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Augustinian Institute Centre For Augustinian & Patristic Studies & The City of God
Seminar
Courses on:
Augustinian
Theology,
Philosophy,
Spirituality &
Patristic Studies
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Director: Revd Professor Salvino CARUANA OSA
SThD Visiting Professor, Faculty of Theology,
University of Malta
PO BOX 61 MSIDA PO MSD 1000 - MALTA
T 2124 9407 (Office + Fax Valletta) 2124 5934 (Valletta –
St. Augustine’s)
M 9940 2102 – 7929 4177
E Univ. of Malta salvino.caruana@um.edu.mt
caruana.salvino@gmail.com
W www,instagostmalta.com
Secretary: A. Borg – 2701 0827 M 9945 0099 - 7770 8700 E toineborg@onvol.net
Academic Year 2017-2018
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A brief history
In 1998, The Provincial Chapter nominated the Rev. Professor Salvino Caruana OSA as successor to the Rev. Professor Edward Fenech OSA to direct the Augustinian Institute. In that same year, the Institute was transferred from the Augustinian Monastery of Valletta, to Pietà, where the Institute was now housed in a larger premises consisting of several rooms, offices, lecture halls, chapel, and prayer room. The premises include now two spacious halls furnished with all the necessary modern didactic instruments, the secretary's office, as well as a library specializing in works on the life, thought and writings of the great Father and Doctor of the Church, Augustine of Hippo, and the Fathers of the Church.
Fr Caruana considered a priority the publicizing of the new academic study-units that would be given at the Augustinian Institute. The academic year would now consist of four events. The first and major study-unit would be the Augustine For All series of lectures from September to December. The second study-unit would comprise the two lectures in the Annual Saint Augustine Lecture, one held at the University of Malta, and the other at the Institute. A scholar of international repute in Augustinian studies and research would be invited to deliver the Annual Lecture. The third aspect of the annual curriculum would be the Lectio Augustini. The Lectio consists of 8 sessions of two hours each, from January to March of the academic year, during which a specific text of Augustine related to the over-arching topic of the current academic year would be read and analyzed. A two-year study-unit on Patrology (1st - Vth) has replaced the fourth aspect of the curriculumm namely, the two-year course in the Philosophy For All. In 2015, during one of the last meetings of the board of the Augustinian Institute, Fr Salvino Caruana presented and brought to a fruitful discussion, the idea of a fifth aspect in the curriculum. After three encounters with H. Em. Gianfranco Cardinal Ravasi in Rome, the inaugural session of the contemporary interpretation of the Courtyard of the Gentiles was delivered by H. Em. Gianfranco Cardinal Ravasi on the 24th January 2017. Ravasi developed the theme of Il Tempio e la Piazza. Fede, cultura e società, alongside some ideas drawn from Augustine of
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Hippo's The City of God. The second in the series was delivered by His Eminence Prospero Cardinal Grech OSA.
Fr Salvino also recognized the great importance, as well as a great priority running parallel to the recognition and resumption of academic activity at the Institute, the task of healing past grievances with the academic institutions and others on the Island. The more urgent ones being those created with the State University of Malta, especially with the Faculty of Theology, as well as those with the local ecclesiastical hierarchy. The results of these efforts were reaped very quickly when the highest representatives from both institutions, three Rectors of the University, and two Archbishops, subsequently accepted invitations to preside academic events, or to address topics on specific aspect of politics and
Reception area Augustinian Institute
church life; distributed certificates of attendance, or else were often present for the Annual Augustine Lecture at the University of Malta. Besides setting many minds at rest, this situation also resulted in an opportunity for enhancing the influence, operation and recognition, of the sterling work being done, as well as the success being reaped at the Institute. Several deans, heads of departments from various faculties at the State University of Malta, accepted to deliver lectures at the Institute. Besides, quite a number of students from various faculties were also encouraged to follow study-units in theology and philosophy offered at the Institute. At the end of each academic year, a Certificate of Attendance is awarded to participants.
