We've brought together a great line-up of Catholic, Orthodox & Protestant speakers for a dialogue of love & truth.
Hans Boersma
Professor of Ascetical Theology at Nashotah House.
Adam Cooper
Professor of Patristics & Theology at John Paul II Institute of Marriage
David Ford
Professor of Church History at St. Tikhon's Orthodox
Ephraim Radner
Professor of Historical Theology at Wycliffe College
Hans Boersma Plenary - Body, Gender & Sex: Lessons from St Gregory of Nyssa
Hans Boersma Breakout - Eight Theses on Sex
Adam Cooper Plenary - Can Asceticism Make Us Better Lovers? The Promise & Limits of St Maximus the Confessor's Theology of Marriage
Adam Cooper Breakout - When Lovemaking Becomes Liturgy: John Paul II's Reflections on Song of Songs & Tobit
David Ford Plenary - An Orthodox Theology of Eros, Sexuality & Marriage: The Vision of St. John Chrysostom
David Ford Breakout - From Garden to Eschaton: The Eternality of Marriage as Understood in the Orthodox Church
Ephraim Radner Plenary - There Is No Desire Out of the Desires of Scripture
Ephraim Radner Breakout - How Do We Shape Desire?
Alicia Bradford Breakout - Communion of Love: The Spousal Vocation of Man & Woman in Light of the Trinitarian Nature of God
Fr. Paul O'Callaghan Breakout - Adam, Eve & Eros
Joshua Sturgill Breakout - Art & the Incarnation: Poetry as a Chastely Erotic Art
Dcn. Aaron Taylor Breakout - Metanoia in Faerie: Ascetic Peregrinatio & the Transfiguration of Eros in Chaucer's "Wife of Bath's Tale"
4:00 pm: VIP Meeting with Plenary Speakers Adam Cooper & Ephraim Radner - exclusive event for Eighth Day Patrons, Pillars & Olympians. If you're not yet a member, join the community today!
6:00 pm: Vespers at St. Mary Orthodox Christian Church
7:00 pm: Welcome Reception at Eighth Day Books
9:00 am: Third Hour Prayer at St Mary Orthodox Christian Church
9:30 am: Eighth Day Convocation with a Patristic Contemplation by Director Doom: On the Body & Asceticism
10:00 am: Plenary Lecture 1 by Ephraim Radner: "There Is No Desire Out of the Desires of Scripture"
11:00 am: Break
11:30 am: Breakouts
Boersma: "8 Theses on Sex"
Bradford: "Communion of Love"
Ford: "From Garden to Eschaton"
O'Callaghan: "Adam, Eve & Eros"
12:30 pm: Lunch
1:30 pm: Plenary Lecture 2 by Adam Cooper: "Can Asceticism Make Us Better Lovers?"
2:30 pm: Break
6:00 pm: Festal Dinner Banquet at St Mary Orthodox Christian Church: The Life of St. Mary of Egypt with the Cathedral Choir and Reflections on Cultural Renewal by Plenary Speakers
9:00 am: Third Hour Prayer at St Mary Orthodox Christian Church
9:30 am: Eighth Day Convocation with a Patristic Contemplation by Director Doom: On Eros & Sex
10:00 am: Plenary Lecture 3 by David Ford on "Orthodox Theology of Eros, Sexuality & Marriage"
11:00 am: Break
11:30 am: Breakouts
Cooper: "Lovemaking & Liturgy"
Radner: "How Do We Shape Desire"
Sturgill: "Art & the Incarnation"
Taylor: "Metanoia in Faerie"
12:30 pm: Lunch & Book Signings
2:00 pm: Plenary Lecture 4 by Hans Boersma on "Body, Gender & Sex"
3:00 pm: Break
3:15 pm: Panel Dialogue
4:30 pm: Break & Dinner on Your Own
6:00 pm: Great Vespers at St George Orthodox Cathedral with Cathedral Tour available immediately following.
8:30 pm: Open House at Eighth Day Books and Eighth Day Institute
My thanks to you and other staff and volunteers for the tremendous conference last weekend. Personally, I think it set my life on a new course. I can't say that about any other symposium I've ever attended!
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