On September 27-28, 2024, Campion College’s Centre for the Study of the Western Tradition hosted a two-day symposium titled “Shepherd at the Crossroads: Converging Traditions in Early Christianity”. Held at the college’s Grand Hall, the event attracted a distinguished lineup of speakers and attendees, including scholars, students, and members of the public, all eager to explore the multicultural and multi-traditional character of early Christianity.

For those unable to attend, recordings of the presentations are now available:

• Dr Vassilis Adrahtas | “Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and the Neoplatonists: One Wonders Who is the Christian and Who is the Pagan” (KEYNOTE)
• Dr Chris Baghos | “Shepherds of Ireland and Iona: The Convergence of Ascetical Theology and Hagiographical Motifs in Adomnán’s Life of Columba”
• Dr Danijel Džino | “Christianity and Paganism in Dark Age and Early Medieval Dalmatia”
• Dr Kevin Wagner | “Patristic Reception of Jewish Liturgical Texts: The Tabernacle”
• Dr Lydia Gore-Jones | “Solomonic Literature: Jewish, Hellenistic and Christian”
• Dr Mario Baghos | “Might Unassailable? Walls, Gates, and the Marble King of Byzantine Constantinople”
• Dr Lyn M. Kidson | “A Citizen of Empire or Citizen of the World? Paul’s Textual Identities as a Roman Jew and Greek Christian”
• Mr Gabriel Jower | “Infanticide or Indifference? Disentangling the use of ektithе ̄ mi andekballō in Patristic and Documentary Greek”
• Mr Mark Matic | “Barbarism Begins at Home: Revelation, Dionysius of Alexandria, and the Greek Prescriptivist Tradition”

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