SPEAKER SERIES: Orthodox Scholars Preach

Judgement Sunday, February 27

 

This week's Speaker Series features Lori Branch, who preaches about Judgment Sunday. Watch this 10-minute video: youtu.be/kJsehbT1eRQ

 

BIOGRAPHY

Ms. Branch is an associate professor of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature at the University of Iowa. Her first book, Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth, was named 2007 Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature. She has published widely on literature, religion, and the postsecular, from the fourth-century Sayings of the Desert Fathers to seventeenth-century Dissent, contemporary Gothic novels, and Eastern Orthodoxy. She edits the monograph series “Literature, Religion, and Postsecular Studies” for Ohio State University Press and is currently at work on a book project titled Postsecular Reason: Beyond Coercion.

 

ABOUT SPEAKER SERIES

Every week until Pascha, a different Orthodox Scholar will release a new 10-minute video. This Series provides a platform for Orthodox scholars to reflect on the spiritual themes of each Sunday's liturgical calendar while drawing on their expertise. This Speaker Series: Orthodox Scholars Preach is a collaboration between the Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University and the Department of Religious Education, and with the blessing of His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America. 

 

 

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