St.

Andrews
Biblical Theological Institute
MONASTERY OF BOSE
(Moscow, Russia) (Magnano, Italy)










INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

THEOLOGY OF COMMUNION

20-23 October 2014
Bose, Italy


Programme

Monday, 20 October


17.30-18.00 Registration of participants
18.30-19.00 Evening prayer

19.00 Dinner

20.00 Opening of the Conference
Alexei Bodrov (St. Andrews Biblical Theological Institute)
Adalberto Mainardi (Monastery of Bose)
20.30-21.00 Ioann Sviridov. Is a New Way to Christian Unity Possible in the Light of a Theology of
Communion?
21.00-21.30 Andriy Dudchenko. Liturgy as Communion in Theory and Practice
Tuesday, 21 October

07.00 Breakfast

08.45-09.30 Dagmar Heller. 'Koinonia' and the Search for Unity among the Churches
09.30-10.00 Thomas Pott. Back to the Sources of Communion: Do We Need to Reform our Liturgy,
Theology and Piety or Our Conception of Being in the World?

10.00-10.30 Coffee break

10.30-11.00 Adalberto Mainardi. Some Remarks about Theology of Communion in the Catholic
Church after Council Vatican II
11.00-11.30 Edward Mahoney. Solidarity: An Act of Communion in Catholic Social Teaching
11.30-12.00 Matthias Wirz. Communion through Conversion: The Ecumenical Research of the
Groupe des Dombes

12.30-13.00 Midday prayer

13.00 Lunch

14.30-15.00 Theresia Hainthaler. Elements for Restoration of Inter-Church Communion: An
Analysis of the Christological Declarations of Eastern Churches
15.00-15.30 Stanislau Paulau. Historicising Interfaith Experiences of Communion and
Estrangement: Orthodox Priests, Oromo Wizards and German Missionaries on the
Margins of the Ethiopian Empire (19281936)
15.30-16.00 Martin Ravn. The Trinity in Martin Luthers Sacramental Theology

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.00 Andrey Shirin. Entrepreneurial Christianity: How Consumerism Distorts the Nature of
Christian Communion
17.00-18.00 Round table discussion: Moderator Frans Bouwen. How Is the Koinonia/Communion
Lived in Our Churches, in Their Life and Their Dialogues?

18.30-19.00 Evening prayer

19.00 Dinner


Wednesday, 22 October

07.00 Breakfast

08.45-09.30 Paul Fiddes. Communion in and for the World: a Theological Critique of the Third
Part of The Nature and Mission of the Church (WCC Faith and Order Paper 198)
09.30-10.00 Daniel Buda. Is There a Theology of Communion in the Document The Church
Towards a Common Vision

10.00-10.30 Coffee break

10.30-11.00 Svetlana Konacheva. Ontological Questions in the Theology of Communion
11.00-11.30 Teresa Obolevitch. The Philosophical Foundations of the Ecumenical Project of
Vladimir Soloviev
11.30-12.00 Simonetta Salvestroni. Dostoevsky and the Theological Turning-Points in Our Century

12.30-13.00 Midday prayer

13.00 Lunch

17.00-17.30 Andrei Desnitsky. From Terms to Metaphors: in Search for a Cross-Confessional
Language
17.30-18.00 Grigory Gutner. Christian and Non-Christian Discourses: Forms of Communication
18.00-18.10 Conclusion of the Conference

18.30-19.00 Evening prayer

19.00 Dinner


Thursday, 23 October


07.00 Breakfast

Departures

Participants

Dr. Alexei BODROV (abodrov@standrews.ru)
Rector of St. Andrews Biblical Theological Institute, Moscow

Archpriest Dr. Daniel BUDA (Daniel.Buda@wcc-coe.org)
Faith and Order, WCC (Geneva, Switzerland)

Dr. Andrei DESNITSKY (ailoyros@gmail.com)
Institute for Bible Translation (Moscow, Russia)

Rev. Andriy DUDCHENKO (a.dudchenko@gmail.com)
(Kyiv, Ukraine)

Rev. Frans BOUWEN (frbouwen@steanne.org)
(Jerusalem, Israel)

Revd Canon Professor Paul S. FIDDES (paul.fiddes@regents.ox.ac.uk)
Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Oxford; Director of Research, Regent's Park College, Oxford (UK)

Marion Downing FIDDES

Dr. Grigory GUTNER (goutner@yandex.ru)
Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia)

Prof. Dr. Theresia HAINTHALER (hainthal@sankt-georgen.de)
Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen (Frankfurt/Main, Germany)

Rev. Dr. Dagmar HELLER (Dagmar.Heller@wcc-coe.org)
Academic Dean and lecturer for Ecumenical Theology at the Ecumenical Institute Bossey; Executive Secretary for Faith
& Order, WCC (Geneva, Switzerland)

Dr. Svetlana KONACHEVA (konacheva@mail.ru)
Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow

Dr. Edward MAHONEY (emahoney@smcvt.edu)
Professor, Religious Studies Department; Director, Center for Faith and Culture, Saint Michael's College (Colchester,
Vermont, USA)

Adalberto MAINARDI (adalberto.mainardi@monasterodibose.it)
Monastery of Bose, Magnano, Italy

Dr. Teresa OBOLEVITCH (tereza.obolevich@upjp2.edu.pl)
Pontifical University of John Paul II (Cracow, Poland)

Stanislau PAULAU (stanislau.paulau@theologie.uni-goettingen.de)
(Minsk, Belarus); Georg-August-Universitt (Gttingen, Germany)

Rev. Dr. Thomas POTT (pott@monasterechevetogne.com)
Monastre de Chevetogne (Belgium); Oriental Institute, Sant'Anselmo and Gregorian University (Rome, Italy)

Martin RAVN (mra@teol.ku.dk)
Faculty of Theology, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

Simonetta SALVESTRONI (simsalvestroni@tiscali.it)
Professor of Cinema History and Criticism, University of Cagliari (Italy)

Dr. Andrey SHIRIN (ashirin@leland.edu)
Assistant Professor of Divinity, John Leland Center for Theological Studies (Arlington, Virginia, USA)

Archpriest Ioann SVIRIDOV (sviridov51@bk.ru)
(Moscow, Russia)

Mikhail TOLSTOLUZHENKO (standrews@yandex.ru)
St. Andrews Biblical Theological Institute, Moscow

Matthias WIRZ
Monastery of Bose, Magnano, Italy