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Australian College of Theology

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9262 7890

Address: 33 York Street 2000 Sydney, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.actheology.edu.au

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25.01.2022 We have continued to pray every workday here at the ACT during this time. Todays' prayer: Our Father, We give thanks for the good work of Australia and New Zealand in getting COVID under control. We pray you will help us navigate recovery well. But as we rejoice, we pray for a world in which COVID still rages. In which there have now been more than 50 million cases. We pray for a vaccine. We pray for you to give extraordinary love and wisdom to all, especially leaders, as th...e world groans under a deep crisis, a reminder of the groaning that continues with us until Christ comes. We pray for peace and healing in all places. For your shalom. And we pray that all will turn to you for comfort and discover your amazing grace. Amen

25.01.2022 NEXUS magazine is due out June. We like to think of it as the theology community at coffee. The theme of the issue has been changed to be about reflections on COVID-19. If you have any ideas or submissions, send them to Megan Powell du Toit [email protected]

25.01.2022 We are pleased to announce the latest book in our Monograph Series: From a Ministry for Youth to a Ministry of Youth Aspects of Protestant Youth Ministry in Sydney 1930-1959 by Ruth Lukabyo. Including a foreword by Stuart Piggin, it has also received several fine endorsements from Bill Salier, Geoff Treloar, Hugh Chilton, and Peter Jensen. A sympathetic but not uncritical local study of youth ministry in a key centre of the global evangelical movement, this engaging book has no parallel in the historiography of evangelicalism." Geoff Treloar, Editor of Lucas: An Evangelical History Review Find out more and order here: https://wipfandstock.com/from-a-ministry-for-youth-to-a-min

23.01.2022 The ACT Covid-19 Response page has been updated today. All updates have also been communicated to the appropriate people at colleges and students groups. We continue to pray for our colleges and students as we all implement safe and necessary strategies that nevertheless have a large impact on our daily lives. We remain available for contact [email protected] for questions about the ever changing landscape. https://www.actheology.edu.au/australian-college-of-theolo/

23.01.2022 ACT Acting Dean, Dr Graeme Chatfield, presenting the Felix Arnott Prize to James Robertson at the recent BST Graduation Ceremony

23.01.2022 As the COVID-19 crisis has evolved the ACT has been carefully monitoring University responses to the disruption of HDR candidates research. At the meeting of the Research and Research Studies Committee on 17 April 2020 it was decided to extend all ACT HDR candidates course end date by one semester. This has been communicated to all HDR students and colleges. We are thankful for the support by supervisors for students facing disruptions both to research and to life in general. We continue to assess how best to support research and our research students within this new and changing environment. https://www.actheology.edu.au/australian-college-of-theolo/

22.01.2022 COVID is making us all creative - next week we have an online book launch for David Forrest Mitchell's book - this means people not in Perth can join us now.

22.01.2022 The end of year issue of NEXUS, the ACT research magazine, is going to focus on community - something we have all been reflecting on more during COVID. If you would like to contribute, let Megan Powell du Toit know.

22.01.2022 We continue to post a daily prayer and prayer points, for ACT prayer time at 10:15-10:30am each day. Today we have asked for prayer for Rev Dr Katy Smith, who in the midst of this crisis has started her role as Principal at Mary Andrews College. https://www.actheology.edu.au/australian-college-of-theolo/

22.01.2022 MST (Melbourne School of Theology) have started a new Centre for Theology & Psychology, and have put out a resource on coping with COVID https://ctp.mst.edu.au/resources/

22.01.2022 Please see a message from the ACT Acting Dean in the video, explaining our COVID-19 response. More information can be found at https://www.actheology.edu.au/australian-college-of-theolo/

22.01.2022 I got to go to a COVID book "not launch" for our latest book, and see my post for more details - Megan

21.01.2022 Today the ACT prays for everyone as we adjust to further restrictions: https://www.actheology.edu.au/australian-college-of-theolo/

21.01.2022 We are glad to announce the publication of our second book in the youth ministry research area. Wide-Awake in God's World: Bible Engagement for Teenage Spiritual Formation in a Culture of Expressive Individualism, by Dr Graham D. Stanton (Ridley lecturer). In an expressivist culture, effective engagement must acknowledge teenagers’ freedom to choose their own spiritual path. Yet, in an evangelical theology, faithful formation must hold on to biblical authority. As we seek to... engage young people with the Bible, key questions need to be explored. Such questions include: how can pedagogical freedom be affirmed without undermining theological authority; and how can authority be asserted without diminishing personal freedom? This study explores a freedomauthority dialectic in theological dialogue with the educational philosophy of Maxine Greene. Greene’s reflection on the arts and the imagination are brought into conversation with insights from Charles Taylor, Garret Green, and Nicholas Wolterstorff. https://wipfandstock.com/wide-awake-in-god-s-world.html

