Volume 19, Issue 1, February 2006
Articles
Celebrating Eucharist in a Time of Global Climate Change
Denis Edwards, pp.1-15
Climate change is an urgent issue facing the whole human community in the 21st century. For Christian believers, committed to love for God’s creation and to respect for the dignity of every person, responding to this issue will need to be central in the life of faith. What does global climate change mean for a Christian community that gathers each Sunday in the name of Jesus to listen to the Word of God and break the bread? This article begins with scientific insights on long-term and human-induced climate change. It draws on insights on creation and the Eucharist both from the West (Teilhard de Chardin) and from the East (John Zizioulas). It builds on these with a theology of the Eucharist as the living memory of all God’s creatures.
Caribbean Biblical Hermeneutics after the Empire
James Harding, pp.16-36
This article surveys recent trends in biblical interpretation in the Caribbean in the context of postcolonial biblical criticism, and functions on several levels. First, it examines the strengths, weaknesses, and presuppositions of particular examples of Caribbean readings of biblical texts. Second, it interrogates the use of the term “postcolonial” in scholarly discourse on biblical texts. Third, and most importantly, it critiques the presuppositions that underlie the author’s own engagements with the material under discussion. Consequently, this article emphasises the importance of the self-criticism of the interpreter in the process of interpretation, and offers an example of how scholars from the “first-world” might engage both critically and constructively with the work of scholars from the “two-thirds world”. It therefore seeks to participate in the “de-centering” of biblical scholarship, advocated by Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza.
Church and World at the Second Vatican Council: The Significance of Gaudium et Spes
James McEvoy, pp.37-57
In its Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World the Second Vatican Council put behind it the rejection of modernity that characterised the Roman Catholic Church’s relationship with the world in the previous 150 years. Forty years after the publication of Gaudium et Spes, this article seeks to articulate the theological understanding of the church-world relationship contained in the final text of the document by examining the sequence of schemas which led to it.
Anglicanism and Anzac Observance The Essential Contribution of Canon David John Garland
John A. Moses, pp.58-77
Research has shown that the precise origins of Anzac commemoration are to be found in the work of the Brisbane Anzac Day Commemoration Committee (ADCC) founded on 10 January 1916. The precursor to that committee was the Brisbane Recruitment Committee consisting of leading Brisbane businessmen and municipal leaders, the secretary of which was an energetic Dubliner and Anglican priest, one Canon David John Garland. The article shows that while the Anzac Day “liturgy” devised by Garland had to take account of religious/theological divisions as well as secular attitudes, underneath it lay a specific Christian purpose, namely to commemorate the fallen, console the bereaved and call the nation to penitence for the sin of war.
The Demise of the Two-Document Hypothesis? Dunn and Burkett on Gospel Sources
David Neville, pp.78-92
Two recently published books by James Dunn and Delbert Burkett, Jesus Remembered and Rethinking the Gospel Sources, pose critical challenges to the two-document hypothesis. Dunn’s advocacy of oral tradition(s) to account for a significant proportion of the synoptic tradition militates against the two-document hypothesis, despite his continuing adherence to it. Burkett’s arguments against direct literary relations between any of the synoptic gospels and his hypothetical reconstruction of a number of pre-canonical gospel sources, including three separate written versions of Proto-Mark, constitute a direct assault on the two-document hypothesis. Despite significant differences between Dunn and Burkett, the combined effect of their respective challenges to reconceive the interrelations between the synoptic gospels is the inadequacy of the two-document hypothesis as traditionally understood and taught.
Book Reviews
The Wisdom of Creation
Edward Foley and Robert Schreiter (eds.)
Alice Sinnott pp.93-95
James of Jerusalem: Heir to Jesus of Nazareth
Patrick Hartin
Mary R. Huie-Jolly pp.96-97
Paul on Marriage and Celibacy: The Hellenistic Background of 1 Corinthians
Will Deming
Nigel M. Watson pp.97-99
The Other Hand of God: The Holy Spirit as the Universal Touch and Goal
Kilian McDonnell
Christiaan Mostert pp.99-101
The Great Passion. An Introduction to Karl Barth’s Theology
Ebehard Busch
Bruce Barber pp.101-103
Primary Readings on the Eucharist
Thomas J. Fisch
Tim Costelloe pp.103-105
The Creed: What Christians Believe and Why it Matters
Luke Timothy Johnson
David Pascoe pp.105-107
Risking the Church: The Challenges of Catholic Faith
Richard Lennan
Denis Edwards pp.107-109
“Let me know you”: Reflections on Augustine’s Search for God
Donald X. Burt
Neil Ormerod pp.109-110
Reframing Her: Biblical Women in Postcolonial Focus
Judith E. McKinlay
Alice Sinnott pp.110-112
The Unknown God: Religious and Theological Interculturation
Thomas G. Grenham
Larry Nemer pp.113-114
The Word Made Flesh: Towards an Incarnational Missiology
Ross Langmead
Larry Nemer pp.115-117
Rooting Faith in Asia: Source Book for Inculturation
Mario Saturnino Dias (ed.)
Ross Mackinnon pp.117-119
Contributors
DENIS EDWARDS is a senior lecturer in theology in the School of Theology of Flinders University. He teaches for Catholic Theological College within the ecumenical consortium of the Adelaide College of Divinity. He is a priest of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide and a member of the Advisory Council of Catholic Earthcare Australia. His most recent book is Breath of Life: A Theology of the Creator Spirit (2004), published by Orbis Press.
JAMES HARDING studied at the Universities of Manchester and Sheffield in England before taking up a post teaching Old Testament Studies at Codrington College in Barbados, where he taught from 2000 to 2003. Since 2003 he has been Lecturer in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. His main research interests include post-colonialism, the book of Job, and the wisdom texts from Qumran.
JAMES MCEVOY is Senior Lecturer in Theology at Flinders University School of Theology and Catholic Theological College, Adelaide. He teaches mainly in the areas of foundational theology and theological anthropology. His ongoing research explores the church-world relationship and on this topic he has recently published: “Faithful Witness in a Fractured World”, Australasian Catholic Record 79 (October 2002).
THE REVEREND DR JOHN A. MOSES is an Anglican priest and formerly head of the department of history at the University of Queensland. His research has included work on German labour history, German colonies in the Pacific, German settlement in Australia, German historiography of the First World War (the Fischer controversy), trade union theory from Marx to Walesa, Anzac commemoration, the Australian historian, G. A. Wood, and more recently Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Moses has published widely in all these areas. He is currently Adjunct Professor at the University of New England, School of Classics, History & Religion.
DAVID NEVILLE lectures in New Testament at St Mark’s National Theological Centre and the School of Theology, Charles Sturt University. His research has focused on the synoptic gospels, and he is the author of two books on the synoptic problem. He has also edited two collections of essays in the area of Christian social ethics
