Church of the Saviour. Washington DC
The Church of the Saviour in Washington, DC is a network of nine independent, ecumenical Christian faith communities and over 40 ministries that have grown out of the original Church of the Saviour community founded in the mid-1940s. The current ministries and faith communities are the result of an alternative approach to “church” and church structures, which is the hallmark of the Church of the Saviour.
Randomly chosen program from the Church of the Saviour:
| Peace |
Speaker(s): Raimundo Panikkar, Gordon Cosby (intro) |
Description: Father Raimundo Panikkar-Alemany (1918-2010) preaching at Church of the Saviour in Washington DC. Panikkar was a Spanish Roman Catholic priest and a proponent of inter-religious dialogue. As a scholar, he specialized in comparative religion. In 1946, he was ordained a Catholic priest, and became a professor of philosophy at the University of Madrid. He made his first trip to India in 1954 where he studied Indian philosophy and religion at the University of Mysore and Banaras Hindu University, In 1966, he became a visiting professor at Harvard Divinity School and a professor of religious studies at University of California, Santa Barbara in 1972. In 1987, he moved to Tavertet in Catalonia, in the hills north of Barcelona, where he founded the Raimon Panikkar Vivarium Foundation, a center for intercultural studies. Panikkar authored more than 40 books and 900 articles. His complete works are being published in Italian. | Length: 38:52 | Recording Date: June 4, 1989 | Recorded at: Church of the Saviour, Washington DC |
