The Sydney College of Divinity (SCD) is a consortium of Christian theological educational institutions and bible colleges based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The college is structured as a federation of member institutions, each of which retains its autonomy and respective theological traditions. Member institutions represent a range of Christian churches.SCD is a registered Higher Education Provider, with degrees and awards accredited by the Australian Government Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, a regulatory and quality agency for higher education. The consortium offers undergraduate awards that meet Australian and Korean education standards, postgraduate qualifications by coursework and research that meet Australian standards, and postgraduate qualifications by coursework that meet Korean standards. Awards range from Diploma in Theology to Doctor of Theology (Th.D.) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.).In Australia, seminaries which deliver instruction and prepare people for religious ordination are sometimes separate from theological educational institutions..
This article sets out to locate the contributions of David Bohm within the cultural history of efforts to overcome the problems generated by the Copernican system and Cartesian dualism. After deploring the marginalization of Bohm’s contributions by thinkers whose purposes correspond to his own, the article summarizes the issues that led to the modern quest for unified knowledge. In the process, it questions the interpretation of Descartes as proposing an irreducibly dualist worldview, instead bringing to light the complexity of his thought and the context where he articulated his famed division of mind and matter. Indeed, as with Pascal, Descartes meant to secure the independence of the self from the objective world of quantities. While their solutions were not entirely satisfactory, others continued the quest. Bohm is one such thinker, whose contributions in this regard cannot be dissociated from the search for bridging consciousness and the cosmos, for unified knowledge.
An order-m Latin square is a factor pair Latin square if, for each ordered pair (a, b) of positive integers satisfying ab=m , there is no repetition of symbols in any a× b tiling region. If p is prime and n is a natural number, we introduce a new characterization of order- p^n linear factor pair Latin squares. We use this characterization to show that the Latin squares constructed by Mariot et al. (Des Codes Cryptogr 88:391-411, 2020) corresponding to 𝔽_q - linear bipermutive cellular automata are linear factor pair Latin squares when q is prime. These linear factor pair Latin squares are called cellular factor pair Latin squares. We then apply the results and methods of Mariot et al. (2020) to construct maximally sized families of pairwise mutually orthogonal cellular factor pair Latin squares of order p^n , and likewise for diagonal cellular factor pair Latin squares of order p^n . The size of each of these two families is asymptotic to p^n/n .
This article explores the “mission of God” and its relationship with refugees and migrants in Australia. At its best, this mission is experienced as hospitality to, by, and with people of cultural diversity. Ross Langmead (2014) called for a theology of mission as an expression of divine hospitality to those marginalized and forcefully displaced, and recalled the significance of the cultural diversity that the Bible celebrates. By hospitably serving and learning from refugees and migrants, Australian local churches function as both guests and hosts. Langmead suggested this hospitality has ten dimensions including advocacy, meals, mutual learning, and “openness to a transforming divine presence” (2014:39ff). It is this last dimension that invites reflection as to how all ten may be more broadly applied. This article is a conversation on the experience of Australian churches at large in giving and receiving hospitality with refugees and other migrants. The conversation demonstrates the value of practicing hospitality for the sake of mutual learning and shared mission amongst the global diaspora in the Australian context.
