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

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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

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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.