Volume 20, Issue 3, October 2007
Given our increasing concerns about climate change and human attitudes to nature, this issue of Pacifica is particularly relevant. It opens with a study by ANNE GARDNER on the interdependence of the Divine, the Human, and the Earth in the Book of Daniel; and it closes with an essay by JUDITH KELLER on the spirituality of the Australian Landscape as demonstrated in the art of Rosalie Gascoigne.
Gardner's article can be downloaded, while the accompanying illustration, Earth 3, offers a glimpse of Gascoigne's art and spirituality.
Articles
Daniel: God, Humans and Earth
Anne Gardner, pp.249-261
What’s in a Name? Book Titles in the Torah and Former Prophets
Gregory Goswell, pp.262-277
The Doctrine of Appropriation as an Interpretative Framework for Karl Barth’s Pneumatology of the Church Dogmatics
Adam McIntosh, pp.278-290
Exclusivism and Exclusivity: A Contemporary Theological Challenge
Douglas Pratt, pp.291-306
Songs of the Australian Landscape: The Art and Spirituality of Rosalie Gascoigne
Judith Keller, pp.307-321
Book Reviews
An Introduction to the Gospel of John
Raymond E. Brown
John Painter pp.322-324
The Pre-existent Son: Recovering the Christologies of Matthew, Mark, and Luke
Simon J. Gathercole
Brendan Byrne pp.324-326
From Clement To Origen: The Social and Historical Context of the Church Fathers
David Ivan Rankin
William M. Johnston pp.316-328
Communio Sanctorum: The Church as the Communion of Saints
Bilateral Working Group
Charles Sherlock pp.316-328
The Sacrament of Reconciliation
David M. Coffey
Tom Ryan pp.331-332
Orders and Ministry: Leadership in the World Church
Kenan B. Osborne
Richard Lennan pp.333-334
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
Stephen Ames pp.335-337
The Major Religions: An Introduction with Texts
T. Patrick Burke
Ross Langmead pp.337-339
Christians Meeting Hindus: An Analysis and Theological Critique of Hindu-Christian Encounter in India
Bob Robinson
John R. Dupuche pp.339-341
Alive in Christ: The Synod for Oceania and the Catholic Church in Papua New Guinea
Philip Gibbs (ed.)
David Pascoe pp.341-343
Yves Congar: Theologian of the Church
Gabriel Flynn (ed.)
Margaret Jenkins pp.343-345
The Gospel of Matthew: The New International Greek Testament Commentary
John Nolland
Gerald O’Collins pp.360-362
Benedict XVI and The Search For Truth
Robert Tilley
John Begley pp.345-347
John Paul II: Legacy and Witness
Robert Gascoyne (ed.)
Gerald O’Collins pp.347-348
Wisdom for Life
Michael A. Kelly and Mark A. O'Brien (eds.)
Douglas L. Jones pp.348-350
Movies that Matter: Reading Film through the Lens of Faith
Richard Leonard
Peter Malone pp.350-352
Children Matter: Celebrating Their Place in the Church, Family and Community
Scottie May, Beth Posterski et al.
Michael A. Kelly pp.352-355
Preparing Parish Liturgies: A Guide to Resources
Rita Thiron
Sandra Perrett pp.355-356
Human Sexuality in the Catholic Tradition
Kieran Scott and Harold Horel (eds.)
Philip Malone pp.357-359
Contributors
ANNE E. GARDNER (PhD Edinburgh) is Senior Lecturer and Director of Religion and Spirituality Studies within the School of Historical and European Studies at La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria. Her research interests have focussed upon the Book of Daniel and related literature in the Hebrew Bible, Intertestamental Literature, and the New Testament. Current projects include Jerusalem: Whose City? A Study of the Hegemony of Jerusalem up to its Capture by David and Daniel Decoded: The Sources behind the book of Daniel and their Implications for its Meaning.
GREGORY GOSWELL (PhD Sydney, 2002) has been since 2001 Lecturer in Biblical Studies (Old Testament and Hebrew) at the Presbyterian Theo-logical College, Box Hill North, Victoria, where he is currently Acting Principal. He is assistant editor of the Reformed Theological Review, and has contributed studies to a number of journals and collections on the Old Testament and its contemporary interpretation.
ADAM MCINTOSH is currently minister of the South Ballarat Uniting Church. In 2007 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Theology from the Melbourne College of Divinity for a dissertation entitled The Doctrine of Appropriation as an Interpretative Framework for Karl Barth’s Ecclesiology of the Church Dogmatics. His on-going research interests include Karl Barth studies and ecclesiology.
DOUGLAS PRATT is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, and Convenor of the Religious Studies program at the University of Waikato, NZ. He is currently President of the New Zealand Association for the Study of Religion. His research interests include religious fundamentalism, Islam and Christian-Muslim relations, interreligious dialogue, and philosophical issues in religion. In 2005-06 he was a Visiting Research Fellow at Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, and guest lecturer in Issues in Interfaith Relations for the Faculty of Theology at Oxford University.
JUDITH KELLER studied theology and religious education at Boston College. She is currently a freelance writer, educator, and consultant in curriculum design and theological education for the Broken Bay Institute, NSW, and also tutors part-time in education at the University of Newcastle, NSW. Her personal and professional interests focus upon spirituality and the arts, in particular, sacred dance. An earlier study exploring the connection between spirituality and the visual arts, “Exploring Australian Spirituality Through One Painting by Aboriginal Women”, appeared in Eremos in May 2006.

