What is Re:Thinking A Public Faith?
Re:Thinking A Public Faith was a 3 day conference held in March 2014 in Sydney, Australia. Its purpose was to explore how the Christian faith should publicly engage post-Christian Western culture - a culture that would rather keep religion private.
It is the hope of the organisers that the talks delivered at the conference, now available on this website, will generate thoughtful discussion about the role faith can play in a pluralistic society, and positive Christian engagement with the world in a way that seeks the common good of all.
It is the hope of the organisers that the talks delivered at the conference, now available on this website, will generate thoughtful discussion about the role faith can play in a pluralistic society, and positive Christian engagement with the world in a way that seeks the common good of all.
Who was the Keynote speaker?
Professor Miroslav Volf is Founding Director of the Yale Centre for Faith and Culture, and the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School.
He has written more than 150 editorials and 15 books, including Exclusion and Embrace (1996) and A Public Faith (2011).
His upbringing in Croatia as the only Christian in a school of 3,500 was pivotal in the development of his faith. A victim of intense and sustained interrogation by the government of then communist Yugoslavia, much of Volf's work focuses on forgiveness and reconciliation. He maintains that the Christian vision of the world entails the possibility of overcoming the past for both the victim and the perpetrator of wrongs.
Volf lives in the United States of America and at Yale he recently taught a class with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on 'Faith and Globalization.' He has been described as "one of the most celebrated theologians of our day," by former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
He has written more than 150 editorials and 15 books, including Exclusion and Embrace (1996) and A Public Faith (2011).
His upbringing in Croatia as the only Christian in a school of 3,500 was pivotal in the development of his faith. A victim of intense and sustained interrogation by the government of then communist Yugoslavia, much of Volf's work focuses on forgiveness and reconciliation. He maintains that the Christian vision of the world entails the possibility of overcoming the past for both the victim and the perpetrator of wrongs.
Volf lives in the United States of America and at Yale he recently taught a class with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on 'Faith and Globalization.' He has been described as "one of the most celebrated theologians of our day," by former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
Who organised Re:Thinking A Public Faith?
The conference was a joint project of Arrow Leadership, the Centre for Public Christianity, and World Vision Australia.
