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On 29 April Trinity Theological College and St Paul’s Theological College co-hosted a joint book launch to celebrate the publication of David Rankin’s Athenagoras: Philosopher and Theologian (Ashgate) and Orm Rush’s The Eyes of Faith: The Sense of the Faithful and the Church’s Reception of Revelation (Catholic University of America Press).
Dr Rankin is Principal of the Uniting Church’s Trinity Theological College and Dr Orm Rush is Associate Professor of the Catholic Church’s St Paul’s Theological College.
The joint book launch is an example of the two denomination’s formal affiliation and commitment to ecumenism and research.
Dr Rankin’s book was launched by former Queensland Synod Moderator Rev Dr David Pitman.
Dr Pitman commented on Dr Rankin’s scholarship and spoke of the significant achievement his book represented.
“I want to thank David, my friend and colleague over many years, for the opportunity to launch this latest product of his highly disciplined and sustained engagement with this amazing story, as revealed particularly in the history of the Christian Church in the first centuries of the Common Era, and especially with the work of the Church Fathers during that time,” Dr Pitman said at the launch.
Photo : Rev Dr John Thornhill SM, Rev Dr Orm Rush, Rev Dr David Rankin and Rev Dr David Pitman at the book launch. Photo by Rev Dr Neil Sims
