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.