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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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.....
Publication news: Prof Alan Cadwallader co-edits "The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity"
08 May 2024
Congratulations to Professor Alan Cadwallader, who co-edited the book, The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity, along with James Hardison (Sydney College of Divinity), Angela Standhartinger (University of Marburg) and Larry Welborn (Fordham, New York). The book challenges the dominant thesis that cities are the key to early Christianity. The volume begins with a “state-of-question” introduction by Thomas Robinson, assessing the interrelation of the village and city.....
The AI Revolution - lecture by Dr Jonathan Cole
07 May 2024
On 23 April, Interim Executive Director of the ACC&C, Dr Jonathan Cole, gave a talk on ‘๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ผ๐น๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป: ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฒ๐ณ๐ถ๐๐, ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐บ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐ต๐๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ’ as part of the Christians for an Ethical Society (CES) forum series. Dr Cole used two examples of GPT-4 and self-driving cars to illustrate how AI is impacting our lives and what its impact might be in the future. The lecture was well-attended.....
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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...