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:
- Ethical leadership
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- Faith and First Nations nation-building
- Theology and economics
Remembering Christos Yannaras (1935-2024)
30 Aug 2024
This is an extract of the article published by Jonathan Cole for The Political Theology Network. The Greek philosopher and theologian Christos Yannaras passed away at the age of 89 on 24 August 2024. My journey, and unlikely friendship, with Christos began in the most innocuous of ways. In 2015, a year into a PhD on the political theology of Oliver O’Donovan at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, Australia, a.....
"Faith, work and economics" short course
22 Aug 2024
CRES scholar, Prof Paul Oslington, and Kara Martin will be delivering a short-course called “Faith, work and economics” at the St James Institute in Sydney, in partnership with Trinity College Theological School, Melbourne. The course will be held on 16-18 October and 31-1 November 2024 (both required). Students at other theological colleges may be able to enrol for credit. University of Divinity standard course fees apply. For more information, please.....
Congratulations to Ben Myers
20 Aug 2024
Congratulations to CRES scholar, Ben Myers, for recently being appointed a Scholar in Residence at the Forschungszentrum Internationale und Interdisziplinรคre Theologie (FIIT) at Heidelberg University. He will be spending a few months there working on a book project on representations of God in literature. Ben also recently published "Blakean anti-wisdom in Thomas Merton's proverbs" in ๐๐ช๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐บ [https://academic.oup.com/litthe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/litthe/frae006/7734744].....
Girard scholars meet in Mexico City
13 Aug 2024
Girard Scholars Meet in Mexico City CRES theologian, Professor Scott Cowdell, joined over a hundred scholars from around the world in June for the annual conference of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion. Held at a seventeenth-century Jesuit college in Mexico City, the conference theme was “Desire Among the Ruins: Mimesis and the Crisis of Representation”. Professor Cowdell presented a paper entitled “Barthes and Girard on Mythical (Mis)Representation”, and there.....
Recent publications
08 May 2024
Congratulations to all CRES scholars on their recent publications: Cadwallader, Alan. “Moneyed women in Phrygia,” Numismatic Chronicle 183 (2023): 43–78 + Plates. Cadwallader, Alan. “Value-adding a Slave, or, How Much Is an Onesimus worth?” In Everyday Life in New Testament Times: Essays in Honor of Peter Arzt-Grabner, edited by Christina Kreinecker, John Kloppenborg and James R. Harrison, 165-89. Leiden: Brill, 2024. [https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/publications/value-adding-a-slave-or-how-much-is-an-onesimus-worth] Erickson, Amy. “Surveillance and Sabbath: Alternative Powers, Alternative.....
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