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  14th 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