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PaCT Fellow's book shortlisted for Christian Book of the Year
09 Aug 2019
Congratulations to PaCT Fellow Dr Ben Myers whose book The Apostles’ Creed: A Guide to the Ancient Catechism has been shortlisted for the 2019 Sparklit Australian Christian Book of the Year. Dr Myers' book was one of 10 books listed for the award. His book is published by Lexham Press in 2018. According to the publisher, Dr Myers "shows us what about the Christian faith is so counter-cultural, and what.....
PaCT Fellow presents on “infallibility” at conference
26 Jul 2019
A Centre for Public and Contextual Theology fellow has presented a paper on the concept of infallibility from a Muslim and Catholic perspective at an international conference. Dr Suleyman Sertkaya who is a Lecturer and Researcher in Islamic Studies at the Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisations (CISAC), CSU presented the paper at the 2019 International Conference on Comparative Theology which was held 23-24 July at the Melbourne Campus of.....
PaCT Fellow writes on The Promise of Place
26 Jul 2019
Andrew Errington is a lecturer at St. Mark’s National Theological Centre, Canberra, and a research fellow of the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology. He has written an opinion piece which has been published in ABC Religion and Ethics titled “Halfway to belongin’ here”: Tim Winton, St. Augustine and the promise of place for Australia today" This is a revised version of the Commencement Lecture delivered at St. Mark’s earlier.....
PaCT fellow speaks at Sailing to Byzantium
05 Jul 2019
Sailing to Byzantium: A Month of Talks on the Orthodox Church’s Byzantine Legacy With the blessing of His Grace Bishop Seraphim of Apollonias, sub-dean of St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College, and the initiative of Revd Father Athanasios Giatsios, parish priest of St Catherine’s Greek Orthodox Church, Mascot NSW, in the month of May St Catherine’s co-organised a series of talks with St Andrew’s entitled ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ which explored.....
PaCT papers accepted at Global Network of Public Theology
05 Jul 2019
Three PaCT members have had their papers accepted at the Global Network of Public Theology (GNPT) Conference to be held in Bamberg, Germany 23 – 26 September 2019. The theme of this year’s triennial conference is “Place and Space: Theological perspectives on living in the world”. The three papers accepted are “Dialogical Space: Cusanus and Public Theology” by UTC Principal Rev Peter Walker; “Imagining ‘Good Cities’ in a Time of.....
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The Global Network for Public Theology's triennial conference will be held in Bamberg, Germany 23 - 26 September 2019 on the theme 'Place and Space: Theological perspectives on living in...
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