Reformation: exploring Luther’s Spirituality, and Calvin’s impact on Greek Orthodoxy

25 November 2017 @ 10:30 am - 4:00 pm

St Theosevia Centre for Christian Spirituality
2 Canterbury Road,
Oxford, OX2 6

Metropolitan Kallistos Ware, Pastor Georg Amann, Prof. Werner Jeanrond

Metropolitan Kallistos presents the ‘Protestant Patriarch: Cyril Lukaris (1572 – 1638)’. Lukaris was Patriarch of Constantinople in a troubled era, when Roman Catholics and Protestants were competing for control over the Orthodox Church. He wrote a Confession of Faith, published at Geneva in 1629, which is distinctively Calvinist in much of its teaching. It was widely condemned throughout the Orthodox world. What did he take from Calvinism, and on what grounds did his opponents attack him? The career of Lukaris illuminates in a striking way the interaction between Orthodoxy and the world of the Reformation during the 17th century.

Revd Georg Amann, pastor in London and Oxford, examines ‘Martin Luther’s Spiritual Roots’, exploring where Luther’s spirituality is rooted in the late mediaeval tradition and where his Reformation impulses lead him to new approaches and expressions of faith.

Dr Werner Jeanrond, Master of St Benet’s will speak on Martin Luther on Prayer and more particularly on Luther’s approach to the Our Father, with vistas in other directions.

Free for students with cards, others are asked for a donation of £5.

Lively, informative lectures and open discussion. Come for all or part of the day. Free tea and coffee are served from 10am. Lunch break is from 1 to 2pm (bring your own lunch, or buy it in the shops in nearby North Parade, or cycle back to College).