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{"title":"The Theological Notion of the Human Person. A Conversation Between the Theology of Karl Rahner and the Philosophy of John Macmurray","authors":"Kathleen M. Williams","doi":"10.1177/1030570X15613359d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570X15613359d","url":null,"abstract":"osophy on the fundamental subject of his book. Although White wisely remarks that in important matters few people ‘can be persuaded by argument’ (p. 4), let me indulge argument on several issues. First, he declines to enter debate about the existence of God and remarks that, in any case, God ‘is not readily discernible’ (p. 27). In Natural Signs and Knowledge of God, Stephen Evans more persuasively develops Pascal in proposing that various signs make God’s reality widely available but knowledge of the divine reality remains easily resistible – what Evans calls the Wide Accessibility Principle and Easy Resistibility Principle. Second, even if White states that it is clear that ‘we need help’ (p. 369), his theme of ‘man on his own’ can readily suggest the ‘self-made man’ of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Yes, in one sense ‘man must work out his own salvation’ (p. 5), but, as St Paul adds, ‘with fear and trembling, for it is God who is at work in you’ (Philippians 2:12–13). Third, ‘religion’, White maintains, is ‘a way of life’ but not ‘a solution to life.’ But, if, as he agrees, rights and responsibilities are fundamental in human life – and for the way people should relate to each other – how can a society without God, or at least a society that brackets off the question of God, live up to the high standards that White obviously expects from it? If there is an ‘obligation to accept responsibility’ (pp. 407–408), where and how do we ground that obligation? Fourth, ‘freedom’ is foundational for the way White conceives human society (pp. 609–613). But ‘justice’ and ‘love’, which must shape the exercise of freedom, are notable for their absence, at least as explicit themes in this book. This is a little puzzling, since Denis White himself is a thoroughly just and loving person.","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"37 1","pages":"100 - 102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79307286","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":"50 Years Receiving Vatican II: A Personal Odyssey","authors":"Gerald O'Collins","doi":"10.1177/1030570x15613359b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570x15613359b","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"108 1","pages":"98 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85481844","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":"Human consciousness, God and creation","authors":"A. Kelly","doi":"10.1177/1030570X15596767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570X15596767","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the often-overlooked dimension of human consciousness in the consideration of both creation and the Creator. To that end, it treats the phenomenon of consciousness and its self-transcending dynamism. There follow brief remarks on consciousness in relation to the traditional meaning of ‘soul’ and the modern achievements in brain-research. The way creation in its beauty and variety is registered in consciousness is then treated, along with the implied character of the Creator. Our conclusion points to the need for a multiplicity of perspectives in exploring the mystery of creation.","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"72 1","pages":"22 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73196831","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 World of Man","authors":"G. O'collins","doi":"10.1177/1030570X15613359c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570X15613359c","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"23 1","pages":"100 - 99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88227964","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":"Leaving Christendom for Good: Church-World Dialogue in a Secular Age","authors":"Brenda R. Reed","doi":"10.1177/1030570X15613359e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570X15613359e","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"87 4 1","pages":"102 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87693784","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 Resurrection in phenomenology: Jean-Luc Marion on the ‘saturated phenomenon par excellence’","authors":"Brian V. Johnstone","doi":"10.1177/1030570X15596768","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570X15596768","url":null,"abstract":"Jean-Luc Marion has identified the resurrection as ‘the saturated phenomenon par excellence’. Marion’s proposal has had a very positive reception by theologians who have written on the theme, for example Anthony J. Kelly and Brian D. Robinette. This article explains and assesses critically the notion of the saturated phenomenon and its applicability to the resurrection. The topics that are studied include Marion’s early theological writings on the resurrection, his development of the notion of the saturated phenomenon by an original interpretation of phenomenology, his account of the resurrection as a saturated phenomenon and his explanation of the relation between faith and reason. The relevant background in contemporary French philosophy is described following Gary Gutting.","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"92 1","pages":"23 - 39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90394085","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":"Embracing the Other: A Christian response to counterterrorism legislation in Australia","authors":"B. Macallan","doi":"10.1177/1030570X15601703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570X15601703","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the impact of Australia’s counterterrorism legislation and its resulting influence on Muslim communities in Australia. It does this by exploring Australia’s participation in the war on terrorism and how the government and society have responded. It then seeks to use Miroslav Volf’s concept of embrace as a way for the Church to begin to overcome its own cultural bias, and to present