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From the editor ...... 3 Our team ...... 3 Books which inspire ...... 4 The Global Edwards ...... 9 Theological Education book ...... 10 Reformation Day @ 500 ...... 11 Supporting HDR...... 12 Conferrals ...... 13 Research update ...... 13 Policy updates ...... 13 Professional Development ...... 14 ACT News ...... 14 College News ...... 14 Publications ...... 15 Events ...... 16 Positions Vacant ...... 16

with God – the man of the love poetry not FROM THE EDITOR erased but transformed.

Rev Megan Powell du Toit NEXUS Editor Publications and Policies Administrator Editor of Colloquium

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library — Jorge Luis Borges OUR TEAM or our end of year edition, I decided to Strategy & Operations do an edition on books, to give you lots F of reading material for the summer Dean & CEO holidays. Rev Dr Martin Sutherland Executive Assistant to the Dean Academics from within and outside the ACT Tara Holdaway graciously answered my request for a book Director of Quality & Operations which had influenced their theology and/or Paul Yeates spirituality. In doing so, something of their Quality Assurance Officer selves is also revealed – the suggestions show Meredith Walker-Harding humour, compassion and that within many of Director of Finance our academics beat the hearts of poets. Vicki Chen I’ve written a roundup of some noteworthy Financial Accountant books of 2017. I’m sure many of you will argue Mary Ann Navidad with this list and have books you think should Learning, Teaching & Research have been included. Feel free to email me with suggestions! Associate Dean, Director of Research Rev Dr Graeme Chatfield Two soon to publish books from the ACT Research Students Administrator Monograph Series have been featured, and Elizabeth Kohn you will see I carried the book theme over into Director of Learning & Teaching that feature as well. Dr Geoff Treloar And as usual, this issue is Publications & Policies Administrator packed with information Colloquium Editor and news from within the Rev Megan Powell du Toit ACT and beyond. Academic Services As for me, which book Registrar would I have chosen? This Simon Davies was a hard choice – I Academic Administrative Officers considered Alister Asanka Gunerathne McGrath, the first Adam Kelley theologian I read, who Elisa Norris revealed to me that this Diana Tadjudin type of thinking was like food and water to me. Or Nouwen’s Wounded Healer, which informed my pastoral practice greatly. But, given my love of poetry, I’m going to go with John Donne’s religious poetry which presents a deeply personal and honest relationship 3

BOOKS WHICH INSPIRE this book is to provide the titles for some of asked several Australasian academics his prayers: from within and outside the ACT to share * Prayer in Celebration of the Greatest I with me a book which has influenced their Invention Ever, the Wicked Hot Shower theology and/or spirituality. Freedom was given as to what kind of book it could be. * Prayer of Bemused Thanks for Scrunchies & The outcome is a spectrum of genres – from Those Other Weird Lovely Things Women theology to devotional, extending beyond Wear in Their Hair the expected into novels and poetry. In this * Prayer for Women Named Ethel and Men we see the many and varied ways God may Named Elmer, for We Will Not See Their nudge our thinking along. Within these Likes Again recommendations I found old favourites and books to add to my always expanding to * Prayer in Reluctant but Abashed Hesitant read pile. Enjoy. Appreciation of Death Megan Powell du Toit * Prayer for Sisters Not Related to You by Blood

* Prayer for My Man Daniel Age Three Who Matthew Anstey Will Die from Cancer in About Two Weeks Principal of St Barnabas College Few books have A.J. Culp had such a profound impact on Lecturer at Malyon my soul as Brian College Doyle's A Book of I’ve always been Uncommon Prayer: fascinated by 100 Celebrations stories. This, no of the Miracle & doubt, is how a kid Muddle of the like me—from Ordinary. Simply rural, blue-collar the best way to people—ended up convince someone studying English to read (and reread) Literature & 4

