Touching the Sacred Text: The Bible as Icon in Feminist Reading

The Ties that used to Bind: A Fresh Look at the History of Australian Anglicanism

Some Disputed Questions about Confirmation

Locating Readers: A Response to Frank Moloney

A Response to Mark Brett’s “Response”

The Tree of Life: An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature

The Immerser: John the Baptist within Second Temple Judaism

The Second Epistle to the Corinthians

Covenant and Sacrifice in the Letter to the Hebrews

Narrative Art and Act in the Fourth Gospel

The Christology of the Fourth Gospel

Tertullian, First Theologian of the West

Four Methods in Search of Meaning: “Philosophy in Christian Antiquity”

The Reformation of the Twelfth Century

Beyond the Written Word: Preaching and Theology in the Florence of Archbishop Antoninus 1427-1459

Karol Wojtyla: The Thought of the Man who became Pope John Paul II

Through a Woman’s Eyes

The Prayers and Tears of Jacques Derrida: Religion Without Religion

Protestantism in Contemporary China

Life and Morality: Contemporary Medico-Moral Issues

Has God Many Names?

Opala: A Search for Desert Water

Travels in Sacred Places

Fundamental or Fanatical? An analysis of fundamentalism in contemporary society

Morris West: A Writer and a Spirituality

Has God Many Names? An Introduction to Religious Studies

DOROTHY A. LEE is Professor of New Testament in the Uniting Church Theological Hall and the United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne. Her research interests are in feminist biblical studies and New Testament theology, particularly in the Fourth Gospel. She has recently co-edited both Feminist Theology: The Next Stage, a special edition of Pacifica 10/2 (1997), and Freedom and Entrapment: Women Thinking Theology (Melbourne: Collins Dove, 1995).

DAVID HILLIARD, MA (Otago), PhD (ANU), is Reader in History, The Flinders University of South Australia. He has published widely on the religious and social history of Australia. This article is a revised version of a paper presented at the first Australian Anglican History Seminar, New College, University of New South Wales, 27-28 September 1997.

JOHN HILL is a priest of the diocese of Broken Bay in Sydney and was formerly on the staff of the Catholic Institute of Sydney, of which he was President. He has published The Ethics of G. E. Moore: A New Interpretation, and numerous articles in philosophy and theology, including “The Wound in the Right Foot: A Second Opinion” in Pacifica 8 (1995) 274-90.

MARK G. BRETT teaches Old Testament and hermeneutics at Whitley College, where he is Professor in the Evangelical Theological Association in Melbourne. Recent publications include Biblical Criticism in Crisis? (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), “Biblical Studies and Theology: Negotiating the Intersections”, Biblical Interpretation 6/2 (1998), and “The Political Ethics of Postmodern Allegory” in M. D. Carroll et al. (eds), The Bible in Human Society (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1995).

FRANCIS J. MOLONEY, S.B.D., is foundation Professor of Theology at the Australian Catholic University and a founding editor of Pacifica. At the beginning of 1999 he takes up the position of Professor of New Testament at the Catholic University of America in Washington. Recent publications include Belief in the Word: Reading John 1-4 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1993); Signs and Shadows: Reading John 5-12 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996); Glory not Dishonor: Reading John 13-21 (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1998); and The Gospel of John (Sacra Pagina Series 4; Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1998).