Today, on May 4, the Annual
Scientific Conference of Professors and Teachers was opened at
Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary.
It has become a tradition at
Tbilisi Theological Academy and Seminary that the Scientific
Conference of Professors and Teachers is held at the end of every
spring semester. This year it is dedicated to the 185th anniversary
of the birth of Saint Ilia the Righteous (Chavchavadze).
The event will extend over two
days. Papers presented at the conference have a variety of contents
and include researches of theological, philological, historical,
philosophical and other dimensions.
The Rector of Tbilisi Theological
Academy and Seminary, PhD of Theology, Philology and Politics,
Protopresbyter Giorgi Zviadadze opened the conference with an
introductory speech. He spoke about the importance of the
scientific conference in the educational life of the academy and
seminary, noting that even from its inception the conference
inherited the educational traditions that had existed in Gelati
Theological School from the very beginning. It represents a kind of
summary of research conducted by the professors and teachers
throughout the year in the process of the study of Orthodoxy from
the angle of its scientific and pastoral content. In this way as
well, the school becomes a reliable foundation for the salvific
faith and scientific thought.
The following speakers
delivered speeches at the plenary session:
1. Doctor of Philology and
Theology, Archpriest Bidzina Gunia - Gender Theory
Yesterday and Today;
2. Doctor of Philology Maia
Rafava - Unknown Greek Epigram about Ioane the
Athonite;
3. Doctor of Philology Lela
Khachidze – “Calendar” by Michael Modrekili;
4. Doctor of History and Theology
Sergo Vardosanidze – Hand in to Me the Key to the
University (Arshak Babov v. Georgian University).
