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From the point of view of the human species, we can identify three key stages in this
process of becoming – cosmology and the beginning of the universe with the big bang,
the origin of life on the planet earth and the emergence of consciousness and rationality in
homo sapiens. These are the themes which are considered in the essays in this volume.
There are a variety of papers from Christian theologians and philosophers and from those
who examine these issues from a Chinese religious or Chinese philosophical background.
The volume begins with four papers by John Haught of Georgetown University Washington,
looking at ‘nature’, ‘cosmic purpose and science’, ‘Darwin and divine providence’, and
‘theology, ecology and cosmology’. Form there the book is divided into three sections:
‘Cosmology’, ‘Life’ and on ‘Human Life’.
Contributors include: John Haught of Washington, USA; Tomas Berg of New York, USA;
Kang, Phee-Seng, from Hong Kong, Shih Chao-Hwei, John Chuang and Frank Budenholzer,
from Taiwan.
Editors: Teresa Wong Yai-Chow
Chair, Department of Religious Studies, Fu Jen Catholic University
Wen Hsiang Chen
Post-doctoral fellow, Center for the Study of Science and Religion,
Fu Jen Catholic University
Frank Budenholzer SVD, Philosophy and Chemistry Departments,
Fu Jen Catholic University
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all the host of them’ (Genesis 1:31 – 2:1). Thus the Hebrew Scriptures, the basis of the faith
of the three great monotheistic traditions, describe a process in which the cosmos came
to be. However, the fact of process in the becoming of the cosmos was also a bedrock of
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Esther and the End of ‘Final
Solutions’: Theodicy and Hebrew
Biblical Narrative
By Richard Treloar
ISBN 9781920691868
Paperback
15 x 21 cm
477 pages
Release Date: September 2008
ATF Dissertation Series Number 3
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‘Richard Treloar’s study of the Book of Esther is remarkable in bringing together
successfully a number of streams of hermeneutics and theology. Written with
elegance and clarity, it shows an extraordinary breadth of reading and awareness
of other disciplines that impinge on biblical studies. Esther is interpreted as
an example of ‘survival literature’ and the issue of theodicy weaves its way
throughout the book, particularly in relation to the ‘divine obscurity’ of the text.
It is a book to be read by systematic theologians, as well as by biblical exegetes,
and anyone interested in how to interpret narrative within a contemporary
philosophical and theological framework.’
Rev Dr Dorothy Lee, Trinity Theological College, Melbourne
Richard Treloar is a priest in the Anglican Church of Australia, currently serving
as Vicar of Christ Church, South Yarra, in the city of Melbourne. Prior to this
appointment he was Chaplain of Trinity College, the University of Melbourne,
teaching theology in the ecumenical consortium, the Melbourne College of
Divinity, of which he continues to be an Honorary Research Associate. His
Phd thesis was awarded by Monash University in 203. Richard’s research in
the field of biblical hermeneutics has been published in both Australian and
international refereed journals and edited volumes. He represents the Anglican
and Uniting Churches of Australia on the World Council of Churches Faith and
Order Standing Commission.
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Beyond the Word of a Woman
Recovering the Bodies of the
Syrophoenician Women
By Alan H Cadwallader
ISBN 9781920691851
Paperback
15 x 21 cm
370 pages
Release Date: September 2008
ATF Biblical Series Number 1
Aus $44.00
‘The work shows significant independence of thought on the part of the
researcher together with a very comprehensive knowledge of the literature and
ability to engage with it critically. It was a pleasure to read with it very careful
attention to nuanced scholarship, its clarity of expression and its very thorough
exploration of a gospel pericope. It provides insights which will be the subject
of dialogue for a long time to come in Markan feminist scholarship.’
Dr Elaine Wainwright, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Alan Cadwallader lectures in New Testament Studies within the School of
Theology, Flinders University, Adelaide.
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Validating Violence–Violating
Scripture?
