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SUMMARY:Northey Lecture: Dr Laura Rademaker and Poetry Reading: Alison Overeem
DESCRIPTION:Event description\n\nNorthey Lecture – ‘Providence and possession: how colonial concepts of religion explained away a genocide’\nThis two-part event begins at 7pm Thursday 26 February at Pilgrim Theological College. \nSupper is provided. All welcome! Join in person or online. \nRegister online here \nAcknowledgement of Country and Poetry Reading by Alison Overeem (Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress\, Tasmania)\n \nAlison is a proud palawa woman and Leprena Centre Manager (UAICC). Leprena is a lead provider of cultural and spiritual learning and immersion\, uniting First and Second Peoples through Tasmanian Aboriginal culture\, and the National UAICC story\, across the nation. Alison will share a poem with us and lead us in an Acknowledgement of Country. \nNorthey Lecture: ‘Providence and possession: how colonial concepts of religion explained away a genocide’ by Associate Professor Laura Rademaker (Australian National University)\n \nWhen settlers came to Australia\, many believed in a God-given duty to “fill'” and “subdue the earth” through agriculture and the supposed failure of First Nations people to do this. But the colonists also drew on other religious and biblical ideas to frame themselves in relation to First Nations people.  This lecture will trace the ways that First Nations people’s supposed “forgetting” of true religion was used to excuse the rapid First Nations population decline\, and the implications of this history for us today. \nThis lecture will also be part of the Pilgrim unit\, Respecting Country: Deep history\, the colonies and the church \nContact us to enrol in the unit – study@pilgrim.edu.au  
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/northey-lecture-dr-laura-rademaker-and-alison-overeem/
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SUMMARY:Northey Lecture –  by Professor Joerg Rieger
DESCRIPTION:Event description\n\nConsidering the multiple relations of religion and power\, what difference does religion make\, for good and for ill\, and what might be the constructive contributions of theology be in fostering global solidarities? \n  \nWhy Global Solidarities are a Matter of Life and Death: The Difference Religion Can Make \nEven though the globe is moving closer together\, solidarity among people appears to become more difficult. Nationalisms\, racisms\, ethnocentrisms\, and sexisms are on the rise\, dividing and conquering and thereby producing false solidarities. While religion is often part of the problem\, it can also become part of potential solutions. As the apostle Paul observes\, “if one member suffers\, all suffer together with it” (1 Cor 12:26). This insight may hold true not only for personal relationships and communities but also for our global situation. The solidarity that emerges here goes deep\, as it reconnects us with people\, planet\, and the divine. \n\n  \nJoerg Rieger – Pilgrim Theological College \nProfessor Joerg Rieger is Distinguished Professor of Theology and the Cal Turner Chancellor’s Chair in Wesleyan Studies at Vanderbilt University. He also directs the Wendland-Cook Program in Religion and Justice at the Vanderbilt Graduate Department of Religion and is an affiliated Faculty member of the Turner Family Center for Social Ventures\, Owen Graduate School of Management\, Vanderbilt University. With degrees from the Theologische Hochschule Reutlingen\, Germany\, Duke Divinity School\, and a Ph.D. in Religion and Ethics from Duke University he previously served as the Wendland-Cook Endowed Professor of Constructive Theology at Perkins School of Theology\, Southern Methodist University. Rieger’s work brings together the study of theology and the movements for liberation and justice that mark our age\, exemplified by the following questions: What are the implications of various embodiments of faith for politics\, economics\, and ecology? What options and alternatives can we envision and how might the tools of theology help us make appropriate choices? Rieger’s constructive work in theology draws on a wide range of historical and contemporary traditions\, with a concern for the roles that images of the divine play in the pressures of everyday life\, locally\, nationally\, and internationally. Rieger is the author and editor of 26 books and more than 184 academic articles\, with his most recent monograph being\, Theology in the Capitalocene: Ecology\, Identity\, Class\, and Solidarity (2022).’ \n  \nGet Tickets Here \n  \nCost: Gold coin donation \nRegistrations close Monday 25 August 2025 \nFor Further Information\, Please contact \nDaniel Sihombing \nDaniel.Sihombing@pilgrim.edu.au \nMonica Jyotsna Melanchthon \nMonica.melanchthon@pilgrim.edu.au \n 
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/northeylecturejoergrieger/
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SUMMARY:Northey Lecture - Dei Ex Machina: The Images of God in our Conceptions of AI
