Rublev’s Icon and Making Space with John Zizioulas
Paul writes – The latest issue of the REFRESH Journal (published by Spiritual Growth Ministries Trust, New Zealand) contains an article by me and an “overlapping” article by my great friend Andrew Shepherd, presently researching and writing his PhD. There’s a nice development from my introductory article to Andrew’s. Here are a couple of excerpts. The full articles are attached as PDF documents. A PDF of the whole journal will be on Spiritual Growth Ministries website (here). Meantime have a look around their site. There’s some great resources, and of course, details on their Spiritual Director Training Programme and a wide range of workshop / retreats exploring Christian Spirituality.
“…I want to (briefly) reflect on how it is that we are invited into this mystery of trinitarian relatedness. I want to say a little about the action or direction of trinitarian spirituality. And finally, I want to earth an engagement with Rublev’s Trinity in the ordinary and everyday by suggesting that mission, or action, is the needful outworking of a contemplative life that takes seriously ones location within the divine relatedness of the Trinity…” Paul Fromont.
“…While the use of the term “community” can be understood as a response to the loss of social capital which seems to characterise contemporary western societies and points to a genuine yearning for a more authentic and richer expression of shared life, one wonders whether “community” and the experience of “communion” can really be reduced to a program or a series of tasks that one can implement; an experience that can be marketed and consumed? For all the bandying around of the word “communion” do we actually have a clear idea of what communion is and therefore of what it is that we aspire to? Below, I will suggest that a Trinitarian spirituality – a spirituality of communion – rather than being co-opted and reduced to a series of commoditised and marketable processes or programs, responds to the deep yearning we see in contemporary society, by offering an inversion of both our understanding of communion and of spirituality…” Andrew Shepherd…
Download paul_fromont_rublevs_icon_contemplating_the_trinity_inwardly_and_outwardly.pdf
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