We 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.
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Engaging Your Faith: An Introduction to AI and Transhumanism … for Christians
This 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: Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo
St 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...
Engaging Your Faith: Can a Scientist Believe in God?
Many 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: The Women in the Gospel of Luke
This 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
This 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: Incarnating Transcendence in Our Secular Age
This 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: Religion and Ethics: Exploring Some Connections
Exploring 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.
Humanity cannot live by Zoom alone
Rev Associate Professor Darrell Jackson I’ve been pondering this question, prompted by the simple reality that these things happen for a world also wrestling with a global pandemic. The extent of human-to-human...
Darrell Jackson
Coronavirus Response
Please read an important statement from the Vice-Chancellor on the University's response to Coronavirus. The university will be moving to online delivery as much as possible for the remainder of first semester. In...
University of Divinity