Re: Re: reorganisation and destruction of irish catholic churches
Upcoming Fota Conference:
Benedict XVI on Beauty: Issues in the Tradition of Christian Aesthetics
St. Colman’s Society for Catholic Liturgy have announced their upcoming conference topics and speakers for 2009, to take place again at the Sheraton Hotel on Fota Island, Cork, Ireland.
The topic of the conference sounds particularly intriguing and certainly hits upon an area of significant relevance and interest: “Benedict XVI on Beauty: Issues in the Tradition of Christian Aesthetics”.
The Conference will be opened by His Eminence George Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney who will also deliver the principal address.
The conference will take place from July 12-13, 2009 and will be chaired by Professor D. Vincent Twomey, SVD.
Speakers and topics will include:
Ethan Anthony
The Third Revival: New Gothic and Romanesque Catholic Architecture in North America
Dr. Helen Ratner Dietz, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
The Nuptial Meaning of Classic Church Architecture
Fr. Daniel Gallagher
The Liturgical Consequences of Thomistic Aesthetics
Fr. Uwe Michael Lang
Louis Bouyer and Church Architecture
Dr. Joseph Murphy
The Fairest and the Formless: The Face of Christ as Criterion for Christian Beauty
Dr. Alcuin Reid
‘Noble Simplicity’ Revisited
Dr. Neil J. Roy
The Galilee Chapel: A Medieval Notion Comes of Age
Dr. Janet Rutherford
Eastern iconoclasm and the defence of divine beauty
Professor Duncan G. Stroik
Image of Eternity: the Church building as anagogical
Further information is abvailable at: colman.liturgy@yahoo.co.uk
