You are invited to join us for a special ANZATS event

Date: Friday, 7 March
Time: 2.00 – 4.30pm
Venue: Lecture Room 1, St Francis Theological College, 233 Milton Road, Milton (best car entry is from Baroona Road)

Dr Les Ball, formerly the Dean of Brisbane College of Theology and the author of the 2012 report, Transforming Theology: Student Experience and Transformative Learning in Undergraduate Theological Education, will help us begin our 2014 year with reflections on best practice in offering our students transformative experiences in theological education.

Les will present some of his research into transformative theological education, with time for questions and discussion. We shall then have an extended opportunity for refreshments, so that we get to meet and mingle with colleagues from different theology schools around SE Queensland.

The ANZATS 2014 Conference will be held from Sunday June 29 to Wednesday July 2 at the University of Notre Dame, Fremantle WA  Theme: The Eclipse of God – Theology after Christendom.

Speaker:    Professor Graham Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford University 

When: 29 June – 2 July 2014
Venue: The University of Notre Dame Australia
Fremantle Campus
Keynote Speaker: Graham Ward, Regius Professor of Divinity and Canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, England.
Theme: The Eclipse of God: Theology after Christendom Précis: The so-called ‘Christian West’ has become a
misnomer amid increasing secularism and general loss of interest in the question of God’s reality,
purpose and activity. How does one practise theology in such an environment? What is the relevance,
way and task of theology after Christendom?

http://www.anzats.edu.au/conferences.html

2-5 October 2014

The Australian Association of Mission Studies will be holding a conference in Adelaide, Australia.. The theme of the conference is ‘Margins, Mission and Diversity.’  The organisers are particularly interested in exploring how the ‘margins’ inform and challenge concepts of mission today in contexts that are increasingly diverse, as well as the impact that diversity has on mission to and from the margins. Prof Tony Gittins will be the keynote speaker and a special public lecture will honour the life and work of Dr Ross Langmead. More details, including a call for papers at the conference web page.

In Sydney, Australia. On 27–28 June, the United Theological College and Centre for Public and Contextual Theology are hosting After Crucifixion: A symposium on the theology of Craig Keen.

The symposium will explore Craig Keen’s contribution to contemporary theology, and will offer scholarly engagement with his work; Craig Keen will also present a lecture and will respond to papers We invite papers engaging with Professor Keen’s work – particularly his latest publication, After Crucifixion (Cascade, 2013) – from a range of disciplines and perspectives. Paper proposals should be no more than 300 words and should be sent to Keen.Symposium@gmail.com by 28 February 2014.

The Melbourne Uniting Church Theological College is holding a conference – Beyond Education: Exploring a theology for the Church’s theological formation on 28 to 29 March, 2014.

https://ucavt.goregister.com.au/beyondeducation/registration/

Fri Mar 28 pm all day Sat Mar 29 $50 Parkville Victoria

The Religious History Association, in conjunction with the Centre for the History of European Discourses at The University of Queensland, has great pleasure in calling for papers for the next annual conference of the Religious History Association to be held at the University of Queensland, St Lucia campus, from 8—10 July 2014. The conference theme is “Religion and Conflict.” The keynote speaker is Professor Emeritus Ron Numbers (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Further details can be found at 

http://therha.com.au/