Hat tip to Estropico
Monday September 7 to Friday, September 11, 2009, the Diocese of Pistoia is organizing a week of theological reflection on “The idea of immortality on earth”
From the promotional flyer of the event (via Google translation):
Two thousand years ago, the Gospel announced the good news that man is not done at death, but is created to live forever…
Today, after two millennia, at the dawn of a new century, advanced science and technology raise another voice suggesting that man can achieve immortality on earth through science and technology…
Is earthly death a curse or a liberation for man? Is it a diabolical temptation or the will of God that man acquires divine attributes? Can science and faith coexist?…
We’ll talk with the leading Italian scholars who have published texts on the topic concerned, with a concluding synthesis from the bishop.
Monday, September 7
Alfio Filippi and Andrea Vaccaro – respectively, the publisher and author of the recent book The Last Exorcism: Philosophies of Immortality on Earth (EDB 2009) the first study in Italy to address issues facing the issue and possible resonances in the theological.
Tuesday, September 8
Aldo Schiavone: The evolution in human hands.
Aldo Schiavone is Director of the Institute for Human Sciences, Florence and Naples. Historian of international repute who published in 2007 History and Destiny, a short book in which you feel are on the threshold of a paradigm shift, where humanity is on the verge of taking destiny into our own hands, including immortality on earth.
Wednesday, September 9
Stefano Grossi: Immortality: Earthly shock or joy for theology?
Stefano Grossi is vice-director of the Higher Institute of Religious Sciences of Florence (particularly devoted to the study of the relationship between theology and emerging issues). He published the 2006 magazine Vivens Homo on the contribution of scientific research to the hope of avoiding death.
Thursday, September 10th
Gianfranco Basti: Soul, body and information
Gianfranco Basti is Professor of Philosophy of Nature and Science at the Lateran Pontifical University. Author of books and articles in major international journals of philosophy, and among the most creative thinkers capable of combining scientific and theological categories.
Friday, September 11th
Reading the emails of the participants.
Debate – Summary of work
Conclusions of Bishop Mansueto Bianchi
For More Information:
Tel: 0573 976133 / 0573 367075
Sala Convento San Domenico
P.za San Domenico, 1
Pistoia
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Kristina Keferstein
September 9th, 2009 at 5:04 pmI am planning to attend this event. Anyone else going to be there? Are there any other h+ papers being presented?
Kristina
Max More
September 9th, 2009 at 5:11 pmI have posted my own contribution to the conference (to be read by Vaccaro, here: http://strategicphilosophy.blogspot.com/
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