Saint Petersburg Workshop

03 Jul 2023

Theology, Science and the Eastern Orthodox Christian Tradition

May 31, 2017

At the Center for Multidisciplinary Scientific and Theological Research, St Petersburg State University, 9th Street – Vasilievsky Island, Build. 2/11

Organizer: Project Science & Orthodoxy around the World (SOW) in collaboration with the Center for Multidisciplinary Scientific and Theological Research, St Petersburg State University

and the St Petersburg Orthodox Theological Academy

Coordinator: Alexei Nesteruk, University of Portsmouth, UK; Inter-university Centre for Education in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the St Petersburg State Marine Technical University; Member of Project SOW Scientific Committee

Local Coordinator: Revd. Kirill Kopeikin, Center for Multidisciplinary Scientific and Theological Research, St Petersburg State University; St Petersburg Orthodox Theological Academy

PART 1: Opening and Keynote lectures

10:00 - 10:30

Opening remarks, introduction to Project SOW by Ms Ersi Bakou, M.A., Research Associate, Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation.

10:30 - 11:00

Revd. Kirill Kopeikin: The Dialogue between Science and Theology in Russia

11:30 - 12:30

Alexei Nesteruk: The Dialogue between Theology and Science in the Eastern Orthodox Perspective: Modern Philosophical Challenges

12:30 - 1:30

Adrian Lemeni (Faculty of Theology, University of Bucharest): The Ecclesial Perspective in the Dialogue between Theology and Science: a case of Fr. Dumitru Staniloae

1:30 - 3:00

Lunch Break

PART 2: Short Communications – Round Table

3:00 - 3:40

Tatiana Litvin, “The knowledge of God and the phenomenological study of religious experience: a contemporary approach” (30+10 min.)

3:40 - 4:20

Dmitry Saprykin, “Orthodox Tradition in Education and the work of the greatest Russian scientists and engineers of the 20th century” (30+10 min.)

4:20 - 5:00

Revd Dimitriy Kiryanov, “Theistic evolution: problems and solution-finding in contemporary theological thought” (30+10 min.)

5:00 - 5:20

Coffee break

5:20 - 6:00