TRIERTIUM Conference: A Trinitarian Synthesis of Wisdom
Throughout history, the human spirit has turned to philosophy in its quest to create a unified system of all-embracing absolute knowledge. Theologians have reshaped this quest by relating it to the personal wisdom of Triune God who knows Himself and everything else through the other as the Father knows Himself and everything in the Son, and the Son knows Himself and everything in the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit. TRIERTIUM draws deeply from this relational tradition. In particular, we take inspiration from the holistic vision of the great Moravian theologian and philosopher Jan Amos Komenský, or Comenius, who coined the term “TRIERTIUM” from tri- (“three”) and ars (“art”) to name the early modern relational synthesis of all sciences and arts in Trinitarian ontology.
The TRIERTIUM Conference in 3 – 5 December 2025 will gather leading thinkers from philosophy and theology to consider the speculative ambitions and contradictions of the great systems and syntheses of human knowledge in the past and present. Together, we will reflect on how the Christian mystery of the Triune God transforms this quest for absolute knowledge of all reality. And we will participate in this transformation through a series of artistic, cultural and liturgical encounters.
The TRIERTIUM Conference 2025 brings together more than 60 distinguished thinkers from around the world, including philosophers, theologians, scientists, politicians, and artists.
The full list of speakers includes:
Bartosz Adamski, Andrea Bellantone, Anastasiia Bondarenko, Prokop Brož (Auxiliary Bishop of Hradec Králové), Raul Buffo, Rocco Buttiglione, Maria Calabretto, Piero Carreras, Jose Yamid Castiblanco, SJ, Giulio M. Cavalli, Piero Coda (Secretary General of the International Theological Commission), Mattia Coser, Michal Černý, Khegan M. Delport, Eduard Fiedler, Marco Fiorletta, Martina Frongillo, Emmanuel Gabellieri, Felix Geisler, Andrea Giovita, Philip Gonzales, Ryan Haecker, Michael Hauser, Petr Havlík, Vít Hlinka, Václav Kadrnka, Linus Karlsson, Lenka Karfíková, Benjamin Kiderman, Martin Kočí, Ondřej Kříž, Luka Kuchukhidze, Javier Liñán Delage, Virgil Lualhati McCorgray, Tomáš Machula, Francisco Javier Martínez Fernández (Archbishop Emeritus of Granada), Giulio Maspero, Matthew Mazza, John Milbank, Eirik Moland Fevang, Sean Palmer, Petr Pavlas, Juliana Peiró Pérez, Francesco Porchia, Dario Postolowski, Matteo Raffaelli, Paweł Rojek, Dalimil Ševčík, Jongseock Shin, Barbora Šmejdová, David Svoboda, Prokop Sousedík, Mátyás Szalay, Jan Thümmel, Malwina A. Tkacz, Dario Tordoni, Maurizio Trudu, Ilaria Vigorelli, Peter Volek, Travis Wade Zinn, Anna K. Winters, Ľubomír Žák.

Wednesday — 3 December 2025
09:00 — Registration
Sts Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology (Univerzitní 22)Optional Morning Programme
- 08:00 — Mass (Faculty Chapel)
- 08:00 — Austerlitz Excursion with Ryan Haecker (register here)
- 10:00 —Synodality Lecture of Mons. Coda (in Italian with Czech translation) | AULA
- 10:00 — Guided Walk around Olomouc with Jitka Jonová (in English; limited numbers – register via info@triertium.cz) | Faculty Entrance
Conference Programme | AULA
13:00 — Opening Address
Eduard Fiedler (Olomouc): What Is Triertium?13:20 — Keynote Lecture
Chair: Eduard Fiedler
John Milbank (Nottingham): Radicalising Orthodoxy: The Doctrine of the Trinity Was an Ontology from the Outset14:00 — Discussion & Coffee Break
14:30–17:30 — Conference Papers — Radicalising Orthodoxy and Modernity | AULA
Chair: Petr Macek
- 14:30 — Luka Kuchukhidze: Trinitarian Metaphysics and Creativity in Eriugena and Cusanus
- 14:50 — Petr Pavlas: “In triuno eius libro Omnes Omnia invenient”. Johannes Amos Comenius, the Triple Book of God, and the Origin of Modern Encyclopaedism