Writing at university. I realised I’d get to The value of Austen and her six perfect spend several years reading and telling novels is that stories! Yet for all this, when I went on to exposure to literary graduate school to study theology, I found greatness assists myself forced to read the Bible’s own stories theological as if they were accounting sheets. The students to stories, it seemed, were containers of truth recognise the that needed to be extracted, sorted, and beauty and tabulated. Fortunately, along the way I came cleverness of the under the guidance of an Old Testament literature of the scholar, M. Daniel Carroll R., who directed Bible. The regular me to Robert Alter’s The Art of Biblical rereading of her Narrative. For me, this was like walking literary corpus also through a magic wardrobe: the stories assists in a deeper suddenly came alive and drew me into the understanding of biblical world. many Bible passages. One recent example I came across in my own studies was 2 Samuel

7:1, where Austen provides a much needed Louise Gosbell clue that this verse gives David’s viewpoint Lecturer at and is not an objective account by the narrator. What we have in verse 1 is a biblical I first came across Nancy L. Eiesland’s book instance of what is called “free indirect The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory discourse”, such as perfected by Jane Theology of Disability when I began my Austen, and particularly evident in her novel BTh honours thesis addressing disability in Emma. This may be defined as a narrative the gospels. I was surprised at the time how “technique for rendering a character’s little academic thought in his own idiom while maintaining interest there was in the third-person reference and the basic disability from biblical tense of the narration” (Cohn, Transparent scholars. Eiesland’s Minds, 100–101). book was thus a breath of fresh air for me at the time. In Michael Jensen Eiesland’s view, Rector of St Mark's Anglican Church, Darling disability was not Point wholly unconnected from the biblical I read Miroslav Volf's Exclusion and texts, but rather, at Embrace when I was at theological college. the heart of the It was a revelation to me that a person with Christian message: God in his great power an orthodox chose to disable himself by taking on the theology could also limitations of the human body through the have a rich political incarnation. Though the view of Jesus as and social vision for ‘disabled’ rocked many scholars at the time, reconciliation and this concept is a helpful reminder of the peace. Usually, it great juxtaposition of the powerful God was liberal theology dwelling in limited human flesh and who is that had majored on thus able to “empathise with our politics. But Volf, weaknesses” (Heb. 4:15). interacting with all the philosophers I

had read in my Greg Goswell English degree, Academic Dean and Lecturer at Christ showed that the College Biblical gospel is applicable to the real world 5

- the divided and hurting world. I've told thinking through the cultural frame that I people since that it changed my life! brought to my church, and expectations I had upon spiritual formation, property,

privacy, family and authority, dispute Yael Klangwisan resolution and communication. It Co-Head of School of Social Practice at complexified questions from "Who should have the authority to speak in church?" through to "How do we demonstrate Rubem Alves, The forgiveness?" and "How should conflict Poet, The Warrior, occur?" The Prophet. This is a beautiful, poignant and Erin Sessions courageous text Associate Academic Dean at written by the Brazilian liberation I grew up on poetry. When I became a theologian, Rubem Christian, I looked to poets like Gerard Alves. Alves Manley Hopkins, develops what Elizabeth Bishop might be a theology and Czeslaw of poetry or perhaps Milosz. Hopkins a compelling poetic rendering of theology showed me how to itself. Alves' aesthetic sensibility combined praise God for with his skilful poetic weaving of a host of creation. Bishop literary voices makes for epiphany after helped me to epiphany. appreciate hymns for their "magic

made by melody." Tanya Riches Milosz taught me, Lecturer and Masters Program Oversight, in reference to Hillsong College Adorno's line, that poetry after Auschwitz is not barbaric. Not One book that really impacted my only is poetry possible, it is necessary. Lately theology/spirituality is Transforming I've been influenced by the prophetic poetry Culture: A challenge for Christian Mission of Yehuda Amichai. Amichai's poem The by Sherwood Lingenfelter. Sherwood draws Eve of Rosh Hashanah ends: upon a number of anthropological And whoever uses people as handles or as theories, including the rungs of a ladder grid/group matrix will soon find himself hugging a stick of developed by Mary wood Douglas and social and holding a severed hand and wiping his game theory to tears develop a basic organisational theory with a potsherd. suitable for church and mission. It really helped me and my husband identify our preferred organisational culture, and contrast that with various ministry contexts we've served in. It's a simple read - I read it while on a music tour around Europe. It greatly assisted me in

