Graduate Research School launch and ACU Three Minute Thesis final
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21 October 2021
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ACU's pre-eminence in theology research was evident in the award of the ATF Literary Trust Theological Book Prize for 2021 to two books, both by ACU researchers.
Reverend Associate Professor Ormond Rush received the prize for The Vision of Vatican II: Its Fundamental Principles, and Dr David Newheiser received it for Hope in a Secular Age.
The 2021 prize was named in honour of a third ACU theologian, the late Professor Denis Edwards, who won the award in 2006.
The Australasian Theological Forum awards the prize to a single-authored book by an Australian or New Zealand author judged to have made a significant contribution and lasting impact to the field.
The judges said the decision to award the prize to two books was a reflection of the outstanding quality of both books chosen from an excellent and diverse field of entrants for 2021.
The judges said Vision of Vatican II was destined to become a major point of reference in Vatican II studies.
“It is difficult to overestimate the magnitude of the achievement of Ormond Rush’s Vision of Vatican II. The author offers a remarkable tour de force of the theological and ecclesial principles the author discerns in the documents, background and fundamental vision of Vatican II.”
The judges said Hope in a Secular Age was a point of reference for future theological inquiry as it charts a way for meaningful dialogue with contemporary philosophical thought while addressing the perennial issue of a meaningful vision of the Christian hope in the midst of despair in contemporary Western culture.
“David Newheiser’s Hope in a Secular Age tackles a critical issue for contemporary theological discourse; the possibility of Christian language about central ideas of its faith. This fine exegetical and philosophical study offers a highly original, insightful and persuasive account of a hope that is at once ethical, political and spiritual.”
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