Centre for Public and Contextual Theology in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory | Educational research centre

Centre for Public and Contextual Theology

Locality: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Phone: +61 2 6272 6201

Address: 15 Blackall Street 2600 Canberra, ACT, Australia

Website: http://www.csu.edu.au/pact

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21.01.2022 Read PaCT Assistant Director Dr Jonathan Cole's article "Political Filters And The Challenge Of Multivariate Political Analysis" in The New Polis. https://thenewpolis.com//political-filters-and-the-challe/

21.01.2022 CHALLENGES TO THEORISING DIVERSITY CONCEPTUALISING RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY WHILST SWIMMING IN IT IN THE 21ST CENTURY Emeritus Professor, The Rev’d Gary D Bouma AM, Monash University... Date: 28th May, Thursday Time: 6.00pm-8.00pm Venue: Online (zoom link will be provided along with the reading materials upon registration) Registration link: https://www.isra.org.au/theory-time-theorizing-diversity Registration due: 25th May, Monday How are we to think about religion, religious diversity and society in the 21st Century? What we see and experience is not like the 20th, or before. Several certainties from before have disintegrated. A variety of labels are bandied about to describe our era, none of them satisfactory. Several social processes have been identified. It is time to reflect critically and to think collectively about thinking in the now. This session will discuss the role of theory. Basic problem What we think, the images we use to envisage and describe shape what we will see. The role of theory should be to open our eyes to what is happening, to help to frame research questions and to integrate masses of findings into some coherent frame to foster the next round of research which continues the iterative process. Too often theory is seen as some abstruse activity carried on without reference to evidence, or is simply a cute heuristic device which grabs attention but fails to do the work of theory. This webinar will raise these issues, examine several examples of theory and mention a few promising contributions. Participants will be refreshed in critical reading of theory and research. There will be ample opportunity for discussion along the way.

14.01.2022 https://wipfandstock.com/prophets-as-performers.html Congratulations to Dr Jeanette Matthews, Pact Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Old Testament Studies at St Mark's National Theological Centre, on her recent publication of Prophets as Performers: Biblical Performance Criticism and Israel's Prophets with Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf & Stock.

12.01.2022 Congratulations to Professor Elizabeth MacKinlay and her team on the completion of new research funded by PaCT on the lived experience of frailty with a focus on the spiritual dimension. The study’s findings will will inform policy and practice for the care of frail older people and help aged care practitioners to better understand what this final life journey is like from the care-receivers’ viewpoints The research report ‘Finding meaning in the lived experience of frailty’... examined the experiences of 25 frail older people with an average age of 83 years. The project was funded by a grant from the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology (PaCT) and was a project of the Colloquium for Ageing Perspectives and Spirituality (CAPS), in the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture (ACC&C) at Charles Sturt University in association with Catholic Healthcare Ltd. Read the report here: https://cdn.csu.edu.au//Ageing_Frailty_Report-Stage2-e-int