PaCT Events
"Christian Mission in the Public Square" conference
About a hundred reflective-practitioners of mission met for a conference on "Christian Mission in the Public Square" at the Australian Centre for Christianity & Culture (ACC&C) in Canberra from 2 to 5 October 2008.
Nearly forty papers were given, from all streams of mission studies, including public theology, global mission, mission history, contextual mission and congregational mission. A special mission history stream continued the tradition of previous missionary history conferences run by Ian Welch at the Australian National University . Selected papers will be published in the Australian Journal of Mission Studies (if submitted).
The keynote speaker was Professor Nico Koopman, Director of the Beyers Naudé Centre for Public Theology in the Faculty of Theology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and a key player in the Global Public Theology Network.
The former governor of Western Australia and former head of the Australian Army, Lt-General John Sanderson, addressed the conference dinner on indigenous affairs, in which he is actively engaged encouraging spirituality and reconciliation through dialogue.
AAMS and PaCT were very grateful to the following financial sponsors of the conference:
- Australian Catholic Bishops Conference
- Board of Mission, Uniting Church in NSW/ACT
- Catholic Mission, Melbourne
- Columban Mission Society in Australia
- Divine Word Missionaries in Australia
- Charles Sturt University (through PaCT)
Read Papers given at the "Christian Mission in the Public Square" conference here
See photos from the "Christian Mission in the Public Square" conference in the gallery of the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture website
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