LATT Conference Publications

Sydney College of Divinity Learning and Teaching Theology (LATT) Conferences are a biennial event. The conferences held to date are

• Assessment in Theological Education 23 – 24 April 2021
• God’s Exemplary Graduates. Institutional Graduate Attributes 5-6 April 2019
• Wondering about God together. Research-led learning and teaching 28-29 April 2017
• Teaching Theology in a Technological Age 19-20 September 2014
• Learning & Teaching Theology. Some Ways Ahead 27-28 September 2013

The papers presented at the conferences are published. Since 2017, SCD Press publishes the conference proceedings and the books can be purchased online.

Teaching Theology in a Technological Age
19-20 September 2014

Papers published as:  Y. Debergue & J.R. Harrison (eds.), Teaching Theology in a Technological Age (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015).

Available online with Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Contents:

• Tracking God’s Digital Footprint (Yvette Debergue & James R. Harrison)
• Developing Scenario Learning to Theological Education (James Dalziel)
• Tweeting God: A Practical Theological Tracing of Christian Expressions of Faith on Twitter (Jan Albert van den Berg)
• The Challenge of Virtual Community: Benefits and Deficits (Michael Jensen)
• Opposing the Virtual World of Late-Capitalism: A Biblical Theology of Education (Robert Tilley)
• Developing Personal Resilience in a Dangerous Virtual World: Historical, Social, Biblical and Theological Perspectives (James R. Harrison)
• Challenges to Learning in the Age of the Internet (Charles de Jongh)
• Integrating Realities: From Symbolic Worlds to Lived-Through Reality (Andre van Oudtshoorn)
• On the Frontiers of Change: Designing Bespoke Learning Architecture (Stephen Smith & Stephen Healey)
• Salmon Fishing in Christian Settings (David Morgan)
• Visualisation in Theological Education A Taxonomy of Purposes, Tools and Possibilities for Visual Representation for the Non-Specialist (Andrew J. Brown)
• Teaching Church History in the Age of Film (Yvette Debergue)
• Curriculum as Software: A Digital-Based Approach (Jong Soo Park)
• Learning Design for Formational Learning in Non-Campus-Based Learning Contexts (Diane Hockridge)
• “How Little We Know”– Teaching Online Spirituality, Practices and Values in a Technological Age (Peter Mudge)
• The Rhizomatic and Narrative Basis of Practical Student Learning When Teaching Online Spirituality (Peter Mudge)
• Can ICT Preserve the Future of Ancient Greek Learning? (David Gormley-O’Brien)
• Speaking Carefully in the Presence of Our Students: Engendering Trust and Care in the (Online) Theology Classroom (Daniel J. Fleming)
• Teaching Theology Online in Class (John Mark Capper)
• Real Presence in Theological Education: E-Media and “Presence” in Distance Learning (Tim Bulkeley)

The book can be purchased on the Cambridge Scholars Publishing website.

Learning & Teaching Theology Some Ways Ahead
27-28 September 2013

Papers published as: L.Ball & J.R. Harrison (eds.), Learning & Teaching Theology. Some Ways Ahead (Northcote, Vic: Morning Star, 2014).

Available online with Morning Star Publishing and Acorn Press

Contents:

• Introduction (Les Ball)
• Where Are We Going? (Les Ball)
• Higher Education in the Pauline Churches (E.A. Judge)
• Paul and the Ancient Gymnasium (James R. Harrison)
• Paul as Theological Educator (Robert Banks)
• An Analysis of “Soul” as the Central Construct in Dirkx’s and Ruether’s Transformative Learning Theory (Neil Holm)
• Leaving Home (Dan Fleming & Peter Mudge)
• Assessing Integrative Learning and Readiness for Ministry (Nancy Ault)
• The Contribution of Theories of Multiple Intelligences to the Promotion of Deep Learning through the Assessment of Learning (Charles de Jongh)
• Addressing the Need for Better Integration in Theological Education (Richard Hibbert & Evelyn Hibbert)
• Responding to Complexity (Stephen Smith & Leon O’Flynn)
• Making the Implicit Explicit (Diane Hockridge)
• Theology for the iGeneration (Kara Martin)
• Video Game Design and the Theological Classroom (Isaac Soon)
• Embodiment and Transformation in the Context of e-Learning (Steve Taylor)
• A Practical Approach for Teaching Foundational Theology (Denise Goodwin)
• Transformative Learning in Church History (Tim Cooper)
• Cross-cultural Mission as a Transformative Learning Experience (Murray House)
• From Place to Place (Darren Cronshaw & Andrew Menzies)
• Chinese Theological Education in Australia (Felix Chung)
• Nungalinya College – Empowering Indigenous Christians (Jude Long)

This book can be purchased on the Morning Star Publishing and Acorn Press website.