Western Pacific Rim Patristics Society Inaugural Conference Programme:
Patristic Exegesis and Hermeneutics The University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo
(4-3-1, Hiroo, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
25-26 September, 2004
SATURDAY, 25 SEPTEMBER
9.00 Registration
9.30-10:40 Opening Ceremony: Book Launch & Keynote Lecture (Miyashiro Hall)
Address: Prof Pauline Allen, Australian Catholic University, President of AIEP/IAPS
Keynote Lecture: Newness and Tradition in the Christian Reception of the Bible (KANNENGIESSER, Charles) (Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame)
10:40-11:20 Morning Tea (Marian Hall 1F Green Parlor)
11:20-12:20 General meeting (Miyashiro Hall)
Chair: Dr Geoffrey D. Dunn (Australian Catholic University)
Reporters: Prof Shinro Kato and Delegates of Research Groups and Projects
12:20-13:30 Lunch (Marian Hall Green Parlor)
13:30-15:00 Session 1 (Parallels 1A and 1B)
1A Augustine and the Bible (Miyashiro Hall)
  Donatist Identity and the Liber Genealogus (DEARN, Alan)
  The Bible at the Beginning of the Pelagian Controversy (DUNPHY, Walter)
  Augustine on Christian Justification of Violence (OGINO, Hiroyuki)
1B Origen and the Bible (Marion Hall Blue Parlor)
  On Origen's Biblical Interpretation (DEMURA, Miyako)
  Sophia, Gnosis and Christology in Evagrius Ponticus (SUZUKI, Jun)
  What was the Philokalia of Origen? (McLYNN, Neil)
15:00-15:30 Afternoon Tea (Marion Hall Green Parlor)
15:30-16:30 Session 2 (Parallels 2A and 2B)
2A Augustine's Exegesis (Miyashiro Hall)
  Scriptural Exegesis in Augustine's de Doctrina Christiana (NEIL, Bronwen)
  Augustine's Citation of Song of Songs in Confessions (KATO, Takeshi)
2B John Chrysostom (Marian Hall Blue Parlor)
  A Quest for the Origin of the Divine Condescension as the Key to Biblical Interpretation (MUTO, Shinichi)
  Chyrosostom Research in Australia (MAYER, Wendy)
17:00-18:00 Evening Concert (University Chapel)
Gregorian Chants and the Tenrei-Sheika (Japanese Liturgical Songs) presented by the Institute for the Research of the Christian Culture at the University of the Sacred Heart Tokyo
19:00-21:00 Conference Dinner (University Dining Hall)
SUNDAY, 26 SEPTEMBER
9:30-10:30 Session 3 (Parallels 3A, 3B and 3C)
3A Augustine's Exegesis and Spirituality (Miyashiro Hall)
  Augustine's First Exegesis and the Ascents of the Soul (KAMIMURA, Naoki)
  Augustine and the Purity of Heart (DEMURA, Kazuhiko)
  Augustine's Reflection on the Centrality of the Counsel of Compassion Consilum misericordiae in the Frame of the Christian Spiritual Life (BRIGHT, Pamela)
3B Greek Fathers and Byzantine Spirituality (Marian Hall Blue Parlor)
  Irenaeus as a Contemporary Theologian (CASEY, Damien)
  The Study of the Sacred Page as the Soul of Theology (cf. DV 24) in the Light of St. Cyril of Alexandria's Exegesis of Ps 94:11 (HIRSCHAUER, Emmanuel)
  Metaphor or Experience? "Warmth of Heart" in the Spirituality of Bzyantine Monasticism (HISAMATSU, Eiji)
3C Tertullian and Christianity in Africa (Marian Hall Green Parlor)
  Tertullian and the Christian Canon of Marcion (TSUDA, Kenji)
  Tertullian's Scriptural Exegesis in de Praescriptione Haereticorum (DUNN, Geoffrey D.)
  St. Augustine and his Donatist Protagonists: The long legacy of cultural and religious tention in the Christian Church of Numidia (TELLILI, Rhalys)
10:30-11:00 Morning Tea (Marian Hall Green Parlor)
11:00-12:30 Session 4 (Parallels 4A and 4B)
4A Christian and Ancient Philosophy and Literature (Miyashiro Hall)
  Apuleius' Peri Hermeneias and Augustine's De Dialectica (MIZUOCHI, Kenji)
  A Syrian Christian Perspective on the Supernatural (TRZCIONKA, Silke)
  Gregory of Nyssa's Negative Theology (O'LEARY, Joseph S.)
4B Amrose of Milan (Marian Hall Blue Parlor)
  Ambrose and Exegesis: A Marian Case Study (POWER, Kim)
  Ambrose and Daily Prayer in the Cathedral (NISHIWAKI, Jun)
  Augustine Standing between Ambrose and Jerome (MORI, Yasuo)
12:30-13:40 Lunch (Marian Hall Green Parlor)
13:40-14:40 Session 5 (Plenary)
5 Augustiniana (Miyashiro Hall)
  The Mariology of Augustine in the Letters (ALLEN, Pauline)
  Augustine's cogito in de Trinitate (KATAYANAGI, Eiichi)
14:45-15:15 Valete Session (Miyashiro Hall)
15:30 Departure for Cultural Experience of Tokyo (optional)

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