Organized by Institute for the Study of Values and Spirituality (ISVS) and Palamas Seminar, in collaboration with Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, University of Bucharest.
Organizing Committee: Dan Chițoiu (ISVS&UAIC), Constantinos Athanasopoulos (FHEA, UK), Corina Domnari (ISVS&UAIC)
Opening Session
- Mircea Dumitru (Vice-President of the Romanian Academy), Palamas in his own time and now, from a modal metaphysical standpoint (online)
Presented Papers
- John Farina (George Mason University, USA), Gregory Palamas: Experience, Secularization, and Theology (online)
- Frederick Aquino (SMU Perkins School of Theology, USA), Ascetic Formation and the Training of Spiritual Perception in Maximus the Confessor (online)
- Constantinos Athanasopoulos (FHEA, UK), Moore’s wrong conclusions regarding Florovsky’s Logical Relativism
- Fr. Manuel Sumares (Portugal), Kantian antinomies and Palamite synergies: The Inner-Workings of Bulgakov’s Philosophical Theology
- Norman Russell (University of Oxford, UK), Palamite mystical theology and the Church in the last century of Byzantium. A presentation (online)
- Fr. Marian Vild (Bucharest University, Romania), “For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power” (1 Cor. 4:20). Charismatic theology and theological discourse in the thought of St. Gregory Palamas
- Fr. Alexandru Barna (Bucharest University, Romania), Philosophy in the Making of Theology. The Palamite Triads in Defense of Hesychast Fathers
- Dan Chiţoiu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University & ISVS Institute, Romania), Levels of Perception and the Question of Truth in Palamas and Hesychast Tradition
- Victor Niachayeu (Göttingen University, Germany), Hesychasm and the Psychology of Self-Transcendence: Empirical Insights into theosis from Athonite hermits (online)
- Viorel Vizureanu (Bucharest University, Romania), The Role Played by the Palamite Doctrine in the Revival of Christian Life in the Work of Saint Dumitru Stăniloae
- Alessia Brombin (Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Italy), Hesychast Prayer as Transformative Dialogue: Dumitru Stăniloae Integration of Palamite Theology in Social Praxis (online)
- Dimitry I. Makarov (Sociological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia), Gregory Palamas’ Treatise against Gregoras: Problems of Contents and Style (online)
- Ioan Daniel Manolache (Bucharest University, Romania), Latin Elements in the Theology of St. Gregory Palamas: Revisiting a Historical Controversy
- Fr. Ioan Bârgăoanu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania), Spiritual Experience and Discursive Expression in Simeon the New Theologian
- Corina Domnari (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University & ISVS Institute, Romania), Experiential and Knowledge Pathways: Depiction of Relational Self in St. Gregory Palamas
- Andreas P. Zachariou (Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani University, Georgia), The hesychast method of prayer in the teachings of Joseph the Hesychast and Sophrony Sakharov
- Laurențiu Gheorghe (Bucharest University, Romania), Technology and Knowledge of God in concrete circumstances of Life
- Olena Gruba (St Thomas Aquinas Institute of Religious Studies, Ukraine), Silence at the Edge of Language: From Hesychastic Mysticism to Communicative Philosophy
- Chris Ioniță (Bucharest University, Romania), Agency, Ownership, and Selfhood. Epistemological Remarks Regarding Micro-Phenomenology and Theology
- Tudor Avrigeanu (Romanian Academy), “Within the Jurisprudence, we also have to rise with the mind into the heart.” On the Possibility of Legal Hesychasm in the Contemporary South-Eastern Europe
- Claudiu-Dan Simion (Romania), Aristotelian Ethics, Neo-Marxist Ethics and Christian Morality illuminated by the Holy Spirit through His uncreated energies
