October 8, 15, 22, 29, November 5, 12 - Icons & Storytelling, Windows into the Spirituality of the Eastern Churches - Online


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Weekly Online Schedule - Mondays 8:00-8:45 Eastern PM Daylight/Standard Time (Adjust for your time zone!)


October 8 - Images from Scripture of the Catacombs - Hebrew prohibition of images, symbols in house churches and catacombs, the earliest Coptic icons in the monasteries of the Egyptian desert.


October 15 - Ravenna and Constantinople - Ideals of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful in Classical Greco-Roman antiquity transformed by the theology and spirituality of the Early Ecumenical Councils.


October 22 - Theology & Spirituality: - The Iconoclast Controversy and its resolution.  The major subjects of iconography:  Christ, the Theotokos, and the Iconostasis (Rood Screen). The place of tradition and improvisation in creative tension.


October 29 - The West and The East - The puzzles of Perspective and Light and the Mystery of the Trinity as interpreted by the Renaissance in the West and St. Gregory Palamas in the East.


November 5 - The Glory of the Greek Master Iconographers - The major subjects of Icons as portrayed by the Cretan, Greek, Serbian, and Bulgarian iconographers in the Middle Ages


November 12 - The Glory of the Russian Master Iconographers  - The major subjects of Icons as portrayed by the Russian iconographers of Moscow and Novgorod in the Middle Ages


Come join us for

Icons & Storytelling Retreat

a prayerful sacred storytelling seminar

in Hagerstown, Maryland on September 7-8


Tuition is $295, payable on registration.

Payable online or send a check to the address below


Registration

Please email the form below (with your email address) to reserve a place. We will confirm if a place is available. Actual payment then can be sent to:

School of Sacred Storytelling

℅ Dr. Robert B. Wilhelm

18934 Rolling Road

Hagerstown MD 21742











© Robert Bela Wilhelm 2012