Greenflame
Jottings on science, religion, technology, pop culture, photography and faith from the Aotearoa New Zealand
Category: Research
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Mental health amongst academics doesn’t really get talked about to much. Constant change within the tertiary sector, continual creeping (and often accelerating) bureaucracy, and an ever increasing audit culture can and do reduce space for collegiality, fulfilling a sense of vocation and developing a kind of work life balance (e.g. spending your annual leave doing…
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A while ago, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, theology and robots was a topic that generated a number of books and publications including the ones below: “God In the Machine: What Robots Teach Us About Humanity and God” (Anne Foerst) “God and the Mind Machine: Artificial Intelligence” (John C. Puddefoot) “From Human to…
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Symposium: Doing Theology in light of the Trinity Date: 21-22 August 2014 Location: Laidlaw College, Auckland, New Zealand The resurgence of Trinitarian theology has been one of the outstanding developments of the recent decades of Christian systematic theology. From Barth and Rahner, to Pannenberg, Moltmann and La Cugna, to the programmatic suggestions of Colin Gunton,…
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[From Rev Brian Brandon: Let’s look on bright side and talk about heaven – Religion and Beliefs – NZ Herald News ]
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Public Lecture for the Theology, Spirituality and Cancer Symposium Exploring the spiritual terrain of the cancer experience; stories and statistics Richard Egan PhD School of Medicine, University of Otago Cancer affects everyone differently but what is evident is that it turns most people’s lives upside down. For those with cancer, along with their family/whanau and…
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From the symposium organisers: Just in case you were planning to come but haven’t registered yet we thought we’d send this quick reminder about the upcoming two-day symposium and public lecture on Theology, Spirituality & Cancer on 20-21 February 2014. The Theology, Spirituality and Cancer symposium, jointly sponsored by Laidlaw College and Theology at the…
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A few links on how people’s perception of the future (incl. theological eschatologies) might shape environmental ethics. Does End Time Belief Really Cause Climate Change Apathy? | Atheologies | Religion Dispatches. Public Sees a Future Full of Promise and Peril | Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. End-Times Theology, the Shadow of…
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The following link is a reflection on Ian Babour and his work in the area of science and religion interaction. Barbour (who died just before Christmas) was hugely influential upon my own thinking about the relationships between science and religion and theology and technology. I often talk about his four-fold typology of relationships in theology…
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Various religion and media links that have been sitting in the drafts folder. Cleaning things out so can think about what other things to do with the blog this year/ To Facebook or Not to Facebook? Engaging Heidi Campbell’s “When Religion Meets New Media” by Margaret Ellsworth. What is the Study of Religion\s? Self-Presentations of…
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Laidlaw College and Theology at the University of Auckland will be sponsoring a two-day symposium and public lecture on Theology, Spirituality & Cancer on 20-21 February 2014 and you are warmly invited to attend. The Theology, Spirituality and Cancer symposium is an interdisciplinary meeting exploring dialogue between theological (including biblical), religious, philosophical, spiritual, healthcare and…