Celebration of the 80th anniversary of Olivier Clément by the Aletti Center and Sacred Heart University
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This article reports on the celebrations held in Paris on 16 November 2001 on the occasion of the eightieth birthday of the Orthodox theologian Olivier Clément, who received the Logos-Eikôn prize from the Aletti Centre in Rome and an honorary doctorate from Sacred Heart University in Connecticut. The document brings together several speeches delivered during this ceremony, thus belonging to the genre of academic and ecclesial testimony. The contributors — Michelina Tenace, Father Boris Bobrinskoy, and President Anthony Cernera — highlight three fundamental dimensions of Clément's work: the personal experience of salvation as a theological starting point, the role of beauty and poetry in the transmission of faith, and an ecumenism rooted in Christology. The contribution of the article lies in documenting the institutional recognition, both Catholic and Orthodox, of a theological thought that has contributed to the dialogue between the Christian East and West and to reflection on the evangelisation of contemporary Europe.
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