20.01.2022 As hot spots arise in both Victoria and New South Wales, we continue to pray daily. Many of our colleges have updated their prayer points recently, see prayer section here https://www.actheology.edu.au/australian-college-of-theolo/

20.01.2022 We move again into prayer at 10:15, for 15 minutes - will you join us? A prayer of the day and prayer points are up online under the community prayer section https://www.actheology.edu.au/australian-college-of-theolo/

20.01.2022 We congratulate Natasha Moore, winner of SparkLit's Australian Christian Book of the Year for 2020. We also note the input of her CPX colleagues into this book, based on their documentary, among them ACT graduate and academic John Dickson - as well as other colleagues, Simon Smart and Justine Toh.

19.01.2022 Disability Symposium rego now open! link below https://www.actheology.edu.au//being-and-belonging-disabi/

18.01.2022 Resources from the National Centre for Student Equity in Higher Education. As they say: As the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly unfolds worldwide, the majority of students have found themselves in a position of disadvantage academically, logistically, financially, and/or personally. Research, resources and supports originally targeting equity students are rapidly becoming universally applicable. https://www.ncsehe.edu.au/practice/covid-19/

17.01.2022 We are very pleased to announce our fourth book published for the year in the ACT Monograph Series. Beyond Four Walls: Explorations in Being the Church has been edited by Michael O'Neil and Peter Elliott. It includes chapters from Michael and Peter, as well as Scot McKnight, John Olley, Margaret Wesley, Allan Chapple, Karen Siggins, John McClean, Brian Harris, Stephen Garner, David Cohen, Carolyn Eng Looi Tan, and Andre van Oudtshoorn. Each chapter in this book explores an aspect of what it means to be the church, both with respect to its own life, and with an eye to its presence and mission in the world. https://wipfandstock.com/beyond-four-walls.html

17.01.2022 The special COVID issue of NEXUS is online - you can access this current and past issues of NEXUS on our website. https://www.actheology.edu.au/research/culture/

16.01.2022 The Acting Dean, Rev Dr Graeme Chatfield, and staff of the Australian College of Theology take this opportunity to pray that all of us might in this time of disruption and uncertainty know and experience the grace, mercy and peace of Christ not in the limited ways we as humans often limit God, but in the extravagant way God has demonstrated his love towards all people through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. We would also like to share this pra...yer with you written by our Publishing Manager, Rev Megan Powell du Toit: Our Lord, Like the disciples who ran away And shut themselves in a room We are grief-stricken and anxious With good reason, as our world sickens Like the women who went to the tomb We long to show love at this time Yet as we feel lonely and isolated We remember your forsakenness And as we struggle to hope We remember you defeated death As we long to be present face to face We know that now through you We will see God face to face And dwell with Gods people forever This Easter, renew our hope That we may witness to your good news Amen https://www.actheology.edu.au/easter-message-2020/

16.01.2022 We have been using prayers written by others but for our last prayer time before Easter, I (Megan) have written a prayer. Prayer for Easter 2020 Our Lord,... Like the disciples who ran away And shut themselves in a room We are grief-stricken and anxious With good reason, as our world sickens Like the women who went to the tomb We long to show love at this time Yet as we feel lonely and isolated We remember your forsakenness And as we struggle to hope We remember you defeated death As we long to be present face to face We know that now through you We will see God face to face And dwell with God's people forever This Easter, renew our hope That we may witness to your good news Amen Prayer points found at the link https://www.actheology.edu.au/australian-college-of-theolo/

15.01.2022 We remain in prayer during this crisis, every workday at 10:15am. Will you join us? prayer notes here: https://www.actheology.edu.au/australian-college-of-theolo/

15.01.2022 We continue to pray each day. We regularly update our COVID-19 prayer section. We now also have the prayer points for several of our colleges up there: https://www.actheology.edu.au/australian-college-of-theolo/

