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A Symposium June 18-20, 2012
From the persecution of Diocletian to the Second Vatican Council and beyond, Christians have struggled with the question of their relationship with the temporal community in which they live. For a thousand years, the Church found herself in a position where she was ‘identified with the whole of organized society’. The terms under which this union was entered, and the aftershocks of its dissolution are among the central themes of Western thought and Western history.
Scholars from across the globe will gather in Trumau, Austria at the International Theological Institute in June 2012 to debate the central issues raised by ‘The Idea of Christendom’, each contributing a perspective taken from his particular area of expertise.
Fr. Thomas Crean O.P.
Maritain, Journet and the New Christendom
Curriculum Vitae
Fr. Thomas Crean is a priest of the English Dominican Province. He is assistant parish priest at the Priory of the Holy Cross Leicester and teaches for the Maryvale Institute in Birmingham, England. He is the author of God is No Delusion: A Refutation of Richard Dawkins (San Francisco: Ignatius 2007), The Mass and the Saints (San Francisco: Ignatius 2009), and Letters to a Non-Believer (Oxford: Family Publications, 2009).
Dr. Patrick Nold
The Papal Plenitude of Power
Curriculum Vitae
Patrick Nold is Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York, Albany. He is the author of Pope John XXII and his Franciscan Cardinal: Bertrand de la Tour and the Apostolic Poverty Controversy (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003) and Marriage Advice for a Pope: John XXII and the Power to Dissolve (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2009). Professor Nold has previously taught at Oxford University and the University of Michigan, and has been a fellow at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. He is at present researching the theory of the Papal Plenitude of Power in authors of the fourteenth century.
Dr. Alexander O’Hara
"Monastic Elites and the Concept of Western Christendom in the Early Middle Ages"
Curriculum Vitae
Alexander O’Hara is Junior Research Fellow at the Mediaeval Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. He took his PhD and MA in Mediaeval History from the University of St Andrews and the MSt from the University of Oxford. His doctoral research concerned Jonas of Bobbio’s Vita Columbani and he is currently working on the cult of St Colman.
Dr. Thomas Pink
Church and State in the Counter Reformation
Curriculum Vitae
Thomas Pink is Professor of Philosophy at Kings College, London. He is the author of Free Will: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: OUP, 2004) and The Psychology of Freedom (Cambridge: CUP, 1996). He has previously taught at Cambridge and Sheffield Universities and is currently working on ethics and on legal and political philosophy, with reference both to modern theory and to the seventeenth century. He is preparing an edition of moral and political works by Francisco Suarez and of The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity and Chance for the Clarendon edition of the works of Thomas Hobbes.
Dr Judith Ryder
'The Unity of Christendom - a view from fourteenth-century Byzantium'
Dr Ryder is research fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University. She is the author of "The Career and Writings of Demetrius Kydones" (Brill, 2010) and the editor of Liverpool University Press'
forthcoming series of Translated Texts for Byzantinists.
Fr. Johannes Schwarz
The Kingship of Christ
Curriculum Vitae
Fr. Johannes Schwarz is a priest of the Archdiocese of Vaduz and Visiting Professor at the International Theological Institute in Trumau, Austria. His doctoral and licentiate research at the University of Lugano concerned the doctrine of Limbo and of the Kingship of Christ.
Fr. Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist.
Empire and Providence in Virgil, Augustine and Dante
Curriculum Vitae
Fr. Edmund Waldstein is a Priest of the Cistercian Abbey of Heilgenkreuz ordained in 2011. He is holds a BA from Thomas Aquinas College in California and a Master Theology of the Hochschule of Heilgenkreuz and is pursuing Doctoral studies at the University of Vienna. |
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