Academia Oamenilor de Stiinta din Romania - Filiala USA

The Academy of Romanian Scientists
THE  ROMANIAN INSTITUTE OF  ORTHODOX  THEOLOGY AND  SPIRITUALITY
The General Theological Seminary


The XXIInd Ecumenical Theological and Interdisciplinary Symposium

Remembering Peace:
Justice, and Forgiveness in a Time of War
    
Saturday, December 6th, 2014
10:00 AM

The General Theological Seminary
Seabury Building
440 West 21st Street
New York, NY 10014
Subway: 23rd Street on C, E, 1 trains



Program

Theodor Damian, PhD
Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, Metropolitan College of New York; President of the Romanian Institute of Orthodox Theology and Spirituality:
Errare Humanum Est. Absolvere Divinum

Clair McPherson, PhD
Professor of Ascetical Theology, General Theological Seminary; Priest Associate, Church of the Transfiguration, Manhattan (Episcopal)
Da Pacem Domine: a Prayer for Peace from the Seventh to the Twenty-First Century

Richard Grallo, PhD
Professor of Applied Psychology, Metropolitan College of New York:
Four Functions of Experience in Human Learning

Louis Tietje, PhD
Professor of Ethics, Metropolitan College of New York, and
Steven Cresap, PhD
Associate Professor of Modern European Intellectual History, Metropolitan College of New York:
Rival Norms of Social Justice: Is There a Winner?

Doru Tsaganea, PhD
Professor of Mathematics, Metropolitan College of New York
The Ukrainian Conflict and Christian Moral Values

Alina Feld, PhD
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Long Island University Global
Richard Kearney's Welcoming the Stranger: or on The Courage to Forgive

Elvin T. Ramos, PhD
Founder and President, Global Tassels, Inc.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, St. John’s University:
The Practice of Peace and the Engagement of Social Justice through education during the Never Ending Global War on Poverty

Ana Chelariu, PhD
Independent Scholar, New Jersey
Jesus’ Curse of the Fig Tree (New Testament) and The Bráhman of Two Birds in a Fig Tree (Rig Veda), Parables of Teaching


Moderator:
Humphrey Crookendale, JD
Dean, School of Management, Metropolitan College of New York


Guests  of Honor:
His Eminence Nicolae Condrea, PhD Archbishop, The Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in the Americas

Daniel Katz, PhD
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Chief Academic Officer, Metropolitan College of New York, Visiting Professor of History, University of Maryland

Hosts:
Kurt Dunkle, PhD
Dean, The General Theological Seminary

Clair McPherson, PhD
Professor of Ascetical Theology, The General Theological Seminary


Discussants:
Bert Breiner, PhD
Associate Professor of Religion, Hunter College, City University of New York

David Rosner, PhD
Associate Professor of Values and Ethics, Metropolitan College of New York
    

“Spiritus” Art Gallery
(Director Viorica Colpacci)
Works by Viorica Colpacci, Garabet Salgian, Iuliana Udvardy, Serban Chelariu