Public Lecture on Sunday of Orthodoxy

As part of the Lenten Series of Talks at Our Lady of Myrtles (Kogarah) Fellowship, on 21 March 2024, our Faculty Member, Dr Andrew Mellas, presented a reflection and led a discussion on the Sunday of Orthodoxy. Dr Mellas reflected on the tumultuous period of Iconoclasm in Byzantium and the crisis that erupted over sacred art. At the heart of the crisis, the very theology of the Church was at stake. In defending the veneration of icons, the Orthodox were upholding the theology of the Ecumenical Councils. Dr Mellas concluded that, in every icon, wisdom and eternity whispers to our hearts, in every icon, we glimpse the life of the age to come, in every icon, we behold heaven and earth converge.