15.01.2022 Below is a link to the ACT's webpage summary of our COVID-19 Response. This has already been sent out to colleges. We will update via email and on this webpage as new information and decisions become available. Please email us ([email protected]) if you have any questions or concerns. https://www.actheology.edu.au/australian-college-of-theolo/

14.01.2022 The Student Experience Survey (SES) is the largest Australian study of education. ACT students are invited to participate during the month of August. The SES provides critically important information to the Australian Government and our colleges about our student experience. Based on feedback from students, colleges have been able to create better places to study by improving their courses, learning resources, support services, and college facilities. In last years SES the ACT was ranked in the top 5 of all higher education providers in the Quality of Education metric. So far over 50% of our students have completed the survey and with over a week to go, we are encouraging the rest of our students to participate. Check your inbox for the email about the survey, and find out more here: https://www.qilt.edu.au/

14.01.2022 Winifred Merritt Research Fellowships: Dr Victoria Lorrimar The ACT is happy to announce a recipient of a new research initiative, ACT Winifred Merritt Research Fellows: Dr Victoria Lorrimar. Dr Lorrimar is the Academic Dean and a Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Trinity College Queensland. ... Victoria completed her PhD in 2018 through the University of Oxford in the area of science and religion, focusing on theological responses to human enhancement technology. She has previously completed a Master of Divinity with the Australian College of Theology and a Bachelor of Science (Hons), majoring in genetics and biochemistry, at the University of Western Australia. Victoria has co-edited special issues of Studies in Christian Ethics and Theology and Science. She has had articles published in both of these journals, as well Zygon, The Expository Times and Ecclesiology, and has contributed chapters to various edited volumes including the forthcoming Emerging Voices in Science and Religion edited by Bethany Sollereder and Alister McGrath and published by Oxford University Press. Her research focus currently, for the purpose of this Fellowship, is pictures of human flourishing that underpin representative transhumanist and secular humanist attitudes towards human technological enhancement prominent in the public sphere, and how we might we respond as Christians. ACT is happy to be able to contribute to the support of Victorias research in this way. The Winifred Merritt Research Fellowships are offered in support of research in the ACT. Winifred Merritt was the first female graduate of the ACT, in a degree-level qualification. This was the Th.Shol. (equivalent to the BD) in 1956. In 1955, she had won the Frank and Elizabeth Cash Essay Prize under the set topic The Relation of the Church to the Kingdom of God. Winifred Merritt died in 1981.

13.01.2022 Here is the photo from Laidlaw College of the online launch of our latest book. See whether you can pick out who some of the scholars in attendance were!

12.01.2022 And another opportunity from ADM - the funding event.

12.01.2022 Winifred Merritt Research Fellowships: Dr Edwina Murphy The ACT is happy to announce a recipient of a new research initiative, ACT Winifred Merritt Research Fellows: Dr Edwina Murphy. Dr Murphy is Senior Lecturer in Christian Thought and History at Morling College. Like Winifred Merritt, she is a graduate of the ACT (as well as USyd and MQ). Her research program is centred around Cyprian of Carthage and early North African Christianity, with a particular focus on the recept...ion of Scripture. She is the author of The Bishop and the Apostle: Cyprians Pastoral Exegesis of Paul, and co-editor of several books including Deacons and Diakonia in the Early Church and The Gender Conversation. In the next few years, she has a number of projects planned including editing the forthcoming Zondervan series Early Christian Thinkers and writing a volume on Perpetua and Felicitas. The ACT is happy to be able to contribute to the support of Edwinas ongoing research in this area. The Winifred Merritt Research Fellowships are offered to support research in ACT. Winifred Merritt was the first female graduate of the ACT, in a degree-level qualification. This was the Th.Schol. (equivalent to the BD) in 1956. In 1955, she had won the Frank and Elizabeth Cash Essay Prize under the set topic The Relation of the Church to the Kingdom of God. Winifred Merritt died in 1981.

