Visibility and Invisibility in church, liturgy and community

The focus of the conference is the visual and audible offshoot of the agenda of the Reformation in images, music, liturgical inventory and architecture on the one hand and the theological reflection on religious community as the visible representation of the invisible, of transcendence, on the other. Holding the dialectic between the visible and the invisible in mind, the research group behind In-visibilis is interested in historical and systematic investigations. The conference will explore issues ranging from the concept and use of images, music and architecture in church life of the 16th century to investigations into the understanding of church and community in contemporary theology and philosophy. The conference follows up on an international conference in April 2011 on Language and Image Formation.

Program:

Thursday, January 19:

12.45-13.00: Arrival and welcome

13.00-14.15: Prof. Harald Hegstad: The Real Church. An Ecclesiology of the Visible.

14.15-14.30: Break

14.30-15.45: Prof. Tarald Rasmussen: Inner and Exterior Images in the Early Reformation

Discourse on the Cult Image.

15.45-16.15: Break

16.15-17.15: Ph.d.-student Karina Kande: Die unsichtbare Kirche. Eine Hauptspur in der

Ekklesiologie Dietrich Bonhoeffers?

18.30 - :   Dinner

Friday, January 20:

9.30-10.45:   Prof. Nils Holger Pedersen: The Notion of an Imaginary Space in Music:

Interpreting Mozart’s Requiem in Catholic and Protestant Contexts.

10.45-11.00: Break

11.15-12.30: Prof. Hans-Peter Grosshans: The Divine Mystery Becoming Visible in Human

Communities.

12.30-14.00:  Lunch

14.00-15.15: Prof. Martin Jürgensen: The Properties of Style – Allusions to the Invisible in

Nineteenth-century Church Art.

15.15-15.30: Break

15.30-16.45: Prof. Konrad Küster: Wann spielt die Orgel im Gottesdienst? Liturgische

Beobachtungen zwischen Spätmittelalter und Früher Neuzeit.

16.45-17.00: Break

17.00-18.00: Rounding off