Early Modern Debates on the Beatific Vision: Byzantine Revival and Latin Reactions

Programme

18 June

14:00–14:30: Welcome address and introduction by the conference organizers

Session 1

Moderator: Cécile Bonmariage

14h40-15h20 William Duba (Université de Fribourg), Ferrara-Florence and the Finality of Knowledge

15h25-16h05 Patrícia Calvário (UCLouvain), Thomassin on the Vision of God: From “Quid antiqui philosophi senserunt” to the GreekFathers

16h05-16h20, Short Break

Session 2

Moderator: Patrícia Calvário

16h20-17h00 György Geréby (Central European University), Beatific Vision and Eschatology: Problems for Thomas Aquinas andGregory Palamas

17h05-17h45 Nikolaos Loudovikos (University of Ioannina), Vision as Analogical Participation: a Greek-PatristicReading of Thomas Aquinas

18h30 Reception in Salle Ladrière: Belgian Wine & Cheese Tasting

19 June

Session 3

Moderator: José Higuera

09h45-10h25 Jean-Michel Counet (UCLouvain), La ‘Visio Facialis’ dans le ‘De Visione Dei’ de Nicolas de Cues.

10h30-11h10 Christian Trottmann (CNRS), ‘Resurrectio vitae mortem mortis parturivit’, sur l’eschatologie de Charles de Bovelles etson évolution

11h10-11h25 Short Break

Session 4

Moderator: Claus Andersen

11h25-12h05 Aline Smeesters (UCLouvain), Perspectives jésuites sur la vision béatifique: entre scolastique, mystique et poétique

12h10-12h50 Severin Kitanov (Salem State University), Echoes of the Past in Late Sixteenth-Century Debates about the Beatific Vision at the University of Coimbra: Francisco Suarez, Francisco Carreiro, and Egídio da Apresentaҫão On Seeing God Face-to-Face

13h00-14h15 Lunch break

Session 5

Moderator: Apaoan Machado

14h15-14h55 José Higuera (UNED), The Mirroring Architecture of Juan de Herrera: How to Satiate the ‘natural desire of seeing God’through Visual Representations

15h00-15h40 Zachary Seals (Université de Genève), Calvins "Greek" View of the Beatific Vision? Continuities and Controversies in Reformed Orthodoxy

15h45-16h25 Christos Arampatzis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), La réfutation antipalamite au XVIIIe siècle: Vikentios Damodos contre Denys Petau

16h25-16h40 Short Break

Session 6

Moderator: Jacob Schmutz

16h40-17h20 Joana Serrado (TU Chemnitz), Beatific vision in the Baroque Lusophone Empire

17h25-18h05 Roberto Hofmeister Pich (PUCRS Porto Alegre), Alfonso Briceño OFM (1587–1668) on the “vision of God”: On theDebate about Intuitive Cognition, species, and Abstractive Cognition in 17th-Century Scotism

20h00 Conference dinner at “Il Doge”

Organizers:

Patrícia Calvário
Jacob Schmutz

Scientific Committee:

Cécile Bonmariage (UCLouvain)
John Demetracopoulos (University of Patras)
Odile Gilon (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Isabelle Mandrella (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Nicola Polloni (Università degli Studi di Messina)