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Engaging Your Faith: Religion and Ethics: Exploring Some Connections
Online EventExploring some connections between religious belief and ethics, this session considers the implications of these for both personal and societal ethical decision making in the Australian context.
Engaging Your Faith: Incarnating Transcendence in Our Secular Age
Online EventThis session we will consider Charles Taylor, a philosopher whose cultural analysis helps those of us who want to understand why belief in God is more difficult today than it was 500 years ago.
Engaging Your Faith: The Women in the Gospel of Luke
Online EventThis session explores Luke’s inclusion of women in the life and ministry of Jesus, points to his further inclusion of women in Acts, and investigates the implications for today.
Engaging Your Faith: Interculturality: Reflections for the Mission of a Parish Today
Online EventThis session will introduce participants to the topic of interculturality—the mutual exchange of cultural ideas. We will discuss how it relates to various church contexts and the challenge of mission.
Engaging Your Faith: Can a Scientist Believe in God?
Online EventMany people say (or fear?) that God and science don’t mix. This session is an introduction to the “conflict myth” and will offer some clues about how to understand the science–faith relationship as a harmonious one.
Engaging Your Faith: Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo
Online EventSt Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo (“Why God became human”) is justifiably famous, but rarely read and often misunderstood. It is not about an angry God who needs someone to punish. Rather, directed against non-believers who refuse to worship a crucified God, it talks of the cross as a place of wisdom, freedom, and honour.
Engaging Your Faith: An Introduction to AI and Transhumanism … for Christians
Online EventThis session is a brief introduction to artificial intelligence (including large language models like ChatGPT) and transhumanism, in which we will reflect on how Christians might think about future developments.
Engaging Your Faith: Beauty and the Word of God: Experience and Reverence
Online EventWe will look at how the experience of beauty helps us understand some theological concepts; and also how, therefore, the Church has understood the place of art.