an example to the wider culture in working against these negative effects. Specific actions and proposals are offered for the Australian context at each part of the embrace.","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"34 1","pages":"40 - 53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76483549","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":"Discernment: Reading the Signs of Daily Life","authors":"Darren Cronshaw","doi":"10.1177/1030570x15613359a","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570x15613359a","url":null,"abstract":"response is to call the church to foster sacred space and offer hospitality with conversational space about civic values, nurturing local connections for its 18,000 largely vertical neighbours, and practical inclusion of those who are marginalized, including transient international students. Structurally, Stephen Burn’s Chapter 7 could have made a neat concluding chapter. It explores the missional possibilities of public worship, churches taking a pastoral interest in their whole parish, and engaging with people’s longing for the sacred aspects of life including special services like baptisms and national rituals such as Anzac day. It underlines the importance of developing ministry approaches that accept and express hospitality to people outside the church where they are at, rather than where we hope they would be. My other favourite chapter, because it was the most challenging, is Susanna Snyder’s ‘Displacing Theology: God-Talk in an ‘‘Age of Migration’’’. An assumption is that all people have a postcode, but Snyder reminds us that refugees and asylum seekers are desperately in search of a place and home that a postcode represents. As much as we need the local interest of postcode theology, we also need to reflect theologically on the implications of life for people who are ‘postcode-less’. Perhaps more than any other time in history, it is imperative to listen to and learn from the refugee, the vagabond, the other, and what they can teach about hope and suffering, catholicity and communion, consumerism and the importance of finding and knowing our local place in the world. Home and Away is a good volume on contextual theology and local practice. It offers a broad cross-section of reflection by grassroots practitioners and thoughtful theologians who are developing local worship, working for the welfare of their neighbourhoods, and reimagining how to communicate the gospel in what are often post-church contexts. It will be of interest to those interested in its themes – including church and society, communication media, mission in postChristendom, mental illness, migration, gender issues – and those who are open for inspiration to similarly engage the task of local theologizing in their postcode.","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"81 5 1","pages":"95 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88019952","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 theology of religions revisited","authors":"G. O'collins","doi":"10.1177/1030570X15601704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570X15601704","url":null,"abstract":"This article begins by responding to the challenges and criticisms coming from those who reviewed The Second Vatican Council on Other Religions. It insists on the need to examine other living faiths as ways not only of salvation but also of (divine) revelation (which elicits human faith). A positive view of other religions (1) does not undermine missionary proclamation, and (2) should be strengthened by invoking the intercessory priesthood of Christ (the ‘sacerdotal principle’) and the force of love that empowers prayer for others. To conclude, the article pleads for an integral interpretation of Vatican II texts that examines not only the authorial intentions but also the reception of the texts and the insights coming from readers (including popes, bishops and theologians).","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"196 1","pages":"54 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75703259","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":"Reading Jonah as ‘history’? The implications of canonical location for Jonah and the Book of the Twelve","authors":"Jason T. LeCureux","doi":"10.1177/1030570X15608645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/1030570X15608645","url":null,"abstract":"From an interpretive standpoint, Jonah presents as one of the more difficult books in the Old Testament. Is the book intended to critique the actions of God, of Israel, of the prophet, or of prophecy as a whole? The fantastic story of a prophet located in the middle of a collection that contains very little narrative, Jonah is unique among the writings of the Book of the Twelve (BT). With the rise of biblical criticism, particularly narrative analysis, biblical scholars have long left the idea that Jonah was ever intended to be understood as a historical account. However, the two separate orders of the BT (LXX and MT) position Jonah in a different canonical location. I contend that one of the reasons for this discrepancy relates to the different readings of Jonah as ‘history’. Though the LXX makes the reasonable decision to place the two prophecies concerning Assyria (Jonah–Nahum) next to one another, the MT, followed by the English versions, has separated them. While it is impossible to state with certainty the interpretive viewpoint of the editors of the MT, I contend that the canonical location of Jonah within the BT is, in part, dependent on reading Jonah as a historical event. In other words, the MT editors, perhaps unlike the LXX editors, saw the historical results of Jonah’s actions as essential to the overall structure and theology of the BT. The book is positioned at a critical location within the Twelve, one that gives explanation to YHWH’s (historical) actions in the past, in order to give hope to his people in the future. Such a reading raises interpretive questions about God, his people, the nations and the overall theology of the BT.","PeriodicalId":82256,"journal":{"name":"Pacifica : journal of the Melbourne College of Divinity","volume":"1 1","pages":"68 - 78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89002685","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}