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SSUMMER READING People started coining alternatives – the select and by no means Gregorian Option, comprehensive list of noteworthy the Jeremiah Option books of 2017 the Wilberforce A Option among many Culture Care others. Dreher Makoto Fujimura counsels “a kind of deliberate, strategic February 2017 retreat so that we can Fujimara, artist, writer and tend our own Director of Fuller’s Brehm gardens, so to speak, Center, issues a call to and cultivate the cultural stewardship in this deep roots that our kids and their kids, and book, for culture care their kids’ kids will need to hold on to the faith instead of culture war. He through the dark times ahead.” argues that broken culture

needs artists who act to restore it, but he broadens The Face of Water: A Translator on Beauty this call out to churches and Meaning in the Bible and other communities. He says this of the Sarah Ruden call “It is time for followers of Christ to let Christ be the noun in our lives, to let our whole March 2017 being ooze out like a painter’s colours with the Sarah Ruden isn’t a splendour and the mystery of Christ, the biblical scholar, but she is inexhaustible beauty that draws people in. It a classical translator, is time to follow the Spirit into the margins and poet, and Quaker, and outside the doors of the church.” she brings that experience and sensibility to bear in this work. In this The Benedict Option book, she looks at 14 Rod Dreher biblical passages, and offers her own March 2017 retranslations. In doing so, she aims to This New York Times Bestseller is a must reanimate the luiteraty nature of the texts. To include on the list. Controversial, this made quote: “the original Bible was, like all of water cooler and blogosphere prime fodder. ancient rhetoric and poetry, primarily a set of 7 live performances and what they meant was Scripture. It seems he has written a weighty tightly bound up in the way they meant it...this but necessary read for the ongoing degree of difference can prevail when the conversation of this problem. Bible is translated without attention to its original forms particularly those that inform its striking and moving expressiveness-- that is, Exile: a conversation with N.T. Wright its beauty. Almost literally, if we can't dance ed. James M. Scott to it, we don't understand it.” Ruden also August 2017 published a new translation of Augustine’s Confessions this year as well. This book brings together 11 scholars, as well as Wright himself, to engage in a conversation together about Wright’s thesis that Israel's Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet continuing exile Lyndal Roper was a crucial isue for Second tample March 2017 Jews. Contributors Predictably, as the year include Walter of the 500th anniveraary Brueggemann and of the Reformation, Scot McKnight. 2017 has seen an Wright concludes: outpouring of books on “these eleven Luther and the essays, in their Reformation. different ways, have done what Which one to choose academic from among them? conversation ought to do: that is, they have Even just among the compelled me to think through once more Luther bios? Eric what exactly I have been wanting to say”. Mataxas has produced a bestselling biography of Luther. ACT’s own Rhys Bezzant translated Volker Leppin’s Luther bio. There The New Testament is Mark C. Matte’s work on Luther’s theology of beauty, which sounds fascinating. But I’m trans. David Bentley Hart going to go with Lyndal Roper’s critically October 2017 acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Orthodox scholar David Bentley Hart set out Prophet. to write this new translation of the New Testament: “as if The Crucifixion of doctrine is not given”, the Warrior God as “an almost pitiless Greg Boyd (2 vols) literal translation” and in order to make “the April 2017 familiar strange, novel Greg Boyd takes on and perhaps newly the narrartives of a compelling.” Well, with violent God we find those aims, it was never in the Old Testament, going to be bland. One which pose a problem for anyone who wants to read to unsettle yourself. to defend the goodness of God. Over two volumes, and 1400 pages, Boyd wrestles with the proposed solutions, developing what he calls a cruciform hermenetutic and suggesting a principle of redemptive withdrawal. Boyd has done this while retaining a high view of 8

