Eighth Maynooth Patristic Conference (2012)

TE EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL MAYNOOTH PATRISTIC CONFERENCE 2012 on

The Beauty of the Presence of God
in the Fathers of the Church

11 - 13 October 2012

Eirini Artemi (Athens):
The Presence of God in the interpretation of the Psalms by Cyril of Alexandria.

Peter Brooke (Wales):
The seventh ecumenical council, the council of Frankfurt, and the art of painting.

Miguel Brugarolas (Navarra, Spain):
The contemplation of the divine beauty and spiritual ‘sense of presence’ of God.
Gregory of Nyssa’s Commentary on Ct 5:2

Finbarr Clancy (Dublin):
The ‘pearl of great beauty’ and the mysteries of faith.

Susan Cremin (Cork):
St John and the Bosom of the Lord: patristic and insular tradition.

Juliette Day (Helsinki):
(desert asceticism)

David Greenwood (Edinburgh):
Constantine’s celebration of the beauty of God’s presence at Mamre, Bethlehem and Jerusalem.

Catherine Kavanagh (Limerick):
Causality in Maximus and Eriugena.

Ilaria Ramelli (Milan):
Beauty and the Good in Gregory of Nyssa in relation to the notions of harmony and unity.

Janet Rutherford (Dublin):
‘The light of your countenance is printed on me’.
Prayer as sacrament in the Alexandrian tradition

Andrew Smith (Dublin):
(Plotinus)

Marcin Wyzocki (Lublin):
The presence of God in the martyrs in the writings of Turtullian and Cyprian.

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Dr Janet Rutherford
Hon. Secretary
Email: janetrutherford@me.com