I am writing to remind you of the next meeting of the Brisbane Australian New Zealand Association of Theological Schools (B-ANZATS) from 1.30 to 3.30 pm on 7 March 2016 at Brisbane School of Theology at 1 Cross St, Toowong. Guest speaker – Dr Les Ball

This will be preceded by a Brisbane ANZATS business meeting of representatives from the college from 12.30 to 1.30. Please arrange for at least one representative from each college to attend the business meeting.

Please pass this information on to your faculty and staff. Please let myself Sam Heyshey@citipointechurch.com or Mechile Bavas at BST mbavas@bst.qld.edu.au know of numbers attending so as to assist with catering.

Dr Les Ball will be speaking on – “A Pedagogic Paradigm for Integrating Theology (and hence cultivating transformation in the theologue)”.  The presentation will consist of a schema for approaching theological study and a (brief) review of some suggested methods for implementation.

Les has held many posts including Field Education Director and Lecturer in Christian Education at BCQ, Academic Dean at QBCM/Malyon, Dean of Brisbane College of Theology, Director of Coursework at Sydney College of Divinity, and Research Fellow in Practical Theology at The University of Queensland.  In 2010-2012, he undertook a major research project on behalf of the Australian Council of Deans of Theology into student experience and transformative learning in Australian theological education, culminating in the publication of the monograph Transforming Theology (Mosaic Press, 2012). His research has been disseminated  by means of conferences, professional development seminars and the publication of a further work edited by Les Ball and James R Harrison, Learning and Teaching Theology: Some Ways Ahead (Morning Star, 2014). He was recently a keynote speaker at the ANZATFE Conference in Melbourne in December 2015.

Unfortunately, there is no parking onsite at BST. People will need to park along Wool Street where the dark blue “P” signs are:

1.       Near Anzac Park, down the road from the college – park rear in

2.       Up the hill beyond staff and BST resident parking, on the gravel area on the RHS of Wool Street.

Kind regards

Sam Hey

shey@citipointechurch.com Ph 07 33475833

Keynote Speaker Rev Dr Serene Jones The Rev Dr Serene Jones is the 16th President of Union Theological  Seminary in New York  and the first female to hold that position.  Professor Jones was appointed President of Union after seventeen  years teaching at Yale University.

The Atonement. Serene Jones has remarked that  theologians have returned to the scene [of the cross] again  and again  trying to decipher [its] significance…Yet the cross makes sense in ways that do not  make sense. Imprinted on our conscious minds  it animates our unconscious compulsions and  drives in ways that escape us. We live within the story [of the cross] but are not always quite  sure how.

Host The 2016 ANZATS conference will be hosted by the University of Divinity  and will be held at  the Trinity College Theological School and the Pilgrim Theological College  both in Parkville   Melbourne.  Call!for!Papers

Conference Announcement

Call for papers

Abstracts should be emailed to Revd Professor Mark Lindsay,  mlindsay@trinity.edu.au by 7 March 2016.

Harvest Bible College announces our sixth annual research conference where this year we will reimagine the relationship between theology and contemporary Christian ministry. Call For Papers We invite interested scholars, including postgraduate students, lecturers and ministers, to submit proposals for papers to be given at this year’s conference. You might especially consider something along these lines: • The concept of practical theology. • How the discourse of practical theology has developed over the past century. • How theology relates to ministry “at the coalface.” • Any topic related to practical theology and contemporary ministry.

Our keynote speaker this year is Professor Mark Cartledge, Professor of Practical Theology at Regent University, USA and the authors of several books on practical theology from a charismatic perspective, such as Practical Theology (Paternoster, 2003) and The Mediation of the Spirit (Eerdmans, 2015).

The Research Committee will evaluate proposals before the program is finalised. Successful presenters at the conference will be invited to turn their papers into peer-reviewed articles for the Journal of Contemporary Ministry.

Submitting a Paper Proposal Proposals should be around 200 words in length and should contain: • A working title • A clear description of the ideas and arguments you will present. • Details of you as presenter, including previous and current studies and presentation experience. Please send your proposal before May 31st to Dr Jon Newton, Harvest Bible College, P.O. Box 9183, Scoresby, Vic. 3179 or to jnewton@harvest.edu.au

Luther500 is an international theological conference on the theology of Martin Luther. It is being held to mark the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation (in 2017) and intends to explore, positively and critically, the reception of Martin Luther’s theology today and its significance for Christianity in the future, particularly in ecumenical and global dimensions. The conference is being sponsored by Australian Lutheran College (University of Divinity) (ALC) through its research centre, the Australian Lutheran Institute for Theology and Ethics (ALITE). The conference will be held 28 June-3 July, 2016, at the Catholic Leadership Centre in East Melbourne, immediately preceding the annual ANZATS conference, also to be held in Melbourne. Thus one can attend both conferences back-to-back.

Luther500 will feature six international Luther scholars as keynote speakers, as well as eight other speakers offering shorter papers in elective sessions, including a number of our ALC faculty.

For further information about the conference, please go to the conference website at www.luther500.com.au. We expect registration to open soon. Early-bird registration will close 31 March.

Flagship Company Directors Course Tailored to Church Leaders

Dr Gerard Goldman, CEO of BBI, said BBI and AICD have a shared commitment to excellence in governance and together will offer education in an exclusive combination of secular and religious governance principles. The course will run in Sydney from 30 May to 3 June 2016.

“The new partnership will enable all Church leaders to benefit from the outstanding learnings provided by AICD’s esteemed Company Directors Course (CDC),” Dr Goldman said.

For more information about the partnership, the tailored CDC course of BBI’s governance offerings, please visit www.bbi.catholic.edu.au.

The International Association for the Study of Youth Ministry will be bringing its biennial international conference to Sydney in January 2017. This is a unique opportunity for lecturers and students in developmental ministries (children’s ministry, youth ministry, young adults ministry, Christian education) to engage with the international research academy in this field.

You are invited to the next meeting of the Brisbane Australian New Zealand Association of Theological Schools (B-ANZATS) from 1.30 to 3.30 pm on 7 March 2016 at Brisbane School of Theology at 1 Cross St, Toowong.

Guest speaker – Dr Les Ball

“A Pedagogic Paradigm for Integrating Theology (and hence cultivating transformation in the theologue)”.  The presentation will consist of a schema for approaching theological study and a (brief) review of some suggested methods for implementation.

This will be preceded by a Brisbane ANZATS business meeting of representatives from the college from 12.30 to 1.30. Please arrange for at least one representative from each college to attend the business meeting.

Les has held many posts including Field Education Director and Lecturer in Christian Education at BCQ, Academic Dean at QBCM/Malyon, Dean of Brisbane College of Theology, Director of Coursework at Sydney College of Divinity, and Research Fellow in Practical Theology at The University of Queensland.  In 2010-2012, he undertook a major research project on behalf of the Australian Council of Deans of Theology into student experience and transformative learning in Australian theological education, culminating in the publication of the monograph Transforming Theology (Mosaic Press, 2012). His research has been disseminated  by means of conferences, professional development seminars and the publication of a further work edited by Les Ball and James R Harrison, Learning and Teaching Theology: Some Ways Ahead (Morning Star, 2014). He was recently a keynote speaker at the ANZATFE Conference in Melbourne in December 2015.

Please pass this information on to the faculty and staff of our theological colleges and associated organizations.

Where possible, please let myself Sam Hey shey@citipointechurch.com or Mechile Bavas at BST mbavas@bst.qld.edu.au know of numbers attending so as to assist with catering.