Conference on
The Perception of Science by Calvinists, Lutherans, Unitarians and Religious Dissenters in Central Eastern Europe
11 April, 2024
Address: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, regional headquarters
4032 Debrecen, Thomas Mann u. 49.
Organisers
DAB Working Committee for Religious Studies and Theology, Hungary
J. Selye University,
Faculty of Reformed Theology,
Komárno/Komárom, Slovakia
Magyar Vallástudományi Társaság, Hungary
John Templeton Foundation, Oxford University
THE PROGRAMME
11 April, 2024 (Thursday) – lectures
08.00-8.30 Registration
08.30-08.45 Welcome, Prof. Dr. Ábrahám Kovács (Project leader)
Panel I. chairperson: Prof. Dr. Ábrahám KOVÁCS, (J. Selye University, Slovakia)
09.00-09.20 Prof. Dr. Péter SZENTPÉTERY (Lutheran Theological University, Hungary): Some Indispensable Theological Questions about Darwin’s Work and Testimony
09.20-09.40 Dr. Balázs MAGYAR (University of Pretoria, South Africa): Paul Sárvári’s Contribution to the Philosophical Sciences at Reformed College of Debrecen, special emphasis on his Philosophical Ethics
09.40-10.00 Discussion
Panel II. chairperson: Prof. Dr. Marcel Marcelaru
10.00-10.20 Dr. Csaba TÓDOR (Protestant Theological University, Faculty of Unitarian Theology, Cluj-Kolozsvár, Romania): Between the desires of the heart and the objects of reason: the relationship between philosophy and theology in the thought of János Körmöczi
10.20-10.40 Dr. Péter HOLLÓ (Adventist Theological University, Hungary): Adventists and science in Hungary
10.40-11.00 Discussion
Panel III. chairperson: Dr. Balázs Magyar
11.20-11.40 Dr. Levente HORVÁTH (Protestant Theological University, Cluj-Kolozsvár, Romania): Early Transylvanian Philosophical Efforts for Finding an Episthemological Method
11.40-12.00 Dr. Maria FLORUTAU (Uppsala University, Sweden): Reformed religious networks and their contribution to the circulation of scientific knowledge in Enlightenment-era Transylvania
12.00-12.00 Discussion
12.00-13.30 Lunch
Panel IV. chairperson: Dr. Péter Szentpétery
13.30-13.50 Dr. Emmanuel CONTAC (Pentecostal University, Bukarest, Romania): Romanian Baptists and their efforts to counter the materialist ideology during the Communist regime
13.50-14.10 Prof. Dr. József POSTA (University of Debrecen, Hungary): István Hatvani – the natural philosopher from University of Debrecen
14.10-14.30 Discussion
14.30-14.50 Coffee break
Panel V. chairperson: Dr. Péter Holló
15.00-15.20 Prof. Dr. Marcel MARCELARU (Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania): Pentecostals and Creation Care - A Romanian Perspective
15.20-15.40 Dr. Árpád KULCSÁR (Partium Christian University, Romania): The Issue of Creation in Theology and Natural Sciences Bishop László Ravasz’s synthesis
15.40-16.00 Discussion
16.00-16.30 Coffee break
Panel VI. chairperson: Prof. Dr. József Posta
16.30-16.50 Gábor LÁNYI: „The Harmony of Faith and Knowledge”. Diverse Hungarian Neocalvinist Views on the Relationship between Religion and Science in the First Half of the 20th Century
16.50-17.10 Prof. Dr. Péter KÓNYA (Presov University, Slovaki): The College of Eperjes as the Lutheran Scientific Centre of Upper Hungary
17.10-17.30 Dr. Annamária KÓNYA (Presov University, Slovakia): Education of natural sciences in Reformed and Lutheran schools in the early modern period – comparison
17.30 Discussion
18.00 Dinner
