35 min
Interview
The Orthodox Church and Other Christians
Where he thought the churches genuinely differ, and where they only think they do.
About the teacher
Metropolitan Kallistos
English bishop and theologian of the Eastern Orthodox Church (1934–2022), born Timothy Ware in Bath and received into Orthodoxy at twenty-four. He lectured on Eastern Orthodox studies at Oxford for thirty-five years, wrote The Orthodox Way and The Orthodox Church, and was one of the translators who brought the Philokalia into English.
Talks & videos
Watch.
Short introductions and longer conversations, to hear this teacher in their own words.
36 min
Interview
A Conversation on the Philokalia
The translator on the book he helped bring into English, and how to read it without harming yourself.
49 min
Talk
From Light to Darkness
On the Christian journey as the Fathers describe it, which runs the other way round from what people expect.
59 min
Talk
Not Ethnic but Global
An hour on Orthodoxy outside the countries it came from, and what that asks of it.
Path
The wider context.
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Prayer & contemplation
Christian mysticism
Silence, prayer and direct experience within the mystical traditions of Christianity.
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