January 7, 2012 / The Church & Postmodern Culture
This Christmas season I had the privilege of attending a memorial service, a vigil in …
Here’s a CFP that may be of interest to some of our readers.
NOTE: the deadline for submission is coming soon!!! February 15. Apologies for the short notice.
The liturgy is said to contain, transmit, and partake in the central mysteries of the Christian faith. It plays a crucial and indispensable role in mediating between people’s life-worlds and the Christ event. The well-known Latin expression lex orandi, lex credendi confirms the idea that there is (and should be) a concordance between the Church’s life of prayer and the content of what it believes, that is to say, between liturgy and faith. However, the question of how precisely this connection is to be conceived of still requires considerable reflection and research. The LEST-9 Congress aims at contributing to the ongoing discussions about the ways in which the mysteries of faith are mediated and how Christian liturgies can or must be understood. In so doing, it engages fundamental and systematic theology as well as liturgical scholarship. […]
David W. Fagerberg (University of Notre Dame, South Bend)
Joris Geldhof (Catholic University of Leuven)
Andrea Grillo (Pontificio Ateneo Sant’Anselmo, Rome)
Julia Knop (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
Gordon W. Lathrop (Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia)
Enrico Mazza (Università Cattolica di Milano)
Bruce T. Morrill, SJ (Vanderbilt University, Nashville)
Br. Patrick Pretot OSB (Institut Catholique de Paris)
Susan K. Roll (Saint Paul University, Ottawa)
Martin Stuflesser (Universität Würzburg)
Baby Varghese (Orthodox Theological Seminary, Kottayam)
We proudly invite the international community of scholars to submit topical papers for the upcoming LEST IX conference. Please follow the links below for submission guidlines, dates, and documents. Research topics for proposed papers can include but are not limited to:
See the guidelines for paper proposals for Junior Scholars and Senior Scholars.
Remember, the deadline is February 15 for all proposals.
Conference website: http://theo.kuleuven.be/en/lest/conference-website
Chad Lakies