Visibility and Transcendence in Religion, Art and Ethics
Wednesday October 3:
Theme: Phenomenology of in-visibility
18-19.15: Opening lecture by Prof. Arne Grøn, University of Copenhagen: "Ethics and Phenomenology of the In-visible"
19.30: Reception at the Faculty of Theology
Thursday, October 4:
Theme: Phenomenology of in-visibility (continued)
9.00-10.15: Senior lecturer Jonna Bornemark, Södertörn Högskola: "Experience between Visibility and Invisibility"
10.30-11.45: Prof. Gavin Flood, University of Oxford: "Becoming Invisible"
Theme: Language as mode of revealing and hiding
12.00-13.15: Prof. Christine Helmer, Northwestern University: "To Refer or Not to Refer, That is the Theological Question"
Lunch
15.00-16.15: Prof. George Pattison, University of Oxford: "Language and the Revelation of Silence:Reflections on Mystical Theology"
Theme: Human existence between visibility and invisibility
16.30-17.45: Assoc.Prof. Anna Vind, University of Copenhagen: "Luther’s Notion of Man’s (in)visible Relation to God"
Friday, October 5:
Theme: Human existence between visibility and invisibility (continued)
9.00-10.15: Prof. Antti Raunio, University of Helsinki: "Inner and Outer Man in the Lutheran Theological Anthropology"
10.30-11.45: Prof. Pierre Bühler, Universität Zürich: "Homo absconditus and homo revelatus: Invisibility as a Challenge for Theological Anthropology"
12-13.15: Prof. Claudia Welz, University of Copenhagen: "Imago Dei – A Self-Concealing Image".
Lunch
15.00-18.00: PhD-sessions (call for papers closes August 1st)
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Saturday, October 6:
Theme: The manifestation of a ‘beyond’ in the arts
9.00-10.15: Assoc.Prof. Sven Havsteen, University of Copenhagen: "Moments of an Aesthetics of the Invisible – Issues, Concepts, Premises"
10.30-11.45: Prof. Olivier Boulnois, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes: "Reading, Meditating, Venerating: Three Uses of the Image (Middle Ages and Luther)"
Theme: Visible community and invisible transcendence
12.00-13.15: Assoc. Prof. Carl Axel Aurelius, University of Copenhagen: "Ecclesia abscondita"
Lunch
15.00-16.15: Prof. Eva Harasta, Universität Bamberg: "Truth in the Eye of the Beholder: A Christological Perspective on the Verification of the Churches"
16.30-17.45: Prof. Kirsten Busch Nielsen, University of Copenhagen: "Last but not least – Church and Eschatology"
19.30 – Festive dinner
Sunday, October 7:
Departure
Contact:
Anna Vind (Lektor) av@teol.ku.dk