The term Confucianism was first thought to be coined during the 17th Century by Jesuit missionaries who saw a strong correlation between the values they observed among Chinese officials and some of the classical texts of Confucianism [Nadeau 2014, 23]. Confucius (551 BC – 479 BC) was a Chinese teacher,...
In some East Asian contexts, the concept of religion encapsulates the ideas of an organisation or movement that a person joins, and also something imported from a Western context. Based on that understanding, many people from across East Asia would argue that Confucianism should be classified as a worldview rather...
In his provocative book, The Future is Asian (2019), Parag Khanna argues that while the nineteenth century could be characterised as the ‘European’ century, and the twentieth century the ‘American’ century, the twenty first century will be shown to have been the ‘Asian’ century. He notes that Asia represents half...
This month's opportunities include being a Youth and Children's Coordinator in Sydney, a Property Manager in Brisbane and a Boarding Home Assistant in Thailand.
As part of our new unit offerings for 2018, BST is delighted to welcome Dr Carolyn Russell and Mrs Inga Hart who will co-teach Principles of Christian Counselling in Semester 1 (an intensive that will be split over five days, Monday to Wednesday, 26-28 February and Thursday to Friday, 30...
If the number of books that have been written about prayer is anything to go by, the experience and practice of prayer among Christians varies significantly. There are Christians who find prayer a natural thing for them to do and simply love to pray.
Judgment in its full and final sense leads us to the doctrine of hell. In Exodus, there is a lot of judgment taking place. What can we learn from what took place in Exodus?
What does crocheting, physiotherapy and Bible college have in common? Not much for most people, but for one of our BST students in her mid-20s, they are the very things she loves to pour her time and effort into doing. We caught up with K to find out a little...
At some point in our Christian lives we have been told that one of the best things we can do is to read the Bible. However, the assumption that we often make is that because we can read, then we are equipped to read the Bible. That will only get...
