Volume 2, Issue 2, June 2008
The articles in this issue reflect current hopes and concerns about the meeting of world cultures: the theological implications and misreadings of cultural differences between the East and the West in early Trinitarian theology, the risks in retro-reading the parables, the differences between African and European ethics, and the fruits of Islamic and Catholic women in dialogue.
Articles
Neoplatonism as a Framework for Christian Theology: Reconsidering the Trinitarian Ontology of Marius Victorinus
Albert Haig, pp.125-145
History and Theology in Dialogue on the Trinity
Neil Ormerod, pp.146-159
What’s in a Name? Book Titles in the New Testament
Gregory Goswell, pp.160-174
The Vulnerability of the Literalist: A Critique of William R. Herzog II’s Interpretation of the Parable of the Talents
Ben Chenoweth, pp.175-191
African Communitarian Ethics in the Theological Work of Bénézet Bujo
Wilson Muoha Maina, pp.192-209
Women in Islam and Catholicism: Sydney Women Speak
Patricia Madigan, pp.210-223
Book Reviews
Dwelling in the Household of God; Johannine Ecclesiology and Spirituality
Mary L. Coloe
John Painter pp.224-226
Theodoret of Cyrus: Commentary on Daniel
Robert C. Hill
John Dunnill pp.227-228
Prayer and Spirituality in the early Church
Wendy Mayer, Pauline Allen, and Lawrence Cross (eds.)
pp.229-231
Scholarship and Fierce Sincerity: Henry D. A. Major, The Face of Modern Anglicanism
Clive Pearson, Allan Davidson and Peter Lineham
Janet Crawford pp.231-233
In Many and Diverse Ways: In Honor of Jacques Dupuis
Daniel Kendall and Gerald O’Collins (eds.)
Larry Nemer pp.233-235
Celebrating Difference, Staying Faithful: How to live in a Multi-faith World
Andrew Wingate
John Mansford Prior pp.235-236
Jesus of Africa: Voices of Contemporary African Christology
Diane Stinton
Roger Kemp pp.237-238
Eschatology and Hope
Anthony Kelly
Don Edwards pp.239-240
Being Single: Insights for Tomorrow's Church
Philip B. Wilson
Philip Hughes pp.241-243
Contributors
ALBERT HAIG (BMedSc Hons, University of Newcastle, 1992; PhD, University of Sydney, 2002; MDiv, Australian College of Theology, 2006) is currently completing an MA in philosophy at the University of Sydney, where he was awarded the Andrew Campbell Prize for best postgraduate essay in metaphysics (2006). He has seventeen published articles in the field of neuroscience, and three in philosophy and religion. His present interests relate to the meaning of religious claims, the concept of analogical description of deity, divine revelation and hermeneutics.
NEIL ORMEROD is Professor of Theology and Director of the Institute of Theology, Philosophy and Religious Education at Australian Catholic University. His most recent works are Creation, Grace and Redemption (Orbis: 2007) and a chapter in Vatican II: did anything happen? (Continuum: 2007) with John O'Malley, Joseph Komonchak and Stephen Schloesser. He has published broadly, including a number of articles in Theological Studies. His research interests are ecclesiology, Trinity, anthropology and theological method.
GREGORY GOSWELL (PhD Sydney, 2002) has been since 2001 Lecturer in Biblical Studies (Old Testament and Hebrew) at the Presbyterian Theological College, Box Hill North, Victoria, where he is currently Principal. He is assistant editor of the Reformed Theological Review, and has contributed articles to a number of journals and collections on the Old Testament and its contemporary interpretation.
BEN CHENOWETH (MTh Australian College of Theology, 2003) is currently working in St. Petersburg, Russia, with SIL. His interests include the intersection of Biblical Interpretation and the Arts, and to this end he has written a musical based on the book of Esther, a play that approaches the book of 1 Samuel from the perspective of Saul, and he is currently working on a novel that is actually a thinly disguised commentary of the book of Revelation.
WILSON MUOHA MAINA (PhD Fordham, 2005) is currently Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of West Florida, Pensacola, USA. Born and raised in Kenya, his special interest is the study of African traditional religions and philosophy, and their dialogue with Christian doctrines and ethics. Recent publications include “The Foundations of African Christian Theologies: African Traditional Religion(s) and African Historical and Cultural Contexts”, African Christian Studies 23 (2007) 63-94; “African Christian Ethic as a Liberation Ethic in the Theology of Bénézet Bujo”, African Christian Studies 22 (2006) 5-28; and “Moral Theological Issues in the Provision of Healthcare in Kenya: The Problem of Globalization”, African Christian Studies 20 (2004) 55-70.
PATRICIA MADIGAN, OP, is Executive Officer of the Commission for Ecumenism in the Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay. She has recently completed her doctorate in the Department of Arabic and Islamic studies in the University of Sydney on the topic of Women and Fundamentalism in Islam and Catholicism. Her research interests include the history and theology of ecumenical and interfaith relations, especially Christian-Muslim relations, theology of interfaith dialogue, women and interfaith dialogue, interfaith ethics.