- 15:10 — Khegan M. Delport: The Life of the Soul: Traherne on the Similitude of the Trinity
- 15:30 — Discussion & Break
- 16:00 — Anna K. Winters & Matthew Mazza: The Prism of Onto-theology and the Veil of Analogy: Cartesian Questions and Trinitarian Answers in Hart and Wood
- 16:20 — Michael Hauser: Infinity in the World and the Holy Trinity
- 16:40 — Discussion & Break
17:00 — Refreshments (Czech Goulash and Beer)
19:00 — Evening Programme | Archbishop’s Palace
Welcome Addresses
Msgr. Josef Nuzík (Archbishop of Olomouc)
Vít Hušek (Dean of Sts Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology)Public Lectures
Msgr. Prokop Brož (Auxiliary Bishop of Hradec Králové)
La Chiesa – saggezza e santità vanno di pari passo / The Church – Wisdom and Holiness go Hand in Hand
Msgr. Piero Coda (Secretary General of the International Theological Commission)
Entrare insieme nella conoscenza di Cristo: il kairós trinitario di Nicea ieri e oggi / Entering Together into the Knowledge of Christ: The Trinitarian Kairos of Nicaea – Then and Now
Ľubomír Žák (Olomouc)
Ontologia trinitaria e pensiero complesso – Una promettente sintonia / Trinitarian Ontology and Complex Thought – A Promising ConvergenceMusic
Dalimil Ševčík (Olomouc)
Intermezzi of Music and Verse (between speeches)Thursday — 4 December 2025
Conference Programme | AULA
Chair: Dalimil Ševčík
08:30 — Paweł Rojek (Krakow)
Synergy: Florensky’s Trinitarian Ontology of Art09:00 — Lenka Karfíková (Olomouc)
The Trinity as a Double Dyad: Marius Victorinus, “Against Arius”09:30 — Discussion & Coffee Break
Chair: Mátyás Szalay
10:15 — Msgr. Javier Martínez Fernández (Archbishop Emeritus of Granada)
“Mary Conceived His Limbs – Creation Conceived His symbols” (Virg. VI, 7) – A Side Light on the Trinity and Creation in St. Ephrem the Syrian10:45 — Ilaria Vigorelli (Rome)
Relational Anthropology and Change: Freedom as a Given Gift11:15 — Discussion
11:45 — Mass | Seminary Chapel
12:30 — Lunch | Seminary
13:30–16:30 — Parallel Sections
AULA — New Frontiers of Trinitarian Thinking
Chair: Jan Thümmel
- 13:30 — Michal Černý: Traces of Trinitarian Thought in the Implicit Religion of Digital Technology
- 13:50 — Andrea Giovita: The Trinity and the Law: Towards a Regenerative Canonical Justice. Relational Thinking, Mission, and the Future of Ecclesial Legal Order
- 14:10 — Malwina A. Tkacz: Toward Christian Jurisprudence: Reconciling Legal Traditions through Trinitarian Ontology
- 14:30 — Discussion & Break
- 15:00 — Eirik Moland Fevang: Mind, Liturgy and Trinity. Wittgenstein Reconsidered
- 15:20 — Raul Buffo: Philosophy and Theology: Notes for a Formally Trinitarian Epistemology
- 15:40 — Discussion & Break
ROTUNDA — Mariology & Theological Aesthetics
Chair: Anastasiia Bondarenko
- 13:30 — Petr Havlík: The Trinitarian ontology of Gregory of Nyssa in the Treatise “De virginitate”
- 13:50 — Barbora Šmejdová: The Hidden and the Holy: The Spirit as the Root of Trinitarian Belonging through Marian Receptivity and Imagination
- 14:10 — Dalimil Ševčík: Boethius: Trinitarian Grasp of Being Through Music
- 14:30 — Discussion & Break
- 15:00 — Martina Frongillo: The Icon as Trinitarian Synthesis: Towards a Relational Ontology of the Image
- 15:20 — Zinn Travis Wade: The Wisdom of the Trinity in the Age of the Spirit: Toward a Metaphysics of Inner Theosis
- 15:40 — Discussion & Break
U03 — Trinitarian Anthropologies
Chair: Ondřej Melichárek
- 13:30 — Juliana Peiró Pérez: Towards a New Formal Reason for Personhood. Anthropological Keys in Thomas Aquinas’ Trinitarian Ontology
- 13:50 — David Svoboda & Prokop Sousedík: Person and its Relational Concept
- 14:10 — Discussion & Break
- 14:40 — Bartosz Adamski: Does Necessity Cancel Freedom? God in His Intimate Life According to Thomas Aquinas
- 15:00 — Javier Liñán: A Path to Trinitarian Anthropology and Philosophy
- 15:20 — Discussion & Break
16:30 — Coffee Break
