The London Branch of the
Fellowship of St Alban & St Sergius is organising a talk on Wednesday 22nd
October at St James’s Church, Sussex Gardens, Paddington W2. The talk will be
given by The Very Revd Archimandrite Maximus Lavriotes on ‘Hesychasm and the
Integrity of Human Nature’. The Eucharist will be celebrated at 6.30 p.m.,
followed by light refreshments. The talk will be at 7.30 p.m.
Fr Maximus, based in Cambridge,
specializes in Hellenistic Judaism and Early Christian Doctrine with particular
interest in the origins of Christian worship and the development of the Eastern
Patristic theological method. He studied in Athens, London and Cambridge and
spent 14 years as a monk on Mount Athos before his ordination. He has served as
Orthodox Chaplain at the University of Cambridge. With regards to his talk he
writes: ‘The theme is becoming topical after Rowan William’s article “The
physicality of prayer” (New Statesman, July 2014) [which marks] a very
significant turn in the course of Western Theology: the departure from a
Neoplatonic Personalism focused on the human person alone and the adoption of
the Eastern Orthodox theological anthropology focused on humanity and
physicality.’
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