Newsletter
From the Director - The
Revd Dr Liz Carmichael
December 2008
Dear Friends of St
Theosevia,
Welcome to the Hilary Term 2009 programme. Thank you for your
enthusiasm and support for last term’s very successful
programme.
We look forward to seeing you at the coming study days, and
encourage you to make this programme widely known among your
friends and contacts. If you have ideas for future speakers,
or would like to receive extra newsletters or posters, please
let us know.
In the coming term we are glad to welcome Dr Nicholas Gendle
for a day exploring the art and architecture of mediaeval
Armenia and Georgia. In the second study day, Dr Santha
Bhattacharji examines the development of the Christian
tradition of silent contemplative prayer, from Gregory of
Nyssa, through Dionysius (Denys) the pseudo-
Areopagite who probably wrote
in fifth-century Syria, to the Cloud of Unknowing in
fourteenth century England. Metropolitan Kallistos chairs a
poetry evening on the Blessed Virgin Mary; and finally,
Jessica Rose, who last term gave us a fascinating exposition
of liturgical music in the Orthodox tradition, will lead a
day with Charles Hampton and Bishop Basil on the nature and
wholeness of the human person: body, mind and spirit. We
continue to have the help of the Revd Steffen Weishaupt, a
pastor from the Rhineland Evangelical Church who has now
begun work on a D.Phil at Christ Church on the 1992 Meissen
Agreement between the Anglican and German Evangelical
churches.
The House also hosts the weekly Christian
Meditation group on Wednesday evenings, and various other
activities. As ever, we look forward to welcoming old friends
and new faces to our Hilary programme.
LIZ CARMICHAEL
Tel. (01865) 277351 liz.carmichael@sjc.ox.ac.uk
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