146th JSPS seminar will be held on 14 December 2013, 1:30 pm to 6:30 pm at Room 201, Bild. 12, Sophia University. Four presenters concentrate on the symposium theme “Darkness” and will deliver their papers.
- Masaki Oomori (Nanzan University), “Darkness—as the place of divine manifestation.”
- Wataru Hakamada (University of Tokyo), “Into the darkness—Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita’s thought of the darkness.”
- Misa Shimizu (Waseda University), “Encounter with God in the darkness and the light—‘Jacobs Ladder’ and ‘Burning bush and Moses’ in Parecclesion of Chora Monastery, Istanbul.”
- Koutaro Hiramatsu (Sophia University), “Pietism in Mediaeval Jewish Thought—the understanding of God in the Ashkenazi Hasidic.”