Edited by William Emilsen and
John Squires
ISBN 9781920691899
Paperback
260 pages
Release Date: October 2008
PACT Series Number 3
Aus $33
In this book scholars from Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions explore
violence in religious scriptures. In twelve chapters, they grapple with the
problem of how to deal with the phenomenon of violence when it appears
within the scriptures and traditions of particular religious faiths. The writers
identify the violent language, imagery, story and ideology which reside deep
within these texts. Some chapters offer detailed exegetical examination of key
passages, whilst other chapters offer theological explorations of the issue. The
volume ends with a conclusion which offers some general observations on the
hermeneutical strategies employed in dealing with these texts.
William Emilsen is a Senior Academic Associate in the School of Theology
at Charles Sturt University, on the Parramatta Campus (United Theological
College). He has written on Mahatma Gandhi and on the history of the Uniting
Church and edits the journal Uniting Church Studies.
John Squires is a Senior Academic Associate in the School of Theology at
Charles Sturt University, on the Parramatta Campus (United Theological
College). He has written on Luke-Acts and is a contributor to The Cambridge
Companion to the Gospels, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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edited by Marian de Souza and Winifred Wing Han Lamb
ISBN 9781920691905
Paperback
15 x 21 cms
116 pages
Release Date: October 2008
Interface 10:2
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Children, Adolescents, and Spirituality
Children, Adolescents and Spirituality
Edited by Marian de Souza and
Winifred Wing Han Lamb
Childhood is a contested notion. Recent debates present us with a plethora of
questions and concerns about how children fare in our affluent societies. Are
they losing their innocence too early? Are they propelled too quickly into the
role of consumer? Is spirituality the answer? What does spirituality mean? The
articles in this volume are a window on the contemporary world, reflecting a
diversity of views on the nature of the self, of the child, of human flourishing
and of the transcendent.
Marian de Souza is senior lecturer in the school of education at Australian
Catholic University.
Winifred Wing Han Lamb teaches Philosophy and English at a senior
secondary college in the ACT and is a Visiting Fellow in Philosophy at
the Australian National University. She recently completed a Ph.D. in
contemporary Christian apologetics at the School of Theology, Charles Sturt
University.
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The Cosmos in Becoming:
Perspectives of Christianity
and Chinese Religion
Edited by Teresa Wong YaiChow, Wen Hsiang Chen and
Frank Budenholzer
ISBN 9781920691943
Paper back
15 x 21 cms
260 pages
Release Date: October 2008
Fu Jen Series Number 3
Aus $33
This books of essays is from Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan, but has
contribution from John Haught of Georgetown University and Thomas Berg of
New York in the USA.
From the perspective of human beings, there are three stages in process of
becoming and of cosmology: the beginning of the universe with the big bang, the
origin of life on the planet, and the emergence of consciousness and rationality
in homo sapiens.
In this book there is an interwoveness, a constant interaction between Christian
theology and Chinese religious belief on all three areas. Cosmology and the
beginning of the universe from diverse Christian and traditional Buddhist
Chinese religious
views. Looking at original and nature of life, and also human life once again
from Christian and Chinese religious thought. Thus, key Christian theological
thinkers such as Aquinas and Longeran are examined alongside Taoist and
Buddhist figures.
Teresa Wong Yai-Chow, is from the Department of Religious Studies, Fu Jen
Catholic University,Taiwan,
Wen Hsiang Chen, is from the Center for the Study of Science and Religion at
Fu Jen Catholic University
Frank Budenholzer is from the Philosophy DEpartment at Fu Jen Catholic
University
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Bible Dictionary: A Dictionary of
Biblical and Theological Terms
By Gabrielle Kelly OP assisted by
Joy Sandefur
ISBN 9781920691936
Paperback
300 pages
Release Date: November 2008
Dominican Series Number 5
Aus $33.00
A literacy training tool for students who are learning theology for whom English
is a second language or for those who are studying theology or scripture at
parish level. The book is a text book with over 150 words which come with
a definition and an exercise. The book is illustrated with art from Australian
Indigenous students (Aboriginals), from Darwin.