THE GLOBAL EDWARDS Michal Choiński, Nick Coombs, Philip Fisk, ot off the press is the latest volume in Richard Hall, Gerald McDermott, Ian the ACT Monograph Series, The Maddock, Adriaan Neele, Glen O’Brien, Global Edwards, based on papers Stuart Piggin, Jan Rybicki, Andrew Schuman, H Kyle Strobel, Seng-Kong Tan, Willem van from the Jonathan Edwards Congress held at Ridley in 2015. The editor is Rhys Bezzant Vlastuin, Victor Zhu Dean of Missional Leadership and Lecturer in Church History at Ridley and the Director of the Jonathan Edwards Center . In line with the theme of this issue, I asked Rhys “Which of Edwards’ writing has Ridley hosted a Jonathan Edwards Congress particular resonance for you?” in 2015, which happily saw every continent represented. Rhys has put together a book of Rhys: My favourite writing of Edwards is the papers under the title The Global Edwards, sermon series “Charity and its Fruits.” Written with contributions to missiological, sermons are not known for their power, but theological and pastoral debates that these extraordinary theological expositions of Edwards can speak about, and often 1 Corinthians 13 are composed by a prompted in the first place. It was a massive wordsmith in the height of his powers. One in task to pull together, as the contributors came particular, “Heaven is a world of love,” from countries as diverse as Germany, the transported me to glory. Netherlands, Poland, Brazil, the US, South His most famous sermon, Africa, Singapore, China and Australia. As the “Sinners in the hands of an fountainhead of the movement, Edwards’ angry God” is not the ideas impact the story of evangelicalism place to start if you want to profoundly. As Australians, we are not so read Edwards. There he aware of our own history, which has many tried a different style of dangers and snares for the unwitting. The sermon, and decided it volume which emerged from the Congress wasn’t for him. Love and represents my own aspirations that we better beauty were Edwards’s appreciate the lifeblood of our theology and standard themes. Put this practice as evangelical Christians in Australia. sermon to the test. Foreword: Kenneth P. Minkema. Contributors: David Bebbington, Corné Blaauw, Joel Burnell, Heber Campos, Jr., 9

THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION BOOK ue out any moment now is another In keeping with our theme, I asked one of book in the ACT Monograph Series the editors, Ian Hussey: “Besides the Bible, D Theological Education: Foundations, which book should every theology student Practices and Future Directions. It has been read?” edited by ACT faculty Andrew Bain (QTC) and Ian Hussey (Malyon). Contributors include Ian: It might not be an extremely large many other ACT people, namely Les Ball volume, nor technical, but the book I would (former Malyon), Kit Barker (SMBC), Rhys recommend every theology student should Bezzant (Ridley), Anthony Brammall (SMBC), read would be Fee and Stuart’s How to Read Graeme Chatfield (ACT), Moyra Dale (MST), the Bible for All It is Worth. Here the Megan Powell du Toit (ACT), Jill Firth (Ridley), foundational principles of evangelical Martin Foord (TTC), Peter Francis (Malyon), hermeneutics are presented in a way which Mike Frost (Morling), Mark Harding (former the novice teacher can understand and use. Dean), Brian Harris (Vose), Diane Hockridge Whenever I pick up the book (as I have just (Ridley), Karina Kreminski (Morling), Kara now) I am struck by how Martin (MAC), Delle Matthews (MST), Phillip deeply it has shaped my Scheepers (RTC), Nathain Secker (TP), David hermeneutics. Sure, Starling (Morling), Geoff Treloar (ACT), Wally there may be more Wang (BST), and a foreword by Martin recent and Sutherland (ACT Dean). sophisticated texts on hermeneutics, but for a As one can see from the list of contributors, basic but this is a wide ranging volume looking at the comprehensive survey many and varied aspects of theological of genres and their education, past, present and future. Some of grammatical-historical these topics will be canvassed at the interpretation it is a upcoming ACT Professional Development great place to start. Week in December.

To talk about publishing in the ACT Monograph Series, please contact Megan Powell du Toit.

