Volume 21, Issue 1, February 2008
This issue features Neil Ormerod's reflections on recent ecclesiology. This is the first of a Pacifica series intended to survey recent trends in various areas of theology.
This issue also includes a second ten year index covering articles and book reviews from 1998-2007, and notes on recent post-graduate studies undertaken in the sponsoring instiutions of Pacifica.
Articles
What’s in a Name? Book Titles in the Latter Prophets and Writings
Gregory Goswell, pp.1-16
The Australian and New Zealand Protestant Churches in the Early Ecumenical Movement’s Campaign for Global Order
John Nurser, pp.17-38
The Covenant and Management-Employee Relations: The Issue of Identification-Based Trust
Neil Pembroke, pp.39-56
Recent Ecclesiology: A Survey
Neil Ormerod, pp.57-67
Postgraduate Theses
pp.74-78,
Pacifica Second Ten Year Index 1998-2007
pp.79-123,
Book Reviews
Pursuing the Dream: A Jewish-Christian Conversation
Dan Cohn-Sherbok and Mary Grey
Mary Reaburn pp.68-69
God Within: The Mystical Tradition of Northern Europe
Oliver Davies (ed.)
Austin Cooper pp.69-70
What a Friend we have in Jesus: The Evangelical Tradition
Ian Randall
Tim McCowan pp.71-73
Contributors
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 Acting Principal. He is assistant editor of the Reformed Theological Review, and has contributed studies to a number of journals and collections on the Old Testament and its contemporary interpretation.
JOHN S. NURSER is a fellow of the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex and Canon Emeritus of Lincoln Cathedral in the Church of England. He was Warden of St Mark’s Library and Institute of Theology, Canberra 1968-74, and in 1989 became the founding director of the ecumenical group Christianity and the Future of Europe (CAFE). He is author of The Reign of Conscience: Individual, Church, and State in Lord Acton’s History of Liberty (New York: 1987). A more recent work, For All Peoples and All Nations: The Ecumenical Church and Human Rights (Washington DC: 2005) won the 2006 Albert C. Outler Prize from the American Society of Church History for the best book in ecumenical church history.
NEIL PEMBROKE is Senior Lecturer in Pastoral Studies in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, University of Queensland. Recent publications include: Moving Toward Spiritual Maturity: Psychological, Contemplative, and Moral Challenges in Christian Living (New York: Haworth Pastoral Press, In Press) and Renewing Pastoral Practice: Trinitarian Perspectives on Pastoral Care and Counselling (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006). His areas of scholarly interest are theological reflection on public practices, and the integration of psychology and theology.
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 (Maryknoll NY: Orbis, 2007) and a chapter in Vatican II: did anything happen? (New York: 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.

