"Game Over" - Good or bad news? | International Conference
Making Sense of Eschatology
October 22-24, 2015 | University of Geneva
Free entry
Our Western understanding of history and time, even in its most secularized forms, remains deeply indebted to the Jewish and Christian traditions. It presupposes a linear dynamic, anchored in an absolute origin, moving toward an ultimate horizon. Humanity finds its place between these two limits.
Questions pertaining to eschatology – literally: speaking about the end – are numerous and complex. Which 'end' are we talking about? The 'end' of each individual human being at his/her death, or the 'end' of the world, as in the apocalyptic tradition? Does a consideration of the 'end' turn us away from the present reality, or does it send us back to it? Or, to put the question differently: which end is awaiting us? Is it awaiting us, or is it coming to us?
With this interdisciplinary conference, the Faculty of theology of the University of Geneva aims to raise anew the question of the meaning of eschatology.
The entrance is free. Your registration will allow us to better organize the conference.
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Programme
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Thursday, October 22
Conference Opening |
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| 9:30 am | Room B111 | Welcome by Yves Flückiger, Rector of the University of Geneva |
First session |
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| 9:45 am | Room B111 | Chairman: Andreas Dettwiler |
| 9:45 am | Karen Kilby (Durham) Suffering and Eschatology |
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| 10:30 am | Discussion | |
| 10:45 am | Break | |
| 11 am | J. Wentzel van Huyssteen (Stellenbosch) From Evolutionary Anthropology to Theological Anthropology - Will a Shared Future Emerge? |
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| 11:45 am | Discussion | |
| 12 am | Lunch |
Second session(parallel sessions) |
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| 2 pm | Room B012 | Chairmen: Christophe Chalamet |
| Room B111 | Ghislain Waterlot | |
| 2 pm | Room B111 | Pierre Bühler (Zürich) La pire tournure possible. Motifs apocalyptiques dans l’œuvre de Friedrich Dürrenmatt – en textes et en images |
| Room B012 | Michael Burdett (Oxford) The Desire for “Someone Who Faces Us”. Cosmic Despair, Transhumanism, and Christian Hope in the Last Judgement |
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| 2:30 pm | Room B111 | Anthony Feneuil (Metz) Après l’apocalypse. Réflexions sur l’eschatologie au passé |
| Room B012 | Elochukwu E. Uzukwu (Pittsburgh) Endless Worlds, Creative Memories: Indigenous (West) African Eschatologies Exploding the Future of Christianities |
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| 3 pm | Break | |
| 3:15 pm | Room B111 | Janique Perrin (Genève) Traduire l’espérance: quand la fiction littéraire interpelle la théologie |
| Room B012 | Lexi Eikelboom (Oxford) Rhythmic Eschatology: What Poetry Teaches About the Nature of Time |
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| 3:45 pm | Room B111 | Luc Bulundwe (Genève) Annonce de la Bonne Nouvelle et exigence parénétique, comment hâter le retour du Christ? Analyse de l’éventuelle responsabilité des disciples de Jésus dans le retard de la parousie |
| Room B012 | Christian Cebulj (Coire) «Un aller-retour pour l’au-delà!» réflexions didactiques sur des questions eschatologiques |
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| 4:15 pm | Break | |
| 4:30 pm | Room B111 | Mariel Mazzocco (Genève) Avancer vers l’Aurore: la dynamique eschatologique dans l’oeuvre de Jacob Böhme |
| Room B012 | François Dermange (Genève): Selon quelle loi serons-nous jugés? Une réflexion à partir de la théologie réformée. |
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| 5 pm | Room B111 | Lucie Doublet (Paris): L’eschatologie ou la responsabilité du temps présent. Fonction de l’eschatologie dans l’éthique levinassienne |
| 5:30 pm | End of the day | |
| 6 pm - 6:40 pm |
Room B0001B | Assemblée annuelle de la Société suisse de théologie (pour les membres de la SSTh) |
Friday, October 23
Third session |
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| 9 am | Room B111 | Chairwoman: Mariel Mazzocco |
| 9 am | David Wilkinson (Durham): The Accelerating Universe and New Creation: Christian Eschatology in the Face of Scientific Futility |
