Deification Through the Cross: An Ecumenical Symposium on Christian Salvation

Angelicum, Aula Minor and Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway

Language: English

Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant theologians will offer contributions to our understanding of the Christian doctrine of salvation on the basis of their own work and in dialogue with K. Anatolios’s recently published Deification through the Cross. An Eastern Christian Theology of Salvation (Eerdmans, 2020).

Schedule

Friday, 25 February | Angelicum – Aula Minor

11:45 AM – 12:00 PM | Opening Remarks

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM   | Deification and the Divine Image
Rowan Williams (Archbishop Emeritus of Canterbury & Cambridge University)

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM     | Response or Remedy? A Reflection on the Role of Contrition in the Economy of Salvation in Dialogue with Khaled Anatolios
Ian McFarland (Emory University)

4:15 PM – 5:15 PM     | The Atonement as Revelation of the Trinity: A Thomistic Perspective
Thomas Joseph White, O.P. (Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas)

Saturday, 26 February | University of Notre Dame Rome Gateway

11:45 AM – 12:00 AM |  Announcements

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM   | Doxological Contrition and Patristic Epistemology: The Power of Syntaxis
Giulio Maspero (Pontifical University of the Holy Cross)

3:00 PM – 4:00 PM      | ‘For this reason the Father loves me’: Drawing Divinity into Himself to Minister Divinity to Us
John Behr (University of Aberdeen)

4:15 PM – 5:15 PM      | Panel Discussion: Doxological Contrition and the Ecumenical Unity of the Doctrine of Christian Salvation (In-Person Only)
Khaled Anatolios (University of Notre Dame)

5:15 PM – 5:30 PM      | Closing Remarks

If you are unable to join us in person for this event, you can join us via Zoom. This conference will not be live-streamed on YouTube or Facebook, nor will it be recorded and poster online later, so if you want to participate remotely, please register so that you receive a Zoom link.

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