March 7 - For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church
Sunday, March 7th, 2:00-3:30 MTS
You are invited to join a series of reflections and conversations with Andrew Bingham & David Goa. Kindly pass along to those who may be interested.
The Course of Human Life
In the course of human life, from conception through childhood, adulthood, and the final stages of life there are significant moral and spiritual questions that arise. Those who marry, monastics, and single persons all face challenges and make decisions with implications both personal and which shape and reshape our common social life. How do we care for children and nurture them given our particular context? What constitutes a healthy understanding of our body and the sexual life; of the “identities” under public discussion including matters of gender; of abortion, and medically assisted dying; and, of how men and women see and engage each other? Compelling matters all. What may we learn from the sometime surprising ways the church thinks and encourages us to think about these matters? Join us for this conversation.
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https://zoom.us/j/91990323849?pwd=YkxYSkw3MlBHRVVFQUd2LzljSjZtdz09
An electronic copy of the book is available at: https://www.goarch.org/social-ethos
You may also connect through davidgoa.ca
Up Coming Schedule
Sunday, March 7, 2:00-3:30 MTS - The Course of Human Life
Sunday, March 14, 2:00-3:30 MTS - Poverty, Wealth, and Civil Justice
Sunday, March 21, 2:00-3:30 MTS - War, Peace, and Violence
Sunday, March 28, 2:00-3:30 MTS - Ecumenical Relations and Relations with Other Faiths
Sunday, April 4, 2:00-3:30 MTS - Orthodoxy and Human Rights
Sunday, April 11, 2:00-3:30 MTS - Science, Technology, and the Natural World
Sunday, April 18, 2:00-3:30 MTS - Conclusion, “What do we take from For the Life of the World ?” Does it speak to all Orthodox Christians and beyond the boundaries of Orthodox churches?
You are invited to join 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.”