Our meeting will begin Wednesday night with a plenary text-seminar addressing issues of Orthodoxy and Culture based on such readings as St. Basil’s “Address,” Fr. Georges Florovsky on "Empire and Desert," and Fr Pavel Florensky on "Christianity and Culture." We will host multiple concurrent sessions, so the options for learning and discussion will be rich and diverse.

 

Deadline for registration is May 17, 2024.

 

See full schedule below or download PDF with abstracts.

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PROGRAM FOR THE SECOND ANNUAL MEETING OF PAIDEIA 

“Orthodoxy and Culture”

MAY 29—JUNE 1, 2024

Antiochian Village, Bolivar, PA

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 29 

3:00 PM

ARRIVAL and ROOM CHECK-IN BEGINS

(Pick up Materials at Front Desk, Upper Chapel Lobby)

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 5:30 to 6:30 PM

DINNER

Cedars Dining Room

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 7:00 to 7:15 PM

WELCOME: BISHOP THOMAS (JOSEPH) OF CHARLESTON AND OAKLAND

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 7:15 to 8:45 PM

PLENARY TEXT SEMINAR: 

FLORENSKY, FLOROVSKY, AND ARCHIMANDRITE VASILEIOS 

ON ORTHODXY AND CULTURE

(Chestnut Auditorium)

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 8:45 to 10:30 PM

RECEPTION

(Upper Chapel Lobby and Patio)

 

THURSDAY, MAY 30

 7:30-8:00 AM

MOLEBEN

In Sts Peter and Paul Chapel, Beneath the Chapel Lobby

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 8:00 to 9:00 AM

BREAKFAST

Cedars Dining Room

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 9:00 to 9:50 AM

FIRST MORNING SESSIONS (Presented Concurrently)

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• Scarlet Oak-Yellow Oak Meeting Room 2:

David Ford, “Some Further Probing of the Mysteries of Male and Female in Marriage and in the Church”

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• Laurel Oak Meeting Room 3: 

Matthew Forrest Long, “The Art of Living: Orthodox Life and Human Well-being”

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• Aspen Pine Meeting Room 4: 

Nate Placencia, “The Philosophy of Race and Orthodox Anthropology”

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10:00 to 10:50 AM

SECOND MORNING SESSIONS (Presented Concurrently)

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• Scarlet Oak-Yellow Oak Meeting Room 2:

Pdn. Brian Patrick Mitchell, “Gender and Ordination: Male and Female as Archic and Eucharistic Modes of Relation”

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• Laurel Oak Meeting Room 3: 

Jesse Cone, “Against ‘The Self’”

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• Aspen Pine Meeting Room 4: 

Mary Ford, “Conversion and Black Swans: The Role of Culture (Especially Literature) in Belief and Loss of Faith”

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11:00 to 11:50 AM

THIRD MORNING SESSIONS (Presented Concurrently)

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• Scarlet Oak-Yellow Oak Meeting Room 2:

Dcn. Sampson Nash, “Identity, Sex, Gender, and Healing: Toward Orthodox Healing of Contemporary Maladies”

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• Laurel Oak Meeting Room 3: 

Sister Sidonia, “The Honeycomb in the Heart: Cultivating Awareness and Communion with God by Calling Upon His Name”

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• Aspen Pine Meeting Room 4: 

Joseph (Rico) Vitz, “A Strategic Eastern Alliance: Non-Ecumenical Reflections on Confucianism, Orthodoxy, and American Culture” 

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 12:00 to 1:00 PM

LUNCH

Cedars Dining Room

 1:30 to 2:20 PM

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FIRST AFTERNOON SESSIONS (Presented Concurrently)

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• Scarlet Oak-Yellow Oak Meeting Room 2:

John Burgess, “Pavel Florensky’s Counsel to His Children in His Prison-Correspondence”

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• Laurel Oak Meeting Room 3: 

Caitlin Gilbert, “Orthodox Education in the Western World: A View from St Constantine Schools”

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• Aspen Pine Meeting Room 4: 

Fr. Alexander Earl, “As Far as East is From the West: Theophanic Realism and Orthodox Culture”

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 2:30 to 3:20 PM

SECOND AFTERNOON SESSIONS (Presented Concurrently)

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• Scarlet Oak-Yellow Oak Meeting Room 2:

Seraphim (Bruce) Foltz, “Florensky and the Need for Christian Culture”

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• Laurel Oak Meeting Room 3: 

Michael Kurian, “Hagia Sophia Still Celebrates: Reflections on the 40th anniversary of Fr. Vasileios’ What is Unique About Orthodox Culture”

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• Aspen Pine Meeting Room 4: 

Jordan Henderson, “The Unity of the Early Church and Orthodox Christian Identity Today”

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4:30 to 5:20 PM

THIRD AFTERNOON SESSIONS (Presented Concurrently)

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• Scarlet Oak-Yellow Oak Meeting Room 2:

Matthew Pietropaoli, "Pavel Florensky on Sacred Art as Revitalizing of Culture"

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• Laurel Oak Meeting Room 3: 

Daniel Buxhoeveden, “A Child Inventing an Adult”

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• Aspen Pine Meeting Room 4: 

