International Conference on Theological Aesthetics

 “Beauty of all things beautiful”:

Theology and the Arts

May 19-23, 2004

St. Bonaventure University, NY

Wednesday, May 19

 5-6PM

President’s Welcome

Keynote address: “The Beauty of the Cross”

Richard Viladesau, Fordham University

7PM

Dinner and reception

Thursday, May 20

Breakfast

Part I. Theological Aesthetics

1. Philosophical Presuppositions

9-10AM

“The Retrieval of Mimesis in Gadamer’s Philosophy of Art”

Daniel Tate, St. Bonaventure, NY

Coffee break

10:15-11:15AM

“Theological Reflections on Aesthetics in Science”

Anne Foerst, St. Bonaventure, NY

“Parabolic Judgment: Disciplines of Listening and the Aesthetic/Ethical Expansion of the Christian Imagination”

Jim Fodor, St. Bonaventure

coffee break

11:30-12:30PM

Discussion

Lunch

2. Theological Aesthetics of H.U. von Balthasar

2-3PM

“Hans Urs von Balthasar: Theological Aesthetics as the Gateway to Systematic Theology”

Francesca Aran Murphy, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

“The English Inheritance: Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Reading of Gerard Manley Hopkins”

Fergus Kerr, Blackfriars, Oxford

Coffee break

3:15-4:15PM

“Justice Cries for Beauty. Hans Urs von Balthasar and Liberation Theologies: A Conversation”

Michelle Gonzalez, Loyola Marymount University

“Patterns of Protestant Aesthetics: Conversations with Von Balthasar”

Lee Barrett, Lancaster Theological Seminary

Coffee break

4:30-5:30

Discussion: moderator Kerr

dinner

7:30-8:30 or 8-9PM

Evening lecture and discussion

“Communion and Community: the Theological Aesthetics of Devotional Experience”

Alejandro Garcia-Rivera, Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley, CA

Friday, May 21

Breakfast

3. Theological Aesthetics in Medieval/Franciscan Texts

9-10AM

“Retrieval of Theological Aesthetics from Ancient and Medieval Texts (Plato to Bonaventure): the Balthasarian Model”

Oleg Bychkov, St. Bonaventure, NY

“The Beautiful according to Thomas Aquinas: an Inquiry with regard to Present-day Concepts” (Das Schöne nach Thomas von Aquin: eine Anfrage an gegenwärtige Konzepte)

Günther Pöltner, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Wien, Austria

Coffee break

10:15-11:15AM

“Theological Aesthetics in Hopkins’s Terrible Sonnets” (retrieval of Duns Scotus)

Bernardette Ward, University of Dallas, TX

“Divine Delight: Acceptatio and the Aesthetics of Salvation According to Duns Scotus”

Mary Beth Ingham, Loyola Marymount University, CA

Coffee break

11:30-12:30

Discussion: moderator Bychkov

Lunch

Part II. Theology of the Arts

2-2:45PM

Keynote address: Theology and the Arts

Nicholas P. Wolterstorff, Yale University, CT

Coffee break

1. Theology and Space

3-4PM

“The Built Environment as Art”

Timothy Gorringe, Exeter University, UK

“Visual Arts and Religion in Aboriginal, Late Modern Spaces”

Sigurd Bergmann,The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Coffee break

4:15-5:30 (5:45)PM

“Rethinking the Creation of Sacred Space in a Global Village: Myth or Magic?”

Richard Vosko, Designer and Consultant for Worship Environments, Diocese of Albany, NY

Discussion

dinner

 Saturday, May 22

Breakfast

2. Theology and the Image

9-10AM

“What is Worth Remembering: Image,Time, Redemption”

George Pattison, Oxford University, UK

Coffee break

10:15-11:15AM

“A Paradise Within Thee, Happier Far”: “The Upright Heart and Pure” as Temple of Divine Benificence in Milton's Paradise Lost

John Mulryan, St. Bonaventure, NY

Coffee break

11:30-12:20PM

Discussion

Lunch

3. Theology and the Image: the Franciscan Tradition

2-3PM

“Image as the Word of God: Francis and Salvation History”

(Featuring interactive 3-D computer models of Franciscan Art)

Daniel T. Michaels, St. Louis University, MO

Coffee break

 3:15-4:15PM

“Darkness and Light: Reflections of a Contemporary Painter Embracing the Drama of Religious Imagery”

Constance Pierce, St. Bonaventure, NY

Coffee break

4:30-5:30PM

Discussion

dinner

7:30-8:30 or 8-9PM

Sunday, May 23

Breakfast

Optional: excursions

Departure