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- PublicationA Friendly Guide to Paul(Garratt Publishing, 2014) Monaghan, Chris; ,This book provides and introduction to Paul and his letters for the general reader with introductions to the undisputed letters.
- PublicationBringing the generations together: The role of Appreciative Inquiry in a local church’s transformation for mission(Australian Association for Mission Studies, 2012-06) Menzies, Andrew; ,Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is gaining in popularity and used as a tool for researchers to gain insight into the narratives that fuel a system. It is also becoming known as a methodology that allows holistic, system wide transformation. This paper documents the use of AI in a local church as a key tool used in the rediscovery of its missional imagination. The church was heavily conflicted and AI was employed to encourage various parties to begin to listen to each other and find areas and dreams that were held in common. The background and context of the church is explored and shown to be in need of adaptive (rather than technical) change. The AI questions used and the format of discussion groups is outlined and evaluated. Initial missional endeavours that arose out of this process are recorded. Concluding remarks are made about AI and its effectiveness in guiding a conflicted local church towards health, a positive outlook for its future, a stirring of a missional imagination and examples of how this began to lead to engagement in local mission.
- PublicationCanon 292 Ministry of a Laicised Priest(Canon Law Society of America, 2015) Waters, Ian; Euart, Sharon A.; ,The extent to which a laicised priest could exercise ministry and administer sacraments in the Catholic Church.
- PublicationCanons 705-707: The Membership of a Religious Bishop in His Religious Institute(Canon Law Society of America, 2015) Waters, Ian; Euart, Sharon; ,The ways in which a priest belonging to a religious institute who is ordained a bishop continues membership of the institute
- PublicationJohn 17:1-26: The Missionary Prayer of Jesus(Fellowship for Biblical Studies, 2018-10) Coloe, Mary; ,In John 17 we have the final words spoken by Jesus before his passion, and so these words provide the last glimpse into the Johannine understanding of the cross. It is a moment of intense communion between Jesus and the Father and we are privileged to “overhear” this heavenly family conversation. For Jesus, this is a homecoming. Two time-frames need to be held together; a discourse Jesus delivers around the table on the night of his betrayal, and one that he delivers from the realm of the Father. Central to the chapter are three petitions for the disciples. Just as Jesus does not belong to the world, neither do they. Just as the Father sent Jesus into the world where he faced opposition, so now the disciples are sent and they too will face opposition. As Jesus is consecrated by the indwelling presence of God, so he prays for the disciples. Some scholars, both ancient and modern, describe John 17 as the Highly Priestly Prayer and consider that when Jesus speaks of ‘consecration’ he is speaking as a priest. I disagree. The language of ‘consecration’ and union can distract from the ultimate function of Jesus’ words, which is to establish the foundation for the future mission of the disciples in his absence.
- PublicationThe Gospels: God with Us(Garratt Publishing, 2014) Monaghan, Chris; ,This book provides young people with an introduction to the context and content of the Gospels.
- Publication“Wearing uneasily the mantle of peace”: Marian Devotion and the Politics of Fear in Cold War Australia(Leuven University Press, 2020-11-27) Massam, Katharine; Margry, Peter Jan; ,In the sectarian landscape of Catholic Australia, the threat of Protestantism was supplemented with, and then replaced by, fear of Communism from the early decades of the twentieth century. Prayer, and the prayer of the rosary in particular, was understood as a vital weapon in the fight for “world peace” against “atheistic materialism”. Devotion to Mary as Our Lady of Fatima, Queen of Peace, intensified from 1936 as the Spanish Civil War moved Australian Catholic understanding firmly to the political right, and as the promise of the Fatima vision for the conversion of Russia was publicized. Australian Catholics took up the “crusade” for the conversion of Russia as part of a growing engagement with political life. When the pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fatima arrived in Australia from Europe, Africa and Asia in January 1951, the Commonwealth government was defending its bill to ban the Communist Party of Australia against a challenge from the CPA itself and the labour movement in the High Court. As the statue made its way to Catholic parishes around the country that legislation was ruled unconstitutional and a referendum campaign to change the constitution got underway. This chapter explores the significance of anti-communist Marian devotion as a dimension of Australian Catholic political engagement using the Australian tour of pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fatima as a focus.