Second of two talks by the Rev. Peter Hammond
In his second talk Mr. Hammond suggests that the laos, the common people of Western Christendom in the Middle Ages, came to be relegated to a peripheral position in the Church, so that mysticism, spirituality and the life of devotion seemed to be ' not their concern,' or at least divorced from secular issues. He believes that, through the example and influence of Eastern Orthodoxy, what was lost can be found again, and Christian society in the West thereby revivified.