Here’s a talk I did for the Oxford Interfaith Forum this week: It goes into more detail than my lecture on the same memra in my Narsai Lecture Series, and for the first time in my life I made a powerpoint. Special thanks especially to the very kind Sebastian Brock.

After the release of my book, I decided to do a series of lectures at St. Peter’s going through it a chapter/memra at a time. The first two lectures work through the Introduction, discussing Narsai’s biography and giving a summary of his theology. The next twelve lectures will be on each chapter of the book. […]