Volume 21, Issue 3, October 2008


Articles

The Centrality of the Cross: Literary and Theological Reflections on Mark 15:20b-25

Francis J. Moloney, pp.245-256

Out of Wordlock: Autobiography and the Syrophoenician Women

Alan H. Cadwallader, pp.257-284

Like Bread from One’s Mouth: Emmanuel Levinas and Reading Scripture with the Other

Jonathan Ryan, pp.285-306

[Christ]endom: An Unthinking Faith?

Andrew Padgett, pp.307-328

Mature Spirituality According to von Hügel: A Practitioner’s Voice

Robyn Wrigley-Carr, pp.329-346

Book Reviews

Oracles of God: Perceptions of Ancient Prophecy in Israel after the Exile

John Barton
Joseph Sobb pp.347-349

Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan: Shorter Papers

Robert Croken, Robert M. Doran, and H. Daniel Monsour (eds.)
Kathleen Williams pp.349-351

Power, Love and Evil: Contribution to a Philosophy of the Damaged

Wayne Cristaudo
Matthew Del Nivo pp.351-354

Post-Graduate Reports

Thesis Titles and Abstracts
pp.355-358


Contributors

FRANCIS J. MOLONEY SDB, AM, foundation Professor of Theology at the Australian Catholic University and a member of the International Theological Commission of the Catholic Church 1986-2002, was Katharine Drexel Professor of New Testament at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, 1999-2005. Author of numerous books and articles on the Fourth Gospel, he has published a full-scale commentary on the Gospel of Mark (The Gospel of Mark: A Commentary [Hendrickson: 2002]) and is preparing a commentary on the Gospel of Matthew. He is currently Provincial Superior of the Australian Province of the Salesians of Don Bosco.

ALAN CADWALLADER is Lecturer in New Testament Studies in the School of Theology at Flinders University, Adelaide; Julian Fellow and Research Fellow at St Barnabas Theological College. His most recent book is Beyond the Word of a Woman: Recovering the Bodies of the Syrophoenician Women (ATF Press: 2008). He is one of the principals of the Colossae Project and is currently studying unpublished records of Brooke Foss Westcott on the work of the Revised Version New Testament Committee.

JONATHAN RYAN (M.Div., Regent College, Vancouver, 2006) is New Zealand coordinator for Servants to Asia’s Urban Poor, and minister at Highgate Presbyterian Church, Dunedin, New Zealand. His research interests revolve around the vocation of the church in contexts of marginality. When not being interrupted by “others” in his neighbour-hood, he has also published articles in Crux and Stimulus.

ANDREW PADGETT received his PhD in Critical Theory from the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University (2006). His research interests lie in critical theory, ethics, and theology, especially in the deconstructive and postmodern tradition, with significant influences from Søren Kierkegaard and John Caputo. An Early Career Researcher at Monash University, he has published on responsibility and ethics in Martin Heidegger and the Georgian philosopher, Merab Mamardashvili. He currently teaches Behavioural Studies, in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash.

ROBYN WRIGLEY-CARR studied Spirituality at Regent College, Vancouver, and Oxford University, and is currently pursuing doctoral research on the spiritual direction of Baron Friedrich von Hügel. She lectured in Spirituality for eight years at the Australian College of Ministries, and is presently a part-time tutor in Spirituality at the Broken Bay Institute, Sydney.