The forgotten ways -- Serbian bishop to speak
Bishop Atanasije of Belgrade, Serbia, will be visiting South Africa from 17-23 October, and will speak on “The forgotten ways — monasticism and the church fathers in the modern and postmodern world”.
This could be of interest to "emerging church" people, especially those who are interested in such things as new monasticism and the forgotten ways spoken about by people like Brian McLaren and Alan Hirsch.
He'll be speaking at St Thomas's Serbian Orthodox Church, 14 Tana Road, Sunninghill Park, Johannesburg, on Saturday 18 October 2008 at 5:00 pm.
For more information, see The forgotten ways on my Khanya blog.
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Ralph Winter speaks of the BO-BO theory of church history, those who think that the Christian faith "blinked out" at the end of the apostolic age, and "blinked on" again at the Reformation.
Like the Mormons, the believe there were early saints, and latter-day saints, but no saints in the middle. So what happened in the middle are the forgotten ways.
Bishop Atanasije's field is patrology, the fathers of the church, and will thus be speaking about the saints in the middle, and there will be time for people to ask questions about this and related matters.
Perhaps some of that discussion can overflow into the Meetup at Third Place a few days later, if anyone thinks that is possible.
Dark Materials
Steve - that's really interesting, despite that view being pretty blinkeredly Reformist itself.
This "Dark Age" fascinates me, because it contains many clues to some of the mysteries of today. I have been interested amongst others with Augustine (4th C) and the 12-13th Century "Creation Spirituality" mystics, such as Eckhardt and Hildegaard.
Keen to hear what the Orthodox view is, because in it lie many a gem lost in all the Catholic-Reform jostling.
Nic, It's a pity you're so
Nic,
It's a pity you're so far away!
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