TRIERTIUM Conference:  A Trinitarian Synthesis of Wisdom

Information:

The TRIERTIUM conference is organized by the TRIERTIUM research group based at the Sts Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology, Palacký University in Olomouc (Czech Republic). The Conference will begin on Wednesday, 3 December 2025, in the afternoon and evening (public lecture). On Thursday, 4 December, and Friday, 5 December 2025, there will be a full-day programme including keynote lectures and shorter 20-minute presentations. The Conference will be accompanied by a series of artistic encounters (Václav Kadrnka, Antoine Dossin, Karel Martínek, Dalimil Ševčík) and filmed for Triunity, an art film by Václav Kadrnka reimagining the Trinity and a Trinitarian vision of reality.

About Event:

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.

(video with Czech subtitles / video s českými titulky)

Keynote Speakers:

Andrea Bellantone, Msgr. Prokop Brož (Auxiliary Bishop of Hradec Králové), Rocco Buttiglione, Msgr. Piero Coda, Eduard Fiedler, Emmanuel Gabellieri, Philip Gonzales, Ryan Haecker, Msgr. Francisco Javier Martínez Fernández (Archbishop Emeritus of Granada), Giulio Maspero, John Milbank, Matteo Raffaelli, Paweł Rojek, Mátyás Szalay, Ilaria Vigorelli, Peter Volek, Ľubomír Žák

Organization Committee:

Cyril Dunaj, Antoine Dossin, Eduard Fiedler, Václav Kadrnka, Petr Macek, Maurizio M. Malimpensa, Joseph M. McMeans, Matteo Raffaelli, Dalimil Ševčík, Mátyás Szalay

Call for Papers:

We invite contributions from any subject in theology and philosophy explicitly concerned with Trinitarian or triadic ontology and theology, especially as it relates to the various forms of speculative, embodied or institutional synthesis in philosophy, science, politics, and the arts in the past or today. Papers will be selected by the Organization Committee. Abstracts (300 words) and a brief biographical statement should be sent to info@triertium.cz no later than Sunday, 31 August 2025. Authors will be notified of the results on Monday, 8 September 2025. Papers must not be simultaneously submitted to another conference or journal. Papers are to be delivered in English. An edited volume is planned in which the papers will be published (2026). The edited volume will be submitted to the book series Studies on Triadic Ontology and Trinitarian Philosophy (Verlag Karl Alber).