IOCS
2023 Summer Institute: «Finding God in the Everyday: Faith, Profession,
Vocation»
Το Ινστιτούτο Ορθοδόξων Χριστιανικών
Σπουδών στο Κέϊμπριτζ οργανώνει θερινό διήμερο Συνέδριο. Η σχετική ανακοίνωση
του Ινστιτούτου έχει ως εξής:
We are delighted to invite
you to this year’s IOCS Summer Institute (a new format of our popular past
Summer Schools), which will address the theme of ‘Finding God in the Everyday:
Faith, Profession, Vocation‘. The Summer Institute will take place between 11-12
September 2023 – physically at Wesley House, Cambridge, but also with Zoom
participation (roughly between 9am – 6.30pm each day).
The aim of our Summer
Institute is to bring together voices from within the wider Church who would
speak of how their Christian faith meets their profession, their work, or their
vocation. The range of speakers assembled for the event can both offer insights
into a theological framework of this encounter, rooted in patristic, ascetic,
and contemporary perspectives, and offer praxis-based reflection, as
practitioners in their various fields of activity (from art, medicine,
education, socio-pastoral work etc.).
We believe this to be a
timely topic for two reasons: firstly, it acknowledges the role of the laity in
shaping our awareness of the diversity of Christian experience today, both in
the sense of challenges but also of occasions for discernment of God’s presence
in the world today. Secondly, as part of our lived negotiation of faith and
praxis in the West, we experience the difficulty of ‘finding God in the
everyday’, as our society grows increasingly secular and spiritually
fragmented. Nothing could highlight more this challenge than the stark,
statistical evidence that Christianity is today a minority in the UK, with
46.2% of the population of England and Wales describing themselves as Christian
on the day of the 2021 census, down from 59.3% a decade earlier.
PARTICIPATION FEES ARE:
£100 for on-site participation (including tea and coffee), £75 for online
participation. Discounts for students are: £70 on-site / £50 online; IOCS
students: £50 on-site / £25 online. Please note that the participation fee
includes refreshments (coffee/tea) but does not include meals. To enrol please
go here (bottom of page).
For each of the two days,
there will be five talks per day, roughly between 9am and 6.30pm – with coffee
breaks in between sessions and a longer lunch break in the middle. Talks at
this event are expected to be about 30 minutes in length and they will be
followed by discussions (involving participants both onsite and online). A
detailed programme of the Summer Institute will follow soon.
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
INCLUDE: Sister Vassa Larin, Revd Prof Brandon Gallaher, Dr Alexander Lingas,
Dr Hermina Nedelescu, Aidan Hart, Dr Petre Maican, Sebastian Koga MD – with
other speakers to be confirmed shortly.
This Summer Institute is
kindly sponsored by Dr and Mrs Sebastian Koga of New Orleans, Louisiana, in
loving memory of Dr Christine Mangala Frost, Research Associate and dear friend
of IOCS.
For more updates, please
keep an eye on the Summer Institute page here.
With warm wishes for a
blessed period of Lent in expectation of the Joy of the Lord’s Resurrection,
Dr Razvan Porumb
Vice-Principal
The Institute for Orthodox
Christian Studies
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