The University of Divinity is seeking an accomplished and visionary academic leader to serve as its next Vice-Chancellor.
Often children are spoken about as sites of hope. What might it mean to hope for a child beyond projecting imagined futures? Toward the end of his time on earth, Dietrich Bonhoeffer proposed to write a theology of the...
The University of Divinity submits an annual report on its activities, including audited financial statements, to the Parliament of Victoria. You can view the 2020 Annual Report on our website.
A new publication by Professor Stephen Burns. With contributions from an international panel of writers, Twentieth-Century Anglican Theologians offers a wide-ranging survey of over twenty different Anglican thinkers...
Australia’s oldest and largest theological school, the University of Divinity, will at the end of 2021 launch a new Indigenous Studies Centre. Through the Centre, the University’s students, graduates, teachers and...
The event ‘Presenting your Research at Conferences’ scheduled for Tuesday has been cancelled. It will be held during the Postgraduate bootcamp in June instead.
Up‑front payments tuition protection Up-front payments tuition protection provides protection and assistance to support domestic higher education up‑front paying students if their private higher education provider...
Advice from TEQSA for students. There has been large growth in online study platforms in recent years. Some of these website may promote, enable or supply academic cheating services. Students employed to promote such a...
Call for papers: Post-Christian perspectives are warmly welcome alongside others that may be confessional, First Peoples, queer, native, intersectional and otherwise diverse—the crucial criteria for inclusion being that...
Support the training of priests for tomorrow’s Church You are invited to make your contribution to the training of seminary students for the Catholic priesthood. The Bishops of Victoria and Tasmania have established an...
The Australian Collaborators in Feminist Theologies invite expressions of interest from presenters at a feminist-informed seminar to be held in November 2021.
Revd Dr Garry Deverell on how Miriam-Rose Ungunmerr-Baumann’s invitation to come listen (‘dadirri’) to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples is deeply radical.
The Catholic Dioceses of Victoria have opened a public consultation on a new framework for responding to claims and redress relating to abuse by Church personnel.
Reverend Professor John Flett was recently appointed a Professor of the University of Divinity and will be giving the Inaugural Professorial Lecture at Pilgrim College on the 18th of May. For more information about...
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Divinity, Peter Sherlock joined ABC’s The Drum to take a look at the changing of faith, and other contemporary issues, facing Australia.
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 31 March 2021...
In this interview, Cathie Lambert talks about her experience as a PhD candidate, recipient of the Janette Gray Scholarship, and her research working with women who consider themselves to be 'on the edge of church'.
Call for papers | The Fellowship for Biblical Studies is holding its fifth national conference from the 30th of September to the 2nd of October, 2021. This conference offers an opportunity to gather together, network...
The Leaven In The Council: Joseph Cardijn and the Jocist Network at Vatican II, by Stefan Gigacz is now available. Based on his PhD thesis with Yarra Theological Union and the University of Divinity, Stefan’s book...
Researchers at the University of Divinity are invited to submit an application to the Extraordinary Large Grant Round (2021). Applications close 14 May.
Congratulations to Dr Bernadette Miles on the publication of Strengthening Spirit–Releasing Potential: Spiritual Direction for Leadership and Organizational Development.
After a significant period of prayer and discernment, the Board and Senior Staff of Stirling Theological College has decided that the Mulgrave campus is no longer best suited to the needs of contemporary and post-COVID...
Coursework students are regularly invited to participate in Student Unit Evaluation Surveys, providing an opportunity to help shape the growth of the University and the learning experience of future students.
Wikipedia seems to have a women problem. Less than 20% of entries are about women and less than 10% of editors are women. The 1000 Women in Religion Project is a major initiative of the Women’s Caucus of the American...
On the evening of Friday 19 March 2021, the University gathered at St Patrick’s Cathedral in East Melbourne and online to witness the graduation of some 421 students receiving 433 awards.
Contemporary Feminist Theologies: Power, Authority, Love, published by Routledge in their Gender, Theology and Spirituality series (edited by Lisa Isherwood), is now available. This is a collection of essays edited by...
The Hebrew Reading group is reading Genesis 37-50 and welcomes participants who have completed an introductory year of Biblical Hebrew and are keen to continue developing their skills.
Dorothy Lee joins us to unpack the themes and theology of John 3. We begin with the Numbers reading, looking at the people’s grumbling, the difficulty of transition, and the strange use of snakes as both punishment and...
Chris Porter describes himself as a reluctant theologian, but when secular science couldn't answer all his questions, he turned to theological research.
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