20. Teresa Brown - 25 July 2021

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Jn 6:1-15 - Scarcity and Abundance

Dr Teresa Brown is a Melbourne-based teacher and researcher in the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy at Australian Catholic University. She has a PhD in Theology, a Master of Religious Education and a Master of Theological Studies. In her PhD, she explored the relationship between trinitarian faith and Christian life through the lens of Lieven Boeve’s theology of interruption. She is particularly interested in the way in which we approach theology today, how this might inform and be informed by the experience of Christians within diverse contexts, and how this might, in turn, be reflected in the education of young people in Catholic schools. Teresa works with Catholic Education partners around Australia and with research partners at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven to support schools in the formation, articulation and practice of their Catholic identity. Before coming to ACU, she taught Religious Education and Music in Catholic secondary schools in Victoria and held positions of leadership in Religious Education and Professional Learning. Teresa is co-author of “Openness to Faith as a Disposition for Teachers in Catholic Schools,” published in the International Journal of Practical Theology, 2020, and is currently co-writing a book on recontextualisation with Robyn Horner, due for publication in 2022.