This article is republished from Crosslight. Yet another black man has died this week as a result of police brutality in the USA. His name was George Floyd and his story ignited both rage and grief across...
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Annual Report 2019
The 2019 University of Divinity Annual Report was tabled in the Parliament of Victoria on Tuesday 2 June 2020 and is now available.
You can view Annual Reports from previous years on the University of Divinity website.
Report reveals push for profits compromises finance sector staff
This article is republished from Mirage news. A Report commissioned by the Finance Sector Union of Australia (FSU) and completed by the Religion and Social Policy Network of the University of Divinity has found the...
Religion and Social Policy
Semester 2 unit | Action for a Fairer World
Since his 2015 document Laudato Si’, Pope Francis has continually urged vigorous ecumenical and inter-faith action to help solve global warming and extreme inequality. These issues are even more urgent after the...
Yarra Theological Union
Pope Francis names Bishop Mark Edwards as new Bishop of the Diocese of Wagga Wagga
Bishop Mark Edwards OMI is an alumnus of the University of Divinity, and a lecturer at Catholic Theological College. This article is reposted from ABC Riverina, by Moyra Shields. The Auxiliary Bishop of the...
University Gazette May 2020
The Gazette is a public document that reports the outcomes of meetings of the University Council and Academic Board since the last Gazette was issued. To view the latest University Gazette in pdf, issued 29 May 2020...
Semester 2 unit | Introduction to the New Testament
This unit provides an introduction to the New Testament through collaborative and engaged learning. The four Gospels, the letters of Paul and the other writings are set in their social and cultural context in the...
Can I get a witness? Violence, racism and Christian response
This article is republished from Crosslight. Yet another black man has died this week as a result of police brutality in the USA. His name was George Floyd and his story ignited both rage and grief across Minneapolis...
Common Grace: Walk together this Reconciliation Week
Common Grace is a movement of Christians who are passionate about Jesus and justice. Led by UD alumna and current student Brooke Prentis, this National Reconciliation Week, Common Grace is curating resources to help...
Semester 2 unit | Dietrich Bonhoeffer: On Ego, Power and Freedom in Ministry and Mission
This unit considers the life and written work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer who has been variously described as theologian, pastor, pastor-theologian, writer, activist, pacifist and martyr. In the face of such diversity, we...
Stirling Theological College
Semester 2 unit | Reading Ethics with Bonhoeffer
In this unit students will engage – 75 years after his execution by the Nazis – with Dietrich Bonhoeffer, described as ‘the one German theologian who will lead us into the third millennium’, through a structured...
9 African Women Theologians You Should Know About
By Stephanie A. Lowery Series Editor: Graham Joseph Hill Africa is vast. It is vibrant and diverse, and a lifetime would not suffice to explore its forests, deserts, mountains, must less its villages, towns, and vast...
Guest AuthorVultures around the Carcass? Judgment, Blame and Scapegoats
When I worked in Kenya in the 1980s, news circulated from Uganda of a disease which caused healthy young adults to lose weight rapidly and die. At first known as “slim”, it would become more formally...
Fergus KingPentecost: Acts 2:1-21 with John Flett
Rev Associate Professor John Flett joins us this week for a rich conversation about Pentecost and mission. We focus Acts 2:1-21 and John 20:19-23, drawing similarities and contrasts in the way the Spirit is portrayed in...
By the WellPostdigital Mediation of Transcendence
Art, Religious Excess, and the Postdigital A few years ago, I took my then-12-year-old son to an exhibit on the art of M.C. Escher. I was rather horrified when he immediately took my phone and began taking photos of the...
Eric TrozzoSemester 2 unit | The Gospel of Mark
Like the other New Testament Gospels, the Gospel of Mark presents its own unique portrait of Jesus. But as the earliest Gospel, Mark tells his story of Jesus at a quick, urgent and exciting pace in ways that the other...
COVID-19 and the Dilemma of Technology
In Psalm 135, the Psalmist writes: ‘The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but they do not speak; they have eyes, but they do not see; they have ears, but they do not...
Robert DerrenbackerSemester 2 unit | Sex and the Bible
What does the Bible say about sex and sexuality? This course will help you think through the complex issues that are involved in answering that simple question. Working with different texts and approaches you will...
International Student Emergency Relief Fund
The Victorian Government has announced a $45 million International Student Emergency Relief Fund for international students facing financial hardship. If you are an international student in Victoria experiencing...
