St. Vladimir’s Online School Offers Summer Course on Preaching and Sacred Art
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June 4, 2025—This July, St. Vladimir’s Online School of Theology will launch its eighth course, Spoken Icons: Vivid Homilies as Guides for Perceiving Sacred Arts, a four-week exploration of how early Christian preaching shaped the faithful’s perception of sacred space and iconography.
Taught by Rev. Fr. Lucas Lynn Christensen, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Notre Dame and Assistant Director of St. Vladimir’s Compelling Preaching Project, the course invites participants—Orthodox and non-Orthodox alike—to discover how patristic homilies served as interpretive guides to the architecture and visual theology of the early Church.
Participants will learn to identify key themes in sacred art, analyze church architecture, and understand how vivid preaching was used to guide both physical and spiritual perception. The course runs from July 1–28, 2025, with full access to materials from June 24 through August 31. Registration is $200.
As part of the growing curriculum of St. Vladimir’s Online School of Theology, Spoken Icons reflects the seminary’s commitment to offering accessible, high-quality Orthodox education to a wider audience.
For more information or to register, click here.
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