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November-2018-NEXUS.Pdf IN THIS ISSUE From the Editor .....................................................................................3 Centred Excellence: ACT Centres of Specialisation ................................4 Who Are We: books on Christian identity ...............................................6 Conferrals ..............................................................................................8 Towards a Culture of Hospitality: Martin Sutherland ...............................9 A Christian View of Human Identity: Michael Bird ................................. 10 ACT Monograph Series: Ian Hussey ..................................................... 13 Policy updates ..................................................................................... 14 Our Team ............................................................................................ 14 College news: Morling ......................................................................... 14 College news: Laidlaw ......................................................................... 14 Publications ......................................................................................... 15 Calls for papers ................................................................................... 16 Let them eat cake! ............................................................................... 16 Events ................................................................................................. 17 2 Postgraduate Studies at Malyon. Ian answers FROM THE EDITOR my questions about how the concept of call connects to identity. Welcome to our new subscribers! Over the last half year, you will may have noticed we And then, as usual, conferrals, calls for have expanded our service to NEXUS papers, events, publications and other news subscribers to include a monthly email of relevance. digest of theology events and news, which I hope you enjoy this issue. I know it has me has been favourably received. This sits thinking about my multiple identities and alongside the twice yearly magazine, how they interact with the overarching providing an opportunity for timely delivery identity I have in Christ. A fitting reflection of relevant news. I am pleased to say that as we come up to a time of celebrating the NEXUS subscriptions now stand at almost incarnation. 500. This means that the news and information included in the magazines and monthly updates reach a very high Megan Powell du Toit proportion of the Australasian theological NEXUS Editor community. Viewing this as a service to that community, I am always happy to receive Publishing Manager suggestions for inclusion. Editor of Colloquium In this issue of NEXUS, we examine the broad topic of identity. First up, a look at ACT identity in the guise of the centres of excellence established by our various affiliated colleges. Some common strands can be discerned, including mission, leadership and faith at work. This shows the strong connection our colleges have with their ministry contexts. Next a run down on some of the books put out in the last year about identity, including one by our own Brian Rosner, Principal at Ridley. This raft of new releases on this subject, from multiple publishing houses and from different angles, reveals a recognition that this is a key emphasis in contemporary society. One aspect of identity that is often examined is how our different identities affect our access to opportunities. The Dean, Martin Sutherland, gives us an update here about what the ACT is doing to provide better access for people with disabilities. A symposium on this topic is planned for September next year. Following on from that, I am grateful to Michael Bird, Academic Dean at Ridley, for allowing us to reprint his recent online article on Christian identity, which deserves a wider audience. I also interview Ian Hussey, author of the latest ACT book and Director of 3 CENTRED EXCELLENCE: ACT CENTRES OF SPECIALISATION ministry. In this regard the past few months ne of the ways our affiliated colleges have been busy for the Centre. This has forge their own distinct identities is by included the hosting of a number of visiting O setting up different centres of scholars for research sabbaticals − Dr Martus specialisation. Seven of our colleges have Maleachi (SAAT, Indonesia), and in established such centres, and you can find a conjunction with OCA and the ACT − Drs list with links on our website. Other colleges Morris Takaliuang and Erni MC Clarrtje don’t have such centres but do have areas of (Indonesia). specialisation. Laidlaw College, for instance, Malyon College, also in Brisbane, runs a specialises in Māori, Indigenous and Pasifika number of centres. Two of them connect faith theologies. to the wider society. Traverse is the Malyon Centre for Bridging Church and Culture. It is Brisbane headed by Dave Benson. Malyon Workplace Brisbane School of Theology has a Centre for seeks to integrate faith and work, and this is Asian Christianity, headed by Andrew Prince. led by Chris Gribble. The other two are This is a strategic area for BST, given their geared towards leadership. One is the Chinese program, a proportion of the student Leadership centre, with streams for young body being from Asia, the relatively close and female leaders. The other is the proximity of Asia, and the majority of BST’s Preaching centre, headed by Ian Hussey. key mission partners engaging in ministry in Asia. The Centre’s vision is to be a leading centre for training, research, and resourcing Christians Melbourne for contextual At the Melbourne School of Theology, the Asian focus is on understanding and reaching out to those of other faiths, with the Arthur Jeffery 4 Centre (Centre for the Study of Islam and bringing them together for co-operation, Other Faiths). The impetus for this centre training and dialogue. arises from the changing faith demographics in Australia. It is led by Richard Shumack. The Sydney Centre offers community courses, Christ College, in undergraduate study and supervision to Sydney created postgraduate research students. the Centre for Also in Melbourne, Ridley College supports Pastoral several centres. Like Malyon in Brisbane, it Leadership, focusses on the workplace with the which is led by Marketplace Institute. The Dean is Andrew Jonathan Pratt. It Laird. The Institute co-hosts an annual Faith was established and Work Award. In to promote the 2019 the Marketplace development of Institute will launch its more and higher first online subject. quality pastoral leaders (ministers and elders) Ridley also has a through, training programs, conferences and Centre for Children’s events, resource creation and thought and Youth Ministry, leadership. headed by Graham Morling College is the home of the Tinsley Stanton. One key Institute for Mission and Evangelism. aspect of the Centre Headed by Mike Frost, Tinsley has an annual has been to gather a lecture, a lunchtime mission input program, Community of Transform, a Masters of Missional Leadership Practice in children’s and youth ministry. The and just started Better Conversations, which third centre is the Jonathan Edwards Center, aims to model careful listening, deeper one of ten centres around the world linked understanding, and real conversation on together through the JEC at Yale Divinity difficult issues. School. This centre published a book through the ACT Monograph series, The Global Sydney Missionary and Bible College, Edwards. The centre is directed by Edwards appropriately, has a Centre for Cross- scholar, Rhys Bezzant. Cultural Mission, with Ric Perth Vose Seminary in Perth has two Centres, one for Leadership and another for Mission, two common themes amongst our colleges. Vose gives both these important areas a focus on the western coast of Australia. The Leadership centre for leaders of churches, hard Hibbert as Director. The centre runs a schools or not for biennial missions conference, next in 2020, profits, and supervises HDR research and publishes books focussed on through the William Carey Library (one in this practical training issue under Books -ed). It also hosts and professional missionaries in residence. SMBC also has a development. The Centre for Preaching and Pastoral Ministry, Director is Monica led by Mark Adams. This also holds a biennial O'Neil. The conference, the next one in 2019, as well as Mission centre is directed by Lloyd Porter. It ongoing workshops and units. works in partnership with 14 cross-cultural Megan Powell du Toit sending agencies in Western Australia 5 WHO ARE WE: BOOKS ON CHRISTIAN IDENTITY everything else in life flows. Other questions n an era of identity politics and an follow: What made you who you are? Who increased focus on the way our multiple gets to say who you are? I identities shape our experience of the And-perhaps most vital- world, Christians have also been turning their who does God say you attention to how our faith affects our identity. are? In this book Below I have listed nine recent titles on this Snodgrass offers wise topic. (Ed). guidance to all who are wrestling with these Known by God: A Biblical Theology of universal human Personal Identity Brian Rosner (Zondervan, questions. He examines Sept 2017) nine factors-including Known by God is one's body, personal built on the history, commitments, observation that and boundaries-that humans are shape human identity. inherently social All Together Different: Upholding the beings; we know who Church's Unity While Honoring Our Individual we are in relation to Identities
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