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Register now: Advanced Course in Trinitarian Ontology

“Trinitarian Ontology: a way for rethinking thought”

40 academic hours (34 online and 6 also in person)
5 Credits (CFU)

In both Italian and English

Vita-Salute San Raffaele University – “Genesis” Patristic Studies Research Center

The course consists of 20 modules (2 hours of lessons each module), and provides a historical and theoretical overview of Trinitarian Ontology, drawing upon the insights of some of the world’s leading philosophers and theologians in this field.

1. The key figures, texts, and pivotal moments in the development of Trinitarian ontology throughout the history of philosophy will be presented.

2. The method, issues, and perspectives inherent in this line of thought will be examined.. To this end, the historical-theoretical framework outlined in the Manifesto” for a Trinitarian Ontology (DDOT-1), inspired by the programmatic work of the theologian and philosopher Klaus Hemmerle: Theses for a Trinitarian Ontology (1976), which represents a true milestone in the history of philosophy and theology.

Course Modules:

Piero Coda
The Trinity as Thought
Jean-Luc Marion
Phenomenology, theology and Revelation
Piero Coda
Augustine and the inventio of Trinitarian Ontology
François Jullien
De-coincidence as a Resource for Christianity
Massimo Donà
Trinity, Relation and Negation
Pierangelo Sequeri
Rethinking the Relation between the Created and the Uncreated in Light of the Ascension
Vito Limone
The Council of Nicaea (325): A Turning Point in the History of Trinitarian Ontology
Ilaria Vigorelli
Patristic Trinitarian Ontology in the Fourth Century
Giulio Maspero
Reception and Innovation of Trinitarian Ontology in the 6th–8th Centuries: From Maximus the Confessor to John of Damascus
John Milbank
The Trinitarian Ontology of Thomas Aquinas
Tommaso Bertolasi
Ontology of Creation: A Franciscan Perspective
Peter Casarella
The Trinitarian Ontology of Niccolò Cusano (1401–1464)
Kurt Appel
The Name of God, YHWH, as an Introduction to the Biblical Understanding of the Trinity
Lubomir Žak
The Trinitarian Ontology of the Authors of the Silver Age of Russian Thought
Catherine Pickstock
The Liturgical Consummation of Metaphysics
Andrea Bellantone
The Trinitarian Repetition of Ontology
Michael Seewald
The Indwelling of the Spirit
Daniel López
Phenomenological Reduction and Theological Reduction
Raul Buffo
Transdisciplinarity and Trinitarian Ontology
Carmelo Meazza
Trinitarian Ontology and Political Theology

Coordinators of the Course

Raul Buffo, Piero Coda, Massimo Donà, Vito Limone