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REFORMATION DAY @ 500 Lutheran Church) and any of our Michael O’Neil and colleges Brian Harris from Vose. have been M th The theme of the half- celebrating the 500 day conference was The anniversary of the Pastoral Luther, picking Reformation this up a comment made in year. This has 2009 by Timothy culminated with Wengert: celebrations this As Luther fans the world week for over are already gearing Reformation Day. up for the celebration in 2017 of the 500th RIDLEY anniversary of their Ridley had a series posting [i.e. the Ninety- Five Theses] on 31 of events called October 1517, too often Reformation @ 500 the celebrations will which included an overseas tour. focus on Luther’s break with Rome or his Reformation breakthrough rather than on ACT Luther’s own stated reason for the dispute: 1 Here at the ACT we are having a special pastoral care for his flock in Wittenberg. lunch this week with freshly baked Luther The Conference was an ecumenical affair with Bread on offer. On the day, the 95 theses participants attending from many different were posted at our door and indulgence denominations and backgrounds. lollies given out. Reformed Theological Review SMBC A special supplement on Luther was Kit Barker over at SMBC was selling produced with contributions by many from indulgences. They also had Reformation the ACT, including Jared Hood (PTCV), Peter sausages for lunch and Reformation birthday Barnes (CC), Rhys Bezzant (Ridley), Rowland cake. Ward (PTCV) and Ian Maddock (SMBC)

VOSE Note: the picture of Luther used on this page is by Vose pulled out the stops for Reformation Cranach – take a look at what Graeme Chatfield Day and held Luther@500 on the day. says about Cranach’s Luther portraits in his update Lectures were given by Peter Elliott (Perth in this issue. Bible College), Matthew Bishop (Bethlehem

1 From “Introducing the Pastoral Luther” in Martin Luther’s Practical Theology (Lutheran Wengert (ed.), The Pastoral Luther: Essays on Quarterly Books; Eerdmans, 2009), 5. 11

Supporting HDR people in their first years of candidature, fuller snapshot of what some of our colleges papers from those nearing completion. are doing for HDR candidates. Students seem to find the day very helpful indeed. They also now offer Postgraduate A Research Fellowships to HDR students enrolled through Morling which provide them Ridley College both financial support and useful experience. Ridley held its annual RESCON on 10-11 August for its Australian and off-shore HDR candidates. It was a two-day event filled with Malyon is a sponsoring college of Crucible seminars, discussions, and presentations. journal. Crucible is a generic online journal but Student gave updates on their research, especially focusses on the intersection of learned about ACT processes for candidature theology and ministry. Ian Hussey is the and graduation, attended workshops on current General Editor. Malyon HDR students writing and data-management tools, reflected and faculty have published in Crucible in on the pastoral and scholarly aspects of recent years and the College generated the Christian academia, and reviewed entire content for the May 2016 issue. biographies of Christian scholars. Crucible is an especially appropriate journal for Doctor of Ministry students because of its Morling College ministry and practice emphasis. Two ways Morling College supports HDR ACT candidates and foster their careers: a postgraduate student research day and In October, the Research and Research Postgraduate Research Fellowships. Morling Studies Committee of the ACT passed a new run an annual half-day seminar specifically HDR Minimum Resources policy, which sets focused on developing early-career out the expectations for resourcing HDR researchers. The day begins with a panel candidates. This policy can be found in the comprising senior researchers and a recent documents section of the ACT website. HDR graduate which discusses their research practices, tips on publication and the like and fields questions from HDR students. This is followed by an extended time for HDR student presentations: short papers for 12

