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Timestamps 00:00:00 - Beginning 00:14:56 - Opening Words 00:24:25 - Panel 5: Eastern Orthodox Theology. 02:11:33 - Panel 6: Theology, Arts and Imagination 04:35:48 - Panel 7: The Russian Imagination. 06:40:14 - Panel 8: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Early Christianity and Contemporary Theology. 08:19:03 - Closing Address from Rowan Williams 08:43:05 - Thanks and Close This conference will bring together scholars, many of whom have studied under Lord Rowan Williams or have worked closely with or alongside him, to honour his contributions as a writer, scholar, and churchman to contemporary thought. Papers will take inspiration from his work to explore the manifold ways he has inspired generations of students, and to pursue further the new directions his work has opened up on theology, philosophy, spirituality, art, literature, poetry, politics, culture, society, ecumenism, and last but not least, comparative literature and culture. Rowan Williams has had a long and close association with the University of Cambridge and the Faculty of Divinity. As an undergraduate, he read theology at Christ's College. After his doctoral work on Vladimir Lossky at Oxford, he returned to Cambridge initially for ordination at Westcott House, followed by his appointment as University Lecturer in Divinity and later Dean of Clare College. This conference will therefore be a fitting tribute to mark the retirement of Lord Williams as Master of Magdalene College and Professor in Contemporary Christian Thought at the University. 09.00-10.00 Panel 5: Eastern Orthodox Theology. Chair: Dragos Herescu (The Institute for Orthodox Christian Studies, Cambridge) Isidoros Katsos (Athens) - Could there be an Eastern Orthodox philosophy of religion and what might it look like? Andrew Louth (Durham) - Rowan Williams' engagement with Orthodox theology: Vladimir Lossky and Olivier Clment Aristotle Papanikolaou (Fordham) - Avoiding the avalanche while Looking East in Winter 10.00-10.30 Panel 5: Discussion 10.30-11.00 Coffee Break 11.00-12.00 Panel 6: Theology, Arts and Imagination. Chair: Giles Waller (Cambridge) Lucy Gardner (Oxford) - Seeing the Word: Balthasar and theological imagination Douglas Hedley (Cambridge) - Theology and play Ben Quash (King's College London) - Sapiential imagination: the arts and the expansion of grace 12.00-12.30 Panel 6 Discussion 12.30-13.30 Lunch 13.30-14.30 Panel 7: The Russian Imagination. Chair: Fr Stephen Platt (Fellowship of Saint Alban and Saint Sergius) Ruth Coates (Bristol) - The transnational Russian (religious) imagination Caryl Emerson (Princeton) - Being Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin) Joshua Heath (Cambridge) - The Russian tragic imagination 14.30-15.00 Panel 7 Discussion 15.00-15.30 Tea Break 15.30-16.30 Panel 8: Ancient Greek Philosophy, Early Christianity and Contemporary Theology. Chair: David Ford (Cambridge) Mark Edwards (Oxford) - The Fathers, computers and us Morwenna Ludlow (Exeter) - 'What is it to be called a theologian?' Catherine Rowett (East Anglia) - Corporeal communication and embodied meaning: a creation story 16.30-17.00 Panel 8 Discussion 17.00-17.10 Short Break 17.10-17.40 Closing Address, Rowan Williams (Cambridge) 17.40-17.45 Final remarks