PROGRAM
Days: Tuesday, September 22nd Wednesday, September 23rd
Tuesday, September 22nd
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09:00-10:15 Session 1: Keynote speech
Chair:
Jakub Prus (Ignatianum University in Cracow, Poland)
Location: Room B101
| 09:00 | The Philosophy of Liberal Christianity (abstract) |
10:15-10:45Coffee Break
10:45-12:45 Session 2A: Metaphysical Foundations and Relational Anthropology
Chair:
William Woody (Boston College, United States)
Location: Room B101
| 10:45 | The Plurality and Unity of Embodied Life. Michel Henry’s Philosophy of Religion and Its Paradoxes (abstract) |
| 11:10 | Christian Metaphysics in the Context of Science Reformation in Early Modernity (abstract) |
| 11:35 | Christian Yearning in Post-Christian Times. Nostalgia as a Theme in Modern Christian Philosophy (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Cordial Mimesis: A Post-Christian Moral Anthropology in Dialogue with René Girard and Adela Cortina (abstract) |
10:45-12:45 Session 2B: Christian Philosophy in Dialogue with Modernity
Chair:
Lubos Rojka (Gregorian University, Italy)
Location: Room B103
| 10:45 | The Attitude of Opposition as Participation in God in Karol Wojtyla’s Philosophy (abstract) |
| 11:10 | Pietro Prini's Semantic Ontology – a Response to the Submerged Schism in the Catholic Church (abstract) |
| 11:35 | Philosophy of God and Approaches to the Post-Christian Era (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Christian Philosophy in the Face of Anti-Christian Ideologies According to Józef Pastuszka (abstract) |
10:45-12:45 Session 2C: Post-Christian Ideologies and the Crisis of the Person
Chair:
Andrzej Skupień (Ignatianum University in Cracow, Poland)
Location: Room B105
| 10:45 | Post-Christianity and the Scientistic Occultation of the Person (abstract) |
| 11:10 | From Eschatology to Existential Risk – Genealogy and Critique of Longtermism as a Post-Christian Secular Religion (abstract) |
| 11:35 | Anachristinity – Post-Christian Hermeneutics of Religion (abstract) |
| 12:00 | A Christian Worldview? The Constant Evolving and Devolving Nature of Christianity and Its Consequences for Embodiment (abstract) |
13:00-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-15:15 Session 3: Keynote speech
Chair:
Carl Humphries (Ignatianum University in Cracow, Poland)
Location: Room B101
| 14:00 | Postmodern, Post-Human, Post-Christian: In Search of a Magnifica Transhumanitas (abstract) |
15:15-15:30Coffee Break
15:30-17:30 Session 4A: Secularism, Ontotheology, and Critical Engagement
Chair:
Jarosław Kucharski (Ignatianum University in Cracow, Poland)
Location: Room B101
| 15:30 | Secularism as the Dominant Worldview: William Connolly in Dialogue With Charles Taylor and Talal Asad on the Pluralism of Worldviews (abstract) |
| 15:55 | Ferdinand Ulrich's Response to a Critique of Ontotheology (abstract) |
| 16:20 | Beyond Disengagement (abstract) |
| 16:45 | Christian Modernism’s Critical Philosophy (abstract) |
15:30-17:30 Session 4B: Time, Eternity, and the Metaphysics of Transcendence
Chair:
Anna Varga-Jani (Makovecz Campus Foundation, Collegium Professorum Hungarorum, Hungary)
Location: Room B103
| 15:30 | Resolving the Puzzle of Time’s Arrow (abstract) |
| 15:55 | Divine Eternity, Cosmic Time, and the Post-Christian Metaphysics of Time (abstract) |
| 16:20 | Is God a Moral Agent? Cognitive Roots of the Problem of Evil and a Challenge to Classical Theists (abstract) |
| 16:45 | Dignity, Rank and Transcendence (abstract) |
15:30-17:30 Session 4C: Technology, Personhood, and the Boundaries of Love
Chair:
Zyra Lentija (University of Asia and the Pacific, Philippines)
Location: Room B105
| 15:30 | Speaking to God in the Post-Christian Era: The Greatness and Misery of AI Chatbots (abstract) |
| 15:55 | Filial Anthropology as a Superior Anthropology: Reconstructing Jean Lafitte’s Proposal Against Technocratic Reason (abstract) |
| 16:20 | Can We Love AI and Can AI Love Us? Christian Perspectives on Agape and Relational Boundaries in the Age of AI (abstract) |
17:30-18:00Coffee Break
18:00-20:00 Session 5: Keynote panel discussion
Keynote panel discussion In attendance: Jeffrey Bloechl, Chantal Delsol, Piotr Gutowski.
