Radical Orthodoxy: a Christian Answer to Postmodern Culture

1 - 4 June 2006

Second Annual International Conference Of the Institute of Ecumenical Studies

Ukrainian Catholic University

L'viv, UKRAINE

• Radical Orthodoxy is a theological movement--or better, sensibility--operating across many Christian traditions, in dialogue with other non-Christian traditions, and working alongside other academic disciplines such as politics, economics, the natural sciences, social and cultural theory.
• Composed of Anglican, Catholic and Orthodox theologians, the Radical Orthodoxy group proposes to restore theology as queen of sciences.
• According to Adrian Pabst [See Adrian Pabst, "Perçées et Limites du Mouvement Radical Orthodoxy” – Communication préparée pour le colloque « L'Avenir du monde – les Chrétiens et l'avenir », Collège supérieur, Lyon, 18 et 19 Novembre 2005. ], Radical Orthodoxy indicates a theological approach which aims at recovering and at extending a "fully christianized ontology" by affirming that only a th e ologi cally realistic approach can honour a similar ontology. From the radical-orthodox perspective , such a realistic theology is as opposed to the dialectic s of classics philosophy as it is to modern fondationalism and t o postmodern philosophical trends – centered on difference. Likewise, such a theology must refuse postmodern skepticism (in particular the absence of faith in the visible world) and the ontical fundamentalism which would raise the revealed experiment in to an absolute.  
• Lastly, the ‘Radical-orthodox ' realistic theology objects to negative theology insofar as this one is not simultaneously the assertion of a positum - not positivist but a plenitude which exceeds our capacity of reception , and a negation which invites us with other negation instances in order "to go up towards an apprehension increasingly detailed and m e diatis ed of what was given to us".

• The conference will take place in the Ukrainian Catholic University , located in the centre of L'viv.
• The working languages of the conference are Ukrainian and English.

Chairs of the Conference
Mgr. Dr. Iwan Dacko and Dr. Antoine Arjakovsky

Scientific Secretary of the Conference
Dr. Marie-Aude Tardivo

Institute of Ecumenical Studies
Ukrainian Catholic University
Vul. Ilariona Svientsitskoho, 17
79 011 L'viv
Tel: +38.032.240.99.40 ext 191
E-mail: ies@ucu.edu.ua
http://www.ecumenicalstudies.org.ua/eng/

Friday 02 JUNE

9.15: Registration of participants

9.30 – 12.00 RETURNS TO A RADICAL ORTHODOXY
Chair: Mgr. Hlib Lonchyna – Curial Bishop of the UGCC and Professor at UCU

9.35 Fr. Borys Gudziak, Ph.D. – Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University , L'viv
Welcoming words.

09.45 S.E.R. Mons. Ivan Jurkovic – Nuncio Apostolico, Ph.D.
Radical Orthodoxy: a Christian Answer to Postmodern Culture.

09.55 Mgr. Iwan Dacko – President o f the IES, Ph.D.
Andrej Sheptytsky, Eastern Catholic Churches and Radical Orthodoxy

10.25 – 10.40: Coffee break

10.40 Prof. John Milbank – University of Notthingham – United Kingdom
Paul versus Biopolitics

11.40 – 12.00: Discussion

12.00 – 13.00: Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom

13.15 – 15.00: Lunch

15.00 – 18.15 PHILOSOPHY'S ANSWERS to POSTMODERN CULTURE
Chair: Dr. Taras Dobko – Vice-Rector of UCU – L'viv

15.05 Dr. Konstantin Sigov – Director of the Center of European Humanities Studies
of the National University of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the Spirit and Letter Publishing House
Conceptualizing the Post-Atheist Situation: The Memory of the Martyrs in an Eschatological Perspective

15.35 Dr. Volodymyr Turchynovskyy – Head of the Planning and Development Department, UCU – L'viv
The Majdan vs. Utilitarism: Reflecting on Emerging Moral Patterns in Ukraine

16.05 – 16.35: Coffee break.

16.40 Fr. Epiphany Hnativ, OSBM – Institute of Philosophical-Theological Studies, Brukhovychy - L'viv
The Metaphysics of Emmanuel Levinas in the Postmodern Context

17.10 Alexander Filonenko – Professor at the National University of Kharkov
Jean-Luc Marion's Philosophy of the Gift and Postmodern Culture

17.45 - 18.15: Discussion

Saturday 03 JUNE

9.30 – 12.00 HISTORY'S ANSWERS to POSTMODERN CULTURE
Chair: Olena Dzhedzhora – Acting dean of the Humanities Faculty at UCU

10.05 Sabine Larivé – Director of the Parole et Silence Publishing House – Switzerland
Presentation of Parole et Silence

10.35 – 10.50: Coffee break

10.50 Dr. Antoine Arjakovsky – Director of the IES, UCU – L'viv
On the Issue of a Radical Definition of Orthodoxy

11.20 Fr. Thierry de Roucy – Founder and Director of Points Coeur – France
The Promotion of Personhood in France

11.50 – 12.30: Discussion

12.40 – 14.00: Lunch

14.05 – 18.00 THEOLOGY'S ANSWERS to POSTMODERN CULTURE
Chair: Prof. Mykhailo Petrowycz – Head of the Faculty Theology, UCU – L'viv

14.10 Fr. Michael Plekon – Professor at Baruch College – USA
Living Tradition – Social Theory Working With Theology: The Case Of Fr Sergius Bulgakov

14.40 Brandon Gallaher – Ph.D. candidate at Oxford University, UK
Graced Creatureliness: Ontological Tension in the Uncreated/Created Distinction in the Sophiologies of Solov'ev, Bulgakov and Milbank.

15.10 – 15.40: Coffee break

15.40 Dr. Natalia Syrotynska – Institute of Liturgical Studies, UCU – L'viv
The Interpretation of the Word in Liturgical Books and Problems of Postmodern Philosophy

16.10 Rev. Petro Galadza – Prof. at the Andrey Sheptytsky Institute – Ottawa, Canada
Radical Orthodoxy and Liturgical Enactments of Economic Truth

16.40 – 17.10: Discussion

17.15 – 18.00: Closing of the conference by

His Excellency Mgr. Ihor Vozniak, Archbishop of L'viv, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

His Excellency Mgr. Marian Buczek, Auxiliary bishop of L'viv, Roman Catholic Church

His Excellency Mgr. Andryi Horak, Metropolitan of L'viv and Sokal, Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarcate