Themes of Polemical Theology Across Early Modern Literary Genres
Conference, 3–5 December 2014, Bratislava
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Venue:
Malé kongresové centrum SAV
Štefánikova 3
Bratislava
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Wednesday, 3rd December
8.30
Registration
9.00
Welcome address from
Peter Žeňuch, Director of the Ján Stanislav Institute of Slavonic Studies
9.10 – 10.15
Polemical Theology and History
Chair: Svorad Zavarský
Jonathan Reimer (Cambridge)
History as Polemical Theology in Early Elizabethan England: Thomas Becon's Relikes of Rome
Hans Helander (Uppsala)
Johannes Magnus’ Historia de omnibus Gothorum Sveonumque regibus (1554)
as a religious polemical treatise
15-minute discussion
Coffee break
10.25 – 11.30
Polemical Theology, Church and Sacred Antiquity
Chair: Zsombor Tóth
Zsombor Martis (Miskolc)
Kirchenbild und Prophetenrolle im polemischen Werk von István Czeglédi
aus dem Jahr 1659
Erika Garadnai (Miskolc)
Catholic Ecclesiology and Protestant Parody in the Polemics of Upper Hungary
15-minute discussion
Coffee break
11.40 – 12.45
Polemical Theology and the Classical Tradition
Chair: Piotr Urbański
Lucy R Nicholas (Tel Aviv)
Exploring polemical theology in humanism through a little-known tract on the Eucharist
by the great Tudor humanist, Roger Ascham
David A. Porter (Cambridge)
The Neo-Latin Satires of Hannardus Gamerius as Polemical Theology
15-minute discussion
Lunch
14.00 – 15.40
Polemical Theology in Poetry
Chair: Lucy R Nicholas
Maja Matasović (Zagreb)
Counter-Reformation before its time:
Polemical theology in Jakov Bunić’s epic
De vita et gestis Christi
Zoya Metlitskaya (Moscow)
John Milton and the Old English poem
on the Fall of Men: inspiration, borrowing
or polemic?
Piotr Urbański (Poznań)
Lutheran Piety in Pomeranian Neo-Latin Poetry
25-minute discussion
Tea & poster presentation by Andrea Riedl (Wien)
Ecclesiology as Mirror(ed) in Polemical Writings: Some Notes on the Tractatus contra Graecos (1252)
as a prelude to Polemical Theology and Eastern Christianity (the poster will be on display throughout the duration of the conference).
16.00 – 17.40
Polemical Theology and Eastern Christianity
Chair: Svorad Zavarský
Christian Gastgeber (Wien)
Die Polemik gegen die Orthodoxen:
Die Union von 1439 und ihre sozialpolitischen Faktoren
Iva Manova (Padova)
An Eighteenth-Century Project for Conversion of Southern Slavs
to Catholicism: Krastyo Peykich’s
Zarcalo istine (1716)
Vratislav Zervan (Wien)
Bellarmin-Rezeption im Umfeld
des Patriarchen von Konstantinopel
in der ersten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts
25-minute discussion
Thursday, 4th December
9.00 – 10.05
Polemical Theology in Metatexts
Chair: Iva Manova
Zsombor Tóth (Budapest)
Dead Readers’ Society: Early Modern Theological Debates in Historical Anthropological Perspectives (A Case Study)
Jiří Havlík (Kladno)
Polemics in the Commentaries of Czech Bible Editions
15-minute discussion
Coffee break
10.15 – 11.20
Polemical Theology and Tolerance
Chair: Jaša Drnovšek
Martin Žemla (Olomouc)
Weigel – Weigelianer – Antiweigelianer:
auf der Suche nach der wahren „katholischen“ Kirche, oder vom Luthertum zur „Erzketzerei“
Ádám Hegyi (Szeged)
Die Beziehung zwischen der reformierten und katholischen Glaubensstreite
und der Religionstoleranz am Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts in Südost-Ungarn
15-minute discussion
Coffee break
11.30 – 12.35
Polemical Theology and Conversion
Chair: Maja Matasović
Ágnes Baricz (Cluj-Napoca)
Religious Controversy in Hungarian Conversion Narratives from the First Half
of the 18th Century
Tomislav Matić (Zagreb)
The Repentant Reformist: Evolution of Enea Silvio Piccolomini’s Views on Conciliarism
in his Letters
15-minute discussion
Lunch
13.50 – 14.55
Polemical Theology in Music and Image
Chair: Ladislav Kačic
Marie Škarpová (Praha)
Kirchenlied als „eine verborgene Kontroverstheologie“
Miroslav Varšo (Bratislava)
Zentrale protestantische Themen in Josua Wegelins Buch: Der Gemahlte Iesus Christus (1630)
15-minute discussion
Coffee break
15.05 – 16.10
Polemical Theology and the Performing Arts
Chair: Marie Škarpová
Ladislav Kačic (Bratislava)
Das Schuldrama der Jesuiten im Licht
der polemischen Theologie
Jaša Drnovšek (Berlin)
Škofjeloški pasijon als Projekt
der katholischen Erneuerung
15-minute discussion
Tea
16.20 – 17.25
Polemical Theology and Natural Philosophy
Chair: Jonathan Reimer
Adam Richter (Toronto)
Similitudes for the Unobservable:
The analogia Trinitatis of John Wallis
Svorad Zavarský (Bratislava)
Old and New, True and False in the Worldview of a Seventheenth-Century Jesuit:
Themes of Polemical Theology in Three Dissertations by Martinus Szent-Ivany SJ
15-minute discussion
Closing remarks
Conference dinner
Friday, 5th December
9.00
A guided tour of St Martin’s Cathedral,
the coronation church of Hungarian kings
in the years 1563–1830 and the burial place
of the prominent polemicist
Cardinal Petrus Pazmanus SJ (1570–1637),
cca. 90 min.