Oxford University

A lecture by Fr. Khaled Anatolios (University of Notre Dame)

Monday, October 21st

7:30 PM

Blackfriars (OX1 3LY)

This lecture is free and open to the public.

While there is a common inclination among contemporary Christians to locate the intelligibility of Trinitarian doctrine in creaturely analogies of three-in-oneness, it is more profitable to seek that intelligibility as flowing out of a certain conception of the lordship of Christ. Fr. Khaled Anatolios will argue that the Nicene debates revolved around two rival interpretations of the lordship of Christ. To assent to the Nicene creed involves understanding how the Nicene interpretation of the lordship of Christ can be affirmed and enacted by Christ's disciples in today's world.

About the Speaker:

Fr. Khaled Anatolios was born in India, grew up in Egypt and Canada, and is a married priest in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. He is interested in all aspects of the theology of the early Church, with special emphases on the Trinitarian, Christological, and soteriological doctrines of the Greek fathers and Augustine; early Christian biblical exegesis; and the development of theological methodology in Patristic and medieval theology. He has published on a variety of early Christian theologians including Irenaeus, Origen, Athanasius, Augustine, and Gregory of Nyssa. A particular focus of  his work is the engagement between early Christian theological reflection and contemporary theological concerns.