Kors G]al Kul]add (Augustine For All)
KORS G}AL KUL}ADD
"Naturally a politician will seek success, without which he would have no opportunity for effective
political action at all. Yet success is subordinated to the criterion of justice, to the will to do what is
right., and to the understanding of what is right. Success can also be seductive and thus can open up the
path towards the falsification of what is right, towards the destruction of justice. "Without justice - what
else is the State but a great band of robbers?," as Saint Augustine once said. (Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Address to Federal Parliament in Berlin's Reichstag Building: Politics at the Service of Rights and Justice, September
24, 2011 AAS 103 (2011), 663-669).
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2017-2018
Kors g]al-Kul]add
L-Ereżija u l-Ortodossija
sekli 1 sa 6
1. Il-{img]a, 6 t’Ottubru 2017 fis-6.00pm
Quddiesa tal-Ftu] tas- Sena Akkademika 2017-2018 Em. T. Il-Kard. P. Grech OSA
Fis-6.35pm sas 7.15pm
Criteria for heresy and orthodoxy in the Early Church
H. Em. Prospero Cardinal Grech OSA
2. Il-Ġimgħa, 13 t’Ottubru 2017
Pneumatology in the works of Sergei Bulgakov (1871-1944) Dr Nadia Delicata PhD (Tor.)
3. Il-Ġimgħa, 20 t’Ottubru 2017
Ori[ene bejn qaddis u eretku
Dottsa Ritienne Debono MD FRCP
4. Il-Ġimgħa, 27 t'Ottubru 2017
Il-Missirijiet tal-Knisja Kappado`i u l-ere\iji ta'\mienhom
Revdu Kan. Dr Jonathan Farrugia SThD
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5. Il-{img]a, 3 ta’ Novembru 2017
Atanasju ta' Lixandra kontra l-Arjani\mu
Revdu Professur Dun Hector Scerri SThD (Greg.)
6. Il-Ġimgħa, 10 ta’ Novembru 2017
L-ere\ija fil-[rajja tal-Knejjes tal-Lvant Nisrani (sekli 1 sas-6 seklu)
Revdu Professur Martin Zammit PHD
7. Il-{img]a l-17 ta' Novembru 2017
Stu Wistin u l-Pela[jani\mu
Revdu Prof. Patri Salvinu Caruana OSA SThD (Melit.)
8. Il-Ġimgħa, 24 ta’ Novembru 2017
Nisa ereti`i matul il-[rajja Nisranija (sekli 1-6) Dr Pauline Dimech PhD (Durham)
9. Il-Ġimgħa, 1 ta’ Di`embru 2017
Stu Wistin u d-Donati\mu fl-Afrika ta' Fuq
Revd Pierre Desira OSA SThL (Aug.)
10. Il-Ġimgħa, 15 ta’ Diċembru 2017
Stu Wistin u s-SemiPela[janiz\mu
Revdu Prof. Patri Salvinu Caruana OSA SThD (Melit.)