The book uses simple language to explain complex theological terms or biblically
based concepts. It could use used in parishes, or in junior or secondary school
in small groups or in a classroom setting. The book is ecumenical in nature and
written by a Catholic Dominican Religious Sister and an Anglican Priest who
teaches at Nungalinya College, Darwin.
The origin of the book comes from needs of Indigenous students in Darwin who
come to Nungalinya College for theology and bible classes from all over the
Northern Territory in Australia.
Gabrielle Kelly OP, is a Dominican Sister and has written English For Theology
and edited Towards the Intelligence Use of Liberty: Dominican Approached in
Education. She lives and works in popular education projects in Darwin.
Joy Sandefur, is an Anglican Priest, has a Phd in Theology and teaches theology
at Nungalinya College, Darwin.
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Rabboni and I: Mary
Magdalene’s Story
By Martin Suhartono SJ
ISBN 9781
Paperback
15 x 21 cm
160 pages
Release Date: November 2008
Aus $19.95
Mary Magdalene has often been identified with Mary of Bethany, with the sister
of Martha and Lazarus, with the sinner who anointed Christ’s feet, and even
with the woman caught in adultery in John 8:1–11. Such identifications have
been common in the Western Latin Church since the time of Pope Gregory the
Great in the sixth century. It was as late as 1969 that the liturgical calendar listed
the Magdalene as a separate individual.
In the Eastern or Greek Church such identifications were never made. Mary
Magdalene was never mistaken for other figures. The old tradition of the Western
Church called Mary Magdalene apostola apostolorum, meaning ‘apostle of the
apostles’, or the first apostle. In the Eastern Church she was called isapostola,
meaning ‘equal to an apostle’. Both traditional titles reflect the fact that the risen
Christ showed himself first to Mary Magdalene and sent her to tell the joyful
news to others.
In the four canonical gospels of the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John, dating from the years 70-100 CE, there are only twelve verses that
mention Mary Magdalene. She is always referred to with the title ‘the woman
from Magdala’. The figure of Mary Magdalene appears more often in the
apocryphal Gospels that date from the years 100-400 CE.
An old tradition of the Eastern Church goes back to the second century. It
tells the story of her meeting with the emperor Tiberius in Rome and the miracle
of the egg changing colour. This started the tradition of making colourful Easter
eggs.
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Tradition related that she became an apostle in Rome and Italy until the time
when Saint Paul was executed. She then joined the apostle John and our Lord’s
mother, Mary, in Ephesus and worked with John in Asia Minor.
Then, there is the other story that Magdalene was engaged to John and
married him at the wedding in Cana (John 2:1-11).
Since the twelfth century there has been the legend of the Holy Grail,
the chalice used at the Last Supper. It was supposedly brought by Joseph of
Arimathea to Europe, and this story was then mixed up with that of Mary
Magdalene.
Today, there are at least twenty-five fictional biographies of the life of Mary
Magdalene in English.
This is an intriguing book- by Mary, so we the reader is led to believe,
telling her story, and how into is life long interweaving of her life with that of
the first apostles and a life which is interwoven into the life of Christ up to his
death. Mary's story will captivate the reader as she details the twists and turns in
her life and those around her. Each page brings another twist, another element
to story of her life, and the love of her life.
Martin Suhartono SJ is Jesuit Priest who undertook post graduate studies at
the Biblicum in Rome and his PhD at the University of Cambridge, in the
United Kingdom. He has lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Thailand
and Indonesia.
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Personal Prayer
By John Trenchard CSsR
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Living in love with God
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John Trenchard C.Ss.R.
ISBN 9781920691721
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82 pages
20 x 20 cms
Release Date: October 2008
Aus $14.95
Many people join in public prayers at church before declaring that it hasn’t had
a personal effect. Other attempt prayer in times of tragedy, only to discover
that it makes no real difference. Yet, underneath these apparent failures there
remains the nagging feeling that a personal friendship with God is important
and that
prayer matters. This book is written for everyone who is interested–even if only
slightly—in a prayer life that brings them into contact with God. This interest
may be the result of a recent tragedy such as a death of a loved one or the
breakdown of an important relationship. Or it may be a person is having a child
baptised and they want to develop a relationship with God so the child can
enjoy a deeper faith. It may be that a person feels an emptiness in their life and
a distance from God that is the source of that emptiness. Whatever the reason,
Personal Prayer will help find new life in the approach to prayer.
rpion Research Limited, All Rights Reserved Worldwide.
