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PaCT Fellow’s article published in Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality
11 Feb 2019
PaCT Fellow Dr Jane Foulcher has recently had an article published in Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality 18, no 2. (2018): 218-30. It resulted from a presentation at the conference of the Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality, Keppel, Switzerland, held 27-29 June 2017. Her conference attendance was funded by PaCT in 2017. The conference theme was “Prayer without ceasing” and her paper was titled "Nuit De Feu:.....
PACT Research Professor meets John Milbank
11 Feb 2019
Leading international theologian John Milbank and his priest/theologian wife Alison made their first visit to Australia in January. During a busy week of speaking engagements in Sydney, Professor Milbank spent a morning with PACT Research Professor Scott Cowdell. Milbank is the founder of radical orthodoxy, a controversial theological push that seeks to expose the modern secular as a failed theological strategy. Accordingly, he regards social science as offering a dangerously.....
Book Published: Contesting the Theological Foundations of Islamism and Violent Extremism
04 Feb 2019
Presentations from The Third Australasian Conference on Islam held in October 2016 on the topic ‘Refuting the Theological Foundations of Violent Extremism and Radicalisation’ have now been published in a book. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, Contesting the Theological Foundations of Islamism and Violent Extremism is edited by Fethi Mansouri who is Director of the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalization at Deakin University and Zuleyha Keskin is Course Director.....
Cross-cultural Eco-theological in an Indian Ocean published
21 Jan 2019
Congratulations to PaCT Fellow Dr David Reichardt whose book Cross-cultural Eco-theological in an Indian Ocean has been recently published. Dr Reichardt said it was a two-year project which came about after Indian publisher ISPCK’s general secretary asked him to write a textbook on eco-theology for Indian pastors. ISPCK has a policy of trying to provide material on current issues in theology available in good quality and moderate cost for pastors,.....
Book News: René Girard and the Nonviolent God
21 Jan 2019
Congratulations to PaCT Research Professor Rev’d Canon Scott Cowdell whose book René Girard and the Nonviolent God has been published by Notre Dame Press. Professor Cowdell research has been supported by PaCT and his new book has received praise from academia. The publishers describe the book as follows: In his latest book on the ground-breaking work of René Girard (1923–2015), Scott Cowdell sets out a new perspective on mimetic theory.....
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