Conference Programme | AULA
Chair: Cyril Dunaj
16:45 — Peter Volek (Ružomberok)
Inputs from Edith Stein’s Trinitarian Ontology for Philosophy17:15 — Emmanuel Gabellieri (Lyon)
Trinity and ‘Polar Unity’: On the Different Types of Trinitarian Analogy in Created Being17:45 — Discussion
18:15 — Dinner | Seminary
19:30 — Cultural Evening (Maria Calabretto, Antoine Dossin, Václav Kadrnka) | AULA
Friday — 5 December 2025
Conference Programme | AULA
Chair: Martin Cajthaml
08:30 — Andrea Bellantone (Toulouse)
Giveness, Singularity and Superabundance: A Trinitarian Reinterpretation?09:00 — Rocco Buttiglione (Rome)
A Trinitarian Political Ontology?09:30 — Discussion & Coffee Break
Chair: Dominik Opatrný
10:15 — Matteo Raffaelli (Freiburg)
Towards a Horizon of Meaning for Our Time: On the “Toticipative” Unity of Political Power, Philosophical Wisdom and Religious Love10:45 — Ryan Haecker (American Academy in Rome)
Jesuit Cybernetics: The Trinitarian Ontology of Computers11:15 — Discussion
11:45 — Mass | Seminary Chapel
12:30 — Lunch | Seminary
13:30–16:30 — Parallel Sections
AULA — Trinity, Evil and Otherness
Chair: Klára Maliňáková
- 13:30 — Ondřej Kříž: Evil as Privation and Lack of Empathy: A Trinitarian Perspective
- 13:50 — Sean Palmer: The Privation of Trinitarian Relation – Whence Comes Evil?
- 14:10 — Jongseock Shin: Theopaschism (Divine Suffering) and Trinitarian Wisdom: Moltmann’s and Pannenberg’s Trinitarian Engagement in Theology-Science Dialogue
- 14:30 — Discussion & Break
- 15:00 — Mattia Coser: Trinity as Communio. The Trinitarian Theology of Gisbert Greshake
- 15:20 — Vít Hlinka: Šternberk Treatise on the Trinity
- 15:40 — José Yamid Castiblanco: From the Trinity to the Person: Alterity, Relationality, and the Ethos of Responsibility
- 16:00 — Discussion & Break
ROTUNDA — Classical German Philosophy
Chair: Maurizio Maria Malimpensa
- 13:30 — Marco Fiorletta: “denn gute Dinge sind drei”. Selected Trinitarian Aspects in Hölderlin’s Der Einzige and Patmos
- 13:50 — Francesco Porchia: Trinity and the Recognition of the Other. Considerations on an Alternative Paradigm of Subjectivity Based on Schelling’s Philosophy of Revelation
- 14:10 — Discussion & Break
- 14:40 — Virgil Lualhati McCorgray: Hegel’s Trinivocal Theory of the Infinite
- 15:00 — Jan Thümmel: Triadic Ontology and Unity in Rosenzweig
- 15:20 — Giulio M. Cavalli: Triads, Relations, Personhood: Lotze’s Speculative Grammar and Trinitarian Ontology
- 15:40 — Discussion & Break
U03 — Contemporary Philosophies & Trinity
Chair: Ali Yansori
- 13:30 — Felix Geisler: Metaphysic, Metalogic, Metaethic – Rosenzweigs Three Steps in Overcoming Old Thinking – Towards New Thinking
- 13:50 — Benjamin Kiderman: Triadic Giving: C.S. Peirce and the Ontological Gospel
- 14:10 — Anastasiia Bondarenko: Theosemiotic (Peircean) Perspective on the Trinity
- 14:30 — Discussion & Break
- 15:00 — Maurizio Trudu: Husserl and the Gotteswelt: A Possible Contribution to Trinitarian Ontology
- 15:20 — Piero Carreras: An Endeavour Towards the Infinite. A Phenomenological-Metaxological Approach to Epektasis
- 15:40 — Martin Kočí: Beyond Hermeneutics: Trinitarian Ontology as an Alternative to Post-Metaphysical Theology
- 16:00 — Discussion & Break
Conference Programme | AULA
Chair: Josef Mikulášek
16:45 —Philip John Paul Gonzales (St Mary’s Seminary & University)
From the Fontal Father: On Seeing and Being Seen through Love17:15 — Giulio Maspero (Rome)
Patristic Trinitarian Ontology as Radical Ecumenism17:45 — Discussion
18:15 — Dinner | Seminary
19:30 — Cultural Evening (Karel Martínek) | St Wenceslas Cathedral
Saturday — 6 December 2025
Optional Morning Programme
- 08:00 — Mass (Faculty Chapel)
Throughout the morning, we will be available for any assistance you may need in the ROTUNDA at Sts Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology (Univerzitní 22).