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Lectio Augustini
It-Tag]lim Nisrani ta' Stu Wistin 1. Il-Ġimgħa, 19 ta’ Jannar 2018
2. Il-Ġimgħa, 26 ta’ Jannar 2018
3. Il-Ġimgħa, 2 ta’ Frar 2018
4. Il-Ġimgħa, 9 ta’ Frar 2018 5. Il-Ġimgħa, 16 ta’ Frar 2018
6. Il-Ġimgħa, 23 ta’ Frar 2018
7. Il-Ġimgħa, 2 ta’ Marzu 2018 8. Il-Ġimgħa, 9 ta’ Marzu 2018
Tqassim ta' ~ertifikat ta' Attendenza
wara l-lezzjoni
Ri`eviment
Il-lezzjonijiet kollha jing]ataw mir-Revdu Professur Patri Salvinu Caruana
OSA
Il-ktieb ta' Stu Wistin Tag]lim Nisrani jista' jinxtara mill-Istitut Agostinjan g]all-prezz ta' €10
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The City of God
Seminar (2)
Augustinian Institute Centre for Augustinian &
Patristic Studies Pietà - Malta
The Maltese Augustinian Province
cordially invites you to for
The 2nd
edition of
The City of God Seminar
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His Eminence Prospero Cardinal Grech OSA will address the audience on the theme
The New Testament & the Political Powers of this World
on Thursday 5
th October 2017 at 6.30pm
Venue: St Augustine's Hall The Augustinian Institute
Gwardamangia Hill
Evening's programme
6.15pm seating
6.30 pm arrival of H. Em. Prospero Cardinal Grech OSA
6.35pm welcome address by Revd Prof. Salvino Caruana OSA
6.45pm Lecture by H. Em Prospero Grech OSA
7.25pm discussion time
7.45pm Closing Address by the Revd Prof. Salvino Caruana OSA
7.50pm drinks
Revd Dr Paul Sciberras (UOM) will chair the event
(Ample parking space provided in College grounds)
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Prospero Grech (born 24th
December 1925) is a Maltese
Augustinian friar, who co-founded
the Institutum Patristicum
Augustinianum in Rome and was
created a cardinal on 18 February
2012. He was appointed cardinal
deacon of the Church of St. Maria
Goretti. Born Stanley Grech
at Vittoriosa, Malta, on 23
December 1925, he studied at the
Lyceum. Joining the Augustinian
Order in 1943, he was ordained to
the priesthood at the Basilica of St
John Lateran in Rome in 1950.
Prior to being ordained to the
priesthood in 1950, while Malta
was under siege during the Second World War, Grech served as a gunner
in the Royal Malta Artillery. Grech studied philosophy at St Mark's
Priory, Rabat, Malta, and theology in St Monica's College, Rome. He
graduated Doctor of Theology from the Gregorian University, Rome
(1953), obtained a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture from the Pontifical
Biblical Institute, Rome (1954), and a Diploma in Educational Psychology
from Fribourg, Switzerland (1951). Fr. Grech conducted research in
Semitic languages at the universities of Oxford (1957-1958)
and Cambridge (1958 - 1959).
In 1959, Father Grech was appointed
lecturer at the Augustinian Theological College, Rabat. He also served as
secretary at the Vatican Vicariate and professor at the Augustinianum,
Rome.
In Rome one of his earliest duties included dressing Pope John XXIII and
Paul VI for liturgical functions. In 1970, together with Fr. Agostino Trapè
OSA, Fr Grech founded the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum
attached to the Lateran University in Rome and served as its president
between 1971 and 1979. Grech lectured for over thirty years at
the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome on hermeneutics. He was professor
of Biblical Theology at the Lateran University in Rome, Counsellor to
the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and Secretary of the
Maltese Augustinian province. He has lectured at the Accademia dei
Lincei in Rome and at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and
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collaborated with the Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani. On 13 December
2011, he was appointed Companion of the National Order of Merit of the
Republic of Malta. Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI announced on 6th January
2012, that he would create Father Grech a cardinal, together with 21
others, on 18th February 2012. He is the first Augustinian cardinal after
111 years. As canon law requires for cardinals-designate, Grech received
episcopal consecration on 8th February 2012 from Archbishop Pail
Cremona OP, Archbishop of Malta, and was assisted by Archbishop
Giuseppe Versaldi, another cardinal designate, and Mgr Mario Grech,
Bishop of Gozo. Present at the ceremony were President George Abela of
Malta; the Prime Minister, Dr Lawrence Gonzi. The Prior General Robert
F. Prevost OSA was also present.
Grech assumed the episcopal motto In te Domine speravi. On 9th
February, he led the mass of the eve of the Feast of the Shipwreck of St
Paul, in the Church of St Paul, Valletta.
