On August 14: Symposium Patristicum Fennicum: Nicaea 325–2025
After one year break Symposium Patristicum Fennicum will be held again on August 14, 2025. This year we are celebrating the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea and therefore the symposium focuses on the Nicaea, its background, and its meaning for the later theology. Several speakers have contributed to the society’s upcoming publication Kirkko, keisari ja Kristus: Nikean kirkolliskokouksen tausta, teologia ja tulkinta (Studia Patristica Fennica, ed. Joona Salminen). Whole programme will be in English.
Venue: Studium Catholicum (Angelicum Hall), Ritarikatu 3, Helsinki
Time: August 14, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Speakers:
Professor Phillip Cary, Eastern University
Professor Olli-Pekka Vainio, University of Helsinki
Professor Pekka Metso, University of Eastern Finland
Docent Timo Nisula, University of Helsinki, Åbo Akademi
Docent Anni Maria Laato, Åbo Akademi
Harri Huovinen ThD, University of Eastern Finland, President of the Finnish Patristics Society
Joona Salminen PhD, University of Eastern Finland
Preliminary programme:
Words of Welcome, Harri Huovinen
Session 1 (chair Harri Huovinen):
Augustine as a Pro-Nicene Theologian and His Trinitarian Theology, Phillip Cary
Augustine & Nicene Theology, Timo Nisula
Lunch
Session 2 (chair Joona Salminen):
Old Testament and Nicaea, Anni Maria Laato
Teaching the Faith: The Nicene Creed and Its Parallels in Early Christian Pedagogy, Harri Huovinen
Canons of Nicaea, Pekka Metso
Coffee break
Session 3 (chair Anni Maria Laato):
Speaking of Unspeakable: Nicene Debates on the Possibility of Religious Language, Olli-Pekka Vainio
Celebrating Nicaea? Joona Salminen