The forthcoming international conferences ‘Early Christian Centuries’ grow out of the activities of the Centre for Early Christian Studies at Australian Catholic University over the past twenty years and have become an integral part of the work of the Asia-Pacific Early Christian Studies Society, established in 2003.

Previously entitled ‘Prayer and Spirituality in the Early Church’, these conferences encompass themes between the first and the seventh centuries, from Pauline literature, the New Testament, Jewish, Gnostic, pagan, late-antique, and proto-Islamic perspectives. There are opportunities for literature, art, architecture, liturgy, monasticism, philosophy, and the material remains of the early Christian centuries to be explored in these conferences, each of which has a theme.

Date

Thursday, 3^rd October – Saturday, 5^th October 2013

Venue

115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy, Victoria

For more information, please follow the link to the websites below:

http://www.earlychristiancenturies.com.au/

http://www.acu.edu.au/about_acu/faculties,_institutes_and_centres/theology_and_philosophy/news/conferences/conferences_organised_by_the_faculty_that_occur_on_a_regular_cycle/early_christian_centuries_i

The Australian Council of Christians and Jews will be holding its National Conference at Australian Catholic University’s campus in Banyo from 29 September to 2 October 2013.

The conference theme is “Engaging the Other: Jewish-Christian Perspectives in Light of the 2007 Berlin Document, ‘A Time for Recommitment'”

The keynote speaker is Emeritus Rabbi Dr John Levi AM DD.

For more information please contact Dr Terry Veling at ACU (terry.veling *at* acu.edu.au) or consult the Conference Brochure