Editions

Vol 1   No. 1
May 1998

‘Reconciliation and Responsibility’

Vol 1   No. 2
October 1998

‘The Implications for Christians of Recent Development in Human Genetics’

Vol 2   No. 1
May 1999

Contributors include:

• Rosamund Dalziell
• Ian Barns
• Thorvald Lorenzen
• Anita Monro and Elaine Wainwright
• Camilla Cowley
• Scott Cowdell
• Brian Walsh

Editors:

• Dr Winifred Wing Han Lamb
• Rev Dr Graeme Garrett

Vol 2   No. 2
October 1999

‘Young Australians, Easter and a Reason for Hope’

Contributors include:

• Most Rev John Bathersby DD
• David Tracey
• Kenneth Ralph
• Lieven Boeve
• Jenny Granger
• Stijn Van den Bossche
• Judith Bessant and Rob Watts
• Peter Carpenter and Gabrielle McMullen

Editors:

• Rev Dr Denis Rochford MSC
• Dr Ruth Weber

Vol 3   No. 1
March 2000

‘Citizenship: Public Life - Private Faith’

Contributors include:

• Anne Wansbrough
• Peter Steel SJ
• John Chesterman and Brian Galligan
• Colin Dillon
• Andrew Hamilton SJ
• Moira Rayner
• Frank Brennan SJ
• Rufus Black

Editors:

• Morag Fraser
• Duncan Reid

Vol 3   No. 2
October 2000

‘Corporations, Conscience and Charity’

Contributors include:

• Bruce Langtry
• Peter Coghlan
• Mary Byrne and Maria Cunningham
• Lake Lambert
• Jim Barr

Editors:

• Simon Longstaff
• Gordon Preece

Vol 4   No. 1
May 2001

‘Religion and Conflict in Indonesia’

Contributors include:

• Fatimah Husein
• Gerry van Klinken
• Sunardi
• John and Norma Sullivan
• Karel Phil Erari
• Balthasar Kehi
• Ruth Indiah Rahayu
• Helene van Klinken

Editors:

• Norma Sullivan
• Anton Lucas

Vol 4   No. 2
October 2001

‘Dying Matters: Faith and Death’

Contributors include:

• Margaret Somerville
• Maria George
• Eric Cave
• Christopher Newell
• Patrick Oliver
• Rosalie Hudson
• Pat Leadbetter
• Lindsay Carey
• Pam McGrath

Editors:

• Christopher Newel
• Deborah Prior

Vol 5   No. 1
March 2002

‘The Search for a Christian Imagination in Australia: Between Idols and Icons’

Editors:

• Wes Campbell
• Rebecca Pannell

Vol 5   No. 2
October 2002

‘Refugees: Justice or Compassion?’

'To understand the asylum seeker debate in Australia, we must be able to move easily between broad contexts and the quite specific experiences. Mark Raper sets the Australian discussion within a global perspective, while Frank Brennan assesses Australian policy against the criteria of an effective and humane policy. Georgina Costello illustrates some fo the complexities of refugee and immigration policy in her discussion of the specific group of women who are trafficked abroad for sexual exploitation, John Ozolins and Helen Hughes make quite different ethical assessments of the claim which asylum seekers make on us in Australia. Martin Clutterback and Alan Nicholls explore the implications of that claim from their experiences in different refugee fields. Gordon Preece and Andrew Hamilton set the Australian treatment of asylum seekers within an explicitly theological perspective. Many of these contributions reflect personal accompaniment of asylum seekers. In the stories told by Alan Crouch and in the various poems printed here, the wound that the refugee experience imprints on the observer's heart has the last word. As it should.'

From the editorial

Contributors include:

• Andrew Hamilton SJ
• Hilary Regan
• Mark Raper SJ
• John Ozolins
• Alan Crouch
• Frank Brennan SJ
• Georgina Costello
• Gordon Preece
• Saba Hakim
• Grant Fraser
• Alan Nichols
• Helen Hughes
• Martin Clutterbuck

Editors:

• Hilary Regan
• Andrew Hamilton SJ

Vol 6  No. 1
May 2003

‘Education: What For?’

