Volume 1, Issue 3, October 1988

Genesis 2:1-3 - Creation and Sabbath

Not Meddling with Divinity: Theological Worldviews and Contemporary Physics

A Call to Contemplation: Peace Politics and the Church

Fundamental Theology: An Agenda for the 1990s

When Does Human Life Begin? Science, Government, Church

Pseudo-Gregory and Purgatory

Paul and His Converts

The Sectarian Strand: Religion in Australian History

Themes in Theology: the Threefold Cord. Essays in Philosophy, Politics and Theology

Teaching and Religious Imagination: An Essay in the Theology of Teaching

The Christmas Stories

Geoffrey Wainwright on Wesley and Calvin

Eschatology in the Old Testament

Howard N. Wallace, B.E., B.D., Th.M.(Hons.), Th.D. (Harvard), is a Minister of the Uniting Church of Australia.  He lectures in Old Testament at the United Theological College, North Parramatta, NSW, and at the School of Divinity, University of Sydney.  He has a special interest Old Testament exegesis and Ancient Near Eastern religions and languages.

John Honner, S.J., is Rector of Jesuit Theological College and teaches at the United Faculty of Theology, Parkville, Melbourne.  He studied science in Canberra and theology in Melbourne before completing a doctorate in philosophical theology at Oxford.  He has recently published The Description of Nature: Niels Bohr and the Philosophy of Quantum Physics(Oxford: Clarendon, 1987).
 
John F. Kane, B.A., S.T.B., A.M., Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Regis College in Denver, where he was a member of the advisory board for the Office of Peace and Justice for the Archdiocese of Denver.  He was recently in Australia as a visiting scholar at the Uniting Church Theological Hall, Melbourne.  He is presently engaged in research on the export of Australian red wines as instruments for international conflict resolution and the renewal of Christian family life.

Gerald O’Collins, S.J., is Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Gregorian University and Dean of the Theology Faculty. Among his many publications are the recent books Jesus Today: Christology in an Australian Context (1986) and Jesus Risen (1987).
 
Norman Ford, S.D.B., S.T.L., Ph.D., is Master of Catholic Theological College, Clayton, where he lectures in ethics and the philosophy of the human person, and a member of the Salesian Theological College, Oakleigh.  His book, When did I begin? Conception of the Human Individual in History, Philosophy and Science, is to be published by Cambridge University Press in late 1988.

Peter McEniery studied theology at Pius XII Seminary, Banyo, Queensland, and completed a doctorate in theology at St. Patrick’s College, Manly, in 1967.  He did further studies in Bossey, 1969, and Tübingen in 1971.  He was admitted to the Queensland Bar in 1978.