The Role of Nature and the Body in the Byzantine Tradition of Prayer
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Romanian Institute of Orthodox Theology and Spirituality of New York
Organizer Name
Alina N. Feld
Organizer Affiliation
Hofstra Univ./General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church
Presider Name
Theodor Damian
Presider Affiliation
Metropolitan College of New York
Paper Title 1
"The Spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak": The Care of the Body in the Paintings of the Monastic Refectory in Apollonia (Albania)
Presenter 1 Name
Judith Soria
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Monde Byzantin
Paper Title 2
Prayer and Its Efficacy according to Jamblichus and Proclus
Presenter 2 Name
Sergey Trostyanskiy
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
Paper Title 3
Rethinking Apatheia: Nilus of Ancyra on Navigating the Body
Presenter 3 Name
Clair McPherson
Presenter 3 Affiliation
General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church
Paper Title 4
The Body Sublime in Sikh Thought: Animal, Child, Woman, Drunk, Insane
Presenter 4 Name
Balbinder Singh Bhogal
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Hofstra Univ.
Paper Title 5
Eschatological Body in Hesychasm and Hinduism
Presenter 5 Name
Alina N. Feld
Start Date
12-5-2018 10:00 AM
Session Location
Bernhard 204
Description
We are witnessing a resurgence of interest in the role of the body and its spiritual senses within the Christian tradition. Recent studies in the phenomenology and hermeneutics of the body, such as Sarah Coakley and Paul L. Gavrilyuk, The Spiritual Senses: Perceiving God in Western Christianity (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor, Carnal Hermeneutics (Fordham University Press, 2015) have initiated an intense philosophical conversation on the topic while circumscribing it to the Western tradition. The present session introduces still unmapped domains of interest to the project underway. The Byzantine tradition of prayer is one of these sine qua non domains of investigation for the role of the body in the life of the spirit. It is revealing not only within the Christian world but also central to the movement of the theological turn in phenomenology as well as to the study of comparative mysticism east and west, and inter-religious theo-poetics.
The session is a proper forum for thinking further, mapping and investigating this new territory. Presenters will engage in philosophical reflection on human nature (anthropology, psychology, sociology), art, the relation between the human and the divine (theology), human and non-human nature (ecotheology), as well as the relation between Western and Eastern religious and mystical traditions (Hindu and Sikh).
Alina N. Feld
The Role of Nature and the Body in the Byzantine Tradition of Prayer
Bernhard 204
We are witnessing a resurgence of interest in the role of the body and its spiritual senses within the Christian tradition. Recent studies in the phenomenology and hermeneutics of the body, such as Sarah Coakley and Paul L. Gavrilyuk, The Spiritual Senses: Perceiving God in Western Christianity (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor, Carnal Hermeneutics (Fordham University Press, 2015) have initiated an intense philosophical conversation on the topic while circumscribing it to the Western tradition. The present session introduces still unmapped domains of interest to the project underway. The Byzantine tradition of prayer is one of these sine qua non domains of investigation for the role of the body in the life of the spirit. It is revealing not only within the Christian world but also central to the movement of the theological turn in phenomenology as well as to the study of comparative mysticism east and west, and inter-religious theo-poetics.
The session is a proper forum for thinking further, mapping and investigating this new territory. Presenters will engage in philosophical reflection on human nature (anthropology, psychology, sociology), art, the relation between the human and the divine (theology), human and non-human nature (ecotheology), as well as the relation between Western and Eastern religious and mystical traditions (Hindu and Sikh).
Alina N. Feld