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Proposed Papers 2010 'Creation, Nature and the Built Environment' Biennial Conference in Philosophy, Religion and Culture Proposed Papers 2010 ’Creation, Nature and the Built Environment’ Biennial Conference in Philosophy, Religion and Culture Full Abstracts will be Placed on this Site about Two Weeks before the Conference Derek Allan School of Cultural Inquiry, ANU Art and the Metaphysical: A Challenge to Aesthetic Orthodoxy Clive W Ayre Green Church Advocate, Uniting Church Queensland Synod. Adjunct Senior Lecturer, University of the Sunshine Coast. Eco-nomy of Life from the Perspective of Earth Purushottama Bilimoria Deakin University “The (Hindu) God is Dead" - Thus spoke the Buddha (to Nietzsche) Antoinette Collins The Australian Catholic University “The World is Charged with the Grandeur of God”: The Genesis Creation Stories, the World of Poetry and Aboriginal understanding of the land Michele A. Connolly Catholic Institute of Sydney God’s Creation and the Work of Human Hands: Sites for the Proclamation of the Word of God in the Acts of the Apostles Michael Cotter Retired Landscape’s Intersection with Human Activity in Les Murray’s Early Writing Lyn Daff and Don Dickins Faculty of Business, Avondale College Learning the Art of Conversations that Create Harmony Matthew Del Nevo Catholic Institute of Sydney The Taste for Beauty Jenny Donovan and Lukas Nott David Lock Associates (Australia) Designing Human Habitat; Socially Responsible Urban Design Peter Forrest School of Social Science, University of New England Spinozistic Pantheism, the Environment and Christianity Biennial Conference 2010 – Proposed Papers, page 1. Donat Gallagher (Don) School of Arts and Social Sciences, James Cook University (Townsville Campus) Australian Aborigines, the Mysteries of Creation and the “Real World” of the Unseen: Theo Price’s Mystical Romance Clara Geoghegan CTC and ACU Principles of Christian Political Thought in the Work of Caroline Chisholm Morgan Harrington University of Melbourne Spiritual and Ecological Themes in Avatar Daniel Hill Art History and Film Studies, University of Sydney Presentation and Incarnation Luke Holohan Campion College Australia Population Policy as an Instrument of Integral Human Development Gregory Jacobs St Ignatius Parish, Toowong, QLD Creation Covenant for an Environmental Theology Cullan Joyce University of Tasmania Exploring Creation within Maximus’ Cosmos: Ethical Movement and the Recognition of the Sacred A.B. (Tony) Kelly Flinders University. Biblical Creation and Big Bang Theology Gerard Kelly Catholic Institute of Sydney A Systematic Theologian Reflects on Saving the Environment Mark Kenney Catholic Institute of Sydney Ezekiel 47:1-12: The Divine Warrior Initiates a New Creation Joseph H.J. Leach Dept. of Geomatics, University of Melbourne The Nature of Space and the Problem of Pain Biennial Conference 2010 – Proposed Papers, page 2. Raichel Le Goff Department of Classics, Newcastle University The Villa Madama: Clement VII’s Sanctuary of Beauty Rev Dr Shane Mackinlay Catholic Theological College Heidegger’s Temple: Building a Place between Earth and World Greg Melleuish School of History and Politics, University of Wollongong Humanity and Nature after the Apocalypse: Some Recent Portrayals in Film and Literature Sandra Menteith Catholic Institute of Sydney Transforming Power of Nature’s Life Source: Public Water Infrastructure as Ethical Symbol Richard Morris Visual Arts, Avondale College The Interior Landscape; Metaphors for Faith and Belief in the Religious Paintings of Colin McCahon Ross Morrow Department of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Sydney. Creation, Nature and the Built Environment in the Global Financial Crisis Patricio Munoz Discipline of English. University of Adelaide Through a Glass, Darkly: Jorge Luis Borges, Thomas Jefferson, Arthur C. Clarke and the Academic Library Andrew Murray Catholic Institute of Sydney Aristotle’s Most Beautiful City Joshua Nash University of Adelaide “One and One Equals Eleven”: Spiritual and Ecological Mathematics from Vrindavan, India Anne Newstead Visiting Fellow, University of New South Wales, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney Georg Cantor (1845-1918) and the Controversy over Spinozist Pantheism John F Owens Good Shepherd College, Auckland Creation and End-Directedness Biennial Conference 2010 – Proposed Papers, page 3. John Penwill Bendigo Images of the City in Virgil, Calpurnius and Calvino David Pohlmann & Garth Hentzschel Christian Heritage College, Brisbane The Petra Project: Working Towards a Harmonious Future in Flagstone Douglas Pratt School of Social Sciences, University of Waikato Elizabeth Aitken-Rose School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland Jennifer Dixon National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries, University of Auckland Community and Incarceration: The Architecture of Alienation and the Politics of Redemption David Reichardt United Theological College/Charles Sturt University Releasing the River of the Water of Life Susanna G. Rizzo Classics Campion College Australia Historicising the Future: Prolegomena to a Post-Historical Paradigm Charles Rue Columban Mission Institute Earth as Religious Mother: Ecological Change Birthing Social Upheaval and Religious Reformulation Jeremy Shearmur School of Philosophy, Australian National University Creationism and Intelligent Design: Why does the Struggle Continue? Dean Smith Booth College Creation, Incarnation and Healing: A Reflection on the Theology of Karl Rahner Gregory Brian Smith The Broken Bay Institute Covenanting the Cosmos: Finding Guidance for Survival and Salvation in Nature: Encounters with the Land in Raimon Panikkar, Judith Wright and Les. A. Murray as Sources for Spirituality Susan Thompson Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW On My Walk: An Exploration of People and Environment Connections through the Act of Walking Biennial Conference 2010 – Proposed Papers, page 4. Robert Tilley Catholic Institute of Sydney Cosmic Liturgy and Biblical Criticism: A Question of Method Nick Trakakis Monash University & Deakin University The Future of Philosophy of Religion Vince Vozzo Sculptor God of the Gaps Goes to Hollywood Margaret Watts Australian Catholic University Call to an Ecological Conversion as a matter of Faith and Urgency Robyn Wrigley-Carr St Andrews University, Scotland Finding the Beauty in Suffering: Abbé Henri Huvelin and Baron Friedrich von Hügel Biennial Conference 2010 – Proposed Papers, page 5. .
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