modern Science and the Orthodox Tradition. An uneasy relationship? ,Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών, Αμφιθέατρο «Λεωνίδας Ζέρβας», την Παρασκευή 24 και το Σάββατο 25 Φεβρουαρίου 2017. Το συνέδριο θα διεξαχθεί στην αγγλική γλώσσα.

Friday, February 24, 2017

9:00: Gathering of participants & Registration 

Session 1

9:30: Welcome by the Director of the Institute of Historical Research, Prof. Taxiarchis Kolias

9:40:  Prof. Efthymios Nicolaidis, Presentation of Project “Science & Orthodoxy around the World”

10:00: H.Em. Metropolitan of Mesogaia and Lavreotiki Nikolaos (Chatzinikolaou) Keynote address: "Modern Science and Orthodox Theology: An uneasy yet profound relationship"

10:40: Coffee break

Session 2
Chair: Prof. Andrew Briggs

11:00: Prof. Sergey Horujy, The Patristic idea of cosmic liturgy as the basis of the relationship between Theology and Science
Commented by Prof. Alexey Nesteruk

11:45: Prof. William Shea, Natural Science and Maximus the Confessor’s World-affirming Theology
Commented by Prof. Donald Yerxa

12:30: Discussion

13:00: Lunch break

Session 3
Chair: Prof. Konstantinos Skordoulis

15:00: Prof. Nina Dimitrova, Attitudes towards Science: A Review of Bulgarian Orthodox Thought in the Interwar Period
Commented by Prof. Yakov Rabkin
Discussion

15:40: Prof. Magdalena Stavinschi, Romania, a laboratory of the dialog between Science and religion
Commented by Dr Stoyan Tanev
Discussion

16:20: Coffee break

Session 4
Chair: Prof. Kriton Chryssochoidis

16:40: Rev. Prof. Christopher Knight, Science, Theology and the Mind
Commented by Dr Athanasios Papathanasiou
Discussion

17:20: Rev. Vassilios Thermos, Orthodox Tradition and Science: an unmediated and thus irrelevant relationship
Commented by Dr Dimitrios Kyriazis, MD
Discussion

18:00: Prof. Pantelis Kalaitzidis, The Ambiguous Relationship between Orthodoxy and Science, as a Part of the Pending Discussion between Orthodoxy and Modernity
Commented by Prof. Alexey Bodrov
Discussion

18:40: Participants' Dinner

  

Saturday, February 25, 2017

Session 5
Chair: Dr Petros Panagiotopoulos

9:00: Rev. Doru Costache, Father Dumitru Stăniloae, Contemporary Cosmology, and the Traditional Worldview
Commented by Rev. Prof. Ioan Chirilă
Discussion

9:40: Rev. Dmitry Kiryanov, Evolution and Orthodox Theology in Russia: an uneasy way to the dialogue
Commented by Prof. Aristotle Papanikolaou
Discussion

10:20: Rev. Prof. Kyrill Kopeikin, The Orthodox Tradition and personal view on the Universe
Commented by Rev. Prof. Georgios Anagnostopoulos
Discussion

11:00: Prof. Vasilios Makrides, Is Orthodox Theology an Empirical Science? Critical Reflections on a Contemporary Discourse in Orthodox Christian Contexts
Commented by Prof. Peter Harrison
Discussion

11:40: Coffee break

Session 6
Chair: Dr Niki Tsironi

12:00: H.Gr. Makarios Griniezakis, Bishop of Christopolis, The Pan-Orthodox Committee of Bioethics

Discussion

12:40: Prof. Alexey Postnikov, Prof. Kirill Diakonov and Dr. Tatiana Kharitonova, Four Hundred Years Old Solovki Islands Monastery’s Canals System and its influence on the Islands’ Environment: a Unique Example of Favorable Changes due to the Long Period Amelioration (Results of Archival and Field Research)
Discussion

13:20: Lunch break

Session 7
Chair: Dr George Vlahakis

15:30: Prof. Aleksandar Petrović and Aleksandra Stevanović, Dictionary of Technology as a Revival of Orthodox Culture and Reimagining of Technology
Commented by Prof. Alexandre Kostov
Discussion

16:10: Prof. Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu, Orthodox Physicians and Scholars in the Ottoman Empire
Commented by Prof. John Hedley Brooke
Discussion

16:50: Coffee Break

Session 8: Round Table
Moderator: Prof. Ronald Numbers

17:10: The Science-Orthodoxy relationship today: New perspectives within contemporary paradigms
Participants: Prof. Alexey Nesteruk, Prof. Efthymios Nicolaidis, Prof. Ronald Numbers and Prof. Gayle Woloschak

19:20: Conference summary and closing
Prof. Gayle Woloschak and Prof. Efthymios Nicolaidis

For information on the conference participants, please visit the Participants page