<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Dear Colleagues,</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>

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like to invite you to an international conference organized by </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">t</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">he work group <i>Faith and Grace with
the Church Fathers and in Early Modern Theology </i>and <i>Philosophy </i>of Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary.<br>
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</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The conference bears the title <i>What do you have that you have not
received? <span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Approaches to the relationship between
faith and grace in early Christianity and early modern theology and philosophy.</span></i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">On <b>April 5-6,</b> 2024, researchers of patristic theology and
philosophy will discuss, in a historical approach, the concepts of faith and
grace, and other related ideas, as they were formed in early Christianity and
in the 16th and 17th centuries.<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The conference venue is Károli
Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Theological Faculty, Tóth Kálmán
Hall (1^st floor, room 101), Budapest 1092, Ráday street 28 (entry
from Markusovszky tér).<span></span></span></p>

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(Amsterdam), Wu Tian-yue (Beijing).<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">All interested parties, academics, researchers, teachers and students are
welcome to attend!<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Miklós Vassányi and Ottó Pecsuk, the organizers of the conference,<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">and Gábor Kendeffy, the coordinator of the work group<span></span></span></p></div></div>