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1 Apocryphal Apocalypse of John
(Zondervan Academic, 2022-10) Whitaker, Robyn; Edwards, J. Christopher
“21 Martyrs of Libya”: Presenting Holiness in the Contemporary Coptic Church
(Brepols Publishers, 2021) Tumara, Nebojsa
In the Coptic tradition, recognition of someone’s holiness is a rather spontaneous process and the Holy Synod of the Church rarely announces new saints. Nevertheless, a new trend has become evident. In 2013 the Church officially canonized Patriarch Cyril VI of Alexandria (1902-1971) and Archdeacon Habib Gerges (1876-1951), and in February 2015, the Coptic Patriarch of Alexandria, Tawadros II, canonized twenty-one Coptic Christians, a week after the media of the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) uploaded a video onto social media showing their beheading. The video on social media depicting their vivid and horrid staged execution inspired the iconographic presentations of the event. Following the newly established, diverse, and ever-growing iconographical and hagiographical tradition around the newly recognized martyrs of the Church, this paper will examine how holiness is visually constructed in the Coptic Church, in light of the legacy of late professor Isaac Fanous (1919-2007), who established the canons of the Neo-Coptic School of Iconography.
A Beautiful Virgin Country Ready for a Revival of Bible Holiness: Early Holiness Evangelists in Australia
(Wesleyan Theological Society, 2007) O'Brien, Glen
A comparison between Early Jewish and early Christian interpretations of the Jubilee Year
(Peeters, 2001) Gormley O'Brien, David
Addresses the question as to whether the Jubilee Year ideology plays a role in the quotation from Isa 61.1-2 in Jesus' ministry depicted in Luke 4.
A contribution to the history of Dayr al-Maymun
(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Córdoba, 2011) Youssef, Youhanna
'A Divine Attraction between Your Soul and Mine': George Whitefield and Same Sex Affection in 18th-Century Methodism
(2017-11-23) O'Brien, Glen
This article considers the blurred lines between male friendship and homoeroticism in eighteenth-century Methodism. It considers possible cases of transgressive male sexual acts among Methodist preachers, evaluates contemporary claims made about the sexual proclivities of leading Methodists, and considers the social location of 18th-century Methodism as a dangerous underworld of deviant religiosity whose centres of activity were often perched on the edge of sites of social exclusion. The ‘effeminacy’ of George Whitefield and the lack of heterosexual passion in his life are offered as a mode of examining the homosociality that existed within the heteronormative world of eighteenth-century Methodism.
A Dogged Inch-by-Inch Affair: The Church of the Nazarene in Australia 1945- 1958
(2003) O'Brien, Glen
A feast of love: visual images of Francis of Assisi and Mary Magdalen and late medieval mendicant devotion
(Routledge, 2016) Renkin, Claire; Mews, Constant J.; Welch, Anna; Renkin, Claire
This article explores imagery of the Magdalen and Francis of Assisi in mendicant circles in the late middle ages.
A Friendly Guide to Vatican II
(Garratt Publishing, 2012) Vodola, Max
When the bishops of the Catholic world gathered in the Vatican in 1962 for the Second Vatican Council, they initiated a process of change which would restyle the way Catholics worshipped and celebrated liturgy. Younger Catholics today might know that the council brought about the celebration of the mass in the vernacular, but they might not realise the enormous implications for the greater participation of the laity in the liturgy.
'A Good and Sensible Man': John Wesley’s Reading and Use of Jonathan Edwards.
(Wipf & Stock, 2017-10-20) O'Brien, Glen; Bezzant, Rhys S.
This chapter examines John Wesley's reading of Jonathan Edwards and the manner in which he mediated Edwards to 'the people called Methodist' through the editing, publishing, and dissemination of Edwards' works. It will include a consideration of the 1778 sermon, 'Some Account of the Late Work of God in America' in which Wesley co-opts Edwards for use in a historical narrative designed to legitimate Methodism as a genuine work of God as well as to extend Wesley's opposition to the democratic spirit that had led to the American Revolution. Wesley describes his own work in Georgia and the awakening in Northampton reported in Edwards' 'Faithful Narrative of a Surprising Work of God' (1736), as though they were two parts of a continuous and converging stream. In so doing he smooths over the historical complexities and continuities, rewriting history to serve his own purposes. Though Wesley's admiration for Edwards is clear his selective use of the latter's writings was guided by the conviction that they contained 'wholesome food...mixed with much deadly poison.'
