Zadok Perspectives Issue 67

Encountering Jesus in Disneyland by David Lyon

Prospects for ReEnchantment by David Tacey

ReEnchantment: the new Australian Spirituality by Bill Stewart

The Job Network tender by Doug Hynd

Tendering unto Caesar by Robert Fitzgerald

Raising Resident Aliens by Liz Hatfield Doods and Brenda Holt

Plastic Jesus: Spirituality in the Packaging Industry by Jim Barr

True Stories in Black & White by Terry Cleary

Reconciling Vocation, Family and Quality of Life

Mothering, Spirituality and the Public Debate by Jennifer Sinclair

Discipleship in "The Matrix"
Review by Ian Barns

Primo Levi: Tragedy of an Optimist
Review by John Rees

Biology and the Riddle of Life
Review by Greg Restall

S106 From Separation to Synergy: Receiving the Richness of Generation X.
By Kath Donavan
Winter 2000
There is a significant cultural gap across generations which prevent each from really hearing what the other generation is saying. There is a widespread idea among older Christians that Generation X has rejected absolutes. Dr Donovan argues that what they are really rejecting is second hand truth. The insights of missiology are used to discover how to bridge the cultural gap between modernism and Generation X in order that the church will move from separation to synergy.

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S107 How do you Post to Postmodernity? Christian Education and Communication in a Post or Hyper-Modern Age.
By Gordon Preece
Winter 2000
This paper explores the social, moral and educational implications of the nature of post or hyper-modernity as the speeding up and fragmenting of modern industrial and technological processes and the turnover of capital in information, service and image-based societies. These lead to a breaking up of society into a bewildering variety of identity and interest groups, with their own lifestyles and values. A sense of total flux and relativism often results. Post-modernity’s rejection of all master narratives as dividing people into masters and slaves leaves us ‘free’ but with no sense of an over-arching story or meaning to direct our freedom. This paper argues that there is an appropriately modest yet confident Christian ‘master narrative without masters’ which enables us to still speak of moving towards truth, without using it as a truncheon to reinforce our own power over others.

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