Semester 2 unit: Genesis (Hebrew exegesis)
Looking to develop your Hebrew exegesis? Trinity is offering a Hebrew exegesis unit on the Book of Genesis in semester 2, 2020. Two hours per week will be devoted to exploring the themes and background to the book of...
Getting to know the stranger: what theology can teach us
I’m convinced author and screenwriter Douglas Adams must have taken a theology course. In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy he writes, ‘There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the...
Scott KirklandSemester 2 unit | The In-between Books: The Jewish Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha
This unit offers a rare opportunity to study the Jewish Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha and the history of the period known as the Intertestamental period. This period saw important and noteworthy events and changes in...
Living with new gratitude for the gift of life
The Revd Dr Colleen O’Reilly (Monday 18 May) Just when I thought I had the ageing thing nailed, the government intervened. I had been required to retire from parish ministry in 2019 because of my age, and I...
What Will We Take?
Like me, I am sure you have all noticed how much more silence there is in these days of isolation and being-at-home. For us city and town dwellers it is more marked than for rural folk. And, as we slowly emerge from...
Dorothy LeeIs isolation a feeling?
I am feeling isolated. Is this a state, or an emotion? Rather than getting into the semantics of language, I will ask another question: what does isolation feel like? Isolation feels like being stuck on the couch...
Carly OsbornDeadline extension for Research Grants Round 2
In response to continuing disruptions as a result of Covid-19, the Grants Panel has extended to 3 July the deadline for applications for Round 2 of the University of Divinity Research Grants. Please note that, due to...
Dr Barbara Deutschmann
Dr Barbara Deutschmann graduated with a PhD in 2020. Her thesis is a literary study of the female-male pair in the non-P creation narrative (Gen 2:4a–3:24). "The University of Divinity offered a breadth of Christian...
John O’Connor
John O'Connor graduated with a Master of Theology (Research) in 2020. His thesis is an exegesis of Luke’s Parable of the Persistent Widow: Luke 18:1–8 in context. "In contrast to what some feminist scholars claim, that...
Rev Dr Richard Wilson
Rev Dr Richard Wilson graduated with a PhD in 2020. His thesis examined the institutional church in Australia's influence on public policy formation, especially in economics, finance and business. "I chose the...
Living ‘Without God’
During the summer of 1944 – 15 months into a 2-year imprisonment that would end in his execution in the Flossenbürg concentration camp – Dietrich Bonhoeffer told his best friend that the world had reached its adulthood...
Mark LindsayRest amidst the Unrest
For those who are overworked during this time of COVID-19, a whole day’s rest sounds an unrealistic luxury. For others, COVID-19 is experienced as a period of complete cessation.
Rachelle GilmourStirling’s Winter School Online starts 11 May
Begin your university experience or get ahead in your existing course this winter at Stirling Theological College! Experience world-class online education, interactive video lectures, self-paced online study options...
The Pathway Ahead
There is a sign on an Alaskan highway that warns drivers about the limitations facing them ahead. It reads “Choose you rut carefully, as you will be in it for the next 60 miles” reflecting the deep ruts which previous...
Gary HeardRemember Pacifica?
The full archive of Pacifica is now available online through the Library Hub to all members of the University of Divinity community. The University of Divinity’s journal Pacifica was published from 1988-2017. Over the...
Kerrie BurnHolding Up Half the Sky
Women have played significant roles in ministry and leadership throughout the history of the church and the pages of the Bible. Today, women make up more than half the church, and do much of the mission, ministry, and...
Graham Joseph HillDr Liz Boase on God Forbid Podcast | Living through lament
This year has been filled with private and public calamity – we’ve survived isolation, infection, bushfires, floods or worse! Join James Carleton and the panel as they look at grief in the midst of calamity and...
Liz BoaseMajor Dr David Janssen
Major Dr David Janssen graduated with a PhD in 2020. His thesis examined the way early Christian speech was informed by and reacted to the social environment in which early Jesus followers lived. "My supervisors as...
Australian Province of the Society of Jesus and University of Divinity Joint Statement
Please read a joint statement from the Australian Province of the Society of Jesus and University of Divinity.
APSJ-UD Joint Statement
Covid-19 – Lessons Not Yet Learnt
For weeks now Covid-19 has dominated the world’s media. We’ve had endless facts, advice and commentary on the virus itself, the number of deaths and infections, the level of testing, the do’s and don’ts of hygiene and...
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