A historic humanitarian collaboration in the Pacific context
(Center for the Study of Health in Mission, 2017) Grills, Nathan J; Mitchell, Bob
This article reports on an historic collaboration between Australian church-based development agencies and their partners in the Pacific – the largest in scale to date. It is now incontrovertible that climate change is damaging health and wellbeing in Pacific communities – especially in terms of climate-related disasters. Churches in the Pacific have a unique role and responsibility within the civil society in the region. This article traces some of the historical factors that have contributed to their social resonance. The article looks at how a network approach can be well suited to tackling difficult social challenges, and makes the case for the involvement of the Pacific churches in building community resilience through disaster risk reduction activities. A shared faith identity and trust are identified as two vital factors that help church-based consortia to coalesce. The article concludes that a focus on orthopraxy in its broader sense by Christian faith-based actors is a helpful perspective in achieving collaboration.
A Leader without Authority: Mary Consuelo de la Cruz Batiz and Missionary Women at New Norcia
(eScholarship Research Centre, 2012-10) Massam, Katharine; Francis, Rosemary; Grimshaw, Patricia; Standish, Ann
In 1904 Mary Consuelo de la Cruz Batiz, orginally from Mexico, arrived in Western Australia with six other women who were to form a community of missionaries alongside the Spanish Benedictine monks at New Norcia. Consuelo, the sole English speaker in the group, became the director of the new college for Aboriginal girls and exercised significant responsibility within the mission town. Within the fragmentary sources, the glimpses of Consuelo Batiz in the Spanish-language records depict a woman widely appreciated by missionaries and Aborigines for her energy, dedication and capacity to lead. This material sits uncomfortably alongside evidence recorded in English that show Consuelo captive to prevailing racist assumptions, and with her authority constrained by a highly charged field of religious, cultural and gendered assumptions. This chapter considers the handful of sources documenting Consuelo’s time at New Norcia, and argues that the disparity between accounts may reflect tensions between the roles Consuelo exercised and the identities she navigated as a Spanish-speaking missionary woman in a British colonial context.
A letter from the patriarch Benjamin II to the monks of Saint Macarius
(Peeters, 2012) Youssef, Youhanna; Monferrer-Sala, Juan Pedro
A life of their own: Preaching, radicalisation, and the early ps-Chrysostomica in Greek and Latin
(Brepols, 2017) Mayer, Wendy; Barone, Francesca P.; Macé, Caroline; Ubierna, Pablo A.
A Manuscript Doxology of saint Mark al-Antoni
(Beyrouth CEDRAC, 2013) Youssef, Youhanna; Samir, Samir Khalil; Monferrer-Sala, Juan Pedro
A midlife journey
(Connor Court, 2012) O'Collins, Gerry
An insider's account of the Second Vatican Council from one of the world's most prominent theologians, Fr Gerald O'Collins, SJ. In this volume, his midlife journey coincided with events that swept the world in the sixties and seventies: the death of President Kennedy, May '68 in France, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Vietnam War, and the spiritual revolution caused by Vatican II. In this timely volume, Fr Gerald O'Collins brings personal insights into those turbulent times inside and outside the Catholic Church.
A Monocultural Usage: διακον- words in Classical, Hellenistic, and Patristic Sources
(Brill, 2012) Collins, John
A scholarly consensus about the interpretation of the διακον - words has been in place for 70 years. The consensus maintains that early Christian writers adopted διακον - words because of their lowly connotations and imbued them with new meanings specific to Christian living and community arrangements. The new meanings had developed on the model of Jesus who came to serve others in self-giving love. A 1990 study of pre-Christian and early Christian Greek claimed to invalidate the consensus, a claim now supported in specialist publications. This paper extends sampling of usage into patristic usage. Implications for exegesis and ecclesiology are immediate.
A Plain Account of Christian Faithfulness; Essays in Honor of David B. McEwan
(Wipf & Stock, 2020) Fringer, Rob A.; Smith, Dean
A proposito di «La vocazione. Storie di gesuiti tra Cinquecento e Seicento» di Adriano Prosperi
(Istituto di Storia e Sociologia., 2017) Russell, Camilla
A Protestant Reflection on St Mary of the Cross
(ATF Press, 2010) Kitchen, Merrill; Cadwallader, Alan H.
Mary MacKillop was born in Melbourne at a time when Australia was changing from being ‘an extensive gaol,’ into a British colony. Her Scottish parents had been amongst more than two hundred thousand Protestant and Catholic settlers who migrated from Britain to Australia between 1831 and 1850 and this early diverse Australian colonial community, with its retained sectarian allegiances, was far from being well integrated. Religious affiliation provided a framework for self-identification of one group over and against the other and as a result, healthy communal relationships between these often narrowly focussed religious groups were inhibited severely. Sadly, the two things all the immigrants appear to have held in common were ‘an idealised picture of Christian womanhood’ and an ignorant agreement about the subjugation of the Australian indigenous population they were in the process of displacing! From a twenty-first century evangelical Protestant perspective, Mary McKillop is to be praised for her ability to move beyond sectarian strife and align herself with the God she found present in the midst of all humanity.

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