Organized by the Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies
Ottawa, Canada
15 – 18 July 2011
Plenary Speakers
Relativism and Culture: Connections and Difference
Dr. Valerie Karras
Sentimentality Leads to the Gas Chamber: Emotivistic Relativism and the Slaughter of Innocents
Dr. Adam DeVille
Relativism, Tolerance, and Heresy: Negotiating the Waters
Dr. Peter Bouteneff
Workshops
“Public Work,” Private Meaning? (Re)Interpreting the Divine Liturgy in a Post-Modern Age
Dr. Brian Butcher
Concepts Plundered by Passions: Early Christian Teaching on the Struggle with Tempting Thoughts – Presentation PDF
Fr. Andriy Chirovsky
What Happened at Vatican II (1962-1965)? Why is it important for the Eastern Churches?
Dr. Catherine Clifford
The Jesus Prayer: Getting Centred and Gaining Peace
Fr. Lucien Coutu
All in the Family: Other Churches and Other Faiths
Fr. John Jillions
Orthodox Christian Responses to New Age “Spiritualities”
Fr. Maxym Lysack
Jesus and Muhammad: “Peace and Blessing Be Upon Them”?
Fr. Andrew Onuferko
Holiness Unites God’s People: Christian Formation in the Age of Relativism
Fr. Andrew Onuferko