DESCRIPTION:Event description\n\nAI has emerged as a tool for productivity\, a threat to jobs\, and even a stand-in for God. Much of the language used to discuss AI draws on apocalyptic and prophetic discourse\, as well as on images of God rooted in divine omniscience. Rev. Dr Kristel Clayville\, a lecturer in ethics in the computer science department at University of Illinois Chicago\, suggests an alternative theological framework. \nRather than emphasising AI’s godlike powers of omniscience and control—traditionally masculine divine attributes —Clayville examines how feminine divine imagery might reshape our understanding of artificial intelligence. Could we envision AI through metaphors of nurturing\, relationship\, and collaborative wisdom instead of domination and all-knowing power? Does embracing feminine images of God offer new ways to conceptualize AI’s role and possibilities in human society? Her talk will explore this alternative and attempt to offer a different conceptual vocabulary for AI. \n\nNorthey Lecturer: Rev. Dr Kristel Clayville PhD \nRev. Dr Kristel Clayville holds a PhD in Religious Ethics from the University of Chicago’s Divinity School and completed Fellowship training in clinical medical ethics at the MacLean Center. She has served as the Acting Director of the Zygon Center for Religion and Science\, and was a Fellow in the Sinai and Synapses program. She has a clinical background as a chaplain and ethicist at the University of Chicago Medical Center. \nCurrently\, she teaches ethics in the Computer Science Department at UIC\, where she also serves on the hospital ethics committee\, and the medical school ethics education committee. Her research interests encompass the ethics of emerging (bio)technologies\, organ transplant ethics\, the role of religion in medical education\, AI and religion\, and the function of ethics committees in hospitals and tech companies. \n  \nClick here for tickets \n  \nWhen: Tuesday\, July 29 \nWhere: Pilgrim Theological College; 29 College Cres\, Parkville\, 3025 \nRefreshments available from 5pm \nLecture commences at 5.30pm \n 
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/northeylecturedeiexmachinatheimagesofgodinourconceptionsofai/
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SUMMARY:2024 Valedictory
DESCRIPTION:This event will be live streamed on Facebook.  \nDetails Below: \nDate:                  Thursday 7th November 2024 \nTime:                  5:30pm – 7:30pm \nLocation:           Wesley Church\, 130-150 Lonsdale Street\, Melbourne VIC 3000 \nFollowed by refreshments at Level 2\, Wesley Place (at above address) \n(Please note the change of time and location from previous years). \nThe annual valedictory service celebrates Pilgrim students who have completed their degrees\, and candidates who have been commended to their Presbyteries for ordination. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/2024valedictory/
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SUMMARY:Northey Lecture: Rejecting Eurocentric Christianity: Embracing Hopelessness
DESCRIPTION:Rejecting Eurocentric Christianity: Embracing Hopelessness \nNorthey Lecturer: Dr Miguel de la Torre \nDate: 12 September 2024 \nTime: 6:30 pm \nVenue: Pilgrim Theological College\, 29 College Crescent\, Parkville\, 3052 and online \nMany living on the margins of colonial/missionary ventures have uncritically accepted eurocentric Christianity\, a faith ideology which legitimizes and normalizes the current global economic hegemony. For any theological perspective to be liberative\, it must first reject the very faith tradition which masks and justifies this worldview which fails to critically analyze the link between bowing one’s knees to the eurocentric Jesus and the eurocentric power arrangements. By rejecting a theology of hope\, and instead embracing a theology of hopelessness\, a liberative ethical methodology of resistance can be developed. \nDr. Miguel A. De La Torre – Cuban\, international scholar\, documentarian\, novelist\, academic author\, and scholar activist\, serves as Professor of Social Ethics and Latinx Studies at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver\, CO\, USA. Dr. De La Torre’s academic pursuit is social ethics within contemporary U.S. thought\, specifically how religion affects race\, class\, and gender oppression. He has published forty-five books\, six of which have won national awards and over a hundred articles. His most recent book Resisting Apartheid America: Living the Badass Gospel (Eerdmans\, 2023) is the conclusion to the trilogy comprised of Burying White Privilege: Resurrecting a Badass Christianity (Eerdmans\, 2018)\, and Decolonizing Christianity: Becoming Badass Believers (Eerdmans\, 2021). As a Fulbright scholar\, he has taught in several parts of the world. He is the co-founder of the Society of Race\, Ethnicity\, and Religion and was its executive director from 2013-2017.  He is also the founding editor of the Journal of Race\, Ethnicity\, and Religion. Among his many achievements are the most recent awards – the American Academy of Religion awards for “Excellence in Teaching” in 2020\, and the “Martin E. Marty Public Understanding of Religion Award\,” in 2021. De La Toree is also the screenwriter of Trails of Hope and Terror – a documentary on immigration\, which has screened in over eighteen film festivals winning over seven awards. To know more\, check out his website: www.drmigueldelatorre.com. \n  \nRegister here.