For a thesis: The church as ”the new world on CONFERRALS the way” – an evaluation of John Howard Yoder’s ecclesiology and its usefulness for June 2017 – October 2017 developing an evangelical theology of church Doctor of Philosophy planting Joseph Smith MST Supervisor: Malcolm Gill For a thesis: The Life, Work & Legacy of Carl Pfander, 19th century Apologist to Islam RESEARCH UPDATE Supervisor: Peter Riddell This year has been significant for me as I’ve John Dekker CC stepped up my research in Reformation For a thesis: Piety, Persuasion, and Plot: The studies, attended a 500th Anniversary Portrayal of Women in the Book of Samuel conference in Wittenberg, and read Lyndal Roper’s Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet Supervisor: Greg Goswell (see our Summer Reading list this issue). Doctor of Ministry Occasionally a book makes a significant impact, and Roper’s book has done just that Richard Trist Ridley for me. Far from being a hagiographic stylised For a project: Two are Better than One: An image of Luther, echoing the Cranach studio Evaluation of a Program of Coaching of propaganda portraits of Luther, Roper gives Church Leaders in the Anglican Diocese of us a picture of Luther developed from . extensive investigation of his letters as well as his published works. Supervisor: Tim Foster Like all historians, Roper comes to her task Michael Brown Laidlaw with a series of questions that influence the For a project: Why do they leave? Pastoral direction and conclusions of the research. Her Transition within ACTS Churches of New conclusions about Luther’s view on sexuality Zealand, 2003 to 2012 and marriage may well provoke debate; as will her view on Luther’s anti-Semitism. However, Supervisor: Kevin Ward from my perspective, her rehabilitation of Michael Chu Morling Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt as someone more than a peripheral actor on the For a project: The relevance and application of Cultural Intelligence (CQ) to the pastoral Reformation stage stands out as a major leadership of the congregational Chinese contribution. Churches of with culturally diverse I would hope those who teach Reformation leadership team and members history will include this text in their reading Supervisor: Darrell Jackson lists, so students engage with a broader view of what the 16th century Reformations. Master of Theology

Darren Davies MST Rev Dr Graeme Chatfield For a thesis: An Exegetical analysis of John Associate Dean & Director of Research 20:22 including an appraisal of the most popular interpretations, with a suggested appropriate interpretation and then in the POLICY UPDATES light of this, assessing the validity of the way this verse has been understood from a Policy updates can be found in the traditional Pentecostal approach documents area under the relevant folder. You will need to login in order to see all the Supervisor: Colin Kruse documents relevant to yourself. With the new Robert Robayna SMBC website, you should be receiving notification when policies relevant to yourself are

13 updated on the website. Please contact the Team news: ACT office if you have any access or Adam Kelley has accepted a job as a librarian, notification issues. which is his area of professional expertise. He finishes this week. We will miss him at the ACT New policies currently in draft: office, and wish him all the best. Communications Policy (document owner Tara Holdaway) COLLEGE: RTC

Domestic Violence Policy (document owner New Melbourne Campus Megan Powell du Toit) In 2017 RTC has hit the ground running - Policy Framework Policy (document owner moving its teaching operations to a new Megan Powell du Toit) campus in Queen Street, Melbourne. This has placed RTC in close proximity to churches seeking quality theological education, PROFESSIONAL allowed inner city workers and dwellers to EVELOPMENT study at the RTC, and enabled RTC leaders to D network with other Melbourne CBD ministries. The ACT Professional Development Some highlights: Conference will be held this year at SMBC Feb 16: The official launch of RTC Melbourne from the 7-8 December 2017. A TATAL Campus; keynote address by Peter Adam workshop will be held the day before on the 6 December 2017. May 1: The Vine Project discipleship training seminar with Colin Marshall For more information, contact Geoff Treloar. June 1: The launch of The Way discipleship training resources for small groups and Dr Geoff Treloar churches Director of Learning & Teaching Sep 28-29: RTC Preaching Conference “Preaching Romans” with special guest Dr ACT NEWS Bryan Chapell

