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Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference (PMR)

Deep Unto Deep:  Exploring Mystery, Human and Divine

Featuring

Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago Divinity School

Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School

October 18-20, 2013

We do not know what God is, and are united to God as to one unknown.  These words of Thomas Aquinas name a deep paradox at the heart of the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – if God is truly God, then God abides in unfathomable mystery, and yet we cannot help but speak of God.  Is this true only of God?  Mystics and theologians from all corners of the medieval and early-modern Mediterranean world began to see the veil of mystery guarding the inmost being of humans themselves, giving new sense to the psalmists’s “deep cries unto deep.”  The intent of our “conference within a conference” this year is to explore these questions of human and divine mystery through the prisms of philosophy, theology, art, architecture, poetry, and cultural history. 

We invite scholars of European, Byzantine, and Islamic and Jewish studies to join in our exploration of so significant a paradox in the pre-modern Mediterranean world.

Villanova University has enjoyed a national reputation through its Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Conference (PMR) for over thirty years. Finding its natural niche and center in philosophy and theology, but extending from there to embrace a wide variety of disciplines in the field, the PMR has established a tradition of scholarship and collegiality complementary to, rather than in competition with, the larger conferences such as Kalamazoo, the Oxford Patristics Conference, or the Medieval Academy.

The conference has met a need in the academic community for working space. According to founding director Thomas Losoncy, the conference was always intended to be a place where scholars come to roll up their sleeves, to work through new ideas, to experiment and push the envelope in their various fields. The PMR’s legacy is archived in a long-running series of published proceedings, from the early 1970s through the 1990s, testimony to its consistent success. read more....

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2013 PMR Conference

Patristic, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies (PMR) at Villanova University invites you to participate in its 38th International PMR Conference on October 18 - 20, 2013!

The PMR committee this year makes a special invitation to scholars from all disciplines in these fields to address our plenary theme:

Deep Unto Deep:  Exploring Mystery, Human and Divine

Featuring:  Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago Divinity School and Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School 

deep onto deep

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