The St Francis College Research Seminars provide an avenue for Honours students, Masters students, and doctoral candidates to participate in a forum where faculty are presenting their own current work while also modelling good research and writing practice. These seminars are held three times each academic semester, and are open to clergy and members of the wider community. Staff and students from other local ANZATS schools are always very welcome, and are invited to offer presentations during the year.

These seminars are held between 2.00pm and 5.00pm on the dates listed below. The topics for semester one in 2015 are as follows:

Semester One

12 March

1. Greg Jenks: More Than Couch Change: The Coins from Bethsaida.
2. Peter Lewis: The Coins of Agrippa II.
3. Anthony Rees: Moses, Mother of Israel?

16 April

1. Graham Warren: BTh (Hons) research report
2. Peter Devenish-Mears: PhD research report
3. Steven Ogden: topic to be confirmed

14 May

1. Linda McWilliam: BTh (Hons) research report
2. Mervyn Lander: Autoethnography and Ministry Research.
3.  Marie-Louise Craig: topic to be confirmed

More information: www.ministryeducation.org.au/theological-studies/research-sfc/research-seminars/

Bernard Brandon Scott, has served for 23 years as the Darbeth Distinguished Professor of New Testament at the Phillips Theological Seminary, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

He is the author and editor of many books, including Hear Then the Parable and The Trouble with Resurrection. A charter member of the Jesus Seminar, Brandon is chair of Westar’s newly established Christianity Seminar. He served as chair of the Bible in Ancient and Modern Media Section of the Society of Biblical Literature, as well as a member of several SBL Seminars including the Parable Seminar and Historical Jesus Seminar. He holds an A.B. from St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, an M.A. from Miami University, and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University.

The following ticketed events have been arranged in SE Queensland:

• JESUS APART FROM CHRISTIANITY
  Public lecture at St Mark’s Anglican Church, Buderim on Thursday evening, 25 September 2014, 7.00pm. Location: 7-17 Main Street, Buderim (opposite Buderim Mountain School).
• RE-THINKING PAUL AND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE CHRISTIAN 
  Full day workshop to be held at Caloundra, on Friday, 26 September 2014, 10.00am – 3.00pm. Location: Uniting Church Hall, 56c Queen St, Caloundra. (Light lunch included.)
• JESUS AFTER THE CHURCH: JESUS IN EMERGENT RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES
  Workshop to be held at the TLC Building, 16 Peel Street, South Brisbane on Saturday, 27 September 2014 (10.00am – 3.00pm)

In addition to the ticketed events available here, Brandon will also be preaching at all three Masses at St Mary’s in Exile, South Brisbane, on the weekend of 27/28 September: Saturday (6.30pm, preceeded by 20 minutes silent meditation from 6.10pm), Sunday (9.00am and 5.00pm).

Register online at the Common Dreams SEQ Eventbrite page.

Friday, 5 September 2014.
2.00pm

(Forgan Smith Building, room E319)

David McEwan

Love, Holiness and Happiness; But is the Greatest of These Love?
Given that much of Christianity emphasises the cross, self-denial andsuffering as key elements in spiritual formation, this seminar examines some of the implications of John Wesley’s theological focus on the love of God. The correlation between holiness, happiness and the centrality of love as the means to both is explicit in his writings. He agreed that while God used all of life’s circumstances to foster the spiritual life of the Christian, suffering was not essential. In the light of that understanding, he believed that God’s transforming work in human life and relationships was best accomplished by a full consciousness of his love, with the happiness and holiness that attends it.