STUDY DAYS and EVENTS in HILARY TERM 2012
at St Theosevia House, 2 Canterbury Road, Oxford OX2 6LU

An Ecumenical Centre for Christian Spirituality in Oxford




Saturday 28 January, 10.30 am – 4 pm
Windows on Holiness: Mediaeval Stained Glass, Orthodox Icons

with Roger Rosewell and Fr John Baggley

Roger Rosewell gives the two morning talks, on Manifesting the Divine: Symbolism and Functions of Stained Glass in Medieval Churches. By the late Middle Ages stained glass filled the windows of great cathedrals and most parish churches. The morning sessions will discuss how medieval audiences ‘saw’ these windows and the different functions and purposes they performed, from the metaphysical to the mnemonic, as foci for devotion and records of holy history.
Fr Baggley reflects on the decrees of the Second Council of Nicaea, AD 787: “… the revered and holy images, whether painted or made of mosaic or of other suitable material, are to be exposed in the holy Churches of God, on sacred instruments and vestments, on walls and panels, in houses and by public ways; these are the images of our Lord, God and saviour, Jesus Christ, and of our Lady without blemish, the holy God-bearer, and of the revered angels and of any of the saintly holy men. The more frequently they are seen in representational art, and more are those who see them drawn to remember and long for those who serve as models, and to pay these images the tribute of salutation and respectful veneration.”


Monday 30 January, 8.15pm
The Passage of Time: Childhood, Youth, Middle Life & Old Age

A bring and share evening chaired by Metropolitan Kallistos. Please bring your favourite poetry and or music on this wide theme. A glass of wine will be served.


Saturday 25 February, 10.30 am – 4 pm
Byzantine Mosaics of Sicily

Dr Nicholas Gendle

Illustrated talks on the magnificent mosaic art of the Norman-Byzantine churches of Sicily, a meeting point for western and eastern Christian cultures.




PLEASE NOTE:

St Theosevia House, 2 Canterbury Road, left off Banbury Rd just after North Parade. Study days FREE for students with card. Non-students £5 (on door). No booking needed, just come, for all or part of the day. Lunch break 1-2 pm (please provide your own lunch).


Director: Revd Dr Liz Carmichael, St John’s College.

liz.carmichael@sjc.ox.ac.uk 01865 277351

Enquiries: Assistant Director of Studies - Revd Steffen Weishaupt

steffen.weishaupt@chch.ox.ac.uk 01865 310341



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