John Trenchard, C.Ss.R is a Redemptorist Priest with wide pastoral experience.
He was ordained in 1971 and led Parish Missions and Retreats for many years.
He has worked with Redemptorist Publications for a number of years before
being appointed as Director in 1981. John has written or co-written some of
Redemptorist Publications most outstanding titles. In 1987 he became a Parish
Priest in Westminster Diocese. He was elected as Redemptorist Provincial in
England in 1997 and served nine years in that position until his return to be a
Parish Priest in London.
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And the Angels Held Their Breath:
Sixteen Reasons for Exploring the
God Option
By Elaine Farmer
ISBN 9781920691684
Paperback
135 pages
Release Date: November 2006
Now in Indonesian translation with
launch date November 2008
15 x 21 cm
Aus $19.95
''Is the Lord among us or not?' is no idle question. It comes from the painful
messiness of living and strikes at the heart of human insecurity nad fea rnd the
need not to feel alone. But how sure are we that we really want the Lord among
us? Do we actually want to encounter God? Or would we rather be left alone,
doing what we want to do and calling that the will of God? In this new collection
of sermons, Elaine Farmer explores the se and other questions of what it means
to be human what God's view of all this might be.
'In these heartfelt sermons The Reverend Elaine Farmer draws from the rich
tradition of scripture, theology and literature to create words about 'the Word'
that inspire challenge and nourish. Though sermons are traditionally proclaimed,
these rich 'speakings of the love of God' should be read and reread. They are an
invaluable resource for those called to the sacred ministry of preaching, or for
anyone who simply wants to enter the liturgy of the Word more deeply.'
- Dr Kerry Hide, Australian Catholic University.
'This book could be a reference for courses on homiletics. It is an excellent
example of the craft of preaching: textual, challenging, gospel orientated and
never tedious.'
- Vic Pfitzner, Former Principal and Lecturer in New Testament and Homiletics,
Australian Lutheran College
Elaine Farmer is an Anglican Priest and writer presently living in Jakarta,
Indonesia
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A Way into the Old Testament
By Charles Biggs and Anna
Grant Henderson
ISBN 978192069183
Paperback
15 x 21 cm
200 pages
Release Date: November 2007
Aus $25.95
This timely updating of a classic text will be welcome by all who want a to
deepen their knowledge of the Old Testament.
Charles Biggs is a Minister and past Moderator of the Uniting Church in
Australia, and a former Principal of Parkin Wesley College in South Australia.
In active retirement he continues to study and teach Old Testament and assess
Hebrew students for Coolamon College. His emphasis on helping students to
discover for themselves the richness of the faith journey of God’s people in the
Hebrew scriptures is reflected in this completely updated revision of A Way Into
The Old Testament.
Dr Anna Grant Henderson is a minister of the Uniting Church in Australia
and a Senior Lecturer in Old Testament with Parkin Wesley College and
the Flinders School of Theology. Her book Inclusive Voices in Post-Exilic
Judah was published in 2002. Her scholarly attention to detail is matched by
a personal concern for helping others appreciate the timeless relevance of the
Hebrew scriptures.
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Bioethics: When the Challenges of
Life Become too Much
By Gareth Jones
ISBN 9781920691790
Paperback
15 x 21 cms
255 pages
Release Date: July 2007
University of Otago Series
Number 2
Aus $35
Are scientists playing God? Are the artificial reproductive technologies helpful
or hazardous? Should human embryos ever be used for research? How do we
cope with people who are mentally ill? Is someone in a persistent vegetative
state still alive? How should we treat those with dementia?
Questions like these are all around us. They affect ordinary people, who often
feel ill-equipped to respond to them. No one seems to have adequate answers.
