Academia Oamenilor de Stiinta din Romania - Filiala USA

 

THE ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS

Splaiul Independentei  54, Sector 5, 050094 Bucharest, Romania, tel. +40-21-314 7491, www.aos.ro

USA: 30-18 50th Street, Woodside, NY 11377, Tel. (718) 626-6013,

 Theodor Damian, PhD, US Branch president, DamianTh@aol.com,

 

THE  ROMANIAN INSTITUTE OF  ORTHODOX  THEOLOGY AND  SPIRITUALITY

30-18 50th Street, Woodside, NY 11377, Tel. (718) 626-6013, DamianTh@aol.com

Theodor Damian, Ph.D., president

 

METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF NEW YORK

Audrey Cohen School for Human Services and Education

60 West Street,  New York, NY 10006, Tel. (212) 343-1234, aweiner@mcny.edu

Adele Weiner, PhD, Dean

 

 

The XXIVth Ecumenical Theological and Interdisciplinary Symposium

 

Knowledge and Enchantment: A World without Mystery?

 

Saturday, December 3rd, 2016

10:00 AM

 

Metropolitan College of New York

60 West Street, New York, NY 10006

Commons on First Floor

Subway: Rector Street on R or 1, Wall Street on 4 or 5 trains

 

 

PROGRAM

 

Adele Weiner, PhD

Dean of Audrey Cohen School for Human Services and Education, Metropolitan College of New York

Enchantment and Technology

 

Theodor Damian, PhD

Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, Metropolitan College of New York; President of the Romanian Institute of Orthodox Theology and Spirituality:

Sing a New Song to the World: The Never Ending Enchantment

 

Humphrey Crookendale, JD

Dean of School for Public Affairs and Administration, Metropolitan College of New York

Does Knowledge Mask Truth and Reality?

 

Richard Grallo, PhD

Professor of Applied Psychology, Metropolitan College of New York

Epictetus in the City

 

Louis Tietje, PhD

Professor of Ethics, Metropolitan College of New York

Equality of Opportunity and Social Justice

 

Doru Tsaganea, PhD

Professor of Mathematics, Metropolitan College of New York

From this Enchantment to Re-enchantment in Theoretical Physics

 

Alina Feld, PhD

Affiliate Faculty at the General Theological Seminary, New York

David G,. Leahy’s Novitas Mundi: The Good News of a World Renewed

 

David Rosner

Associate Professor of Values and Ethics, Metropolitan College of New York

The Artificial Enchantment of the World

 

 

Guests of Honor:

Vinton Thompson, PhD, President of Metropolitan College of New York

His Eminence Nicolae Condrea, PhD , Metropolitan of the Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in the Americas

 

Moderator:

Humphrey Crookendale, JD

Dean, School for Public Affairs and Administration, Metropolitan College of New York

 

Discussant:

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

 

 

“Spiritus” Art Gallery (Director Viorica Colpacci)

Works by Viorica Colpacci and other artists from the US and Romania

 

 

 

Knowledge and Enchantment

 

It appears that knowledge has an epectatic dimension just like the endless progression of one’s enjoyment in the divine communion in God’s kingdom.

Yet one of the beauties of the world consists of its enchantment that is related to its mystery.

 

Do we enchant the world or is the world enchanting us? Who sings to whom?

We sing to the world when we celebrate its beauty and mystery, and the world sings to us from cradle to tomb when it envelopes us with the sound of the wind, of leaves and waves and of the stars.

 

And is knowledge an attempt to take the veil away, to desecrate the world’s mystery and beauty, its silence, or is it an attempt to better understand it in order to celebrate it more appropriately?

 

This topic invites such kind of questions and many others from different disciplines that complement each other and that together can help us adopt a better and more adequate position coram mundo and coram Deo.

Th.D.