09/07/2025 09:45
- 17:30
HALL: Lecture Hall 33
Proponent:
Smeets A.,
Van Erp S.
Chair:
Smeets A.
Speaker:
Faggioli M.,
French W.,
Goyvaerts S.,
Hagens Q.,
Mangnus S.,
Melisse C.(.,
Prats M.,
Sarot M.,
Van Deursen-Vreeburg J.,
Van Dijk-Groeneboer M.,
Van Erp S.
The famous adagium of Tertullian (What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?) proposes a discontinuity between (pagan) past and (Christian) present. And, indeed, there is a profound discontinuity in relation with a paradigm shift.
That being said, the rhetoric of Tertullian's claim hides at the same time a continuity - of which, no doubt, Tertullian was acutely aware, and which carries the significance and transformative power of wisdom traditions, for instance that of the catholic intellectual tradition.
The papers in this panel then, value the meaning and significance of the past for the present.
Papers either research the meaning and (problem solving) significance of texts from the past in their original contexts and reflect on options and possibilities of their plausibility in relation to contemporary social and cultural transformations.
Or, papers address the question how texts from the Catholic intellectual tradition can be brought in dialogue with new readers and related to their contemporary questions, for instance in religious education.
The panel is organized in collaboration with the Catholic Study Network (CSN) initiative. CSN is building an inspiring network of and for the academic communities of KU Leuven (Catholic University Leuven), Tilburg University, and Radboud University (three catholic universities in the Low Countries) on topics related to or inspired by the catholic intellectual tradition.