Do Christians have answers?
In this book, aimed at the general reader, Professor Gareth Jones considers a
range of topics ranging all the way from early embryos through to old age.
While he concentrates on bioethical issues in the West, he is deeply concerned
at the huge disparity in mortality and quality of life in different parts of the
world.
He also asks how Christians can best contribute to the discussion of bioethical
issues within pluralist societies.
Professor Jones is never afraid to face unpalatable issues head-on, and provide
ways forward. He invites people to enter debates that we avoid at our peril.
Gareth Jones is Deputy Vic Chancellor of the University of Otago, Dunedin,
New Zealand
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Towards the Intelligent Use of
Liberty: Dominican Approaches
in Education
Edited by Gabrielle Kelly OP and
Kevin Saunders OP
ISBN 9781920691745
Paperback
15 x 21 cms
376 pages
Release Date: July 2007
Dominican Series Number 2
Aus $38
Bringing together a range of scholarly and reflective contributions from
every continent, this book offers an introduction to the sources and principles
of Dominican values in education as exemplified in some key figures in the
tradition. At the same time, it provides a broad sample of the many contexts in
which Dominican education, understood in the widest sense - and integral to
the very purpose of Dominican life - has found expression, past and present.
Philosophers, educators, activists, formators, healers, theologians, artist,
preachers, and teachers at many levels share their analyses and reflections on
educating in many different settings, explicitly and implicitly demonstrating
ideals and values common to the goals of Dominican education everywhere. It
is hoped that the book, offered in this decade of Dominican Jubilee - 1206-1216
to 2006-2016 - will inform, inspire and encourage all those engaged in the great
work of leading forth young and old towards greater life and liberty.
Gabrielle Kelly OP, is a Dominican Sister and has written English For Theology
and edited Towards the Intelligence Use of Liberty: Dominican Approached in
Education. She lives and works in popular education projects in Darwin.
Kevin Saunders is at present prior Provincial of the Dominican Friars in
Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
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Releasing the Angel: Saluting All
Who Strive to Teach
By Christopher Gleeson SJ
ISBN 9781920691967
Paperback
15 x 21 cms
278 Pages
Release Date: October 2007
Aus $29.95
'There is no profession more important than that of teaching. The quality of the
formation of young people in their essential humanity impacts profoundly on the
calibre of every community, society and nation. The messages and quotations
that Chris Gleeson has so carefully collated and crafted in this delightful book
extend beyond teachers, and encourage the wider community to treasure and
value teachers. Chris provides inspiration and hope for all teachers in their
efforts to assist the learning and facilitate the personal growth of their students.
As I often tell my own school community, essentially we teach who we are. This
book will nurture the spirits and souls of teachers, not only on the good days
when they know on a deep level that they are making a positive difference for
their students, but also on the dark days, which all teachers experience, when it
seems to hard and their efforts seem to bear no fruit of any worth. We need to
support and sustain our teachers in this way. I like to give beginning teachers,
who have gained formal registration, an inspiring book on teaching which they
will hopefully treasure throughout their career. Chris' book will go to the top of
my list of such books. It is a privilege to recommend this book, written by an
eminent teacher, colleague and friend, for whom I have such profound respect.'
- Dr Leoni Degenhardt, Principal, Loreto Normanhurst, Sydney.
Christopher Gleeson SJ, has been a teacher and headmaster of a number of
Jesuit Schools in Australia and is presently involved in spiritual directions
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Reason and Religion in an Age
of Science
By Terry Kelly SJ
ISBN 9781920691776
Paperback with CD
30 x 21 cms
174 pages
Release Date: July 2007
Aus $33.00
This textbook has been developed for a course delivered to senior students of
St Ignatius College Adelaide in Australia. It attempts to acquaint students with
the methodology of science and seeks to facilitate an appreciation of some of
the findings of modern cosmology. It shows these findings not to be in conflict
with the message of Christianity. Rather, these findings illuminate the religious
doctrine of creation and purpose.
