Chris Durante - Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas (Orthodox Scholars Preach)

The Orthodox Christian Studies Center of Fordham University is pleased to present the 2025 Lenten Orthodox Scholars Preach series, featuring short sermons by leading Orthodox Christian scholars. The sermon for the Sunday of St. Gregory Palamas is given by Dr. Chris Durante of Saint Peter's University. Durante received his Ph.D. in Ethics from the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University, M.Sc. from the Institute of Psychiatry and Department of Philosophy at King’s College London, M.A. from the Religious Studies Department at Georgia State University, and his B.A. from the Philosophy Department at Fordham University. He has served as a contributing co-editor for two books: "Religious Perspectives on Social Responsibility in Health: Towards a Dialogical Approach" (Springer 2018) and "Interreligious Perspectives on Mind, Genes & Self: Emerging Technologies & Human Identity" (Routledge 2018). Durante is also a longstanding Fellow of the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics & Human Rights in Rome and has been involved with the Greening of the Orthodox Parish initiative of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, the Toward Green Democracy and against Energy Poverty initiative of the Volos Academy for Theological Studies in Greece as well as the Integral Ecology project of the Carmelite NGO. He has also had the honor of serving as an invited speaker at Halki Summit V, which is part of a series of symposia hosted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople that seek to advance cooperation amongst the world’s faiths to address environmental issues. Be sure to subscribe, and find more content at https://www.publicorthodoxy.org #lent #easternorthodox #sermon #prayer #hesychasm #palamas