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International Conference Antoine Arjakovsky Professor of Theology Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine Corporeity in an Ecclesial and Familial Perspective The Christian Orthodox theological tradition is grounded on the epistle of Paul to Ephesians (5, 21-32) to understand the mystery of the symbolic bond, fractal and eschatologic, between the small Church which form the family unit and the large Church of the people of God (cf Gleb Kaleda, The Church at Home). To read again today this tradition starting from contemporary authors such as S. Boulgakov and Marc Ouellet, O. Clément and Peter Neuner, C. Yannaras and J.L. Marion, makes it possible to pass from an apophatic ecclesiology to a theantropic ecclesiology. In this personalist and sophiologic ecclesiology, the concepts of personhood, wisdom and hypostasis reveal the concept, neglected a long time by theology, of non-hypostatic corporeity. The corporeity in love, fundamental expression of the trinitarian life, is also found in the family life and connected with the church. This vision of the Church like the Spouse of the Lamb, of the unfinished world, waiting for its nomination, and of the union in "only one flesh" (Gen II, 24) of the man and his wife as event of the meeting between the created Wisdom and the uncreated Wisdom has significant consequences. On the life of the Church, the family space time could be better understood and lived like a place of divino-humanity. Thus the corporeity of the interchurch families, which defies the legal definition of the sacramental borders of the Church, would be integrated better into the life of the Churches like a cell, showing a way, one among others, of the unity to all the Church. On the social life, that implies to invent a gouvernance which takes better into accounts the various degrees of corporeity of the Church locally and universally, but also of a nation and of the family of the nations. Thus baptismal, eucharistic and pastoral ecclesiology finds in the family life an equivalent of choice through the power/exousia of forgiveness, the communion of the bodies, and the guidance with confidence and donation of oneself. Antoine Arjakovsky is a French historian teaching at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine, and guest teacher at the Centre Sèvres, Paris. He is the director of the Institute of Ecumenical Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University. He is preparing an international and ecumenical conference in La Salette, France (24-30 July 2010) on the topic of 'Family life in Europe : Crisis and Renewal.' Personal website Conference Main Page | Theme | Travel Programme | Call for Papers | Information | |
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