Christianity and Politics
2023

Program

CHRISTIANITY AND POLITICS 2023

 October 2-3, University of Public Service, Budapest

 

 October 2, 2023

 9:00 Opening  

9:30 Plenary session

  • R. R. Reno (First Things): "Christian politics in a secular age"

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Panel I

  • Steven Hayward (University of California, Berkeley): “Rethinking the liberal solution to sectarian politics”
  • Linda L. Denno (University of Arizona): “Christianity, equality, and constitutional government”
  • Ferenc Hörcher (University of Public Service, Budapest): “Spaemann’s concept of the person and its political philosophical implications”

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Plenary session

  • William T. Cavanaugh (DePaul University, Chicago): “Idolatry and the future of Christianity in a secularized world”

15:00 Coffee break

15:30 Panel II

  • Kálmán Tóth (University of Public Service, Budapest): “Christianity as a political utopia in Lajos Kossuth’s The Future of Nations”
  • Hans-Otto Seitschek (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München): “Is political transcendence possible? Jacob L. Talmon’s concept of ‘political messianism’”
  • Tamás Nyirkos (University of Public Service, Budapest): “Secular, quasi, remixed, lifestyle, etc.: a few notes on the terminology of ‘new’ religions”

 

October 3, 2023

 9:00 Plenary session

  • Carolina Armenteros (Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra): "The Enlightenment Origins of Modern Christian Religiosity"

10:00 Coffee break

10:30 Panel III

  • Ádám Smrcz (University of Public Service, Budapest): "Taming the reason of state – early anti-Machiavellian discourse, and the (lack of the) dividing line between confessions"
  • Róbert Papp (MCC, Budapest): “Defying the Prince – the American Declaration of Independence in light of the Fourth Commandment”
  • Ádám Darabos (University of Public Service, Budapest): “Niebuhr for Hungarian conservatives?”

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Panel IV

  • András Máté-Tóth (University of Szeged): “Socio-theological inspirations from Central and Eastern Europe"
  • Mihal Gierycz (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw): “About the liberal and conservative ‘temptations’ of the Catholic Church”
  • András Jancsó (University of Public Service, Budapest): “A kind of altar to political theology"

14:30 Closing remarks