The Once and Future Reformation

The Carmelite Centre Melbourne 2017 SYMPOSIUM: The Once and Future Reformation: The Way of the Spirit. Thursday 25th May to Saturday 27th May

A full schedule of events appears below and is available for booking.  The trybooking link is https://www.trybooking.com/273099 An opportunity to talk about the current need for renewal and reformation today, in the churches and in the world. Our Symposium will be diverse, ecumenical, and imaginative. Join us for three days of lectures, reflections and discussion on ways of learning from the past, of living in the present and of looking to the future. Keynote speaker: Francis Moloney SDB, AM, STD, D. Phil. (Oxon), D. Univ. (ACU), FAHA   Thursday evening 7.30-9.30 he will speak on "Reform: Spirituality and the Person of Jesus: Christian Holiness as Deification (Theiosis)." A talk which points to the strength of the Lutheran (and others) return to the Word of God and the person of Jesus, and ask where we can go from there in terms of a spirituality. Full Program: ‘The Once and Future Reformation : The Way of the Spirit’. The Carmelite Centre Symposium DAY ONE Thursday 25th of May Welcome 10.30 am Philip Harvey - Welcome Ken Petersen O.Carm: Dialogue Today and Tomorrow Session One 11.30-1.00 pm David Moore: Mysticism of Teilhard de Chardin: A Solution to the Modern Religious Crisis Carol McDonough: Seeking the Way of the Spirit living Jesus' commands to love: for Christians, our church in our world, learning from our past, for our future hope through Love in our present Session Two 2.30-4.00 pm Glenn Loughrey: The Way of the Heart: One with the Heavens and the Earth Ruth Harrison: Ancient Roots, New Expressions: How the Spirituality and Praxis of Christian Contemplatives are being reshaped by the demands of living in an Evolving Universe and a Planet in ecological crisis Session Three 4.30-6.00 pm Talitha Fraser: Street, Seminary and Sacred: Expressions of Theological Animation and Activism in Victoria David Buller: Holy Disruption : A Quaker Experience of Reformation Then and Now Session Four 7.30-9.30 pm Keynote speaker: Francis Moloney  "Reform: Spirituality and the Person of Jesus: Christian Holiness as Deification (Theiosis)."  A talk which points to the strength of the Lutheran (and others) return to the Word of God and the person of Jesus, and ask where we can go from there in terms of a spirituality. DAY TWO Friday 26th of May Session Five 9.30-11 am Marlene Marburg: Becoming a Real Presence to Each Other: Beyond Resistance to Co-creation Bernadette Miles: Strengthening Spirit – Releasing Potential: spiritual formation for the New Axial Age Session Six 11.30-1.00 pm Jan Morgan & Graeme Garrett: ‘And they couldn’t even read Eggplant!’: a New Pentecost? Or, on being Monoglots in a Speaking world Simon Moyle: Monasticism, New and Old Session Seven 2.30-4.00 pm Lynne Reeder: New and Old Treasures: Wonder, Awe, and Creativity in Today’s Spirituality Sherry Balcombe & Robyn Reynolds: Spirituality and Land: Let's hear Aboriginal Voices DAY THREE Saturday 27th of May Retreat morning 10.00-noon Bernadette Micallef: The Way of the Spirit: Personal Experience. Go to the website for booking.