Topics include: importance of science and religion, achievements and limitations
of the methods of science, the method of religion, birth of the modern cosmology,
modern scholarship of the Book of Genesis, the stars as instruments of creation,
the anthropic universe and the resurrection.
This book includes a CD with over 200 power point presentations divided into
chapters corresponding to chapters in the book which can be used by teachers
and students.
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Bible for Sinners
By Christopher Rowland and
Jonathan Roberts
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ISBN 9781920691929
Paperback
14 x 21.5 cms
128 Pages
Release Date: May 2008
Aus $34.95
Who has the right to interpret the Bible: the 'righteous' or 'sinners'? - Should
the Bible dictate our interpretation of life or should or lives be the context for
interpreting the Bible? - Who understands the Bible most clearly: insiders or
outsiders? The poor or the rich? Priests and professors or artists and radicals? Are new, difficult life situations avenues into new understandings of God or
opportunities to reassert tradition?
In this book, two experts in biblical and literary studies offer a wide ranging
discussion of what is going on in different types of 'Christian' interpretation. They
consider examples from history, from literature, and from a range of contentious
present day situations. Rather than providing answers, the authors open out the
fundamental interpretive questions raised by same sex relationships, justice in
society, religious heresy, and marriage and divorce.
Christopher Rowland in Professor Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University
of Oxford.
Jonathan Roberts is Lecturer in English at the University of Liverpool
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Emerging Down Under
By Ray Simpson and
Brent Lyons Lee
ISBN 9781920691912
Paper back
15 x 21 cm
128 pages
Release February 2008
ATF Series Number 19
Aus $23.95
Emerging Downunder taps into the current hunger for spirituality, the death pains
of obsolete church forms, and the rising tide of hope felt by many Christians. It
suggests ways the fragmented church may reconnect both with its root and the
contemporary environment, providing practical examples of church that bring
praying, eating, learning and hospitality together in one place.
This book was first published as CHURCH OF THE ISLES by Ray Simpson
for a British audience. In collaboration with Brent Lyons Lee, it has tapped into
worldwide conversations about 'emerging church' and 'new monasticism' and
applied it to an Australian context.
Ray Simpson is an Anglican Priest and has been a minister in churches in
Britian’s industrial midland, multi racial London and rural East Anglia, and
he has planed a neighbourhood church sponsored by six church streams in
Bowthorpe, Norwich.
Brent Lyons Lee has worked for several years with urban see in Melbourne’s
CBD dealing with issues of poverty and wealth in an urban context. He is the
‘Minister’ of a community of people from the Norlane Baptist Church, an hour
from Melbourne in a low socio-economic suburb.
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Enhancing Understanding
By Rodney Fopp
ISBN 9781920691882
Paperback
15 x 21 cms
300 pages
February 2008
ATF Series Number 18
Aus $38.00
The global world is one in which cultures and religions increasingly meet and
mix, engage in various ways, and where groups advocate the recognition of their
cultural and/or ethnic identity. Enhancing Understanding - Advancing Dialogue:
Approaching Cross Cultural Communication aims to facilitate encounters with
other cultures and their members by examining how it is approached in the
West. The books asks: What are some taken-for-granted assumptions brought
into attempts to understand members of other cultures? What are some of the
basic premises used when we meet someone from another culture, or see they
behaviour on TV, or read about their perspectives in the print media? While
engaging the author’s western counterparts rather than cultural interlocutors,
the book explores some adverse assumptions which tend to be smuggled
into cross cultural understanding, including those from popular views about
science and social science, postmodernism, tolerance and neutrality. Enhancing
Understanding - Advancing Dialogue argues that a first step to an increasingly
sympathetic awareness and understanding of others, their cultures and religions,
can be aided by examining and challenging entrenched social claims and
values
Rodney Fopp is a senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of International
Studies at the University of South Australia. His primary teaching areas are
social ad political theory which he teaches at undergraduate and post graduate
levels.