Contents

1. Wesleyan Higher Education: Some Theological-Historical Constructs and Their Implications for a Philosophy of Education
   Mark Ellett Pitts
2. On Being a Public and a Catholic University at One and the Same Time
   Peter Sheehan
3. Catholic Schools into the Future – What matters most?
   Anne Hunt
4. Australian Lutheran Schools: An Historical Perspective
   Richard Hauser
5. Facing the Future: Religious Education in Anglican Schools
   Ronald Noone
6. Church Schools As a Multi-Cultural, Multi-Faith Interface: Issues For Theology and Religious Practice
   Malcolm Bartsch
7. Education – what for? A parent’s view
   Mary Cath Togolo
8. A Christian perspective on some key issues in Australian schooling
   Neville Carr
9. ‘Maintaining and Renewing the Spiritual Core: Indigenous Leadership Development and the Churches’
   David Thompson
   

Vol 6  No. 2
October 2003

ISBN 1-920691-11-1
AU$18.00

‘Just War’

Contributors include:

• Keith Suter, Sydney, 'The Just War Theory And Current International Law'.
• Bruce Duncan, Melbourne 'How Useful Is The Just War Tradition After Iraq?'.
• Mark Zirnsak, Melbourne, 'Slay Them All - God Will Recognise His Own! The Historical Irrelevance Of Christian Just War Theory?'.
• Rhondda Fahey, Sydney, 'Spinning From The Top: Deconstructing A Web Of Lies'.
• Jean Bethke Elshtain, Chicago, USA, 'Just War, Politics And The Problem With Peace?'.
• Bruce Kaye, Sydney, 'On Putting Just War In Its Place'.
• Dr Katsuhiro Kohara, Japan, 'Just War Theory: A Perspective From Hiroshima'.
• Michael Seigel, Japan, 'Can The Just War Tradition Be Made To Work?'.

Editors

• Maureen Postma
• Michael Seigel SVD

Availability: Limited Stock

Vol 7   No. 1
May 2004

ISBN 1-920691-20-0

AU$25.00

Biodiversity and Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Challenge

• Cecilia Deane-Drummond
• Ernst Conradie
• Alan Cadwalader
• Norm Habel
• Michael Trainer
• Maries Turner
• Evan Zuesse
• Denis Edwards
• Arthur Saniotis
• Graham Buxton
• Lorna Hallahan
• Christine Ledger
• Lee Levett-Olson
• Anthony Lowes
• Theo McCall
• Phillip Tolliday

• Denis Edwards
• Mark Worthing

Availabilty: In Stock

Vol 7   No. 2
October 2004

ISBN 1-920691-45-6

AU$18.00

‘Stem Cells and Cloning: Contemporary Challenges to our Humanity’

In August 2004 the government in Britain approved the granting of licences to research groups who wished to research and develop the cloning of human embryos for therapeutic purposes. The main focus of such research is the attainment of embryonic stem cells, and the development of therapies from such cells. Already some of this research is reported to be happening in South Korea. While they were initially discussed as separate issues in ethical and theological debates, they are now closely intertwined. The first group in England to receive a licence predicts that they will be successful within the next few years. This adds an intensity to our need to understand the dimensions of this science and its impact on our life as well as our desire to put a meaning to these developments.

Contributors:

• Elizabeth Hepburn IBVM
• D Gareth Jones
• Graeme Finlay
• Ian Barns
• Andrew Dutney

Editors

• Gareth Jones
• Mary Byrne

Availability: In Stock

Vol 8  No. 1
May 2005

ISBN 1-920691-46-4 AU$18.00

‘Theology and Law, Partners or Protaganists’

In addressing the topic of ‘Theology and law: partners or protagonists?’ there are several approaches one could take. One would be a highly theoretical level looking at the very natured of both disciplines/institutions. Second, a less theoretical and technical approach might be to look for some essential themes that have resonance with the other discipline. Thirdly, one could investigate the nature of integrative approaches to the two areas.
These options, while all having their own merits are not pursued.
A fourth manner would be to examine a range of contentious issues where law adjudicates the contested boundary between an allegedly secular society and public religion.
The editors of this volume have adopted this fourth approach and added a fifth approach, one designed to get beyond a mere issue-based dilemmas approach to ask question about character formation of professionals in the light of the narratives – both theological and experiential – which sustain Christian and ethical character. Thus the manner they have come up with is something of a hybrid, a creative interface between the issues, the stories and the values/virtues that sustain and may heal two central disciplines/institutions of our society.

Contributors

• Garth Blake
• Frank Brennan SJ
• Mark Durie
• Adrian Evans
• Nicky Jones
• Chris Marshall
• Reid Motensen

Editors

• Christine Parker
• Gordon Preece

Availability: May 2005

Vol 8  No. 2
October 2005

ISBN 1-920-691-47-2 $20

‘Ordination of Women and the Christian Churches’

Contributors

• Peter Carnley
• Muriel Porter
• Peter Bolt
• Jan Gray RSM
• John Collins
• Philip Wilson
• Peter Lockwood
• John Kleinig
• Julia Pitman
• Geoff Thompson
• Philip Kariatlis

Editors

• Cathy Thomson and Vic Pfitzner

Availability: October 2005