Chair:
Carl Humphries (Ignatianum University in Cracow, Poland)
Location: Room B101
Wednesday, September 23rd
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09:00-10:15 Session 6: Keynote speech
Chair:
Carl Humphries (Ignatianum University in Cracow, Poland)
Location: Room B101
| 09:00 | The Post-Christian Age: A Sacralized Humanism (abstract) |
10:15-10:45Coffee Break
10:45-12:45 Session 7A: Phenomenology, Mysticism, and Existential Attitude
Chair:
Bosco Corrales (UCV, Spain)
Location: Room B101
| 10:45 | Italian Phenomenology in Relation to the Phenomenon of Secularization/Desacralization (abstract) |
| 11:10 | Transition or Overlapping: Christian Mystical Insights in Edith Stein and Simone Weil (abstract) |
| 11:35 | On the Difference Between the Christian Ideal and the Christian and Post-Christian Worldviews on the Basis of Kierkegaard’s Existential Anthropology (abstract) |
| 12:00 | Diachronic Individualism as a Bridge Between Secular and Religious Axiological Paradigms: The Contemporary Relevance of Herman Schmalenbach (abstract) |
10:45-12:45 Session 7B: Evangelization, Ecology, and the Renewal of Christian Thought
Chair:
Robert Van Alstyne (Boston College, United States)
Location: Room B103
| 10:45 | Translating the Kergyma: Ever Ancient, Ever New (abstract) |
| 11:10 | Environmentalism and Theological Reflection on Creation. The Influence of Environmental Movements on the Understanding of Christian Identity in the Created World (abstract) |
| 11:35 | Beyond the Fall: Rethinking Original Sin in a Post-Christian Context (abstract) |
| 12:00 | The Scandal of the Cross and the Reasons of the Heart (abstract) |
10:45-12:45 Session 7C: Christian Identity, Politics, and Social Engagement
Chair:
Andrzej Karpinski (University of Oxford, UK)
Location: Room B105
| 10:45 | Christian Ecology and Malabar Migration: A Critical Analysis of Malabar Migration Based on Christian Ecological Concepts (abstract) |
| 11:10 | Christianity, Post-Christianity, and the Politics of Identity: Ideological Transitions in Contemporary Georgian Society (abstract) |
| 11:35 | The Crisis of Witness: When Christian Political Engagement Adopts Post‑Christian Means (abstract) |
| 12:00 | The Way We Speak, the Way We Act — May ’68 and Mysticism in a Post-Christian World (abstract) |
13:00-14:00Lunch Break
14:00-15:15 Session 8: Keynote speech
Chair:
Carl Humphries (Ignatianum University in Cracow, Poland)
Location: Room B101
| 14:00 | The Precarity of Faith and the Possibility of its Demise. Existential Considerations (abstract) |
15:15-15:30Coffee Break
15:30-17:30 Session 9A: Ethics, Morality, and the Quest for Just Peace
Chair:
Eléonore de Noüel (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, France)
Location: Room B101
| 15:30 | Christian Ethics in the Context of the Scientific Image of the World (abstract) PRESENTER: Piotr Duchliński |
| 15:55 | Consolation and Moral Intelligibility: Boethius, MacIntyre, and the Retrieval of Christian Moral Logic (abstract) |
| 16:20 | Bioethics After Christianity? Engelhardt’s Moral Strangers and the Crisis of Moral Unity in a Post-Christian World (abstract) |
| 16:45 | Just Peace as a Divine Gift and a Moral Task for Humanity (abstract) |
15:30-17:30 Session 9B: Eschatology, Spirituality, and the Post-Christian Horizon
Chair:
Marcin Bartkowski (Independent Researcher, Poland)
Location: Room B103
| 15:30 | Between Nihilism and Hope: The Rationality of Naturalistic Eschatology in a Post-Christian World (abstract) |
| 15:55 | Mindfulness Meditation as a Paradigmatic Form of Postmodern and Post-Christian Religiosity (abstract) |
| 16:20 | The Pluralization of Eschatology in the Post-Christian Condition. A Philosophical Reassessment of the Christian Perspective (abstract) |
| 16:45 | “Fides quaerens intellectum” in the Light of Neurotheology (abstract) |
15:30-17:30 Session 9C: Patristic Wisdom and Contemporary Spiritual Identity
Chair:
Daniel Spencer (University of St Andrews, UK)
Location: Room B105
| 15:30 | The Identity of Contemporary Man in the Thought of Father Seraphim Rose (abstract) |
| 15:55 | The Faces of Christian Philosophy in Late Antiquity: The Example of Synesius of Cyrene (abstract) |
| 16:20 | Elder Dionisie Ignat From Colciu (Athos) – Perspective Over the Post-Christian World (abstract) |
| 16:45 | Semantic Normativity, Oppression, Authority of the Teacher: Porphyry, Foucault, Augustine and the Origin of Truth (abstract) |
17:30-18:00Coffee Break
18:00-19:15 Session 10: Keynote speech
Chair:
Jakub Prus (Ignatianum University in Cracow, Poland)
Location: Room B101
| 18:00 | Does the Post-theistic View of Human Rights Make Sense? (abstract) |