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21st Annual
Saint Augustine Lecture 2018
Augustinian Institute
Centre for Augustinian & Patristic Studies
Pietà - Malta
The Augustinian Institute
The Faculty of Theology of the
University of Malta
and the
Archdiocesan Foundation for
Theological Studies
cordially invite you to for
the 21st
edition of
The Annual Saint Augustine Lecture
Guest Lecturer: Prof Dr Dr Theodor Dieter
The presence of Augustine of Hippo's thought in Martin Luther's Heidelberg Disputation (1518)
on Tuesday 5th
December 2017 at 19.00hrs
GateWay Hall E Lecture Hall, University of Malta
Revd Professor Hector Scerri will chair the event.
Prof. Dieter will deliver a public lecture at the Augustinian Institute - Pieta'
on Wednesday 6th
December 2017 at 18.15hrs
Revd Professor Salvino Caruana OSA will chair the event
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Professor Theodor Dieter is most famous for his insights into the intellectual profile of the young Luther, for which Aristotle and scholastic philosophy played an important role. He is the main architect of almost all Lutheran-Catholic dialogue texts of the past twenty years. He is research professor and head of the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg.
In a lot of places in our world today armed conflicts are taking place in which religious polemics play a role. The secular opinion
often considers violence to be inherent to religious difference and believes that promoting further secularization and taking distance from religious thought are the only solutions. Religions, however, also dispose of an important and unique potential. They are able to foster dialogue between opponents, reconciliation beyond religious difference, and healing of historical wounds. In the year when Europe commemorates the 500th anniversary of the start of the Reformation in 1517 it makes sense to reflect both on the wars of religion that once profoundly devastated Europe and on the ways that have been found and still are found to arrive at reconciliation and peaceful coexistence. In the 16
th century, according to the law of the German Empire, Lutheran,
Reformed and Roman Catholic temporal authorities persecuted Christians who refused to baptize infants and who “re-baptized” adults who had been baptized as infants. Theologians justified such actions against the so-called “Anabaptists” and even encouraged them. The Lutheran Augsburg Confession contains five condemnations against these Anabaptists. The wounds of this religiously motivated violence have created much pain that has endured until the present day. They have posed a major obstacle in the way of improved relationships between Lutherans and Mennonites, the latter of whom see themselves as the spiritual heirs of the Anabaptists. The Lutheran World Federation and the Mennonite World Conference established a study group investigating the relations between Lutherans and Anabaptists in the 16
th century. For the first time, this history was jointly written by
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Anabaptist and Lutheran historians and theologians, entitled “Healing Memories – Reconciling in Christ.” The detailed description of that painful and guilt-ridden history called for a response from the Lutheran side. After serious reflections and discussions within the worldwide Lutheran communion, it was decided to publicly confess the harm, pain, and injustice that Lutheran authorities and theologians had done to Anabaptists in the past and to ask the Mennonites for forgiveness. This happened at the Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation 2010 in Stuttgart (Germany). The Mennonites responded by granting full forgiveness to the Lutheran community, a moving experience for all present. Subsequently this reconciliation was celebrated in a service in the presence of top representatives of many Christian churches. Since then it has been regarded as a model for reconciliation by many theologians. The 500
th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017, too, is the challenge to
address a conflicted history ecumenically. The International Lutheran/Roman Catholic Commission on Unity studied the problems of a joint commemoration and presented a proposal entitled “From Conflict to Communion.” It includes both an element of thanksgiving for what the church universal received through the Reformation, and an element of confession and repentance for the division of the Western church. This document was the basis for the historic Catholic/Lutheran commemoration of the Reformation led by Pope Francis and the President of the Lutheran World Federation, Bishop Younan, on October 31, 2016, in Lund (Sweden). In both cases, historical and theological research, ecumenical dialogues, and the commitment to Christian unity have made steps toward reconciliation possible and allowed for the overcoming of conflicts of the past and openness to a new future.
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