11.01.2022 Our Director of Teaching and Learning position is open for applications, due date October 19. Please see here for more information https://www.actheology.edu.au//ACT.Director-of-Teaching-an

11.01.2022 The Australian College of Theology has again achieved an outstanding result in the annual Student Experience Survey (SES). The Student Experience Survey (SES) is a national benchmarking exercise which surveys students at Universities and Independent providers across Australia. The ACT rated above all of the universities in both undergraduate and postgraduate student experience, ranking fifth overall in both of those categories. Over 1200 ACT students responded, with responses... from students at all our participating affiliated colleges. The ACT congratulates its affiliated colleges, faculty, and staff for this fantastic result. Rev Dr Graeme Chatfield, Acting Dean The full SES report can be found at https://www.qilt.edu.au/qilt-surveys/student-experience. https://www.actheology.edu.au/act-ranks-above-all-universi/

10.01.2022 Jürgen Moltmann said, Her investigation into the Holy Spirits role in the cross of Christ is very important for a comprehensive theologia crucis." Praise indeed from one of the subjects of Carolyn Tan's ACT series book, The Spirit at the Cross: exploring a Cruciform Pneumatology. Carolyn lectures at one of our colleges, Vose. Link to buy below. https://www.amazon.com.au/Spirit-Cross-Explori//1532695691

09.01.2022 In the midst of a pandemic, we have just published a record number of books in our ACT Monograph Series for a year - 6. With thanks to our authors and volume editors: David Forrest Mitchell (AFES) Bishops Paul Barker and Brad Billings... John de Jong and Csilla Saysell (Laidlaw & Carey) Michael O'Neil and Peter Elliott (Vose & Murdoch U) Ruth Lukabyo (Youthworks) Graham Stanton (Ridley) To Series Editor, Graeme Chatfield, Commissioning Editor and Publishing Manager Megan Powell du Toit, and our two main copy editors, Gina Denholm and Greta Morris. And to all at our publisher, Wipf & Stock, in particular Matt Wimer. https://wipfandstock.com/catalog/series/view/id/160/

09.01.2022 We had a check-up on the ACT office plants during our staff meeting today - they are flourishing in the garden of the Acting Dean.

07.01.2022 The ACT stops work for prayer from 10:15 - 10:30 am each work day. Please see here for more information, under Community Prayer section. https://www.actheology.edu.au/australian-college-of-theolo/

06.01.2022 It is with sadness, but conviction that this is the right course of action, that we inform you that the ACT has decided to postpone Being and Belonging: Disability, Church, and Community, our conference which was due to be held on 16-17 April 2020. This is due to the current measures in place in response to COVID-19, and an awareness that further measures may be introduced. We also believe we are called in Christ to show care for our community by doing what we can to prevent ...the spread of the virus. We will look to reschedule the conference later this year and will let you know new details as soon as we can. We thank all those who have been working towards this conference and supported it in various ways, including our organising team, presenters, and our venue Anglican Deaconess Ministries. And we continue in prayer for all those affected by this virus and its management. May the Lord sustain and comfort all of us at this time. https://www.actheology.edu.au//being-and-belonging-disabi/

06.01.2022 Congratulations to ACT faculty (and grads!) who have been shortlisted for Australian Christian Book of the Year, John Dickson (Ridley) and Ian Smith (Christ College). Congratulations to ACT grads also shortlisted, Paul Barnett (Moore) and Samuel Green (Moore)

05.01.2022 A prayer we are using today at the ACT, by Dr Cameron Wiggins Bellm: May we who are merely inconvenienced Remember those whose lives are at stake. May we who have no risk factors Remember those most vulnerable.... May we who have the luxury of working from home Remember those who must choose between preserving their health or making their rent. May we who have the flexibility to care for our children when their schools close Remember those who have no options. May we who have to cancel our trips Remember those that have no safe place to go. May we who are losing our margin money in the tumult of the economic market Remember those who have no margin at all. May we who settle in for a quarantine at home Remember those who have no home. As fear grips our country, let us choose love. During this time when we cannot physically wrap our arms around each other, Let us yet find ways to be the loving embrace of God to our neighbors. Amen. Find this and prayer points here: https://www.actheology.edu.au/australian-college-of-theolo/ See more

05.01.2022 opportunity from ADM

02.01.2022 In an hour at 10:15 am, the ACT stops work to pray, as we have been during this crisis every day. We post a prayer of the day and prayer points of the day on our COVID page. Today's prayer was adapted from a Queensland Baptist devotional https://www.actheology.edu.au/australian-college-of-theolo/

02.01.2022 The Australian College of Theology (ACT) has been praying every work day during the COVID crisis. As the situation in Victoria has necessitated stage 4 restrictions, we assure our Victorian colleges, staff, and students of our continued heartfelt prayer. We also issue an invitation for all our colleges to join ACT Office Staff in daily prayer. Our prayer page is found at https://www.actheology.edu.au/australian-college-of-theolo/. Prof James Dalziel, Dean.