Dei Verbum and the Roots of Synodality

Part of Re-energizing the Renewal:

A Webinar Symposium Series to Celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Second Vatican Council

Speaker: Ormond Rush, STD

Ormond Rush is a priest of the diocese of Townsville, Australia, with a doctorate in theology from the Gregorian University in Rome. Currently Associate Professor and Reader at Australian Catholic University, Brisbane campus, he was a member of the Bishops’ Executive Committee planning the recent Plenary Council in Australia and was a peritus at the Plenary Council’s two assemblies (in October 2021 and in July 2022. He is also a member of the theological commission for the 2023 Synod of Bishops in Rome on the theme of “synodality.” His book publications include The Eyes of Faith: The Sense of the Faithful and the Church’s Reception of Revelation (2009) and The Vision of Vatican II: Its Fundamental Principles (2019). He is currently involved in writing an intercontinental commentary on Dei Verbum, part of a 12-volume series on Vatican II’s documents and their global reception after the council.

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