Research project and scientific committee

IX International Liturgical Conference
ARS LITURGICA
Art at the service of the Liturgy
Bose, 2-4 June 2011
Monastery of Bose
National Office for the Cultural Heritage of the Church — Italian Bishops’ Conference

RESEARCH AND SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

The relation of the Church with the arts has for long been a subject of debate. In Europe and elsewhere efforts are being made to improve that relation, the interruption of which Pal VI lamented in his famous discourse of 1964. This was recalled by pope Benedict XVI in his meeting with artists on 21 November 2009, where he too unerscored how the Church needs the arts. The 9th International Liturgical Conference of Bose intends to deal with the real tension that exists between the request of autonomy of art and its assumption into the Church’s service.

 Scientific committee:  Enzo Bianchi (Bose), Stefano Russo (Rome), Goffredo Boselli (Bose), Frédéric Debuyst (Louvain-la-Neuve), Paul de Clerck (Brussels), Albert Gerhards (Bonn), Angelo Lameri (Rome), Keith Pecklers (New York-Rome), Giancarlo Santi (Milan).