Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity最新文献

{"title":"Neither Jew nor Greek: A Contested Identity James D. G. Dunn","authors":"M. Stephens","doi":"10.1177/1030570X17705677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570X17705677","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"5 1","pages":"205 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82054500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Unfolding in friendship: Revelation and the analogy of friendship in Dei verbum","authors":"K. Lenehan","doi":"10.1177/1030570X17714053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570X17714053","url":null,"abstract":"This article outlines the use of the analogy of friendship in the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on Divine Revelation, Dei verbum n. 2, to describe the nature of divine revelation. Motivated by love, God initiates and sustains a relationship with humanity, in which the gift of knowledge of God and of God’s will for creation is continually communicated. This relationship, in which God ‘speaks with humans as with friends and dwells among them’, is fully and personally realized in Jesus Christ. First, I situate n. 2 within the renewed theology of revelation called for in the conciliar debates on the revelation constitution. Then I investigate the theological aptness of the analogy of friendship in describing divine revelation, first in terms of the personalist and dialogical thinking that characterized the ‘majority’ voice in the promulgation and reception of Dei verbum, and second in the Thomistic themes of caritas, friendship and revelation that can be heard in a ‘minority’ voice at the Council. I argue that the use of the analogy of friendship is an example a theological ‘ressourcement for the sake of aggiornamento’ that draws biblical, monastic, scholastic and contemporary perspectives into an enriching theological dialogue.","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"41 1","pages":"175 - 191"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85947008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Thinking about Political Things: An Aristotelian Approach to Pacific Life Andrew Murray","authors":"Clement Papa","doi":"10.1177/1030570X17705890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570X17705890","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"148 1","pages":"213 - 216"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86073121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Spirituality: A Guide for the Perplexed Philip Sheldrake","authors":"G. Thompson","doi":"10.1177/1030570X17705675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570X17705675","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"26 1","pages":"209 - 211"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87003249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Qui manet in amicitia manet in Deo: Friendship in a Latin Christian tradition","authors":"R. Krishna","doi":"10.1177/1030570X17714052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570X17714052","url":null,"abstract":"I explore the discourse on friendship in four Latin Christian authors, Ambrose of Milan, Augustine of Hippo, John Cassian and Aelred of Rievaulx, and how it occurs in the intersection of Cicero and biblical models and maxims. I conclude that friendship is not only central to the authors’ view of a fulfilled human life, but also to their understanding of the relationship between God and human beings.","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"17 1","pages":"141 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90559058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Theological Anthropology: A Guide for the Perplexed Philip Sheldrake","authors":"G. Thompson","doi":"10.1177/1030570X17705676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570X17705676","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"2016 1","pages":"207 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86527244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Authentic friendship in the age of social media","authors":"Cameron Forbes","doi":"10.1177/1030570X17715283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570X17715283","url":null,"abstract":"Social networking is an important form of communication for many people today. The language of friendship is sometimes embedded in the operational structure of social media, as is demonstrated by the example of ‘Facebook friends’. This article seeks to examine the nature of friendships as they are mediated by the technology of social networking. It builds a notion of ‘authentic friendship’ by drawing upon the fields of both philosophy and theology, examining several conceptions of friendship as it has been recognised before the advent of social networking. It then examines the contemporary practices of social media users from a behavioural standpoint, drawing conclusions as to the authenticity of different aspects of those relationships.","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"146 6","pages":"161 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/1030570X17715283","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72407695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Friendship traditions in the New Testament: An overview","authors":"S. Winter","doi":"10.1177/1030570X17714497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570X17714497","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes the main contours of Greco-Roman and Jewish friendship traditions, and considers some of the ways that these traditions were adopted and adapted in New Testament texts. The survey suggests that early Christian writers drew on friendship traditions as a way of articulating certain important values relating to the need to establish a distinctive social identity and forms of ethical practice. In emphasizing the relationship between identity, practice and relationship with God, some New Testament authors locate friendship in a broader covenantal framework in which God is the ultimate benefactor, often acting through mediatory figures to whom the communities can relate as ‘friends’.","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"9 1","pages":"192 - 204"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88663871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The ministry of friendship 1","authors":"Brian Edgar","doi":"10.1177/1030570X17707353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570X17707353","url":null,"abstract":"It is important for the church to take seriously the words of Jesus, ‘I no longer call you servants, but friends’ (John 15:15) and locate servanthood – and ministry as a whole – within the context of divine friendship rather than within the context of modern conceptions of leadership. When servant-leadership is the dominant model of ministry it tends towards practices based on obligation rather than grace and creates practical difficulties for practitioners. Ministry can be defined in terms of the formation of friendship with God and others with benefits for community life, pastoral care and leadership.","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"61 1","pages":"127 - 140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80319669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Eucharist as Meaning: Critical Metaphysics and Contemporary Sacramental Theology Joseph C. Mudd","authors":"F. O’Loughlin","doi":"10.1177/1030570X17705889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570X17705889","url":null,"abstract":"about linking spiritual practices to core beliefs. Of course, as he notes, this is less significant in Hinduism, which sits loosely with established or even foundational beliefs, and even less so in Buddhism, where the Buddha is understood to have consciously rejected the idea of doctrines and dogmas. The final chapter is equally extensive and draws attention to the wide presence of the phenomenon and various discourses of spirituality in the secular context. Again the four-fold typology helpfully sets the scene for the discussion. The ‘ascetical’ type is manifest in the widespread interest in meditation and in sport and its disciplines. The ‘mystical’ type is found in, for instance, ‘some modern understandings of encounters with wonder in science’ (p. 168). The ‘practical’ can be seen in some strands of social work. The ‘prophetic’ type is located in health professions – via a ‘renewed vision of human care’ (p. 168) – as well as in business, economics, and urban planning – via the ‘emphasis on public virtue’ (p. 168). But the range of spiritualties discussed in this chapter would ultimately appear to break out of this typology as Sheldrake explores such topics as ‘feminist’ and ‘men’s’ spiritualties, cyberspace as a new location for spiritual development, and the discussions amongst architects and urban planners around the phenomenon of ‘awe’ generated by buildings and spaces. As a Christian systematic theologian whose discipline frequently encounters spirituality and its exponents in a relationship of mutual suspicion, I found this book to be a very welcome and nuanced overview of this broad and demanding topic. I was drawn to a more empathetic engagement with the scholarly study of spirituality and greatly appreciated Sheldrake’s consistent sensitivity to the complex relationships between spirituality, thought and practice. The key question (although not one the book set out to answer) I am left with is just where and how Christian theologians might engage most productively with the ever-widening range of discourses and practices which self-identify as ‘spiritual’. Partly because it poses this challenge, I will certainly be including it in the reading lists of my introductory units in systematic theology as a way of helping students locate their theological study in the wide and overlapping spiritual, religious and cultural contexts which Sheldrake outlines so well.","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"72 1","pages":"211 - 213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89837833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}