Keywords: Theological Education
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INFORMATION
- Gerard Goldman and Terry Lovat
- 24 November 2009
It has been suggested,
but surely not seriously, that the public university’s prime motive in
including theology among its disciplines might be around financial
benefit.
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EDUCATION
- Neil Ormerod
- 18 November 2009
7 Comments
The movement of existing theological schools into the university structure restores the ancient place of theology as a discipline within a university. But universities could be more interested in money than theology, with theological colleges bringing healthy student numbers and value for money research outputs.
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RELIGION
- Andrew Hamilton
- 06 August 2009
7 Comments
Two years ago, Kevin Rudd wrote about German wartime theologian and martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Bonhoeffer stressed character. His ethics were not expressed in rhetoric about hard times and hard decisions, but in acting responsibly without regard to popularity.
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RELIGION
I am shocked and angered by the actions of fellow religious Brothers detailed in the Ryan Report. There were basic things lacking in our training that could have led to a very warped way of looking at oneself and the world.
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AUSTRALIA
- Peter Kirkwood
- 07 April 2009
9 Comments
This week's Indonesian presidential election ought to concern Australians more than it does. If Muslim radicals gain significant influence, we will have a huge hostile neighbour just to our north.
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EDUCATION
- Neil Ormerod
- 26 November 2008
6 Comments
Theological colleges increasingly need to turn to churches for underwriting, yet church congregations are dwindling, which affects them financially as well. Something has to give ... and in Brisbane, it already has.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Philip Harvey
- 21 November 2008
Although not a beat poem, a Peter Steele poem shares Ginsberg's aesthetic of the poem as measure of breath. Breath is commanding like an original lecture, enspiriting like a true sermon, propulsive like a perfect dinner conversation.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Irfan Yusuf
- 22 October 2008
12 Comments
When a Muslim woman was kidnapped by the
Byzantine empire, the Caliph in Baghdad threatened to
send a vast army to rescue her.
Today, Muslim leaders do nothing to help
women being mistreated and held in captivity in their own countries.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 06 October 2008
'Lee and
Christine Rush are your average Ozzie couple, except that their teenage son Scott is on death row in Bali having been
convicted of being a hapless drug mule. It will not go down well on the streets of Jakarta
if Australians are baying for the blood of the Bali bombers one month
and then pleading to save our sons and daughters the next month.'
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Morag Fraser
- 02 July 2008
10 Comments
When we began Eureka Street in 1991, it was a given that we'd publish a cryptic crossword. I like to believe it was divinely ordained that it should be Joan, only and always, who'd keep us gridded, intellectually tempered and clued up.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 24 June 2008
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RELIGION
- Neil Ormerod
- 03 December 2007
The second encyclical from Benedict XVI is not what many expected. Benedict is drawing us to a deeper level of reflection, building a solid foundation. What he builds upon this foundation we are yet to see.
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