Age: From a Neo-Patristic Synthesis to Radical Theological
Commitment
18.00-18.30
Rev. Dr.
Demetrios Bathrellos, Visiting Lecturer, Institute for Orthodox
Christian
Studies, Cambridge, UK; Priest of the
Aghia Sophia Greek Orthodox Church, Drafi, Attica, Greece
Systematic
Theology as a New Form of Orthodox Theology
18.30-19.30
Discussion
SATURDAY JUNE 5th 2009
Session VI
Moderator: Dr Demetrios
Moschos
Lecturer
at the Scholl of Theology, Athens University
09.00-09.30 Dr.
Assaad Elias
Kattan, Director of the Center
of Religious Studies and Chair
of Orthodox Theology, University
of Münster, Germany
Essentialism
Reconsidered: The Myth of a Non-Hermeneutical Approach to Orthodox
Tradition
09.30-10.00 Rev.
Dr. John
Panteleimon Manoussakis, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, College of
Holy
Cross, Worcester, USA
God. Being and
Event: The Intersection between Theology and Ontology
10.00-10.30 Discussion
10.30-11.00 Coffee-break
Session VII
Moderator: Dr.
Aristotle Papanikolaou
Associate
Professor of Theology, Co-Founding Director,
Orthodox
Christian Studies Program of Fordham University
(Metropolitan
John Zizioulas, Dr. Aristotle Papanikolaou, Fr Andrew Louth)
11.00-11.30 Metropolitan
John
Zizioulas, Member of the Academy
of Athens,
Ecumenical
Patriarchate
Actuality
and Temporality of the Neo-Patristic Synthesis
11.30-12.00
Fr. Andrew Louth, Professor of Patrology, University of Durham, UK
The Authority of
the Fathers in “post-patristic Orthodox theology”
12.00-12.30 Discussion
12.30-14.00 Lunch
Fr Gregory's remarks on his photo: Bishop Maxim
with Metropolitan John, Pantelis Kalaitzidis (the director of the Volos
Academy), Fr. John Behr of St. Vladimir's, and others at lunch on
Saturday. Here, they were all asking Metropolitan John to recount
stories about his experiences with Fr. Florovsky (he was a student of
Florovsky at Harvard).
Session VIII
Moderator: Dr Vassilios
Makrides
Professor
of Sociology of Orthodox Christianity at Erfurt
University
(Germany)
14.00-14.30 Dr.
Michail
Neamtu, Senior Fellow of CADI/ Eleutheria,
Romania
Ethno-theology
as a Particular Case of Contextual Theology
14.30-15.00 Dr.
Radu Preda,
Associate Professor of Social Theology, Babes-Bolai-University, Cluj-Napoca, Director of the Romanian Institute
for
Inter-Orthodox, Inter-confessional, Inter-Religious Studies-INTER, Romania
Orthodox Social
Theology as Contextual Theology
15.00-15.30
Dr. Aristotle Papanikolaou, Associate Professor
of
Theology, Co-Founding Director, Orthodox Christian Studies Program of Fordham University, New
York, USA
Orthodox
Liberalism: Political Theology after the Empires
15.30-16.30 Discussion
16.30-17.00 Coffee-break
Session IX
Moderator: Dr.
Radu Preda
Associate
Professor, Babes-Bolai-University, Cluj-Napoca,
Director
of the INTER (Romania)
17.00-17.30 Dr.
Peter
Bouteneff, Associate Professor, St Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological
Seminary, New
York, USA
Liberation Theologies:
Challenges for Contemporary Orthodoxy from Contextual Theologies
17.30-18.00 Dr.
Eleni Kasselouri, Teaching at the Hellenic Open University,
Member of the
Academic Team of Volos Academy for Theological Studies, Greece
Feminist Theology and its Contextuality: A Challenge
or an Opportunity for Orthodox
Theology?
18.00-18.30 Discussion
SUNDAY JUNE 6th 2010
Divine Service at the
Christ’s Ascension Church, Volos
Departure of the buses for Thessalia Conference Center,
Melissatika: 10.45
Session X
Moderator: Dr. Assaad Elias
Kattan
Director
of the Centre of Religious Studies
and
Chair of Orthodox Theology, University of Münster
11.30-12.00
Rev. Dr.
Emmanuel Clapsis, Professor of Dogmatics, Holy Cross
Greek Orthodox
School of Theology, Brookline, USA
Gospel and Cultures: Toward a Theology of
Religions
12.00-12.30 Dr.
Athanasios
N. Papathanasiou, Editor in Chief of the Theological Journal Synaxis, Greece
Mission as a
Challenge for
Orthodox Contextual Theology
12.30-13.00 Dr.
Pantelis
Kalaitzidis, Director of the Volos
Academy for Theological
Studies, Greece
Toward a Post-Patristic
Theology?
13.00-14.00 Discussion
14.00 End
of the
Conference-Lunch
There are press releases in English that provide over views of each day:
Press Release 1
Press Release 2
Press Release 3
Press Release 4
A blogger I have followed for some time. Fr. Gregory Edwards, has posted pictures and his impressions here
There is also a Greek website that covered the conference in great detail, here.
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