Guest Lecture

On the 14th of May, Dr Guy Freeland offered a guest lecture on St Maximus the Confessor's Mystagogy, for T7382A Early Byzantine Patristic Theology. Here are some remarks from Protopresbyter Dr Doru Costache, who extended the invitation, on the event:

"Both the students and I have been privileged to see Dr Freeland at his best. Prefaced by savant preliminaries to the ancient cosmology and symbology that culturally conditioned the discourse of St Maximus, followed by an exploration of the early Christian ecclesial architecture, the presentation was truly mindblowing. The speaker moved magisterially through the complexities of the Mystagogy's rich text, bringing to the fore the Maximian articulation of an ecclesial hermeneutic which was doubled by a soteriologically-centred worldview, anthropology and psychology. Together with offering his expert and challenging comments on the text, Freeland made generous room for questions, which he answered - as a genuine sage - by providing both explanations and further food for thought. The whole experience was of course intensified by the fascinating personality of the man. We need him back!"