The Mural Wall of the Holy Spirit in Our Land is a mosaic representation of the painting by the late Hector Jandany, renowned elder, Lawman and painter of the Gija people (East Kimberley). The Holy Spirit is depicted in the form of the white owl of the Gija people. The Mural Wall is located in the grounds of the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, which is the home of the CRES directorate.
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The Centre for Religion, Ethics and Society is a research centre established to foster and promote high quality publications in theology and religious studies by CSU researchers. It does so by, holding academic conferences, seminars, forging research partnerships with Australian and international institutions and researchers working in theology and religious studies, awarding research grants to CRES members and by offering publication advice. The Centre’s current areas of research focus are:
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- Faith and First Nations nation-building
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Book News - Virginia Miller
24 Feb 2025
Book News - Virginia Miller Virginia Miller has just published the second edition of her book on child sexual abuse. It is called: Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries and the Catholic Church: Reassessing the Evidence. Second Edition, Revised and Expanded. The new material in this book concerns the Pennsylvania, Canadian, French, Spanish and Italian inquiries. She has also updated the inquiries that were analysed in the original work. The primary motivation.....
Interview with Xiaoli Yang
30 Jan 2025
Liz Jakimow interviewed CRES scholar, Xiaoli Yang, on world Christianity, poetry and the arts. Your areas of expertise include intercultural theology, world Christianity, and ethno-hermeneutics. How did you become interested in these fields? I grew up in China – the land where poetry has been highly valued in Chinese tradition since ancient times. My journey began with a simple yet profound question that I never found answers to in either.....
Book news - Prof Scott Cowdell
04 Oct 2024
Congratulations to CRES adjunct scholar, Professor Scott Cowdell, on the publication of his new book, Why Church? Christianity as it was meant to be. The book provides an argument for the centrality of the Eucharistic church in an increasingly tribal world. Prof Cowdell wrote most of the book while Dean's Scholar at Virginia Theological Seminary in early 2023. As Western culture has secularized, the church has increasingly become marginalized and.....
HETSA Conference
03 Oct 2024
The 2024 History of Economic Thought Society of Australia Conference was held on 25-27 September. The conference was a joint conference with the Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought. Congratulations to the CRES scholars who presented papers at that conference: Paul Oslington, “Usury” Jonathan Cole, “The Pro-Social Utilitarian Liberalism of Ludwig von Mises” Brendan Long, “Two senses to Smith’s Invisible (Divine) hand”.....
CRES lunchtime lecture - Prof Neil Ormerod
13 Sep 2024
Last Tuesday, Prof Neil Ormerod delivered a CRES lunchtime lecture on “The Ecological Thought of Pope Francis”. He discussed four elements of Laudato Si, Genesis 1:28, Anthropocentrism, the Technocratic Paradigm and ecological conversion. Please see a recording of the lecture below, which can also be found on our YouTube channel......
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