Polin-dag 3.2.2025 The Council of Nicaea and Christianity in the East: Ancient Reception and Modern Ecumenism

Vårens Polin-dag ordnas den 3.2.2025 kl. 9.30-17.00. Temat är The Council of Nicaea and Christianity in the East: Ancient Reception and Modern Ecumenism. Möjlighet att delta via Zoom, https://aboakademi.zoom.us/j/69015444336 (Meeting ID: 690 1544 4336).

Kl. 18 är det middag på Rioni. Middagen är till självkostnadspris.  

Se här för vårt programblad (på engelska).

Program

09:30 – 10:00 Opening of the Polin Day

10:00 – 10:45 Topias Tanskanen: Aphrahat and Nicaea: Review of Research

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:00 Serafim Seppälä: Nicene Themes with un-Greek Instruments? Ephrem the Syrian

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch at Grädda

13:30 – 14:15 Maros Nicak: East Syriac Christology in the Poetic Form of a Fictional Dialogue Between Cyril of Alexandria and Nestorius of Constantinople

14:15 – 15:00 Grant White: Christology in the Anaphoras of the Ge’ez Tradition: The State of the Question

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:00 Jouko N. Martikainen: Did Christ See Corruption? Acts 2:27 (presentation på svenska)

16:00 – 16:45 Emil Anton: Modern Ecumenism between Chalcedonian and Non-Chalcedonian Churches

16:45 – 17:00 Conclusion

18:00 Dinner

Polin-institutet bjuder på lunch men middagen är till självkostnadspris. Polin-middagen äger rum på restaurant Rioni, Eriksgatan 8, andra våningen, kl. 18.00.

Lunchen och middagen är öppen för alla men kräver en förhandsanmälan senast 26.1 via denna länk. Meddela i samband med anmälningen om eventuella matrestriktioner.

Topias K. E. Tanskanen is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Exegetics in the Polin Institute at Åbo Akademi University and expert in early Jewish reception history of the Bible. He has studied Old Testament Exegetics and Jewish Studies at Åbo Akademi University, where he earned his ThD in 2023, and Hebrew and Semitic philology at University of Helsinki. He currently investigates the biblical interpretation of Aphrahat as a collaborator in the project ”Isaiah between Judeo-Christian Borderlines” funded by the Academy of Finland and the Polin Institute.

Serafim Seppälä is a professor of systematic theology and patristics at the University of Eastern Finland since 2007. He studied comparative Semitic linguistics and Islamic studies at the University of Helsinki, where he earned his PhD in 2002. Following several years at the Monastery of New Valaam, he pursued an academic career but continues to serve as an archimandrite in the Orthodox Church of Finland. His research interests span a wide range of topics in early Eastern Christian literature, including Byzantine aesthetics, Syriac and Greek ascetic and mystical theology, the interaction between Judaism and Eastern Christianity in late antiquity, the encounter between early Islam and Christianity in the Middle East, and the cultural heritage of the Armenian genocide.

Maros Nicak works as vice dean at the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Faculty (Comenius University Bratislava). Maros did his doctorate in the field of oriental church history at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen and Post-Doc in Salzburg, Åbo (2x) and Uppsala. Within the ENLIGHT project, he is responsible for WP5 (Outreach). Founder of the Regional Academy of Comenius University.

Grant White is a Senior Lecturer in Eastern Christian Studies at University College Stockholm and Sankt Ignatios College, Stockholm, where he teaches liturgical studies. He has taught liturgy, patristics, and church history at institutions of theological higher education in the United States, Finland, England, and Sweden, including St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. He has also served as Principal of the Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge, England.

Jouko N. Martikainen is professor emeritus of Church History, especially Syriac Church History, at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany, where he worked between 1984–2001. He is also alumnus of Åbo Akademi University where he earned his doctoral degree in 1978.

Dr. Emil Anton (born 1986) is a Finnish-Iraqi Catholic theologian and author.

Har du frågor? Kontakta Topias Tanskanen topias.tanskanen@abo.fi.