MARCH 18-20, 2014 * 100-104 McKenna Hall
Artist: Anselm Kiefer
Title: Emanation
Date: 1984-1986
Medium: oil, acrylic, wallpaper paste, lead on canvas
Dimension: 161-1/2 x 110-3/4 x 9-1/4″
Credit Lines: Collection Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Gift of Judy and Kenneth Dayton, 1990
The Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) invites you to take part in “Participation in God: Reassessing an Ancient Philosophical Idea and its Contemporary Relevance,” a three-day Templeton Colloquium being offered at the University of Notre Dame by Dr. Robert Douglas Hedley, Reader in Hermeneutics and Metaphysics in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Hedley is in residence this year as a Templeton Fellow at the NDIAS.
There is no registration, and the colloquium is free and open to the public.
This colloquium brings together scholars from numerous disciplines, including the natural sciences, philosophy, theology, and literature, to examine the fundamental questions of participation in the Divine. Building on philosophical premises and drawing on a rich tradition of thought, including ancient and Thomist philosophy and the inheritance of participation following the scientific revolutions, this meeting of scholars will examine key ideas, conceptual definitions, the language of participation, and its logic.
The sessions will take place in 104 McKenna Hall and will also be simulcast live on the NDIAS website and blog dedicated to the Templeton Colloquia. If you wish to participate, we encourage you to review a pre-circulated paper on participation written by Douglas Hedley.
This colloquium is sponsored by the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, with generous funding from the John Templeton Foundation.
Tuesday, March 18
•“The Historical Background of Participation in the Divine,” with presenters Mark Noll and Brad Gregory (please note, this session has limited seating)
Wednesday, March 19
•8:30 am “Ancient Philosophical Understandings of Participation,” with presenters Stephen Clark and Gretchen Reydams-Schils
•10:20 am “Medieval Understandings of Participation,” with presenters Richard Cross and Stephen Gersh
•3:30 pm “Participation and Literature,” with presenters Christian Moevs and Vittorio Montemaggi
•7:00 pm “Participation and the Modern Scientific Worldview,” with presenters Ryan Mullins, Jacob Sherman, and Charles Taliaferro
Thursday, March 20
•8:30 am “Participation, the Image of God, and Evolutionary Theory,” with presenters Carl Gillett and Phillip Sloan
•10:20 am “Participation and its Contemporary Relevance: Metaphor or Metaphysics?,” with presenters Vittorio Hösle and Cyril O’Regan
•3:00 pm “Participation and the Natural Sciences,” with presenter Celia Deane-Drummond