XIX. International Conference on Patristic Studies
Oxford
5.-9. August 2024
The International Conference on Patristics Studies meets under the auspices of the Faculty of Theology and Religion, and the Faculty of Classics, of the University of Oxford
The detailed and full programme can be downloaded by clicking here.
The plenary lectures are:
Opening Lecture
Paul Blowers: "Playing Along with the Playful Logos: Theatrics and Dramatics in Patristic Writing and Biblical Interpretation"
Plenary Lectures
Thomas Arentzen: "Early Christian Tree Behavior"
Johannes Brachtendorf: "Is Creation eternal? Augustine's Discussion with the Neoplatonists on Cosmic Time and the Age of the World"
Laetitia Ciccolini: "'Searching and finding': capitula, literary practices and the organisation of knowledge in Christian antiquity"
Matthew Crawford: "A Battle at Night? A Revisionist Account of the Early Stages of the Nestorian Controversy"
Mary Farag: "Re-evaluating Pachomius's Chronology and the Koinonia's Relationship to the Alexandrian Episcopate"
Daniel Galadza: "The Liturgical Reception of Patristic Texts: Hymns and Homilies for Holy Week”
Camille Gerzaguet: "A 'new' Church Father: Bishop Timotheus' letter on Easter. Five years after the editio princeps (Sources Chrétiennes 604)"
Uta Heil: "Confessing and Cursing. The Creed of Nicaea (325) between Theology and Magic"
Michel Libambu: "The Integration of the Trinitarian Paradigm into Ecology. An Application of Augustinian hermeneutics"
Rubén Peretó Rivas: "The Fathers of the Church in the reading of Michel Foucault"
Marco Rizzi: "The Book of Wisdom as a textbook for Hellenistic Jewish paideia"
Hajime Tanaka: Pro Libanio: John Chrysostom and the Antiochene sophist on the riots of 387"
Jack Tannous: "Testing the Spirits: Post-Apostolic Claims to Revelation and the Question of Religious Truth"
Chiara O. Tommasi: "Between Pagan and Christian, between East and West: the Three Kings in Patristic Literature"
Paul van Geest: "Church Fathers and the Market. The Interaction between Patristics and Economics"
Closing Lecture
Gillian Clark: "Commenting on the City of God"