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/rejectingeurocentricchristianity/
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SUMMARY:Northey Lecture: Amy Plantinga Pauw
DESCRIPTION:The past Northey Lecture was delivered by Professor Amy Plantinga Pauw speaking on Church in Ordinary Time: A Wisdom Ecclesiology. \nAbstract: The doctrine of creation has been missing in most theological accounts of the church. That has made it harder for Christians to make common cause with others in a religiously pluralistic world and to address the ecological threat we all face as creatures. This lecture will outline a wisdom ecclesiology that takes the doctrine of creation seriously in thinking about the church. \nAmy Plantinga Pauw is the Henry P. Mobley Professor of Doctrinal Theology at Louisville Presbyterian Seminary in Louisville\, Kentucky\, USA \n 
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/northey-lecture-amy-plantinga-pauw/
CATEGORIES:Northey Lectures
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SUMMARY:Northey Lecture: Bearing Witness – an approach to Christian-Muslim Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first lecture in the 2024 Northey Lecture series\, co-hosted with Trinity College Theological School as the Hughes-Cheong public lecture\, to be presented by Dr Joshua Ralston\, Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations at the School of Divinity\, University of Edinburgh and visiting scholar at Trinity College Theological School. \n\nBearing Witness: An Approach to Christian-Muslim Dialogue discusses how two assumptions dominate approaches to Christian-Muslim theological dialogue. First\, theological differences over God\, Jesus\, and Muhammad are viewed as the main problem facing Christian-Muslim relations. Based on this claim\, the chief aim of interfaith dialogue becomes addressing the problem of difference through seeking out areas of commonality and theological consensus. This paper challenges both assumptions by presenting a vision of Christian theological engagement with Islamic thought where the primary aim is not agreement\, but mutual learning through non-apologetic witness\, honest contestation\, and theological clarification. The profound questions that Islamic thought present to Christian theology about God\, the Qur’an\, and Jesus Christ are not viewed as a threat\, but as an opportunity for fresh theological reflection on what it means to bear witness to the God who speaks. \nParking is not available on College grounds.  \n\n\nDate: Thursday 21 March 2024 \nTime: 7 – 9pm (Refreshments will be served in the Bernardo Family Atrium after the lecture). \nVenue: Craig Auditorium\, Gateway Building\, Trinity College\, 100 Royal Parade\, Parkville VIC 3052 \nRSVP: By 5pm\, Thursday 14 March 2024 \nTickets: Free\, but bookings essential. Book at TryBooking \nEnquiries: Briony O’Halloran | events@trinity.unimelb.edu.au | 03 8341 0216
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/northey-lecture-bearing-witness-an-approach-to-christian-muslim-dialogue-2/
LOCATION:Craig Auditorium\, Gateway Building\, Trinity College\, 100 Royal Parade\, Parkville\, Vic\, 3052\, Australia
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SUMMARY:Northey Lecture: Bearing Witness – an approach to Christian-Muslim Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first lecture in the 2024 Northey Lecture series\, co-hosted with Trinity College Theological School as the Hughes-Cheong public lecture\, to be presented by Dr Joshua Ralston\, Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations at the School of Divinity\, University of Edinburgh and visiting scholar at Trinity College Theological School. \n\nBearing Witness: An Approach to Christian-Muslim Dialogue discusses how two assumptions dominate approaches to Christian-Muslim theological dialogue. First\, theological differences over God\, Jesus\, and Muhammad are viewed as the main problem facing Christian-Muslim relations. Based on this claim\, the chief aim of interfaith dialogue becomes addressing the problem of difference through seeking out areas of commonality and theological consensus. This paper challenges both assumptions by presenting a vision of Christian theological engagement with Islamic thought where the primary aim is not agreement\, but mutual learning through non-apologetic witness\, honest contestation\, and theological clarification. The profound questions that Islamic thought present to Christian theology about God\, the Qur’an\, and Jesus Christ are not viewed as a threat\, but as an opportunity for fresh theological reflection on what it means to bear witness to the God who speaks. \nParking is not available on College grounds.  \n\n\nDate: Thursday 21 March 2024 \nTime: 7 – 9pm (Refreshments will be served in the Bernardo Family Atrium after the lecture). \nVenue: Craig Auditorium\, Gateway Building\, Trinity College\, 100 Royal Parade\, Parkville VIC 3052 \nRSVP: By 5pm\, Thursday 14 March 2024 \nTickets: Free\, but bookings essential. Book at TryBooking \nEnquiries: Briony O’Halloran | events@trinity.unimelb.edu.au | 03 8341 0216
URL:https://pilgrim.edu.au/event/northey-lecture-bearing-witness-an-approach-to-christian-muslim-dialogue/
LOCATION:Craig Auditorium\, Gateway Building\, Trinity College\, 100 Royal Parade\, Parkville\, Vic\, 3052\, Australia
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