E-Quip Admin and Tour
User Guide - Course Registration and Lecture Access
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This 3 year course is organised and hosted by our parish in Manchester, St. Aidan's.
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There are 3 classes of participants ... STUDENTS, VISITORS and SUBSCRIBERS. STUDENTS.
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Those living within visiting range of a lecture centre may register here and take the Diploma as a STUDENT provided that it proves possible to attend the lectures at least once a month. Other STUDENTS living more locally are expected to attend weekly. STUDENTS not living within reasonable reach of a lecture centre and International Students may apply for the Distance Learning Program. The qualification for attaining the Diploma is simply the satisfactory completion of all Assignments to the required standard. Full support will be given either locally or by Distance Learning.
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Registration takes place at any time before the start of the first term. Those wishing to join as students part way through the year MAY be able to do so but in this case they should apply to the Course Director. Students living outside Manchester and taking the Diploma as a Distance Learning Project may start at any time during the year and proceed at their own pace.
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Library facilities may be available at your Lecture Centre. Please check.
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Diplomas are only awarded to those who successfully complete the 3 year course as STUDENTS. Here is the syllabus.
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VISITORS [see (8)] will receive appropriate Certificates of Attendance.
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Those attending occasional lectures (VISITORS) but not intending to complete the assignments (two per term) together with those not able to travel into the parish (SUBSCRIBERS) may subscribe to the whole 3 year set by online access. Diploma STUDENTS will gain access to lectures online once payment has been made. Students, please use the registration form here.
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Lecture access is offered on a trust basis. No one may redistribute, edit or in any way reproduce these lectures for anything other than their own private use, (see the copyright notice).
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STUDENTS will be advised of their login details once payment has been received. These log-ins MUST NOT be shared with anyone else. Infringement will lead to the cancellation of the log-in.
Fee Structure
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There is a tripartite fee structure for Students, Visitors and Subscribers (Subscribers go FREE!).
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Each category has a concessionary rate for the unwaged and retired senior citizens.
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In case of financial difficulty, please contact the Course Directory, Fr. Gregory Hallam at orthodox@clara.net
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Payment is by
(preferred) but other options are available.
Specimen of the beginning of the Lecture for Year 1 Term 1
UNIT 1A:1 ORTHODOX FAITH AND LIFE
Orthodox Faith and Life - Theology, Experience,
and Practice
"Theology" is a word that discourages many people, especially perhaps in
the west where it has, sadly, become the prerogative of the specialist,
an academic pursuit. It is frequently associated with abstraction, a
lack of usefulness to Christian faith and life. If this was the true
nature of Theology then it would deserve to be rejected as a worthy
Christian endeavour. Happily, this is not the case with theologising in
the Orthodox Church. The often quoted remark of the 4th century Evagrius
of Ponticus is relevant here:-
"The one who has purity in prayer is a true theologian, and the one who
is a true theologian has purity in prayer." [Treatise on Prayer, 61]
And yet, it is by no means self evident what the relationship is between
theology and prayer. "Theology" from the Greek "Theos" and "Logos" means
"words about God." "Prayer" is not merely saying the words of theology
or else every lecture hall would be an oratory. Prayer is an act or
state of communion with God in which words must often give way to
silence and attentive listening. Here though is perhaps the key to
resolving this connection. God speaks, we hear, we talk. However this
Word of God, first uttered in Creation, is also the Word become
incarnate as the God-Man Jesus Christ. .......... CONTD
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Copyright Notice ©
All material on the site http://www.antiochian-orthodox.co.uk pertaining to the "E-Quip" course and its materials is copyright © 2012 to Revd. Fr. Gregory Hallam, except where otherwise indicated. All rights reserved. This copyright takes precedence over the Creative Commons Licence otherwise applying to this site.
