Volume 12, Issue 3, October 1999


Editorial

Dan Madigan, iii

Articles

Towards an Inclusive Vision for Moral TheologyPart I: A Look into the Past

James F. Keenan, pp.249-263

Palamite Influence in Contemporary Pneumatology

Duncan Reid, pp.264-274

In the Name of Who? Levinas and the Other Side of Theology

Terry A. Veling, pp.275-292

Narrative as Ideology: Synchronic (Narrative Critical) and Diachronic Readings of Jeremiah 37-38

Brian Boyle, pp.293-312

The Word in Question: Barth and Divine Conversation

Frank D. Rees, pp.313-332

Paul, Philemon and Onesimus: Feeling one’s way into a Bible story

Nigel Watson, pp.333-340

Book Reviews

The Book of Revelation

G. K. Beale
Keith Dyer pp.341-342

Jesus in the Nag Hammadi Writings

Majella Franzmann
Judith Lieu pp.342-344

Women In The New Testament: Questions and Commentary

Bonnie Thurston
Mary Coloe pp.344-345

The World of Catholic Renewal 1540-1770

R. Po-Chia Hsia
Lawrence Nemer pp.345-347

An Introduction To Catholic Theology

Richard Lennan (ed.)
Tony Kelly pp.347-348

What is Theology? Foundational and Moral

Edmond J. Dunn
Paul Gwynne and Tony Ireland pp.348-350

The College Student’s Introduction to the Trinity

Lynne Faber Lorenzen
Richard Treloar pp.350-352

Indiscretion: Finitude and the Naming of God

Thomas A. Carlson
Robyn Horner pp.352-354

The Exercise of the Primacy: Continuing the Dialogue

Phyllis Zagano and Terrence W. Tilley (eds.)
Ormond Rush pp.354-355

Truth and the Reality of God: An Essay in Natural Theology

Ian Markham
Tony Kelly pp.356-357

Storytracking Texts, Stories, and Histories in Central Australia

Sam D. Gill
John Wilcken pp.357-360

The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science

Peter Harrison
David Parnham pp.360-363

Listening: A pastoral style

Frances Moran
Margarita Frederico pp.363-366


Contributors

BRIAN BOYLE M.S.C. lectures in Old Testament at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle, Western Australia. He recently completed his doctorate on the Book of Jeremiah at the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome. He has a particular interest in the Prophetic Literature.

JAMES KEENAN S.J. is Professor of Moral Theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He toured Australia this year as the guest of the Society of Jesus (in association with their Australian sesquicentenary) and the Order of Malta. His work on the future of moral theology, of which the first part is published here, was presented to the Catholic Moral Theology Association’s conference in Melbourne. The second part will appear in Pacifica in February.

FRANK REES is Professor of Systematic Theology at Whitley College in Melbourne. He has studied in Melbourne and Manchester (UK) and served Baptist congregations in Victoria and Tasmania, before taking up his current teaching position in 1991. He is the President of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Theological Schools (ANZATS) and a member of the Editorial Board of Pacifica. The position he presents in his article is part of a much larger work on the subject of doubt.

DUNCAN REID is an Anglican priest who is presently head of the School of Theology at Flinders University in South Australia. He has been teaching systematic theology there and at St Barnabas College (Adelaide) since 1991. He has a special interest in the doctrines of God and creation, and Eastern Orthodox thought, and is involved in several Adelaide-based collaborative research projects to do with ecological theology.

TERRY VELING taught at the Catholic Theological Union in Sydney and has recently taken up a position as Assistant Professor of Theology at the University of Saint Thomas in Houston, Texas. His article is part of a larger work on the thought of Emmanuel Levinas that he worked on while a Golda Meir Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

NIGEL WATSON is Professor Emeritus of New Testament in the United Faculty of Theology in Melbourne. In his teaching and writing, especially his commentaries on Paul’s letters to the Corinthians he has long sought to make the insights of biblical scholarship accessible to a wider audience of teachers and preachers.