2015 Launch of the annual 'Gesher' Journal: Council of Christians and Jews Vic

Speaker: Reverend Professor James Haire AC

 

About the speaker: Research Professor at Charles Sturt University (CSU). He has retired as Executive Director of the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Director of the Research Centre for Public and Contextual Theology, and Professor of Theology, all in CSU. Prior to that, he was President of the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA), President of the Uniting Church in Australia (UCA), Professor of Theology in Griffith University, Dean and President of the Brisbane College of Theology, and Principal of Trinity Theological College, Brisbane. He has also lectured in Indonesia for over forty years, thirteen of them full-time. During that time he was involved in interfaith dialogue, both in Australia and in South-East Asia, particularly in Indonesia, including lecturing at State Islamic Universities in Indonesia, engaging in public dialogue with H.E. K.H. Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur), President of Indonesia, and, at the request of the Indonesian authorities, being involved in the peace process and negotiations between Muslims and Christians in the Molucca Islands in Indonesia in the 2000s, which thankfully were successful. He became a Presidential Friend of Indonesia in 2010. He was a Scholar at Worcester College, Oxford, and did postgraduate study, leading to his PhD, at the Universities of Leiden and Birmingham. He has four honorary doctorate degrees, two from the UK and two from Australia, and is a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).

 

Cost: $10.00 including Kosher supper and a copy of Gesher. Tickets at the door. 

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