Daily program
Bose, 5 - 8 September 2012
Man - custodian of creation
XX International Ecumenical Conference
in collaboration with the Orthodox Churches
How can this great spiritual wealth be translated today into an ethics of creation?
XX International Ecumenical Conference
on Orthodox spirituality
Bose, Wednesday, 5 September – Saturday 8 September 2012
in collaboration with the Orthodox Churches
Wednesday 5 September
9:00 am
Opening. Greetings of the Delegations
The Safeguard of Creation
ENZO BIANCHI, Prior of Bose
Priests of Creation:
the Service of the Ecumenical Patriarchate
for the protection of Creation
? IOANNIS OF PERGAMON
3:30 am
The Church and Ecological Problems
? AMVROSIJ OF GAT?INA, Saint Petersburg
Nature, Wounded and Healed,
in Early Patristic Thought
JOHN BEHR, New York
Thursday 6 September
9:00 am
«The Book of Creation»:
Nature according to the Syriac Fathers
NESTOR KAVVADAS, Tübingen
Some Reflections on Maximus the Confessor's
Christological Approach to Man and Creation
ASSAAD ELIAS KATTAN, Münster
Contemplation of Nature, Gardens of the Soul
and Flowery Meadows in Byzantine Mysticism
ANTONIO RIGO, Venice
3:30 pm
Round Table: Monasticism and creation
Chair: ? ANDREJ OF REMESIANA, Belgrade
Monastic Space and the Transfiguration of the Environment:
the Solovki Monastery and the Lessons of the North Russian Saints
PORFIRIJ ŠUTOV, Solovki
MITROFAN BADANIN, VarzugaMonastic Space and
the Transformation of the Environment:
the Cistercian Experience
ESTHER DE WAAL, Rowlestone, HerefordshireAscetics and the Natural Environment
in the Byzantine Monastic tradition
DIMITRIOS MOSCHOS, Athens
Friday 7 September
9:00 am
Creation in the Orthodox Liturgy
JOB GETCHA, Paris
Creation and Universal Salvation
in the Eschatology of Fr Sergius Bulgakov
PAVEL L. GAVRILYUK, Saint Paul, MN
Paradise on Earth: iconography of Creation
in Sixteenth Century Moldavia
ANCA VASILIU, Paris
3:30 pm
Round Table: Man and the Ethics of Creation
Chair: KOSTANTIN SIGOV, Kiev
Asceticism: an Ancient Resource
for a New World
? SERAPHIM OF GERMANY, NürnbergCreation Ethics
in Contemporary Orthodox Theology
ELISABETH THEOKRITOFF, Mount Tabor, NJCreation from a Scientific Point of View
ANTOINE COURBAN, Beyrouth
9:30 am
The Eucharist and Creation
? ANTONIJ DI BORYSPIL’, Kiev
How to speak today about Creation?
JOHN CHRYSSAVGIS, Boston
Conclusions of the Conference
MICHEL VAN PARYS, Chevetogne