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  • EDUCATION

    Future bites for theological colleges

    • Neil Ormerod
    • 06 September 2011
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    The Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency will have real teeth, operating on a risk analysis basis with the power to deregister institutions. In this context Melbourne College of Divinity's historic bid to become a specialised 'university of divinity' is a leap of faith.

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    Andrew Hamilton's public theology

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 03 December 2010
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    Andrew Hamilton's public theology

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 03 December 2010

    Hamilton allows a broad readership to enter the world of Catholic theology and practice and church history, and also draws out the spiritual dimension in secular events and issues.

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    Troublesome nun's faith and feminism

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 22 October 2010

    Like Mary MacKillop before her, Sandra Schneiders is fearless in calling the male Church hierarchy to account. She warns of the dangers for the Church in seeing itself above and separate from the world.

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    Shedding light on Christian Australia's bleak prognosis

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 08 October 2010

    Renowned sociologist Gary Bouma is one of most respected observers of religion in this country. He predicts that, by 2021, less than 50 per cent of Australians will call themselves Christian.

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  • RELIGION

    Speaking for country, speaking for self

    • Frank Brennan
    • 07 July 2010

    Fr Frank Brennan's address to the Melbourne College of Divinity Centenary Conference, Trinity College, University of Melbourne, 6 July 2010.

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  • RELIGION

    Letting Aboriginal Australians speak for themselves

    • Frank Brennan
    • 07 July 2010
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    Kevin Rudd stood in the forecourt of Parliament House Canberra and recalled with great emotion the morning on which he had welcomed the members of the Stolen Generations. There was no mistaking his sense of solidarity: he knew there and then what it was to be dispossessed, alienated and outcast.

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    Death of fanaticism

    • Peter Kirkwood
    • 04 December 2009
    1 Comment

    Religious bigotry, fanaticism, and associated violence are still very much with us. A central ethos of the Parliament of Religions is to honour, preserve and seek to understand the particularities of different faiths rather than try to make them all the same.

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