Dr Ryan Haecker, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, is the author of the forthcoming book Restoring Reason: Theology of Logic in Origen of Alexandria. In this work, Dr Haecker argues that Origen’s Trinitarian theology has important implications for theological interpretations of logic, which we can call a „theology of logic“. Restoring Reason: Theology of Logic in Origen of Alexandria is the second volume in the new book series Studies on Triadic Ontology and Trinitarian Philosophy, published by the prestigious philosophical publisher Verlag Karl Alber (Nomos). The inaugural volume of this series, Trinitarian Ontologies: Towards a Trinitarian Transformation of Philosophy, was edited by Eduard Fiedler, coordinator of the Triertium research group.

The next research seminar included in the Trinitarian Ontologies and Relationality Research Seminars Series will present a contemporary form of structural thinking in analytic philosophy – the so-called Structural Ontic Realism (James Ladyman). Does this form of modern structural ontology have any relation to the Christian transformation of the metaphysical category of relation in Trinitarian ontologies?

At the end of last year, the Vyšehrad publishing house published a Czech translation of one of the most influential works of the Western theological and philosophical tradition, Augustine’s De Trinitate, On the Trinity. This important translation and editorial work, which not only contributes to Czech theological and philosophical research, but its significance also affects the wider cultural debate, was presented by Prof. Lenka Karfíková, the author of the translation, on Friday 28 March 2025 in the rotunda of the Sts Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology (Palacký University in Olomouc).

On December 16th, 2024, Dr. Matteo Raffaelli (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) presented a lecture on Erwin Schadel and Bamberg School of Triadic Ontology.

On September 20, 2024, within the “Trinitarian Ontologies & Relationality Research Seminars Series”, a full-day workshop was organized under the guidance of Dr. Boris Wandruszka (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg), who addressed the ontological structure of love, following 20th-century German triadic philosophy (Béla von Brandenstein).

On September 13, 2024, as part of the “Trinitarian Ontologies & Relationality Research Seminars Series”, a full-day workshop was organized under the guidance of Dr. Pavel Frývaldský (Charles University, Prague), which focused on the thought of Romano Guardini and in particular his work “Der Gegensatz”, including an attempt to understand the difference with Przywara’s “Analogia entis”.

On April 15th, 2024, Anastasiia Bondarenko (Palacký University, formerly University of Tartu) presented a paper on Trinitarian Metaphysics and Charles Sanders Peirce’s Semiotics.

On March 25th, 2024, the “Trinitarian Ontologies & Relationality Research Seminars Series” continued with a seminar on love as value response in Dietrich von Hildebrand with Prof. Martin Cajthaml (Palacký University).

On March 25th, 2024, our colleague Cyril Dunaj presented an interpretation of the Manifest for a Trinitarian Ontology.

In January 2024, Prof. Mátyás Szalay visited Olomouc and gave a lecture within our “Trinitarian Ontologies & Relationality Research Seminars Series”. Prof. Mátyás Szalay was for many years the director of the Edith Stein Philosophical Institute in Granada, where he organized the Beyond Secular Faith conferences. Their aim was to reflect on the renewal of Christian thought in the light of revelation in the midst of the contemporary world. Prof. Szálay presented his approach to the Trinitarian ontology at the project team seminar. He focused primarily on the comparison of the approach of realist phenomenology and Trinitarian ontology. As a disciple of the leading phenomenological thinker Josef Seifert, he built on the ideas as well as criticism of his work. In contrast to Seifert’s phenomenology, which has at its centre a cognizing and reasoning subject who comes to know the reality of the world and its transcendent anchoring, he placed a Trinitarian ontological perspective grounded primarily in the network of relations preceding any of our knowledge.