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The God-Shaped Hole
By Veronica Brady
ISBN 9781920691875
Paperback
15 x 21 cms
140 pages
Release date: February 2008
ATF Series Number 17
Aus $24.95
For many decades, Veronica Brady has been a gadfly to political and ecclesiastical
prince sand their entourages. For those parched for relief from straitening
patterns of thinking and self-absorbed myopia she has been a refreshing breeze,
bringing hope to the heart and vision to the imagination.
This book brings together a selection of her addresses that dare to suggest that
there is a mystery beckoning us into something new, that is not satisfied with the
way things are and that dares to believe that novels and poetry bear witness to
this ministry. She calls this mystery - God – not with any confident triumphalism
but as an other (who speaks through others) that subverts such a corrosive vice
seeping through contemporary society. For her, God leads to other places,
even to that which is not God. So from Marcus Clarke to Judith Wright, from
Primo Levi to Kim Scott, she drinks in the refreshment of new possibilities
which sacred texts have often lost under a pall of imperial conventionality. She
discovers in these early and contemporary writers a way into the potential of –
The God Shaped Hole – where is found the call and narrative of the necessity
of remembrance, of balm for suffering, and pathway hints into a respect for
Aboriginal Australians and the land of their identity.
Veronica Brady IBVM is Loreto Sister and Honary Senior Research Fellow in
the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western
Australia
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Don’t Put out the Burning Bush
Edited by Vivian Boland OP
ISBN 9781920691974
Paperback
15 x 21 cms
154 pages
Release Date: February 2008
Dominican Series Number 4
Task of Theology Today Series Number 5
Aus $24.95
Don’t Put Out the Burning Bush is a collection of papers first given at a
conference on Christian worship and preaching in a complex world. There are
many things about the post-modern world of the early 21st century to challenge
Christian preachers, and these challenges provide the immediate context for
the book. How is the light, the fire of the gospel to be communicated today?
Christians differ among themselves not only about the best way to respond in
the contemporary situation but also about the nature of the relationship between
worship and preaching. A range of theological views is represented here in
essays that are themselves examples of good preaching, inviting the reader to
open to the fire that burns at the heart of Christian worship.
Vivian Boland OP teaches theology at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford
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Rainbow Spirit Theology
By Rainbow Spirit Elders
ISBN 9781920691806
Paperback
114 pages
Release Date: November 2007
Aus $14.95
Rainbow Spirit Theology represents a landmark in Australian theology. This
text has been prepared by a group of Aboriginal Christian leaders with the
aim of integrating the traditions of Aboriginal culture with the traditions of
Christianity.
The starting point for this theology is the land from which these Aboriginal
Christian leaders believe their ancestors emerged and for which they still feel
responsible as custodians of the sacred. Deep beneath the land is the Rainbow
Spirit or Rainbow Snake, the eternal source of life and spiritual power. They
identify God the Creator with the Rainbow Spirit in human form, which for
them is Aboriginal Australian.
Rainbow Spirit Theology provides a source of genuine dialogue between
Aboriginal and immigrant Christians who enjoy a rich life on what was once
Aboriginal land.
Authors include George Rosendale (the spiritual leader of the group), Nola
Archie, Denis Corowa, William Coolbura, Eddie Law, James Leftwich and
Jasmine Corowa (artist), representing six Aboriginal peoples and ministry in
four Christian traditions. Assisting the project were Robert Bos, Norman Habel
and Shirley Wurst
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‘Into the World You Love’
Encountering God in Everyday Life
Edited by Graeme Garett
ISBN 9781920691998
Paperback
15 x 21 cm
294 pages
Release Date: August 2007
PACT Series Number 2
Aus $35
Theology has suffered a declining status over the past two centuries. It has been
banished from most modern universities and relegated to the fringe of intellectual
life in many societies. But the secular humanism that sought to provide a
replacement unifying narrative has failed to satisfy the yearnings of the human
heart. The recent resurgence of interest in spirituality is fundamentally a quest
for the numinous, the transcendent and the divine. This collection of essays
was produced to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the opening of St Mark's
National Theological Centre in Canberra. Written by systematic theologians,
biblical scholars, pastoral carers and church historians, they demonstrate that
God can be encountered readily in everyday life. These essays showcase the
abilities of a diverse range of Australian Christian thinkers and the depth of the
contributions they can make to popular understanding of human identity and
destiny.
