School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, Studies in Religion seminars: Pastoral Preaching as Therapy for Belief-Sickness - Lessons from the Philosophers
Event Details
- Date:
- Friday, 17 April 2015
- Time:
- 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Room:
- Room E319 Forgan Smith Building
- UQ Location:
- Forgan Smith Building (St Lucia)
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Event Contact
- Name:
- Serena Bagley
- Phone:
- 52795
- Email:
- s.bagley@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Event Description
- Full Description:
- School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, Studies in Religion seminars - Pastoral Preaching as Therapy for Belief-Sickness: Lessons from the Philosophers, with Particular Reference to Soren Kierkegaard presented by Neil Pembroke AND The Slow Apocalypse: What Sort of Difference Does Girard Make to How We Read Apocalyptic Biblical Texts? Presented by Janice McRandal
NEIL PEMBROKE: Neil’s paper offers a supplement to the conventional view of pastoral preaching. He suggests that along with construing the job as offering care and comfort in the face of psychological and existential crises, pastoral preaching may also profitably be interpreted as stimulating self-therapy for belief-sickness. A belief-sickness is defined as an element in a personal worldview that, from the perspective of a critically developed and integrated biblical/theological and psychological/philosophical perspective, is unrealistic, unhelpful, and distorted, and which causes significant emotional and spiritual distress and/or militates against spiritual maturity, personal fulfilment, and general flourishing.
JANICE McRANDAL: In her paper, Janice challenges a view of the apocalypse as a divine invasion, akin to a well-intended colonial conquest. In such invasion, apocalyptic theology has failed to disclose its own mimetic – and masculinist – hermeneutical performance. Janice contends that Girard presents for us an alternative view of the apocalypse, a remapping that more acutely interrogates desire within hermeneutical moves, and situates cosmic ends within an ever unravelling, excessive knowledge of the Passion; that Girard’s reading destabilizes the masculinist symbol: ‘apocalypse’
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