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Equip yourself for real life, faith, and ministry People study at Pilgrim for all kinds of reasons – out of interest, for their life of faith, to equip themselves with new skills and qualifications, for love of learning, to develop their theological imagination. We know that for theology to be meaningful it must be relevant. We’ll help you explore the implications of your learning, making connections with life in our world, questions of faith, and real vocational contexts. Our subjects can also equip you for vocations – ministry with children and families, pastoral care, leadership in the church. No matter…

The library team is proud to announce the implementation of a new, expanded search function for the Dalton McCaughey Library resources. Scholarly literature is increasingly available online and the new search function includes the full text of online journals, reference works and books as well as catalogue records. You can choose to search only the catalogue from a separate tab, or you can filter your search results to exclude catalogue records, narrow the date range and many more options. What’s changing? There are two search boxes; one for searching online and print collections and one for the catalogue. The combined…

Faculty member John Flett has co-edited Coverting Witness: The Future of Christian Mission in the New Millennium (Lexington Books), a collection of essays in honour of missiologist Darrell Guder. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781978708402/Converting-Witness-The-Future-of-Christian-Mission-in-the-New-Millennium Pilgrim doctoral candidate Bryan Cones and faculty member Stephen Burns have co-edited Liturgy With a Difference: Beyond Inclusion in the Christian Assembly (SCM Press), with essays on preaching to “Nones” (people who say “no religion” in the census), worship space as sanctuary, the experience of trans-presiders, and crafting gay weddings: https://scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/9780334057406/liturgy-with-a-difference Faculty associate Jione Havea and faculty members Monica Jyotsna Melanchthon and Stephen Burns each have essays in the current…

Pilgrim Theological College adjunct lecturer Beth Barnett practises what she teaches, which is why you might find her students entering a church building on their hands and knees to view the surrounds from a child’s height. This is one of the observational tasks included in the intensive unit Children and Families Ministry: Core issues in diverse contexts. Ms Barnett will teach the unit in two three-day blocs in February, leaving students the rest of the semester for assessment tasks. While there is a more formal essay component, the unit’s observational tasks include the aforementioned crawl into a church building (Ms…

Pilgrim Theological College celebrated the completion of study for a number of their 2017 valedictorians in November with a service of celebration and thanks. Some valedictorians have completed their study and others are “on the verge” of completion. Rev Associate Professor Sean Winter, the Acting Head of Pilgrim, told the theology students that “whatever the future holds, keep the questions you have asked here, the challenges you have faced here, the insights you have won here, the knowledge you have gained here, the changes you have made here, keep them at the forefront of your mind and go on living…

International guest lecturers will be offering two new subjects at Pilgrim in semester two. Each of these is available for credit or audit, and when completed for credit, counts towards any of the relevant awards of the University of Divinity. AR 1/8000P Conversations: With All Due Respect: Theology, Feminism, and Conflict (begins with the symposium on the same theme with M.Shawn Copeland, Ruth Duck and Cynthia Wilson) Passionately Christian, Compassionately Interfaith (Sathianathan Clarke) Further information

Graduation day is an important one for any student, ‘A moment of grace’ is how guest speaker, Alan Niven, described it. It is the day when all those hours of study in class and at home, and all the hard work of thinking, reading and writing, finally come to fruition. Graduation is always a significant personal achievement. But it is also an achievement best shared. The University of Divinity’s Graduation Ceremony in Melbourne, held on the 24th of March, on the grand stage of St Patrick’s Cathedral, was an important milestone for a number of Pilgrim students. One by one, they crossed the stage…

Our students come from all walks of life. Whether returning to study, needing a refresher, a contemporary theological update or embarking on a spiritual journey, Pilgrim College has several options. Just a few more reasons our students chose to study with us: ‘…as a qualification to teach religious education and equip me to offer a higher ministerial leadership in Chaplaincy…’ ‘… a deeper understanding of the New Testament and its relevance to worship and preaching will enhance my leadership roles in my local congregation and presbytery.’ ‘…the degree will aid my discernment of a “Call to Ministry” … in the company of other students, under the guidance of…

