2024 Saints Cyril and Methodius Lecture given by The Very Rev. Professor John Anthony McGuckin.
Introduction by Academic Dean Fr. Christiaan Kappes 00:00:00
Lecture Begins 00:05:13
Question and Answer Period 00:49:46
This lecture looks at one of the most dramatic and important of all mystical theologians of the Eastern Christian tradition; but one who remains still barely known today. While serving as an abbot in a turbulent era of Constantinople, Symeon offers his rhapsodic descriptions of his direct encounters with the light of Christ’s presence as a teaching that mysticism is not for an élite few but is the grace of the Resurrection offered to all believers.
The Very Rev. Professor John Ant...