Between Metaphysics, Theology and Aesthetics: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Early Modern Religious Thought

Between Metaphysics, Theology and Aesthetics: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Early Modern Religious Thought
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This is a past event

Hosted by the Centre for Early Modern Studies

Friday 20 February 2015, 1.30-4.30

Sir Duncan Rice Library, Meeting Room 1 (7th floor)

 

1.15 Lunch and Coffee/Tea

2.00-2.45 Dr Giovanni Gellera (University of Glasgow)

“Hoc est corpus meum”: there is not more than what meets the eyes. The origins of natural law thinking in Protestant scholasticism

Discussion

2.45-3.30 Dr Simon Burton (Artes Liberales Faculty, University of Warsaw)

Trinitarian Method and Universal Reform: Comenius, Baxter and the Metaphysics of Light

Discussion

3.30-3.45 Tea/Coffee

3.45-4.30 Dr hab. Endre Szécsényi (Marie-Curie Fellow, University of Aberdeen)

“Taste and See that the Lord is Sweet” - From spiritual to aesthetic experience in seventeenth-century devotional literature

Discussion

Organiser: Prof. Karin Friedrich for CEMS

Venue
Sir Duncan Rice Library, Meeting Room 1 (7th floor)