Hi, I’m Fiona. I have a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Engineering and I’ve spent most of my professional life working in sustainable building design. My Pilgrim story really began when my son Jack was diagnosed with Autism and mental disabilities and my whole world then changed. My career took a back seat while I balanced parenting, therapies and trying to live as “normal” a life as possible. This is also where my spiritual journey began, as I longed for some kind of meaning to all that had, and was happening, in my family’s lives. Eventually I found myself at Brunswick…

Intensive Units for Semester 2 2016 5-7 August, 3-4 September BA2040P/BA3040P/ BA9040P Gender, Justice, Empire: Contextual Readings of the Old Testament (Melanchthon) 21-28 September CH3030P/DS3030P/ CH9030P/DS9030P The Wisdom of St Benedict:  The Rule and its Sources (Posa) – Sydney NSW 20, 27 August 3, 10, 17 September DP3805P/DP9805P Effective Christian Leadership and Ministry (Confoy) 7, 8, 9 October CT3020P/CT9020P Doctrine, Truth and Pluralism (Thompson) 23-25, 28-30 November DA/DS2/3/9029S The Nurture and Spiritual Guidance of Children (College of Theology and Ministry) To enrol, please contact our registrar, Erlinda Loverseed: 03 8340 8892 or registrar@pilgrim.edu.au

Pilgrim Theological College is calling for Expressions of Interest from currently enrolled Pilgrim students to join Co-ordinator of Studies – Missiology, Rev Dr John Flett, at the 2016 Karl Barth Conference to be held at Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey, USA, from 19-22 June, 2016. As part of Pilgrim Theological College’s wider commitment to post-graduate theological education, an opportunity has arisen for one student to accompany John as he delivers a keynote address at the conference.     Inclusions Return economy flights from Melbourne to New York Accommodation at Princeton from 19-22 June, 2016 Conference fees (NB all of these inclusions are…

Research and writing is often solitary work, so occasions when academics share perspectives and unfold new connections are especially valuable. In November 2014 a group of researchers who have been exploring the records of the Benedictine mission to the Yued people at New Norcia in Western Australia met to explore the various Ways of Telling the mission story. The symposium marked 200 years since the birth of New Norcia’s founder, Rosendo Salvado, and was designed to encourage conversation not only between researchers from different disciplines, but also to hear from the members of the wider community, including contemporary key stakeholders…

By Associate Professor Katharine Massam Co-ordinator of Studies – Church History As part of the intensive subject Prayer and Hospitality: Benedictine Traditions in Australia participants recently spent eight days at New Norcia in Western Australia. The group lived in the monastery guesthouse, and joined the monks for the daily round of prayer and work, with input on Benedictine and wider monastic traditions of Christian community. The former mission town of New Norcia was founded in 1846 by the Spanish Benedictine monks Rosendo Salvado and Joseph Serra on the lands of the Yued-Noongar Aboriginal Australians of the Victoria Plains District in Western…

The College’s lunchtime seminar series resumes next Tuesday with speaker Daniel Kirk. Daniel is currently Associate Professor of New Testament in the School of Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary and a graduate of Duke Divinity School. He is the author of Unlocking Romans: Resurrection and the Justification of God (Eerdmans, 2008) and Jesus Have I Loved, But Paul? A Narrative Approach to the Problem of Pauline Christianity (Baker, 2012). His current research project delves into the human Christology of the Synoptic Gospels (Eerdmans, forthcoming). Daniel blogs regularly at Storied Theology. All of the lectures are free to attend and all are…

Did you miss Rev Associate Professor Sean Winter’s lunchtime seminar ‘Present-ing’ the Word: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Biblical Interpretation, presented on Tuesday, 14 April? Fear not, Sean was kind enough to let us record his presentation, which is available to listen to as an audio file. It’s 43 minutes long and is a great showcase of the lunchtime seminar series on offer at Pilgrim Theological College. What is a Habilitation? Overly simply stated, whereas universities in the English-language tradition have different academic grades and the institution evaluates an individual’s standing, in the German-language tradition a professorship is an earned qualification –…