For the Life of the World: A Webinar

For the Life of the World

A Webinar

You are invited to listen to a series of reflections and conversations with Andrew Bingham and David Goa on For the Life of the World, Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church. 

“For the Life of the World, Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church” is the title of a recent publication edited by David Bentley Hart and John Chryssavgis under the auspices and with the blessing of His All Holiness, Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople – New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch. 

This document, long awaited, is a welcome opportunity to discuss Orthodox “social doctrine in terms appropriate to modern reality.” It provides general parameters, avoids nebulous abstractions and sweeping generalizations, simplistic, pietistic, or legalistic pronouncements. Anchored in the Gospel it calls us to consider and think about major issues facing the life of our fragile and struggling world with the mind of Christ, free of fear, ideological preoccupations and to do so both for our own healing and for “for the life of the world.”

Our nine part conversation ranges over a number of issues: the Church in the public sphere; the course of human life;  poverty, wealth, and civil justice; war, peace, and violence; ecumenical relations and relations with other faiths; orthodoxy and human rights; science, technology, and the natural world; concluding with Andrew and David reflecting on the document and how it is heard and received and why it should be a staple, not only for Orthodox Christians but for all who care about the life of the world.    

The recordings may be accessed at: https://www.davidgoa.ca/for-the-life-of-the-world