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TUESDAY AUGUST 20
Tuesday South School 9.00-1.00. Augustine: Conversion and the Confessions.
C. Köckert. Augustine’s “Milan Circle” Reconsidered
T, Saeteros. Amor y creatio, conversio, formatio en Agustín de Hipona
K. Bouwman. The Mystagogical Function of Divine Motherhood at the Conversion of
Augustine
M. F. Di Silva. Augustine’s concept of materia spiritalis: Confessions, XII-XIII
J. O. Velasquez. Augustinian Interiority and Platonic Dialectics: From Cassiciacum to
Confessions.
R. Teubner. From the Psalmic to the Lyric: Transformations of Genre in Augustine’s
Confessiones 9
M. Osseforth, The One Tree; Hiding in Plain Sight. A New Example of Contextuality in Saint
Augustine’s Confessions
J. Fan. Saint Augustine’s Confessions and Speech Acts: Schleiermacher, Sabellius, and Inter-
Trinitarian Equality
K. Mizuochi. What is libri disciplinarum in Cassiciacum --- From Licentius' Poem in
Augustine's Epistula 26
V. Tierney. The Gift of the Holy Spirit: Pledge and Fulfilment in Cyril of Alexandria
T. Tăbuş. The Imperial Reception of Cyrillian Christology in the 6th Century on the Basis of
the Theological Writings of Justinian I
A. d’ Incà. Forma feminarum. "Feminine" ideas in III century Christian North Africa: an
occasion to rethink Commodian origins
M. Berg. In Pursuit of The Perfect Bishop: The Short Recension of Ignatius and Syrian
Asceticism
U. Possekel. Exegetical Perspectives from the School of Nisibis: Michael Badoqa on the
Pentateuch
A. Westergren. The City of the Saint: The Monks of Syria in the Late Antique Polis
D. Gronnet. A Syriac Life of Symeon Stylites (Ms. Damas 12/17, ff. 52b.1-71b.3). Edition,
Analysis and Perspectives
T. Georges. Justin’s Dialogue and the Search for Contemporary Discourse between
Christians and Jews: A Closer look at Dialogue, Chapter 47
P. Parvis. P.Oxy 78.5129 and the Transmission of the Text of the Apologies of Justin Martyr
A. Blaski. Christ Our First Principle: The Dynamics of Persuasion in Early Christian
Apologetic Discourse
R. Franchi. Ambrose and the Immaculate Body of Christ: Its Theological and Soteriological
Implications
I. D. Bancila. Ancient Esotericism in Patristic Era and the Making of Patristic Epistemology
K. Carducci. Pregnant and Gendered Minerals according to Pagans and Christians
Wednesday Room 9 9.00 – 1.00. Cyprian and Africa in the Third Century
E. Murphy. Fiery Trials and Salvific Water: Cyprian’s Use of 1 Peter
P. Brown. Augustine’s Appropriation of Cyprian’s Tradition of the Tropes
M. Esquivel. Penance and Ecclesial Purity: The Divine Urgency Behind Cyprian’s Response
to the Decian Persecution
L. Ciccolini. À propos du quod idola dii non sint. (CPL 57): quelques considerations sur l’
histoire du texte.
M. Vercesi. Rev 19-21 in North African authors: chance for reconstructing the most ancient
text?
M. Portaru. From the Hypostatic Union to Hypostasis. On the Interplay between Christology
and Anthropology in Maximus the Confessor
A. Papanikolaou. What does Deification Look Like? Maximus, Virtues, and the Architecture
of the Soul
J. Börjesson. Maximus the Confessor and Augustine’s ‘two wills’ in John IV’s defence of
Honorius
A. Summerson. Christ the Snake Charmer of Human Passibility: The Passions, Apatheia,
and Christology in Maximus the Confessor's Quaestiones ad Thalassium
A. Cooper. Drawing Water without a Bucket. Maximus the Confessor’s Scholion on Thal. 41.
D. Prassas. “Peace be with you” (John 20:21): St. Maximos the Confessor and Calming the
Thoughts
C. Barnard. Arguments for a Dialectic of Good and Evil in Saint Maximus the Confessor
V. Permiakov. Temple, Cross, and Jerusalem: The Old Georgian Homily on the Dedication
of the Holy Anastasis, Attributed to John of Damascus
R. P. C. Brown. Outsourcing Holiness? : Cuthbert, the High Crosses of Northumbria, and the
Sanctification of Creation
Wednesday Room 14 9.00 – 1.00. Themes from the Primitive Age and New Testament
T. Hein. Magically Satisfying: Matthew’s Magi Came in Order to Fulfill what was Written by
the Early Christian Interpreters
C. Coombs. Ancient Antidotes for a Modern Poison: Irenaeus, Eusebius and Augustine, and
the Interpretive Problem of Mark 16:18
J. Mihoc. People of the Garden: Towards an Ecclesiology of Acts based on an analysis of its
Patristic Reception
Thursday East School 9.00 – 1.00. Gregory of Nyssa and Christian Life
K. Tzortzopoulou. The Emotion of Envy in the Works of Gregory of Nyssa
A. Vella. Gregory of Nyssa’s Understanding of Humility and Detachment in His First
Homily on the Beatitudes
A. Kutama. Light and Likeness in St. Gregory of Nyssa
K. Anderson. Christ’s Subjection and Human Salvation in Gregory of Nyssa’s Tunc et Ipse
D. King. What is an Image for? The Functionality of the Divine Image in
Gregory of Nyssa.