David Bradshaw, “Making Human Rights Orthodox”

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5:30 to 6:30 PM

DINNER

Cedars Dining Room

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7:00 to 8:30 PM

PLENARY KEYNOTE ADDRESS: FR THOMAS SOROKA

[Our Current Situation: Present Challenges and Future Opportunities]

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8:45 to 10:30 PM

RECEPTION

(Main Lobby and Patio)

 

FRIDAY, MAY 31

 7:30-8:00 AM

MOLEBEN

In Sts Peter and Paul Chapel, Beneath the Chapel Lobby

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 8:00 to 9:00 AM

BREAKFAST

Cedars Dining Room

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 9:00 to 9:50 AM

FIRST MORNING SESSIONS (Presented Concurrently)

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 • Scarlet Oak-Yellow Oak Meeting Room 2:

Edith Humphrey, “Orthodoxy and ‘The Jews’—Between Scylla and Charybdis”

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 • Laurel Oak Meeting Room 3: 

Timothy Bartel, “Do the Cultural Projects of St. Basil and St. Gregory Agree?”

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 • Aspen Pine Meeting Room 4: 

Fr. Paul (Alfred) Siewers, “Necessary vs Just War in Orthodoxy: Was Ivan Ilyin Right or a Fanatic?”

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 10:00 to 10:50 AM

SECOND MORNING SESSIONS (Presented Concurrently)

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• Scarlet Oak-Yellow Oak Meeting Room 2:

Fr. Bogdan Bucur, “Missing the (Theophanic) Point in Theological Scholarship: Consequences for Understanding Anti-Jewish Texts in Byzantine Festal Hymns”

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• Laurel Oak Meeting Room 3: 

Reyers Brusoe, “Sing A New (Old) Song Unto the Lord: Outreach, Enculturation, and Cultural Formation in American Orthodox Music”

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• Aspen Pine Meeting Room 4: 

Stoyan Tanev, “Orthodox Theology, Quantum Physics, and the Interplay between Theological and Scientific Cultures”

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11:00 to 11:50 AM

THIRD MORNING SESSIONS (Presented Concurrently)

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• Scarlet Oak-Yellow Oak Meeting Room 2:

Chris Humphrey, “Beyond Intellectual Dhimmitude: Orthodoxy in the Holy Land and ‘the Jews"

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• Laurel Oak Meeting Room 3: 

Daniel Padrnos, “Vivifying New World Culture with the Georgian Supra”

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• Aspen Pine Meeting Room 4: 

Metropolitan Jonah (Paffhausen), “The Nous and Spirituality: The Key to Orthodox Spirituality”

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12:00 to 1:00 PM

LUNCH

Cedars Dining Room

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 1:30 to 2:20 PM

FIRST AFTERNOON SESSIONS (Presented Concurrently)

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• Scarlet Oak-Yellow Oak Meeting Room 2:

Fr. Hans Jacobse, “St John Chrysostom on Brotherhood”

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• Laurel Oak Meeting Room 3: 

Justin Gohl, “The ‘Middle Discourse’ of the Book of Proverbs and Its Imitation in the Patristic Heritage: A Canonical and Patristic Model for Cultural Engagement and Translation”

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• Aspen Pine Meeting Room 4: 

Fr. Anthony (Gaelan) Gilbert, “Parish & Culture: Liturgy & Diakonia, Ascesis & Martyria”

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2:30 to 3:20 PM

SECOND AFTERNOON SESSIONS (Presented Concurrently)

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• Scarlet Oak-Yellow Oak Meeting Room 2:

Cyril (Gary) Jenkins, “’’And from the enormities of Origen's heresies, good Lord deliver us!': The Perennial Recrudescence of the Mud and not the Gold of Origen’s Thought”

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• Laurel Oak Meeting Room 3: 

Fr John Schroedel, "God has not Given us the Spirit of Fear."

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• Aspen Pine Meeting Room 4: 

Hieromonk Macarius (Ruegemer), “Monasticism: A School for the Lord’s Service and a Light for Contemporary Culture”

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4:30 to 5:20 PM

THIRD AFTERNOON SESSIONS (Presented Concurrently)

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• Scarlet Oak-Yellow Oak Meeting Room 2:

Fr Demetrius Harper, [On Florovsky and Dogmatic Minimalism]

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• Laurel Oak Meeting Room 3: 

Joel Iliff, “The Corruption of the Communion of Saints”

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• Aspen Pine Meeting Room 4: 

Fr. Ignatius Green, “Athens and Jerusalem: Case Studies in a Complicated Relationship”

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5:30 to 6:30 PM

DINNER

Cedars Dining Room

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 7:00 to 8:30 PM

PLENARY KEYNOTE ADDRESS: FR CHAD HATFIELD

“Post World War II Shifts in Religion and Culture”

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 8:45 to 10:30 PM

RECEPTION

(Main Lobby and Patio)

 

SATURDAY, JUNE 1

8:30 AM

Orthros 

In Sts Peter and Paul Chapel, Beneath the Chapel Lobby

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 9:30 AM

Divine Liturgy 

In Sts Peter and Paul Chapel, Beneath the Chapel Lobby

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11:00 AM

BRUNCH

Cedars Dining Room