SVOTS offers talks by Archimandrite Zacharias, Dr. Tristram Engelhardt

During the month of February 2014, Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary here will offer two talks for the general public in the John G. Rangos Family Building on the seminary campus.

On Monday, February 10, at 7:00 p.m., Archimandrite Zacharias, a disciple of the late Father Sophrony who was a disciple of Saint Silouan of Mount Athos, will speak “On the Spiritual Life.” Presently, Father Zacharias is a monk at Saint John the Baptist Monastery, Essex, England. Born and raised in Cyprus within an Orthodox Christian family, he holds degrees in theology from the Theological Institute of Saint Sergius, Paris, and the University of Thessalonica.  His doctoral dissertation, “The Actualization of the Hypostatic Principle in the Theology of Archimandrite Sophrony,” has been published as a book, Christ, Our Way and Our Life by St. Tikhon’s Monastery Press.

On Sunday, February 23, at 3:30 p.m., Dr. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. will speak on “Preaching the Word of the Lord: Being an Orthodox Christian in the Post-Christian Public Square” (or, “G.W.F. Hegel, Richard Rorty and the Public Square Reconsidered”). Dr. Engelhardt holds doctorates in philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin and medicine from Tulane University.  He is a professor of philosophy at Rice University, Houston, TX, specializing in the history and philosophy of medicine.  He is also a professor emeritus at Baylor College of Medicine, a member of the Baylor Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy and Christian Bioethics.  He also edits the book series “Philosophy and Medicine,” and is a fellow of the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institution. Raised as a Roman Catholic, he converted to Orthodox Christianity in 1991.

Download fliers about these events from the Seminary’s website.