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1968: THE YEAR OF MOUNTING LUCIDITY
(Missionswissenschaftliches Instiut der SVD, 2018) Prior, John
1968 was for the author "a year of mounting lucidity". The year of turmoil among students throughout the western world saw him complete three years of tertiary education in the west of Ireland, and commence four more years in north London, UK. This esays brings out decisive influences by key books and persons that have directed his life over the past half century. Accepting the naivity of youth, yet as the bibliography shows, he commited to a clear direction which he has attempted to follow subsequently in both academic and pesonal life.
“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 Call to Contemplation: Peace Politics and the Church
(1988-10) Kane, John F
Abstract currently unavailable on this website.
A Catholic Community Response to the 2009 Bushfires
(2011) Webber, Ruth
This paper is about how three Catholic agencies carved out and adapted over time a role for themselves in assisting in the recovery after the Victorian bushfires of 2009. It tracks the process from the time the Archbishop of Melbourne commissioned Catholic Social Services Victoria to survey the bushfire affected areas and work out where there were gaps in services that the Catholic agencies could fill. A significant amount of funding was allocated to the provision of services by Catholic agencies for a period of up to three years in the bushfire affected regions. This was seen as a Catholic response to an extraordinary natural disaster. This was organisationally difficult because there are in excess of sixty Catholic welfare services in Victoria and it was necessary to determine who would be best able to meet the gaps and deliver appropriate services. 1 It was clear that the aim was not to replicate or compete with existing services, it was to meet real needs and to do this in a cooperative and collegial way with existing players.
A Spirituality of pleasure, and its methodologies
(2019) Dupuche, John
Michael Davide Semeraro OSB, from the Koinonia of the Visitation monastery at Rhêmes Notre-Dame in the Aosta Valley, states that there is a need to move from “a theology of mortification to a theology of pleasure […] which will enable us to continue to live as we did in the past […] but with a new freedom and responsibility.” This article seeks to help satisfy this need. It sets out the necessary methodologies and then proposes a spirituality of pleasure. The methodologies are presented separately, for the sake of clarity, but in fact they intertwine and interact.
A Textual Parallel between the Arnhem mystical sermons and the Temple of Our Soul. Comparing their Incorporation of the Liber de Spiritu et Anima and Jordanus of Quedlinburg’s sermons.
(Peeters, 2013-12) Langhans-Cornet, Ineke
This article compares the Arnhem mystical sermons and the Temple of our Soul regarding the nature of the use of sources and the differences and similarities in theological emphasis between the authors and their sources. The article also examines the question if one of the authors of the Arnhem mystical sermons and the Temple made use of each other’s text, which would have implications for the dating of the Arnhem mystical sermons, or if the authors of the Temple and the Arnhem mystical sermons quote Jordanus’ sermon and/or Ps.-Augustine independently of each other. This article will employ a comparative literary analysis of the texts of Ps.-Augustine, Jordanus, the Temple, and the Arnhem mystical sermons. The first section analyses the structure and genres of the four texts and the positioning of the parallel passages in order to examine the differences and similarities. The second section compares the specific parallel passages in order to examine the ways in which the authors of the Temple and the Arnhem mystical sermons quote Jordanus’ sermon and Ps.-Augustine.
Abbot as Guardian or Cultivator of Virtue: Gender and the cura monialium
(Merton Priory Press, 2002) Hotchin, Julie; Rasmussen, Linda; Spear, Valerie; Tillotson, Dianne
Histories of the cura monialium, or the pastoral care of nuns, have tended to be written within the context of the history of the different monastic orders, and consequently from a predominantly male perspective. The obligation for abbots and their monks to provide spiritual services to religious women has been presented as an onerous responsibility that distracted them from their primary contemplative role. The female perspective on this relationship is less readily discerned. The correspondence from the Benedictine abbey of Reinhardsbrunn contains letters that offer an opportunity to explore the different concerns of both men and women as participants in the cura monialium.
Abhishiktananda Centenary Symposium
(2011) Dupuche, John
Aboriginal Dreaming as a Text
(ATF Press, 2005) Martin, J. Hilary; O'Brien, Mark; Kelly, Michael
John Hilary Martin, in a sensitive and skilled way, explores similarities or otherwise between the Biblical historical narrative and Aboriginal Dreaming and shows how text is constituted by the oral narratives that are formed from the deeper meaning of the Aboriginal Dreaming.
Accountability in Discernment: Our Life and Death is in Our Neighbour
(Uniting Church Centre for Theology and Ministry, Melbourne, 2011-08) Massam, Katharine
Against a wide-spread assumption that discernment is an individual concern into which the Christian community should not intrude or even enquire too closely, this article explores the monastic understanding of discernment and the role of accountability in ensuring good decisions are made. The Christian tradition has linked ‘discernment’ powerfully to ‘humility’, ‘obedience’, ‘accountability’, and ‘the infinite horizon of God’s Reign’. Weaving these qualities and attitudes together offers checks and balances to the tendency to see discernment as a personal matter for an individual and God. The paper argues that ‘authentic discernment is a spiritual gift and fruit of humility, made possible by a loving community.’
