#scholars network

The next meeting of the Christian Scholars Network of Melbourne will be held at the Dan O’Connell Pub, 225 Canning Street, in Carlton, at 7 pm on Tuesday, June 23. Please note that this meeting will occur in the upstairs room of the pub, not the usual function space on the ground floor. Our speaker will be Jeffrey Hanson. His topic will be the 19th-century Danish Christian philosopher Soren Kierkegaard’s understanding of faith in his most famous book, Fear and Trembling. Hanson has recently completed his own book on this subject and has edited a collection of essays on Kierkegaard entitled Kierkegaard as Phenomenologist: An Experiment. Feel free to come early and share dinner with network participants. 

The next meeting of the Christian Scholars Network of Melbourne will be held at the Dan O’Connell Pub, 225 Canning Street, in Carlton, at 7 pm on Tuesday, May 26. Please note that this meeting will occur in the upstairs room of the pub, not the usual function space on the ground floor. Our speaker will be Chris White. His topic will be “Competition, Cooperation and Altruism: Definitions and Distinctions.” Chris is working on a PhD at ANU on aspects of the relationship between Christian ethics and economics. Since retiring after 30+ years with an actuarial and human resources consulting firm, he has studied and taught ethics, and served on the boards of both for-profit and not-for-profit organisations. Feel free to come early and enjoy dinner with network participants.

The next meeting of the Christian Scholars Network of Melbourne will be held at the Dan O’Connell Pub, 225 Canning Street, in Carlton, at 7 pm on Tuesday, April 28. Please note that this meeting will occur in the upstairs room of the pub, not the usual function space on the ground floor. Our speaker will be Chris Watkin, senior lecturer and convenor of French Studies at Monash University. His topic will be “The Bible as a Source of Critical and Social Theory.” Feel free to come early and enjoy dinner with network participants.

After a Christmas and summer break Christian Scholars Network is returning to the Dan O’Connell Pub, 225 Canning Street, in Carlton, at 7 pm on Tuesday, March 24. Please note that this meeting will occur in the upstairs room of the pub, not the usual function space on the ground floor. Our speaker will be Prof. Greg Restall, professor of philosophy at the University of Melbourne. His topic will be “Incarnation and Detachment: Philosophy, Prayer, and Taking Positions.” Feel free to come early and enjoy dinner with network participants.

The next meeting of Christian Scholars Network of Melbourne will take place at 7 pm on Tuesday, November 18, at the Dan O'Connell Pub, 225 Canning Street, in Carlton. Please note that this meeting will occur in the upstairs room of the pub, not the usual function space on the ground floor. Our speaker will be Prof. Peter Sherlock, vice-chancellor of the University of Divinity. Prof. Sherlock will speak on "Theology and History in Higher Education." Feel free to come early and enjoy dinner with network participants. 

The next meeting of the Christian Scholars Network of Melbourne will take place on Tuesday, 28 October at 7 PM.

Our meeting will take place at the Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, at the corner of Princes Street, in Carlton.  Food and drinks are available for purchase from the Dan O'Connell, including $1 tacos.

Our next speaker is Alan Gijsbers, who is head of addiction medicine at the Royal Melbourne Hospital and medical director of the Substance Withdrawal Unit at the Melbourne Clinic. He is also the president of Christians in Science and Technology and past president of HealthServe Australia. Alan will be speaking on the topic of "The Science and Spirituality of Clinical Medicine." 

Christian Scholars Network of Melbourne is a ministry of St. James Old Cathedral.

The next meeting of the Christian Scholars Network in Melbourne will take place two weeks from tonight, Tuesday, September 16, at 7 pm. The meeting will be held at the Dan O’Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, at the corner of Alexandra Parade, in Carlton. Food and drinks are available for purchase, so come early to have dinner and a drink. 

Our speaker will be Dr. Mick Pope. Mick is a lecturer in meteorology with the Bureau of Meteorology and an ecotheologian with Ethos: EA Centre for Christianity and Society. He is writing two books on ecotheology, Preaching to the Birds and (with Claire Dawson) the book that will be the basis of his talk for us, A Climate of Hope: Church and Mission in a Warming World.

Please join us for the next meeting of Christian Scholars Network Melbourne, which will take place at 7:00 pm on Tuesday, August 19, at the Dan O'Connell Hotel, 225 Canning Street, in Carlton, at the corner of Princes Street. 

Our speaker will be Professor Bruce Ellis Benson of Wheaton College in Illinois. Bruce is author or editor of eleven books, including Pious Nietzsche: Decadence and Dionysian Faith, Graven Ideologies: Nietzsche, Derrida, and Marion on Modern Idolatry, The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction, and The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue: A Phenomenology of Music. His topic will be taken from his most recent book on liturgy as a way of life.

Anyone who is interested in the intersection of faith and intellect is entirely welcome to participate in the Christian Scholars Network. Please do circulate this information to anyone you think might be interested in attending. 

Christian Scholars Network is a ministry of St. James Old Cathedral.