Tue 8 Apr: Images of Jesus in Art and Poetry - 'Jesus across the Christian world'
This is the last of five talks for Lent arranged by Churches Together in Charlbury on the theme 'Images of Jesus in Art and Poetry'. They will be held on Tuesday evenings at 7.30pm in St Mary's Parish Church.
The speaker is the Revd. Dr Elizabeth Koepping, part-time Anglican priest and chair of Churches Together in Charlbury. She will be showing representations of Jesus in paintings and sculpture in the context of the many places of worship she has visited across the world.
Elizabeth is a social anthropologist and has taught at various universities in Australia and Germany. She is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, where she taught World Christianity and Religious Studies. She is researching domestic violence in Christian contexts, travelling to eighteen countries across the world (including Tonga, Burma, Korea, Ghana, Germany, India, Trinidad, Scotland).
Her research involves talking individually or in groups with ordained and lay, male and female, ethnic minority and majority people from eleven Christian traditions covering Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Pentecostal, Episcopal and Reformed Protestant and AIC, enabled by many former and current Edinburgh post-graduates in the various countries.
There is no charge for admission but donations will be gratefully received towards expenses. Please arrive in good time for a prompt start to the talk at 7.30pm. There will be opportunity for questions and the meeting will finish by 9pm.