Speaker Notes
Father Maximus Lavriotes
Fr.Maximus Lavriotes of Peterhouse, Cambridge,specializes in the history of Biblical Judaism and Early Christian doctrine. After studies in Athens, London, Cambridge and research into problems of eastern Monastic history he dedicated himself to analyses of contemporary theological currents and frictions between religion and secular establishments. He has lectured and published papers on political and theological issues in English Italian and Russian which cover a broad field of scholarship from human rights of religious minorities to mutually influential cultures medieval and modern. Amongst his recent publications is The Thanksgiving of Eastern Christendom (quoted in a report of the Anglican Liturgical Commission) and the forthcoming Great Joy on the impact of the Incarnation along the Christian centuries. His study of the origins of Christian worship led him to tracing and putting together the threads of social and cultural trends underpinning the long formative period during which rites and types of common and private prayer emerged and stabilized.
He is currently semi-retired but continues lecturing in Britain and abroad
on a free-lance basis.