"Be Holy!" (1 Peter 1.16): The challenge and scandal of sanctity in times of anthropological crisis
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Room V/N/045, Vanbrugh College, Campus West, University of York (Map)
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St William of York Annual Lecture in Theology
It is often said, and rightly, that the crucial question of our time is the question of man: what is the human being? The secular establishment proposes utilitarian answers, as it must; the Church meanwhile, goes deeper, proposing an account, not only of our origin in God, but of our finality, which is to become partakers of divine nature — or, more straightforwardly, to become saints. How to articulate such an outlandish perspective credibly in this day and age?
About the speaker
Erik Varden is a monk and bishop. Norwegian by birth, he was, before entering Mount Saint Bernard Abbey, a Fellow of St John’s College, Cambridge. He has published several translations and scholarly monographs and is much in demand as a preacher, spiritual director and lecturer. In 2019 Pope Francis appointed him to the see of Trondheim. He is the author of The Shattering of Loneliness (Bloomsbury Continuum, 2018).
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