Course Description

Explore how early Christian homilies illuminate our experience of sacred spaces and icons. In this four-week online course, you’ll learn how patristic preaching helped worshippers perceive the deeper meanings in liturgical settings—turning words into windows for spiritual perception. This is a journey through rhetoric, architecture, theology, and iconography designed for Orthodox and non-Orthodox Christians alike.

Course Curriculum

    1. About The Course

    1. Readings

    2. Presentation Slides

    3. Watch Video Lecture

    1. Readings

    2. Presentation Slides

    3. Watch Video Lecture

    1. Readings

    2. Presentation Slides

    3. Watch Video Lecture

    1. Readings

    2. Presentation Slides

    3. Watch Video Lecture

About this course

  • $125.00
  • 4 video lectures by the professor
  • 4 PowerPoint slides
  • Optional readings

About the Professor

Rev. Fr. Dr. Lucas Lynn Christensen

Ph. D. (Notre Dame ’25) Assistant Professor of Sacred Arts, Assistant Director, St. Vladimir’s Compelling Preaching Project The Rev. Dr. Lucas Lynn Christensen is a published scholar on sacrificial theology in the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil and the influence of North African church architecture on St. Maximos’s Mystagogy. He is a research fellow for the interdisciplinary project, “Assessing the Impact of Sacred Art on Individual Experience, Memory, and Spiritual Understanding,” at the University of Notre Dame. Fr. Lucas earned his M.Div. from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology in 2016.

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