OPEN STUDY
DAYS HILARY TERM 2008
Saturday 7
February, 10.30 a.m. – 4.00 p.m
Medieval
Art and Architecture of Armenia and Georgia
with Dr Nicholas
Gendle
The
mediaeval architecture of the Caucasus is one of the glories
of Eastern Christendom. We will analyse the principal
monuments of both countries, and examine the illuminated
manuscripts of Armenia and the enamels and other applied arts
of Georgia
Saturday,
21 February, 10.30 a.m. – 4.00 p.m
Origins and
Growth of Christian Contemplative Prayer
with Dr Santha
Bhattacharji
Dr Santha Bhattacharji (Senior Tutor, St Benet’s) leads this
day on the origin and spread of the apophatic tradition of
wordless contemplative prayer, looking at the shared origins
of the tradition in Gregory of Nyssa and Denys the
Areopagite; how the tradition moved westwards through Latin
translations of Denys and the writings of the Victorines; and
its flowering in C14th England in The Cloud of
Unknowing.
Saturday, 7
March, 10.30 a.m. – 4.00 p.m
Body, Mind
and Spirit - Investigating Wholeness in the Western and
Eastern Traditions
with Charles Hampton,
Jessica Rose and Bishop Basil of Amphipolis
Charles Hampton works as a pastoral psychologist and trains
Anglican and Baptist clergy. He will present Aquinas's view
of being human, as mediated by the late Oxford Dominican
Herbert McCabe. Jessica Rose is a writer and lecturer
specialising in the interface between psychology and
theology. In conversation with Charles, she will ask what the
Western tradition can contribute to a contemporary
understanding of wholeness. Bishop Basil of Amphipolis is a
bishop of the Ecumenical Patriarchate and author of 'The
Healing Word' (London: DLT 2008). He will draw on the thought
of Dionysius the Areopagite and Maximus the Confessor for its
implications for what human wholeness might mean in Eastern
Orthodox theological tradition.
Poetry
Evening: Thursday 26 February at 8pm
An evening of poetry chaired by
Metropolitan Kallistos, on the theme of ‘The Blessed Virgin
Mary’. Please bring contributions to share. A glass of wine
will be served.
PLEASE NOTE:
St Theosevia House, 2 Canterbury Road, off Banbury Rd, left
just after North Parade.
Fee for study days is £5 (pay at the door) but
FREE
for students with card, no need
to book, just come. Study day lunch break is 1-2pm (please
provide your own lunch).
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Studies: steffen.weishaupt@chch.ox.ac.uk
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