Faculty of Theology

STOQ Study Program on "Epistemology of Theology"

May 10th, 11:15am-12:30pm

Room "Paolo VI"
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Seminar on:
"Faith, Science and Scientism"

by Card. Georges Cottier

Theologian of The Pontifical House
Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences

Program:

• Welcome Address of Bishop Rino Fisichella, Rector of the Pontifical Lateran University

• Introductory Remarks of Mgr. Nicola Ciola, Dean of the Faculty of Theology

• Public Lecture of Card. Georges Cottier, Theologian of the Pontifical House

May 19th, 8:30am-10:30am

Room 71
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Seminar on:
"Faith and Science
in search of Universal:
Convergences and Divergences"

by Jean-Michel Maldamé

catholic Institute of Toulouse (France)
Member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences

Past Events

April 29th, 15.30pm

Room "Paolo VI"
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Workshop of the Philosophy Faculty on: "Classical Metaphyisics and
Formal Ontology"

With the Public Lecture of:
Prof. Nino B. Cocchiarella

of the Indiana Univesrity at Bloominghton (USA)

and the Participation of:
Prof. Sergio Galvan

of the Catholic University of Milan (Italy)

A public debate will follow to which all the professors of the Philosophy Faculty of the pontifical lateran university are invited.

Participation is free.

Lecture Series on:
“ Readings on Aquinas Works:
'The Disputations On Truth' ”

organized by
the Chair "St. Thomas Aquinas and the Contemporary Thought"

COORDINATED BY
PROF. MARIO PANGALLO

• Mission of the Chair is to encourage a scientific approach to the works of Aquinas through the reading and the lexicografic, historical and theoretical commentary of the Aquinas texts, in relationship to the main quests of the contemporary thought.

• This Lecture Series is strongly recommended to all people interested in the STOQ Project, because it concerns Aquinas epistemology on the relationship between Scientific and Theological Truth. This relationship constitutes indeed the main topic of the Study Program of the STOQ Project at the Lateran University, for this Academic Year 2003/4.

• In this way a fruitful collaboration starts between the STOQ Project and the Chair "St. Thomas Aquinas and the Contemporary Thought".

• All the Lectures are given in the Giovanni XXIII room by the seat of the Pontifical Lateran University.

PROGRAM

• FEBRUARY 24TH, 2004, 11.30AM

  "Man as Image of the Trinity" (Question X)
  Prof. Savino Biolo s.j. Pontifical Gregorian University.

• march 2nd, 2004, 11.30AM

  "The Transcendental's" (Question I)
  Prof. Gianfranco Basti. Pontifical Lateran University

• march 9th, 2004, 17.00pm

  "The Knowledge of God" (Question II)
  Prof. Guido Mazzotta. Pontifical Urbanian University

• march 23rd, 2004, 17.00pm

  "The Human Freedom" (Question XXIV)
  Prof. Lluis Clavell. Pontifical University of the Holy Cross

• march 30th, 2004, 11.30am

  "The Passions of Soul" (Question XXVI)
  Prof. Umberto Galeazzi. State University of Chieti

• april 27th, 2004, 17.00pm

  "The Faith" (Question XIV)
  Card. Georges Cottier, Theologian of the Pontifical House

• may 4th, 2004, 11.30am

  "The Grace" (Question XXVII)
  Prof. Karl Becker s.j. Pontifical Gregorian University

Presentation of the STOQ Project
at the Pontifical Lateran University
in the context of the
Workshop for Celebrating the Millennium of
Pope Sylvester II (938-1003)

May 12th 2003
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1. Sylvester II: who is him?

• The Presentation of the STOQ Project at the Lateran University was inserted in the Workshop, organized by the Pontifical Council for Culture, for celebrating the MIllennium of the death of Pope Sylvester II, "the Scientist-Pope".
• Pope Sylvester II, Gerbert d'Aurillac, was born in France, near the Abbey of Aurillac, in the region of Auvergne, in a date between 938 and 950. He died in Rome on May 12th, 1003 and was buried in the Lateran Cathedral - the Cathedral of the Pope as Bishop of Rome -, close to the Lateran University.
• His figure is important for the historians not only because he was the first French Pope in the history of the Church, but overall because he reformed the study program of the Cathedral Schools by inserting in them the study of physical and mathematical sciences, the famous quadrivials (quadrivium arts) of the Middle Age organization of knowledge and of studies.
• In this way, he became the precursor of the Universities, effectively born from the ancient Cathedral Schools, transformed by the Sylvester reform into educational and research institutions of universal scholarship, i.e. "universities".
• Moreover - to earn the title of "Scientist Pope" -, during his personal experience of teaching as Benedictine monk in the Cathedral Schools of many Europe cities, he effectively gave great contributions to the diffusion of the scientific knowledge in the western culture. He developed indeed the experimental method in teaching mathematics and astronomy, by introducing in the Cathedral Schools the use of the abacus for the arithmetical calculations and of a particular version of the astrolabe, invented and costructed by himself,for the astronomy study, even though he personally did not make any scientific discovery.
• The STOQ Project, after one thousand years, moves toward the same direction indicated for the first time by Sylvester II mastership, re-introducing into the Pontifical Universities the integration of science and religion studies as an essential ingredient in the education of the future Church ministers.
• Effectively, Pope Sylvester II was guided in his mastership by the same principle guiding his successor after a millennium the Pope John Paul II, the first Pope from Poland, a nation of which Christianity depends originally on the pastoral action of Pope Sylvester who founded a lot of monasteries in that nation, effectively instituting its National Church.
• The common principle guiding these two Popes so distant in time, but so close in mind, is well synthesized in the first paragraph of the John Paul II Encyclical Letter Fides et Ratio, guiding our STOQ Project: "Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit raises to the contemplation of truth".
• An exhaustive presentation of the life and of the mastership of Pope Sylvester II, can be found in the opening lecture of the Workshop, given by Cardinal Paul Poupard, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture, and inspirer and President of the STOQ Project: "Gerbert Scientist and Pope". The written text of the original Italian version of this lecture is downloadable in this site.