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Dissertation and bibliography

Essay By method of witness: revelation in Nicolas Berdyaev's religious philosophy and an extensive bibliography of Nicolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev.

Essays

This is a selection of some (hopefully better) of the essays I wrote for my theological studies in the School of Theology of Charles Sturt University at St. Mark's National Theological Centre, Canberra. Perhaps some may be of interest to you.

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Challenges to sacramental theology from ecological theology

The critical issues confronted by Cyprian of Carthage


A discussion of Augustine's description of a sacrament as a "sign of a sacred thing"


A discussion of Karl Rahner's maximthat the 'economic' Trinity is the 'immanent' Trinity and the'immanent' Trinity is the 'economic' Trinity'


The feminist contribution to the study of Christian ethics


Feminist implications for theological anthropology


Feminist theology's contribution to pastoral theology


The Filioque: help or a hindrance in our contemporary world of many religions?


The investiture controversy and the English church


The meaning of sacrament and its links with creation and incarnation


Ministry of the whole people of God


Notes on the virginal conception of Jesus Christ


The part played by monks and nuns in the evangelization of England


The Puritans in Elizabethan England: did their agenda change?


The role of Thomas Cranmer in English church reformation


Salus extra ecclesiam non est : an evaluation of the view that there is no salvation outside the church


Sexual ethics: pastoral counseling in a context of moral uncertainty


Sexuality, Christian identity and spirituality


Should Christians be 'green'?


Speaking of God in the midst of suffering: critical theodicy and pastoral practice


Spiritual guidance and the Pentecostal tradition


What do we mean when we say that in worship we 'come into the presence of God'?


Why was the Pentateuch compiled?


Wolfhart Pannenberg's eschatological ethics and their application to ecological theology.

Book reviews

God's Earth: religion as if matter really mattered, by Paul Collins. - North Blackburn : Dove Books, 1995.

Biblical Israel : a people's history, by Jorge Pixley. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992.

The living human document: revisioning pastoral counseling in a hermeneutical mode, by Charles V. Gerkin. Nashville: Abingdon, 1984.

She who is: the mystery of God in feminist theological discourse, by Elizabeth A Johnson. New York: Crossroad, 1993.

The Triune God: a biblical, historical and theological study, by Timothy Marsh. Dublin: Columbia Press, 1994.