Honorary Doctorate: Rev Dr Mark Harding Mark Harding was recently celebrated at the ACT Consortium Conference dinner. The ACT was happy to present Dr Harding with an honorary Doctorate for his significant contribution to theological COLLEGE: QTC education and the Anglican Church of Australia. Paul Tripp and Carl Trueman For over 30 years, the Reverend Dr Mark Carl Trueman, Professor of Church History at Harding has made a distinguished Westminster Theological Seminary, was at contribution to theological knowledge and QTC in July speaking on Martin Luther and understanding as a teacher and New the Reformation (the audio is available on the Testament scholar, and to higher theological QTC website). education in this country and beyond as an academic leader. In August Paul Tripp spoke to about 1000 people on the dangers of ministry, the joys 14 and challenges of marriage and the way in which God uses all of his people as PUBLICATIONS instruments of grace. Consortium Faculty publication information is now available on the ACT website. Links to purchase books can be found there. Department of Bible and Languages Mark Harding and Alanna Nobbs, eds. Into All the World: Emergent Christianity in Its Jewish and Greco-Roman Context, Eerdmans 2017. Allan Harman, Exodus: God's Kingdom of Priests (Focus on the Bible), Christian Focus, 2017. COLLEGE: CHRIST Ben Chenoweth, The Rome Gospel (Exegetical Histories, Vol. 3), MST Press, 2017 Administrator retires Department of Christian Thought and As she enters her 20th year of work with History Christ College (and the Presbyterian Theological Centre), Susan Finlay has Rhys Bezzant, ed., The Global Edwards, ACT Monograph Series, Wipf & Stock, 2017. announced her retirement. Susan has been the Administrator of the College, serving its Michael Bird, Jesus the Eternal Son: staff and students faithfully for many years. Answering Adoptionist Christology, Eerdmans, 2017.

Tour in 2018 Paul F. Cooper and David A. Burke, Burning Christ College will be going on a Study Tour or Bushed: the Presbyterian Church of Australia 40 years on, Eider, 2017 to Israel and Jordan again in 2018. They are holding an initial information evening on Volker Leppin (Auth), Rhys Bezzant (Trans), Tuesday November 7th for all those Karen Roe (Trans) Martin Luther: A Late Medieval Life, Baker Academic, 2017. interested. For more information, visit www.christcollege.edu.au/studytour. Department of Ministry and Practice Andrew Prince, Contextualization of the OLLEGE IDLEY Gospel: Towards an Evangelical Approach in C : R the Light of Scripture and the Church Fathers, ACT Monograph Series, Wipf & Stock, 2017. Graham Stanton, Lecturer in Pastoral Theology at Ridley, has just attained his Beyond doctorate from UQ. Congratulations See the article on noteworthy reads of 2017 Graham, from all of us for this issue’s beyond the consortium books. at the ACT.

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November November 10 BCSA Pastors' Workshop, Ministry 3-5 Political Populism and a Theological Meetings, speaker Tim Patrick Response, John Flett, Epping Uniting Church 18 Malyon, Principal John Sweetman farewell 8 Public Christianity for a Post-Christian World, Centre for Public Christianity, Hillsong, 2018 Alexandria

March 8 TGCA Reformation lectures Melbourne Brian Rosner & Rhys Bezzant (Ridley) 6-8 PTCV Ministry Conference David Cook, Alasdair Paine & David Jones 11 & 15 Beyond The Divorce - A Dialogue, 500 Years After the Reformation: Peter A 13-15 SMBC Preaching Workshop Preaching Comensoli & Michael Jensen in a Pastoral Context Alasdair Paine & David Cook 29 TOGCON IV – Pure Freedom: Living for Christ amidst Tribulation feat. ACT faculty 17 SMBC 2018 Women’s Conference Martin Foord, Rachel Ciano, Peter Barnes 26 Morling Annual Tinsley Lecture, speaker Brooke Prentis 2018

May July 5 SMBC 2018 Children’s Ministry Conference 1-4 ANZATS Conference: Sacrifice, , 18 MST Paradosis Conference 2018: Ethics speaker Andrew McGowan September 13-14 Theology Connect Sydney, Kelly Kapic, Alan Torrance, Simon Chan Andrew Leslie 18-20 SMBC 2018 Biennial Missions Conference Tim Chester, Byung-Kook Yoo, & September Brian Dale 27 - 28 ACOM Ageing Conference speakers Kirsty Beilharz & Bruce A Stevens

POSITIONS VACANT Christ College Communications and Administration Officer BCSA Old Testament Lecturer TTC Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Theology

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