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PACT Fellow writes on ethical values and Maqasid al-Shari‘ah in Meccan Qur’an
12 Jun 2018
PACT Fellow Dr Hakan Coruh recently published an article in Australian Muslim Times titled 'Ethical Values and Maqasid al-Shari‘ah in Meccan Qur’an'.Dr Hakan Coruk teaches at the Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisations based in Sydney......
PACT Fellow on political authority and politics
06 Jun 2018
PACT Fellow Jonathan Cole has recently been published in the international journal Christian Studies in Ethics on political authority.His article “Towards a Christian Ontology of Political Authority: The Relationship between Created Order and Providence in Oliver O’Donovan’s Theology of Political Authority” was published online recently.The abstract states: This article argues that the formally similar conceptions of political authority provided in Oliver O’Donovan’s Resurrection and Moral Order and The Desire of.....
PACT Fellow published in Oxford University Press series
21 May 2018
PACT Fellow and St Mark's history lecturer Dr Michael Gladwin has published a chapter each in two publications produced by the Oxford University Press.'Anglicanism in Oceania in the 20th Century' was released last month in The Oxford History of Anglicanism and covers the history of Anglicanism in the Pacific region.'Mission and Colonialism' dwells on the intellectual history of Christianity and Empire, and was published in The Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century.....
Religion and the state in the Peoples Republic of China
14 May 2018
By PACT Fellow Dr Bernard Doherty.While discussions of undue Chinese influence in Australian politics, President Xi Jinping’s crackdown on corruption, and Chinese territorial expansion in the South China Sea have all featured heavily in recent Australian discussions on China, the topic of the Chinese state’s attitude toward religion has received far-less coverage – especially its treatment of religious minorities.While many Christians are at least vaguely aware of the often restrictive.....
Muslim and Christian scholars come together at Peace Conference
14 May 2018
United Theological College (UTC) hosted an inter-faith Peace Conference in March which was supported by the Public and Contextual Theology Research Centre (PACT).The event was organised by UTC lecturer Dr Anthony Rees who is also a Research Fellow with PACT.He said the event brought together Islamic and Christian academics who used “sacred texts as a site to discuss the understanding and communications of religion through texts”.A story about the event.....
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Tell it Slant - A Symposium on theology and the arts
St Francis College and PACT will host a three day symposium from 15-17 June, gathering artists, theologians and philosophers to reflect on the relationship between theology and art. Registration information and the call for papers may be found here....
Neoliberalism, Civil Society and the Church
For some years the assumption in Australia was that the role of governments and civil society (the institutions that mediate between individuals and the state) was to expand the social, economic and political rights of citizens. People were seen as having social and economic ends. The church acted in this...
Ottomans - Birth of an Empire
PACT Fellow Dr Mehmet Ozalp from the Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisations at CSU will give a free public lecture about the Ottoman Empire on Saturday June 30.Entering the world stage at 1299 as a small polity at the periphery of the collapsing Seljuk Empire, Ottomans have built and...
Two books to be launched
You're invited to attend the launch of two books at the Chapel at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture on September 11, 2018 at 6pm. Faith and the Political In the Post-Secular Age edited by PACT Professorial Fellow Anthony Maher will be launched by PACT Director Professor Stephen Pickard....