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| 9:45 am | Discussion | |
| 10 am | Andrea Boscoboinik (Fribourg): La peur de la fin, miroir des sociétés |
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| 10:45 am | Discussion | |
| 11 am | Break | |
| 11:15 am |
Lecture canceled Johann Roduit (Zürich): |
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| 12 am | Discussion | |
| 12:15 am | Lunch |
Fourth session(parallel sessions) |
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| 2 pm | Room B111 | Chairmen: Christophe Chalamet |
| Room B012 | Ghislain Waterlot | |
| 2 pm | Room B111 | Ron Cole-Turner (Pittsburgh) Transhumanism and Human Enhancement: New Challenges for Christian Eschatology Today |
| Room B012 | Simon Butticaz (Lausanne): «La foi agissant par l’amour»: Nouvelle création et parénèse du jugement dans la lettre de Paul aux Galates |
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| 2:30 pm | Room B111 | Henning Theissen (Greifswald): What Dare We Hope? An Attempt to Conceive Newness After the End of the 20th Century |
| Room B012 | Mathias Hassenfratz (Genève) Process et eschatologie: les trois Cités de Dieu |
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| 3 pm | Break | |
| 3:15 pm | Room B111 | Christian Neddens (Saarland): Melancholia und Caritas. Humanität im Vorletzten bei Lars von Trier und im frühneuzeitlichen Luthertum |
| Room B012 | Hans-Christoph Askani (Genève) «Amen, viens Seigneur Jésus!» Réflexion sur le caractère eschatologique de la foi chrétienne |
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| 3:45 pm | Room B111 | Pantelis Kalaitzidis (Volos) Eschatology and Future-oriented Hermeneutics in John D. Zizioulas’ Thought |
| Room B012 | Andreas Losch (Berne) The Cosmic Christ’s End. The Cosmological Meaning of Christ in an Interreligious Perspective, with a Focus on Jewish-Christian Eschatology |
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| 4:15 pm | Break |
Fifth session |
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| 4:30 pm | Room B012 | Chairman: Andreas Dettwiler |
| 4:30 pm | Christiane Tietz (Zürich) The Crucial Question of Theodicy. Predestination in Martin Luther’s Theology |
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| 5:15 pm | Discussion |
Saturday, October 24
Sixth session |
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| 9 am | Room B111 | Chairman: Michel Grandjean |
| 9 am | Stefan Beyerle (Greifswald) “Many of Those Who Sleep in the Land of Dust Shall Awake” (Dan 12:2). Towards a Matrix of Apocalyptic Eschatology in Ancient Judaism |
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| 9:45 am | Discussion | |
| 10 am | David Hamidovic (Lausanne) Eschatologie et messianisme chez Philon d’Alexandrie |
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| 10:45 am | Discussion | |
| 11 am | Break | |
| 11:15 am | Michael Wolter (Bonn) Es gibt kein ‘game over’ in der Neutestamentlichen Eschatologie! |
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| 12 am | Discussion | |
| 12:15 am | Lunch |
Seventh session |
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| 2 pm | Room B111 | Chairwoman: Janique Perrin |
| 2 pm | Philip Ziegler (Aberdeen) «Veniat regnum tuum!» Christology, Eschatology, and the Christian Life |
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| 2:30 pm | Vincent Delecroix (Paris) Eschatologie, dé-théologisation et politique |
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| 3:15 pm | Discussion | |
| 4:30 pm | U300* Auditoire Rouiller |
Public lecture du Métropolite Jean de Pergame (Jean Zizioulas) *Uni Dufour, Rue du Général-Dufour 24, 1204 Genève |
| 5:45 pm | U300* Auditoire Rouiller |
Piano recital with Johann Vacher (Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève). |
Organization
University of Geneva's Theological Faculty and the University of Geneva's Romand Institute of Systematic and Ethics in collaboration with the Swiss Society for Theology.
Scientific Committee
With de support of the Swiss Society for Theology (SSTh), the Conférence universitaire de Suisse occidentale (CUSO), the Société des Amis de la Faculté de théologie (SAFT), the Société académique de Genève and the Commission administrative de l'Université de Genève.
Information and Registration
The entrance is free. Your registration will allow us to better organize the conference.