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
- Social inclusion
- Politics and religion
- Faith and First Nations nation-building
- Theology and economics
Book news: Translation of 'On the 'Meaning' of Politics'
29 Aug 2023
Congratulations to Dr Jonathan Cole on the publication of his translation of On the ‘Meaning’ of Politics by Christos Yannaras, published by Routledge. On the ‘Meaning’ of Politics is a concise, yet provocative, summation of Christos Yannaras’ long reflection on the meaning of politics. The book includes a forward by Rowan Williams and an introduction by Dr Cole which provides an overview of Yannaras’ political theology. This is the second.....
BOOK NEWS: Colossae, Colossians, Philemon: The Interface
11 Jul 2023
Congratulations to Professor Alan H Cadwallader for recently publishing Colossae, Colossians, Philemon: The Interface. Alan informs us that this is the result of more than 20 years’ research and three years of COVID lockdown. So well done Alan for finally seeing the result of so much hard work. Colossae, Colossians, Philemon: The Interface looks at the material culture of Colossae, given for the first time as full a collation as.....
New Religious Thought - Lecture by Prof Wayne Hudson
28 Jun 2023
The possibility of a new religious thought According to one of Australian’s greatest intellectual historians, Prof Wayne Hudson, religion does have a future, but that future will need to be radically different from what has gone before. At the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture on Tuesday, 27 June 2023, Prof Wayne Hudson gave a lecture on ‘New Religious Thought’, applying methodology used in his latest book Beyond Religion and.....
BOOK NEWS: The impact of political economy
26 Jun 2023
Congratulations to Acting Executive Director of the ACC&C, Dr Jonathan Cole, who has published a chapter in the newly released book,The Impact of Political Economy: on Character Formation, Ethical Education, and the Communication of Values in Late Modern Pluralistic Societies'. His chapter, titled 'Twitter: A case study in the character-malformation potential of twenty-first century digital technology' is an insightful analysis into the ways that Twitter generates social interactions with a.....
Book News: Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries and the Catholic Church: Reassessing the Evidence by Virginia Miller (New Edition)
17 Apr 2023
This book is an objective, evidence-based analysis of the empirical findings, methodologies and conclusions of the three main national inquiries (Irish, US, Australian) into child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and of the responses of the Catholic Church to child sexual abuse. As such, it stands in contrast to the overall media reporting of the problem. Based on the evidence of these inquiries it draws two major conclusions. Firstly,.....
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Crisis and Hope: Reading Bonhoeffer for Today (‘What I Did Today by God,’ by Glenn Loughrey. Used with the artist’s permission. www.glennloughrey.com ) ‘We should have so much love for...