Year of Prayer Series | Hesychasm, Theosis, and Divine Darkness: Eastern Christian Perspectives on Prayer
Year of Prayer Series | Hesychasm, Theosis, and Divine Darkness: Eastern Christian Perspectives on Prayer
19
Nov
The Year of Prayer Series’ Public Lecture “esychasm, Theosis, and Divine Darkness: Eastern Christian Perspectives on Prayer” by Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun will take place on November 19 in the St. Joseph’s Seminary Chapel.
About the Lecture:
Christian East developed varied and sophisticated prayer techniques. One of them is hesychasm, which is still practiced today. These techniques are based on theological postulates, including those of Divine Light and Darkness. Eastern Christians believe that through participation in the uncreated Light, they can reach divinisation, which they call theosis.
About the Speaker:
Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun is a professor of ecclesiology, international relations and ecumenism at Sankt Ignatios College, University College Stockholm, and a director of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. A graduate of the Theological Academy in Kyiv and National University in Athens, he accomplished his doctoral studies at Durham University under the supervision of Fr Andrew Louth. He was a chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, first deputy chairman of the Educational Committee of the Russian Orthodox Church, and later research fellow at Yale and Columbia Universities, visiting professor at the University of Münster in Germany. He is an international fellow at Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life at the University of Alberta in Canada and an invited professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.
Details:
Date: Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Time: 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Location: St. Joseph’s Seminary Chapel, Largo de Santo Agostinho (Please enter through the seminary gate)
Language: English
Organised by: Faculty of Religious Studies and Philosophy
Moderated by: Fr. Franz Gassner
*This is a free event and open to the general public
