Volume 22
22
2009
- Volume 22, Issue 2, June 2009
- Volume 22, Issue 1, February 2009
- This issue provides informed theological reflection on two contemporary disputed questions – a national covenant "after Sorry" and the contradictions in modern capitalism – as well as related essays on suffering, forgiveness, and the place of human being in creation.
- volume 22, Issue 3, October 2009
- <c>JOHN CALVIN: 1509-1564 <p> <p>IN JULY 2009 the Uniting Church of Australia Centre for Theology and Ministry, Parkville, Victoria, held a week-long Seminar in celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of John Calvin. The distinguished Calvin scholar, Elsie McKee, Archibald Alexander Professor of Reformation Studies and the History of Worship at Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, delivered the Northey Lecture in the course of the seminar. <i>Pacifica</i> is delighted to publish Professor McKee’s lecture in this issue of the journal, along with articles derived from two other lectures given in the course of the conference, both dedicated, in a complementary way, to Calvin’s treatment of the Psalms: Dr Gregory Goswell explores Jewish influences behind the Reformer’s exegesis and Professor Howard Wallace indicates the light the Preface sheds upon the hermeneutic that is operative in Calvin’s commentary on Psalms. A review article of Professor McKee’s recent translation of the French version of Calvin’s <i>Institutes</i> (1541) by Emeritus Professor Ian Breward completes the contributions that render the major part of this issue a commemoration of the great Reformer. As an ecumenical journal within an ecumenical age, <i>Pacifica</i> is pleased in this way to honour the memory of so significant a figure within the wider Christian tradition.

