Program

Opening of the Conference

Opening Lecture:

Lieven Boeve (KU Leuven, Belgium)
Theology and the Interruption of Experience

Main lectures:

• Laurence Hemming (Heythrop College, University of Londen, U.K.)
  Are We Still in Time to Know God?
  Apocalyptic, Sempiternity, and the Purposes of Experience

respondent: Herwi Rikhof (Katholieke Theologische Universiteit, Utrecht, The Netherlands)

• Grace Jantzen (Center for Religion, Culture and Gender, University of Manchester, U.K)
  ‘The Depth of the Abyss’: Medieval Mysticism and the Nihilism of Postmodernity

respondent: Gerald Boodoo (Department of Theology, Xavier University of Louisiana, New Orleans (LA) USA)

• Jean-Luc Marion (Centre d'Etudes Cartésiennes, Université de Paris IV - Sorbonne, France)
  The Phenomenon of Love: Experiencing the Other from the Other Point of View
  'Cancelled on account of ill-health of J.-L. Marion'
  
  Lecture in substitution:
  Stijn van den Bossche (KTU, Utrecht, The Netherlands / KU Leuven, Belgium)
  From the Other's Point of View:
  The Challenge of Jean-Luc Marion's Phenomenology to Theology

respondent: Anthony Godzieba (Villanova University, PA, USA)

• Sebastian Painadath (Center for Indian Spirituality, Kalady, India)
  Diversity of Religions, Unity in Spirituality

respondent: Daniel Madigan (Gregorian University, Rome, Italy)

• Sylvie Robert (Faculté de Théologie, Université Catholique de Lyon, France & Centre Sèvres, Paris, France)
  L'expérience: un chemin de connaissance de Dieu?
  L'enseignement d'une lecture d'Ignace de Loyola

  respondent: Paul Verdeyen(Antwerp, Belgium)

• Richard Schaeffler (Institut für Philosophie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
  Die religiöse Überlieferungsgemeinschaft als Schule der Erfahrung

respondent: Marc Dumas (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)

• Francis Schüssler Fiorenza (Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Cambridge (MA) USA)
  The Transcendence of Experience or the Experience of Transcendence:
  Negotiating the Difference

respondent: Robyn Horner (College of Divinity, Melbourne, Australia)

Closing:

Roundtable with the main lecturers