GCF-Orthodox Society Joint Event: Orthodoxy, Ecology and the Eucharist

The growing ecological crisis on this planet is a cause of concern for many today. In his talk on “Orthodoxy, Ecology, and the Eucharist”, Dimitri Conomos develops an Orthodox Christian perspective on how we can cope with and overcome contemporary problems of ecology. How ought we as Christians to relate to nature and the material reality around us? In what sense is the world we inhabit sacred? How did the Church Fathers view the created world and our position in it? And how can we define a Eucharistic model of living, in which our relationship to Creation extends beyond mere consumption and self-satisfaction, and through which we remain in communion with our Creator as “priests of Creation”? Dimitri will be exploring these and other topics in the hope of finding answers that may help us as Christians to find healthy ways to rethink and renew our relationship to the natural environment.