My Talks and Conferences

Dr. Stuart C. Bate

 

Some Principal Conferences Given

“Does Religious Healing Work?” Saturdays at Cedara March-May 1995. Pietermaritzburg

“Religious Healing”. Manzini Swaziland December 1995

“Reflexions Theologique sur la Guerison Religieuse en Afrique du Sud” Chaire Cardinal Malula. Kinshasa, Zaire May 1996. (Reported on National TV)

“The response of mainline churches to the healing churches in South Africa”. Paper presented at an International conference of African Initiatives in Mission January 1997 Pretoria.

“Religious Healing as consumer religion” Kirche auf dem Weltmarkt religioser Angebote.  Muden Austria July 1997

“Method in Contextual Theology”. SAMS Conference Pretoria 1998

“The Church’s mission to heal in the AIDS crisis”. International Theological Consultation on HIV/AIDS organised by CAFOD UK held in Pretoria May 1998

“Matthew 10 as a Mission Mandate in Post Christian cultures” Catholic Theological Society of Southern Africa. Johannesburg, November 1999.

“Culturally Mediated Pastoral responses to Culturally Mediated Human Needs”. Keynote address at UNP Doctoral Seminar November 1999.

“The mission to heal in a global context” Paper given at WCC Consultation of Mission, faith and Healing, Hamburg, Germany. June 2000. Published in IRM 2001.

“An Interdisciplinary approach to understanding and assessing religious healing in South African Christianity”. Paper given at IAHR XVIIIth Quinquennial World Congress. Durban August 2000.

            “Steps of Inculturation: An Interactive Workshop” Christian Brothers International Passover Programme. Stellenbosch October 2000.

“Seeing through one another’s eyes: reconciliation in the reconstruction of humanity” Archbishop Hurley memorial lecture 2000. Durban November 2000.

“With us always: Ministering Jesus  in a culture of poverty, unemployment and AIDS”. Keynote address, Archdiocese of Durban, Clergy Meeting.  Feb 7 2001.

“Changing views to promote reconciliation: An investigation of the views of a group of future Christian leaders about Islam.” Paper presented at International Expert Meeting Cedara-Tilburg, 21-23 June 2001, Tilburg Holland.

“What does it mean that the Church is the instrument of the Kingdom of God in the South African context: a Catholic perspective”. Paper presented at the International Roman Catholic - Reformed dialogue. Cape Town August 22-28 2001.

“A time to change: Ministering in a new millennium”. Keynote address, Archdiocese of Cape Town Clergy Meeting.  September 14 2001.

“La realtB del Cristo nella vita della Chiesa locale”. Third (of three) main addresses at the 1st International Theological Video Conference for the worldwide ongoing formation of priests organised by the Congregation for the Clergy, Vatican Rome. The conference linked ten video sites in all five continents of the world. see www.clerus.org (teleconference)

Ongoing monthly contributions to the same Video Conference. All are available at www.clerus.org (teleconference).

“Casting fire upon the earth” Keynote address to the Archdiocese of Durban Synod September 2002.

“Responsible healing in a world of HIV/AIDS”. Public lecture given during the conference Responsibility in a time of AIDS held at St Augustine College of South Africa. Johannesburg, February 2003.

“Christian leadership and Context”. Keynote address to the All Africa Leadership meeting of the Christian Brothers. Johannesburg.  17 March 2003. Two parts Leadership as a life in the Spirit, in community,Serving the Mission of the Church. and Christian Leadership in Today’s World

“The Church and the Democratic Process: Lessons from South Africa”. Address to the XIVth Theology week of the Catholic Institute of West Africa. Port Harcourt, Nigeria, April 2003.

“Mission in a Networked World”. Main address to the Omnes Gentes Colloquium Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, October 2003.

                                                                                                      

 

Ongoing Participation in the Vatican Teleconference for the Theological Updating of Clergy

(All these conferences are available at www.clerus.org. Click on "teleconference" and follow the links)

 

     I have given the following conferences:

 

                 Sep 2001         The reality of Christ in the life of the local Church (20 mins)

            Nov 2001        Living with Death in a world of AIDS (3 mins)

Dec 2001         Diverse schools of thought on Sacramental Theology which are in accordance with the Magisterium from Vatican II to the present time (20 mins)

Feb 2002         Morals and Spirituality (3 mins)

Mar 2002        Confirmation and the Life according to the Spirit. (3 mins)

April 2002      Matrimony  (20 mins)

May 2002        Mary and Interreligious dialogue (3 mins)

June 2002        Pneumatology from Vatican II to the present day (20 mins)

 

Sep 2002         Liturgy, art and beauty (3 mins)

                 Nov 2002        The Church and the non believer (3 mins)

                 Dec 2002         The Evangelical Counsels and the Spiritual Life (3mins)

                 Jan 2003          Torture and the Death Penalty up until Vatican II  (3 mins)

April 2003      The Resurrection of Christ : Resurrectio tamquam eventus storicus et transcendens  (20 mins)

June 2003        Priestly identity and the priestly way of life  ( 3 mins)

Sept 2003        The Just Wage…ut ea se uxoremque et liberos tueri commonodum queat…   ( 3 mins)  

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