The John Main Seminar | Year-by-Year....

The annual John Main Seminar celebrates the life and teaching of the Benedictine monk whose life's work was passing on the ancient practice of Christian meditation to anyone who wanted to learn.
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Learn More About These Seminars:

2011 - "ALIVE IN CHRIST" by Timothy Radcliffe OP
11-14 August 2011 | University College Cork, Ireland

2010 - “Basic Christianity: exploring the shape of God’s affection” led by James Alison
August 5th to 8th, 2010 - University of Kent, Canterbury

2009 - "When God Disappears" led by Robert Kennedy, SJ
28 - 30 August / London, England

2008 - "Unity: Local and Global"
August, 14-17 | Mainz, Germany led by Cardinal Walter Kasper

2007 - “Still Present: The Life and Legacy of John Main”
“Le Rayonnement de l’Enseignement de John Main”
- Speakers included Laurence Freeman, Balfour Mount, Sarah Bachelard, Peter Ng and Yvon Théroux.

2006 - Margaret Rizza
- The Fire of Silence Through Music and Mystics

2005 - Richard Rohr OFM
- "A Lever and a Place to Stand"

2004 - Joan Chittister OSB
- "Heart of Flesh: A Feminist Spirituality for Women and Men"

2003 - Speakers Panel on Bede Griffiths OSB
- Andrew Harvey, Shirley Du Boulay and Bruno Barnhardt OSB Cam. on Bede Griffiths OSB

2002 - Bishop Kallistos Ware
- "The Kingdom of the Heart: The Jesus Prayer in our Daliy Life"

2001 - Archbishop Rowan Williams
- "Spirit in the Desert"

2000 - The Dalai Lama & Previous Presenters
- "The Way of Peace"

1999 - Huston Smith
- "Return to the Light"

1998 - Thomas Keating
- "Heart of the World"

1997 - Mary McAleese
- "Reconciled Being"

1996 - Raimon Panikkar
- "The Silence of Life"

1995 - Laurence Freeman
- "On Jesus"

1994 - The Dalai Lama
- "The Good Heart"

1993 - William Johnston
- "The New Christian Mysticism"

1992 - Jean Vanier
- "From Brokenness to Wholeness"

1991 - Bede Griffiths
- "Christian Meditation: An Evolving Tradition"

1990 - Eileen O'Hea
- "Spirit and Psyche"

1989 - Balfour Mount
- "On Wholeness"

1988 - Charles Taylor
- "Christian Identity and Modernity"

1987 - Derek Smith
- "On Reading"

1986 - John Todd
- "The New Church"

1985 - Robert Kiely
- "The Search for God in Modern Literature"

1984 - Isabelle Glover
- "Indian Scriptures as Christian Reading"

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