Editor: Graeme Garrett is an Anglican priest and theologian. He has been on
the staff of St Mark’s National Theological Centre for two decades
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From Resurrection to Return:
Perspectives from Theology and
Science on Christian Eschatology
Edityed by James Haire, Christine
Ledger and Stephen Pickard
ISBN 9781920691820
Paperback
15 x 21 cm
191 Pages
Release date: November 2007
PACT Series Number 3
Aus $33
What do science and Christian theology have to say to each other about the
resurrection and the return of Jesus? What might their dialogue teach us about
creation?
The book draws on this broad eschatological canvas. It is the fruit of a consultation
which brought together scientific and theological thinkers, including Bishop NT
Wright, Professor Ted Peters and Professor Robert Russell, to engage on these
themes. It is a contribution to public and contextual theologies which address
contemporary issue of concern to people in the churches and in wider society.
Editors: James Haire, Director of Public and Contextual Theology Strategic
Research Centre, Christine Ledger teaches at St mark’s National Theological
Centre, Canberra, Stephen Pickard is Assistant Bishop of the Anglican Diocese
of Adelaide.
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The Infallibility of the Church in
Orthodox Theology
By Stylianos Harianakis
ISBN 9781920691981
Paperback
15 x 21 cm
287 pages
Release Date: January 2008
St Andrews Press Series Number 1
Aus $33
Although several Orthodox theologians have significantly enhanced the
development of Ecclesiology in the twentieth century, the contribution of
Archbishop Stylianos Harkianakis remains, without doubt, a landmark in the
history of that theological field today. Essentially the authors consideration of
the Church is that it is the most intimate and graced communion not only of
human persons but of the entire created cosmos bonded together in a wondrous
relationship with the uncreated God. Unconfusedly and indivisibly united
with God, the Church therefore enjoys and rightly proclaims the truth – ie it is
infallible – for the world’s salvation and the glorification of God. Ultimately his
the author’s theology of the Church’s infallibility, ie it’s truthfulness, is simply
a donological affirmation of the genuine presence of God among his people and
the world at large.
Stylianos Harianakis is Archbishop and Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church
in Australia, is founding Dean and Professor of Systematic Theology at Saint
Andrews Greek Orthodox Theological College, Sydney.
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3.03 More Than A Single Issue, 2000, edited by Murray Rae and
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6.06 Rethinking Religion, Douglas Pratt, 2002, 1920691073, Aus $33
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12.012 The Bible and the Business of Life, 2004, edited by Simon Holt
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16.016 Christianity Modernity and Culture, 2005, edited by John
Stenhouse, 1920691332, Aus $33
17.017 The God-Shaped Hole, 2008, Veronica Brady, 9781920691875,
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2.037 ‘Into the World You Love’, 2007, edited by Graeme Garrett,
1920691995, Aus $35
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4.039 Validating Violence- Violating Scripture?, edited by Aus $33
Science and Theology Series
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9.048 Reason and Religion in an Age of Science, Terry Kelly SJ, 2007,
9781920691776, Aus $35
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1996, 09958639906, Aus $22
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3.052 Sin and Salvation, edited by Duncan Reid and Mark Worthing,
1920691049, Aus $33
4.053 Theodicy and Eschatology, edited by
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2.056 Bioethics: When the Challenges of Life Become Too Much,
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6.062 Mother: A Moving Reflection of God, Stylianos Harianakis,
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8.064 A Thoughtful Life: Essays in Philosophical Theology, edited by
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13.069 Rainbow Spirit Theology, Rainbow Spirit Elders, 2007,
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1.2.076 October 1998, The Implications for Christians of Recent
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2.1.077 May 1999, Theology ad Modernism, edited by Graeme Garrett
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2.2.078 October 1999, Young Australians, Christian Faith and Quest
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