Jeremy Ingpen

This article continues a series of the author’s explorations of face and encounter in the writings of Olivier Clément…

Translators of Vladimir Solovyev and Sergii Bulgakov face a series of choices in glossing the Russian word богочеловечество (bogochelovechestvo) or the French divino-humanité. The early translators of these writers chose “Godmanhood,” and Professor Andrew Louth has argued in favor of this choice.

The great French Orthodox theologian Olivier Clément was born in the village of Aniane in the Languedoc region of southwestern France to a non-religious family. “I grew up in an environment in which Christianity played no part. I was not baptized, and received no religious instruction.” Attracted first by poetry, especially that of Rainer Maria[…..]

These photographs portray recent services at Orthodox parishes in the Diocese of Western Kenya. The first few images are of Saint Demetrios parish in Mlimani, a farming village with a population of about two thousand, located five miles off the main highway between Nairobi, Kenya and Kampala, Uganda.