Ignatian contemplation, an ancient method of imagination-based prayer, is about to become more accessible to those without 20:20 vision.
Congratulations to Reverend Professor René Erwich, appointed a Professor of the University of Divinity by the University Council on 31 October 2019. Professor Erwich is noted for his outstanding contribution to...
American televangelist Pat Robinson once claimed children who celebrate Halloween were unknowingly “worshipping Satan”. Despite the absurdity that a child dressing up as a witch is devil worship, the idea that Halloween...
The Vice-Chancellor is delighted to announce the appointment of Associate Professor Elizabeth Boase as Dean and Dr Suman Kashyap as Registrar of the University’s new School of Graduate Research, commencing in 2020...
Capstones: A Shared and Culminative Learning Experience Through the different stages of a student career, an award of the University of Divinity can contain many diverse learning areas. This is in order to fulfil the...
The University of Divinity is the newest contributor to the Atla Digital Library, making it the first institution outside the United States to contribute a digital library collection. Atla (formerly the American...
The University of Divinity has graduated over ten thousand students since the very first graduation ceremony was held on 6 May 1913. Our alumni are found in every corner of the globe and every walk of life. On the...
The University of Divinity is a learning community comprising eleven colleges based in three states and online, offering a broad range of opportunities to address the issues of the contemporary world through critical...
Nicola Slee is in Melbourne this October as guest of the Australian Collaborators in Feminist Theologies (ACFT) to speak at a number of public events. “I’d like to say that all theology is, or should be, feminist, in...
By Grace Al-Zoughbi Arteen and Graham Joseph Hill Whether it’s Bethlehem, the very humble birthplace of Jesus Christ, or Egypt, the land that Jesus was called out of, or modern-day Lebanon’s Sidon and Tyre, where his...
Sixty people gathered in the Study Centre at Yarra Theological Union on the evening of 2 October for the launch of Dear Mother Dear Father: Letters Home from John Corcoran Wallis 1927-1949. This significant volume makes...
CALL FOR PAPERS ANZATS Conference University of Adelaide 5-9 July 2020 On behalf of the Council of ANZATS I am pleased to invite all members of ANZATS, NZATS, and the theological and wider academic community to submit...
In 2020 the University of Divinity will establish a School of Graduate Research (SGR) with responsibility for research training, including higher degree by research students and their supervisors. This new approach...
Originally published by The Melbourne Anglican (9 September 2019). Republished on Vox with permission. The women of Jesus’ ministry, and those who worked alongside Paul, need to be re-discovered, argues Dorothy Lee...
Chris Lowney argued that we need a new culture of leadership, a culture where everyone leads, that is, “where each person feels a leadership opportunity and responsibility ― living our baptismal promise!”
Sr Janette Gray, a Mercy Sister, in 2004 became a Faculty Member of Jesuit Theological College, Parkville. From 2012 until her death in December 2017 she was a Lecturer and post-graduate research Supervisor at the...
Diversity of citation improves representation and perspectives; includes the voice of others and their theologies, diversity is good for us all.
Media Release | 5 September 2019 Catholic Theological College is very pleased to announce the appointment of Reverend Dr Kevin Lenehan as Master of the College for a term from 16 September 2019 to 31 December 2022...
Engage with friends, peers and the wider University community in a network established to connect and resource alumni of the University. Graduates of the University of Divinity (or its predecessor the Melbourne College...
The escalating violence in West Papua has given added urgency to the first research report completed for the Federal Republic of West Papua (FRWP) Foreign Embassy by the Centre for Religion and Social Policy (RASP). The...
Students and staff of the University of Divinity have gained access to extensive library resources through a Memorandum of Understanding established between the University of Divinity and the University of Melbourne...
Congratulations to Dr Randall Prior, on the publication of his PhD thesis by the American Society of Missiology in their monograph series. Dr Prior is an alumnus of the University of Divinity, having graduated with a...
The Gazette is a public document which 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 23 August...
China is in the news and rightly so. If it’s not events in Hong Kong, it’s the China-US trade dispute, or tensions in the South China Sea, Beijing’s expanding influence in the South Pacific, the prospect of a Chinese...
Last week the University Council approved the schedule of student tuition fees for 2020. This annual exercise is always a challenging task: how much can our students – current and prospective – and, in some...
Congratulations to Professor Maryanne Confoy RSC who will be recognised next year as a Distinguished Alumni Award Winner at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. Maryanne will be honoured for several...
The Catholic Church in Australia is not taking full advantage of the work of Pope Francis in addressing issues of peace, justice and ecology, despite the “state of unprecedented emergency” that the world is in today.
On the morning of Friday 2 August 2019, the Australian Collaborators in Feminist Theologies were very pleased to host Paula Gooder, one of the UK's foremost New Testament scholars and first female Canon Chancellor of St...
In popular culture, hell is often depicted as a place full of flames, demons and screaming people. Is this what Christians really believe? Join James and our panel of Christian theologians — each with a differing view...
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University of Divinity
Robyn Whitaker
Carolyn Alsen
Kerrie Burn
Feminist Theologies
Graham Joseph Hill
Gabrielle McMullen
Dorothy Lee
Yarra Theological Union
Catholic Theological College
Religion and Social Policy
Peter Sherlock
Jesuit College of Spirituality