Seminars 2000-2009

  • 91st seminar (12 January 2000) — Ryuichiro Tani, ‘An Essay on the Ontological Dynamism in St. Gregory of Nyssa’
  • 92nd seminar (15 April 2000) — Shinro Kato, ‘On Augustine’s Way of Biblical Interpretation in De Civitate Dei’
  • 93rd seminar (July 2000) — Sumio Nakgawa, ‘Memory of Blessed Life: Augustine’s De beata vita’
  • 94th seminar, Special Lecture (October 2000) — Edouard Jeauneau, ‘Eriugena and Medieval Platonism’
  • 95th seminar (20 January 2001) — Ichiro Kamata, ‘Prudentius and the Martyrs’
  • 96th seminar (28 April 2001) — Takeshi Kato, ‘Continentia et Iustitia (Conf. X, xxxvii, 61): St. Augustine and Young Heidegger’
  • 97th seminar (7 July 2001) — Yasuo Mori, ‘On the “conversion” of the Spiritual Creatures in Augustine’s De Genesi ad Litteram: towards the Comparison between the “conversio” of Augustine and the “epistrophe” of Plotinus’
  • 98th seminar (17 November 2001) — Katsushi Hakasa, ‘Augustine on Semiotics’
  • 99th seminar (19 January 2002) — Eiichi Katayanagi, ‘Augustine’s “cogito” in his De trinitate XIV’
  • 100th seminar (20 April 2002) — You Shibata, ‘Patristic Interpretations of the Serpent of Bronze: the Validity of a Typological Approach’
  • 101st seminar (29 June 2002) — Kenji Mizuochi, ‘Augustine and Stoic Philosophy: On the Etymology of De Dialectica c. 6’
  • 102nd seminar (26 October 2002) — Ryuichiro Tani, ‘The Dynamism of the Human Nature: the Context of the Deification in Maximus the Confessor’
  • 103rd seminar (21 December 2002) — Yanagisawa, Tami, ‘Passions in the Thought of Gregory of Nyssa: De anima et ressurectione’
  • 104th seminar (15 March 2003) — Pauline Allen, ‘The Life and Thought of a Heretic: the Case of Severus of Antioch’
  • 105th seminar (28 June 2003) — Naoki Kamimura, ‘The Exegetical Dimensions of the Ascent of the Soul: Some Remarks on Augustine’s De Genesi contra Manichaeos’
  • 106th seminar (18 October 2003) — Yoshihiro Kon, ‘Eriugena’s Doctrine of motus stabilis et status mobilis: Book 1 of Periphyseon’
  • 107th seminar (6 December 2003) —Manabu Akiyama, ‘Significance of the “Paidagogos” in the Works of Clemens Alexandrinus’
  • 108th seminar (4th March 2004) — Neil B. Mclynn, ‘The Keio Augustine: the Mystery of a 13th Century Manuscript’
  • 109th seminar (26 June 2004) — Sumio Nakagwa, ‘Augustine’s Notion of “certitudo” in his Confessions VII’
  • 110th seminar (16 October 2004) — Tatsuko Tago, ‘On <κόσμος νοητός> in De opificio mundi of Philo of Alexandria’
  • 111th seminar (18 December 2004) — Kenji Doi, ‘God and the “κένωσις” in Origen’
  • 112th seminar (19 March 2005) — Ippei Matsuzaki, ‘On the Utility of Conversion Narratives in Augustine’s Confessions, Book 8: The Meaning of “facta”’
  • 113th seminar (17 September 2005) — Michitaka Suzuki, ‘The Icon and the Idol’
  • 114th seminar (17 December 2005) — Eiji Hisamatsu, ‘The Side Effects of the Prayer in Gregory Sinaites the Hesycast: the Vision, the Warmth of the Heart, and the Delights’
  • 115th seminar (25 March 2006) — Yukiko Okabe, ‘The Idea of “beata uita” and the Basis of Ethical Thoughts: Augustinus, Conf. X’ — Makiko Sato, ‘The “animus” in Augustine’s Confessions X’
  • 116th seminar, JSPS 30th Anniversary Lecture (24 June 2006) — Robert Hill, ‘John Chrysostom, Commentator on the Old Testament’
  • 117th seminar (21 October 2006) — Yoichi Arai, ‘The Field of Vision after the Dark Pictures: the Problem of Evil in St. Augustine’s Later Work: the City of God XXII, xxii-xxiv’
  • 118th seminar (9 December 2006) — Kenji Mizuochi, ‘Artes liberales in Cassiciacum’
  • 119th seminar (31 March 2007) — Horié, Satochi, ‘Before and After Iamblichus’ — Kyoko Nakanishi, ‘Julianus’ Revival of the Traditional Roman Religions and the Neoplatonists of Iamblichus’ School in the Imperial Court’
  • 120th seminar (16 June 2007) — Chisato Tauchi, ‘Genesis Interpretation in the Book 12 of Augustine’s Confessions, from the viewpoint of Psalm’s Quotations’ — Takeshi Kato, ‘Beyond the Visual Language: Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos 41’
  • 121st seminar (27 October 2007) — Book Review of Shinro Kato’s Lectures on Augustine’s Confessions Books I-X.
  • 122nd seminar (22 December 2007) — Kenji Doi, ‘Negative Theology and Beneficence by Gregory of Nyssa’
  • 123rd seminar (22 March 2008) — Shinici Muto, ‘Good Pleasure (Eudokia) in the Antiochene Exegetical School’
  • 124th seminar (21 June 2008) — Shigeki Tsuchihashi, ‘The Problematic within the Controversy between Basil of Caesarea and Eunomius’
  • 125th seminar (18 October 2008) — Katsushi Hikasa, ‘The Concept of the “Music” in Augustine in his De musica’ — Manabu Nasukawa, ‘The Influence of Augustine’s Mathematical Thought: Harmonia Theory in Marin Mersenne’
  • 126th seminar (13 December 2008) — Satoshi Toda, ‘The Foundation of Christian Monastic Movement: Anchoritic and Coenobitic Monasticism’ — Kuwabara Naoki, ‘The Anchorite and the Coenobitic Monastery: Its Eastern Origin and Western Development’
  • 127th seminar (28 March 2009) — Hisao Miyamoto, ‘“Extendere” of the Body in Augustine’
  • 128th seminar (27 July 2009) — Wataru Takahashi, ‘Christology of ps.-Dionysius’ — Rei Hakamada, ‘Seeing the Light of God: Gregory Palamas’s Interpretation of ps.-Dionysius’ — Megumi Kitagawa, ‘The Ascent of the Soul through the Music: Augustine’s De musica Book 6’ — Kurato Yokota, ‘Reading Augustine backwards: Mutual Inherence of the Substance in his De trinitate’
  • 129th seminar (19 Semptember 2009) — Ryuichiro Tani, ‘The Divine Energeia: the Experience of the Pneuma and the Faith in Gregory of Nyssa and Maximus the Confessor’
  • 130th seminar (12 December 2009) — Kazuhiko Demura, ‘The Significance of St. Paul in the 390’s Augustine: towards the Understanding of his Confessions’ Framework’