C. Mooney. Necessary and Sufficient? Irenaeus on the Rule of Faith, Scripture, and Apostolic
Tradition
F. Lubian. Between Epic (re-)Narration and Typological Exegesis: the role of Moses in
Prudentius' Dittochaeon
S. Arrigoni. The “Secondary Biblical Paraphrase” in Prudentius’ Praefatio to the First Book
of the Contra Symmachum.
M. L. Ostermann. Les échos de l’Eloge du désert d’Eucher de Lyon chez quelques auteurs
médiévaux
M. Tibaldini. Board games and Religious Affairs: an overview over gaming activities from
the III to VI century AD
D. Riggs. “Our City’s Forum Hosts a Multitude of Salvific Deities”: Disputing Christianising
Interpretations of Late Roman Africa
E. Sahiverta. Christianity as the Downfall of Rome - The Pagan Aristocracy's Concerns about
Christianity at the Turn of the Fifth Century
B. Craig. His Multi-lauded Hands: Origin and Evolution of the Hand Element in Liturgical
Institution Narratives
F. Young. Doctrine and Scripture: their Coinherence in the Catechetical Homilies of Cyril of
Jerusalem
A. Torrance. Christ is not an individual’: the Meaning and Reception of an Early Byzantine
Christological Argument
I. Bolinhas, The Patristic Sources of the Inaugural Lecture of Saint Thomas Aquinas
Z. Yuswa. Colonial Encounters with the Ancient Martyrs: Saintly and Savage Bodies in the
Canadian Wild
J. Junni. Creation out of Nothing or out of Really Nothing? Uses of μὴ ὤν and oὐκ ὤν in Pre-
Nicene Theology.
F. Celia. “Vanity and Choice of Spirit”: Physics and Human Will in Early Christian Exegesis
of Ecclesiastes.
S. Griffith. “The Sign of Jonah”: Representation of Jonah in patristic exegesis and early
Christian art
K.-M. Redeker. Aspects of the Suffering Servant in the Commentaries on the Book of Isaiah
by St. Jerome and Haimo of Auxerre
R. Crellin. The Exegetical Consequences of Translational Divergences between the Old
Greek and the MT in the Patristic Treatment of Isaiah 53
Y. Monnickendam. Biblical Law in Greco-Roman Attire: The Case of Levirate Marriage in
Late-Antique Christian Legal Traditions
A. Nikolopoulou. "Imitation" in Basil the Great ‘s Speech “Address to young men...” and
Bandura’s Social Cognitive Learning Theory: a Modern Dialectic
FRIDAY AUGUST 23
J. Van Rossum. Gregory of Nyssa's Exegesis of the "Heavenly Bread": A "Non-Eucharistic "
Interpretation?
M Bendová. Two Ways of Interpretation of the Sinai Revelation according to Philo and
Gregory of Nyssa.
A. Abecina. Power in Weakness: Pneumatology in Gregory of Nyssa’s De virginitate
L. Zhiang. Follow the Guide According to De Vita Moysis of Gregory of Nyssa
H. Dayton. Slapping of a Monk, Evil Possession and tapeinofrosuni (Humility of the Mind)
according to Desert Fathers
Y. Rozumna. Person and Activities of the Holy Spirit in the Monastic Lives and Writings of
Late Antiquity
D. Gjorcheski. Divine Origin or Divine Becoming: the Concept of διπλοῦς (diplous) in the
Ps.Macarian Homilies and Plotinus' Enneads
D. Casewell. The Joy of the Saints: Habit and Practice in Early Christian Asceticism
L. Petcu. The Fathers of the Romanian Paterikon, on Compassion and Serving the Sick
I. Bodrožić. The Christological Ideal of Jerome's Ascetic Model for Women according to his
Commentary on the Ephesian Epistle
G. Derhard. From Redemption to Resurrection: The Strategic Use of Metaphors by Jerome
and Augustine
M. Wuk. Necessity over Doctrine: Religious Authorities and Oath-taking in Late Antiquity
L. Drake. Reading Paul, Rehabilitating Paul: Judaism and the Law in the Euthalian Apparatus
J. Marcon. The use of the Greek Fathers in the Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Paul.
J. Hei. The Function of “Reading Aids” in Early New Testament Manuscripts
V. Duca. Pauline Echoes in Isaac of Nineveh: an Initial Investigation
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