Ageing and death: A Buddhist Christian Conceptual Framework for Spirituality in Later Life
(Routledge, 2006) Palapathwala, Ruwan; Mackinlay, Elizabeth
With reference to the Buddhist idea of anatta, and the Christian concept of pneuma, this chapter outlines a framework for meaningful spirituality in later life. It critically examines the importance of consumerist constructs on human life, which propogate a denial of death and ageing. This essay argues that the Buddhist and Christian notions are complementary, and can help frame a more meaningful understanding of self and spirituality in later life.
"Alive"
(ChinaSource, 2023-08-21) Yang, Xiaoli
'An Arduous and Worrisome Duty': Hildegard and Monastic Leadership
(Morning Star, 2016) Hotchin, Julie; Massam, Katharine; Toso, Fotini
Monastic superiors - men and women, who, like Hildegard, were entrusted with responsibility for the spiritual and practical care of the souls entrusted to them - feature in large numbers among her correspondents. Their petitions to the seer express the frailties and doubts besetting men and women struggling to live up to the demands of office, offering a revealing insight into the psychological and spiritual landscape of monastic leadership in the twelfth century. Analysis of Hildegard’s epistolary exchanges with monastic superiors of both sexes illustrates the extent to which men and women shared similar experiences as they negotiated the complexities of providing spiritual instruction to, and exercising authority over, their communities. The teaching conveyed in Hildegard’s responses stresses the authority and obligations inherent in the role of superior, irrespective of gender – expanding our understanding of how female leadership in institutional settings was perceived.
An art of contemplative practice course
(Australian Association for Religious Education, 2013) Bentley, Peter
The Art of Contemplative Practice course was established in 2011 in response to a growing awareness that participants coming into the Art of Spiritual Direction course were missing some basic principles of spiritual practice that would aid them in their formation as spiritual directors. Since its introduction, the course has been found to be transformative for both those coming into the spiritual direction course and a broader group of participants.
An Intertextual Reading of Torah and Māori Spirituality - from the Perspective of a New Zealander
(Women Scholars of Religion & Theology, 2013) Hart, Sarah
Affinities exist between the Māori and Jewish way of living life. Primary and secondary source texts are now readily accessible for both traditions in English. Jews live in contemporary society according to concepts of tamei (impure) and tahor (pure) and Maori live with concepts of tapu (what is forbidden and restricted) and noa (unrestricted or free from tapu). Both binary systems are God-centred and experienced with the human body in daily life. When the human body or land becomes polluted, that is, in a state of negative noa or tamei, there are ramifications for the individual and the community concerned—psychological and physical. Both Māori and Jews are challenged to find ways of living and find meaning in these very old binary systems that impinge on their bodies in modern society. Aspects of Torah and Māori spirituality challenge us too, such as guardianship of the environment and financial ideals of social equitability.
An ordinary gift: The work of art as theological conversation
(2017-11-23) Mallaby, Leanne; Byrne, Libby
This case study considers the nature of making, seeing and being with art in a dialogue about the experience of Libby Byrne’s exhibition, ‘An Ordinary Gift’ in Melbourne, 2016. The article explores the nature of making, seeing and being with art as a methodological framework for theological inquiry. Bringing to bear their experiences as artist and curator, two researchers examine recorded viewers’ responses to the exhibition, as a means of understanding the nature of theological engagement and insight that was possible in the process of making, being with and seeing this public exhibition. The article acknowledges that the work of art offers an ordinary gift of containment for the ineffable qualities of our lived experience with God. A faith-ful framework of communal engagement can therefore offer an external reference point that guides and shapes the making, the seeing and even the ways in which we are able to be with art. As we transform the way we engage with theological questions and concerns we are in turn transformed by the ordinary gift of making, seeing and being with art.
André Comte-Sponville, The Book of Atheist Spirituality, translated by Nancy Huston, London, Bantam Books, 2009. 212 pp. originally published in French as L’esprit de l’athéisme, Paris, Editions Albin Michel.
(Australian Catholic University, 2010-08-16) Dupuche, John
This challenging work draws on the best French traditions of critical enquiry, telling phraseology, and perceptiveness, and raises many questions which Christians need to answer. It attempts to show how atheism can be a spiritual system even as it denies the existence of God.
Aphrahat and the Crazy Sage of the Jews, Jewish-Christian Polemics in 4th century Persia with Syriac text and Serbian translation of Aphrahat: On Faith [Афраат и луди мудрац Јевреја; Превод: Афраат: О вери]
(Отачник, 2009) Tumara, Nebojsa
The article brings a segment of the Jewish-Christian polemic/dialogue in Late Antiquity Mesopotamia, as reconstructed from Aphrahat's Demonstrations and Jewish textual sources. included is Serbian translation of Syriac Text: Aphrahat, On Faith.
The Art of Listening During Pandemics: From a Poet's Gaze
(SDI Press, 2022-09-09) Yang, Xiaoli; Kristen Hobby
Art Therapy and Spirituality
(Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018) Byrne, Libby; Lindsay, Carey; Bernice, Mathieson

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