On September 22–23, 2020, the international conference “Christian Philosophy: Its Past, Present and Future” was held in Krakow. The aim of the conference was to summarize the project “Monuments of Polish Christian philosophy of the 20th century” and to promote its results. The conference gathered representatives of Christian philosophy and researchers from all over the world who conduct their philosophical investigation in the context of Christian faith. The conference was attended by 42 participants coming from 23 academic research centers, 21 of whom represent foreign universities. On the Polish side, the majority of the speakers were the members of the project’s team.
See below the conference program and video clips with the participants’ addresses.
Tuesday, 22.09.2020
Session 1
Jean Gové (University of St. Andrews, UK), Extended Mind. Extended Self? Extended Soul?!
Jacek Surzyn (Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, Poland), Faith and Reason: Reflections on Anselm of Canterbury’s “Unum Argumentum”
Anna Varga-Jani (Pázmány Péter Catholic University Budapest, Hungary), Husserlian Transcendental Idealism and the Question concerning Being: An Original Linkage between Phenomenology and Theology
Jakub Pruś (Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, Poland), St. Ignatius’s Presupponendum as Christian Extension of the Principle of Charity in Argumentation Theory
Kingsley Mbamara Sabastine (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland), Methods of Practicing Christian Philosophy with Specific Reference to Stanislaw Kaminski
Session2
Special Session titled “Polish Christian Philosophy in XX century”, part 1 (session in Polish with English simultaneous translation)
Marek Urban (Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland), The Philosophy of History of Konstanty Michalski and the Challenges of Today
Zbigniew Pańpuch (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland), The Most Significant Contributions of M.A. Krąpiec to Philosophical Realism [not available]
Artur Andrzejuk (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland), A Consistent Thomism by Mieczysław Gogacz
Jarosław Jagiełło (Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland), Józef Tischner’s Metaphysical Anthropology [paper read by Piotr S. Mazur]
Paweł Skrzydlewski (The State School of Higher Education in Chełm, Poland), The Role of Latin Civilization in the Development of the Human Person
Keynote Lecture: Alexander Pruss (Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA), God and Beauty
Session 3
Dariusz Dańkowski (Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, Poland), Discerned Justice and Discursive Justice in Dialogue
Parker Haratine (University of St. Andrews, UK), Augustine’s Theory of Illumination: A Case Study of Faith and Reason
Evelina Deyneka (University Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis, France), Defining Human Consciousness through the Concept of “Oneself as Another”: From the History of Christian Thought to the Contemporary Philosophy of Mind
Anthony W. Bartlett (Bethany Center for Nonviolent Theology and Spirituality, Syracuse, NY, USA), Dynamic Contemporary Replacement for Traditional Christian Concept “Soul”: Relatio aliter quam esse
Francisco Eduardo Plaza (University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, USA), Christian Philosophy as an Existential Habitus
Session 4
Special Session titled “Polish Christian Philosophy in XX century” part 2 (session in Polish with English simultaneous translation)
Piotr Duchliński (Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, Poland), Critical Rationalism and Christian Philosophy
Adam Świeżyński (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland), Kazimierz Kłósak’s Understanding of Relations between Theology and the Natural Sciences
Józef Bremer & Jolanta Koszteyn (Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, Poland), The Philosophical Thought of Piotr Lenartowicz
Adam Świeżyński (Cardinal St
efan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland), Kazimierz Kloskowski’s Concept of Philosophy of Nature
Jacek Grzybowski (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland), “God or sacrum?”: Zofia J. Zdybicka Contribution to the Discussion About the Contemporary Meaning of Religion
Keynote Lecture: John Hittinger (University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, USA), Ask, Seek, Knock: An Augustinian Motif for Christian Philosophy
Wednesday, 23.09.2020
Session 5
Anna Zhyrkova (Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, Poland), Can We Predicate of and Speak about God, and What are the Rules for Doing So? On the Epistemological and Logical Premises of Conciliar Trinitarianism
Joshua Cedric A. Gundayao (University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines), De Triplicia Via: Revisiting St. Bonaventure’s Rectification of the Will in the Modern World
Marcin Podbielski (Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, Poland), Trusting the Words, Trusting the Truth: How Theology Created the First Christian Philosophy
Silvia Parigi (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, Italy), Jesuits and Action at a Distance: Athanasius Kircher’s Universal Magnetism
Wojciech Szczerba (Evangelical School of Theology, Wrocław & Von Hügel Institute at St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge), The Concept of Universal Salvation in the Thought of Friedrich Schleiermacher
Session 6
Special Session titled “Polish Christian Philosophy in XX century”, part 3 (session in Polish with English simultaneous translation)
Piotr S. Mazur (Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow, Poland), Christian Philosophy: Its Struggles and Challenges
Ryszard Moń (Collegium Joanneum, Warsaw, Poland), The Experience of a Person as a Starting Point in the Search for Truth and Good. Philosophy of Tadeusz Styczeń
Andrzej Kobyliński (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland), Józef Maria Bocheński vs. Tadeusz Ślipko: A Critical Analysis of Marxism and Communism from the Perspective of Christian Philosophy on Both Sides of the Iron Curtain
Ewa Podrez (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland), Christian Ethics and its Relation to Culture. Reflections on the Existence of a Values
Maciej Bała (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland), From a Foundation to a Phenomenon or from a Phenomenon to a Foundation? Two Polish Schools of Philosophy of Religion
Session 7
Anthony Chukwuebuka Ohaekwusi (John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland), Religion and Counterterrorism: Any Lessons from Christian Philosophy of Nonviolence?
Daniel Spencer (University of St. Andrews, UK), Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis: Some Christian Strategies
James D. Capehart, Étienne Gilson and Three Stages of His Christian Philosophy
Bálint Békefi (King’s Evangelical Divinity School, University of Chester, UK), Knowledge and the Fall in American Neo-Calvinism: Toward a Van Til-Plantinga Synthesis
Session 8
Grzegorz Hołub (Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland), Validity of Karol Wojtyła’s Philosophy Today
Enrico Cerasi (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy), George Lindbeck and Post-Liberal Theology
Alex R. Gillham (St. Bonaventure University, NY, USA), Epicurean Ethics, Completeness, and the Problem of Creation [not available]
Tommaso Manzon (University of Trento, Italy), On the Concept of Sapientiae Christianae in St. Bonaventure: The Itinerarium Mentis in Deum as a Framework for a Christian Approach to Human Knowledge
Keynote Lecture: Ted Peters (Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, USA), Natural Science in Public Christian Philosophy and Public Systematic Theology