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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