Zadok Perspectives Issue 78

Behind the lines in Iraq (& Ireland & Church) - an interview

Another Witness by Martin E Marty

Iraq, Terrorism and the new American Security Strategy by Jim Skillen

Another Perspective on Afghanistan by Deborah Storey

Ned Kelly: An Australian Christology by Darren Cronshaw

8 Mile
Review by Nick Spencer

Les Murray and Kevin Hart
Review by Paul Mitchell

Jesus and the gods of the New Age
Beyond Prediction: the Tarot & your spirituality
Review by Bill Stewart

The initmate Thomas Merton
Review by Peter Brown

King David: The real life of the man who ruled Israel
First & Second Kings then and now: "In the midst of change, God."
Review by Lindsay Wilson

Starting with the Spirit
Review by Graham Cole

The how and why of love
Review by Denise Cooper-Clarke

A visit to Vanity Fair
Review by Katherine Crawford

Intermarriange between Christians and Muslims
Review by Michelle Wade

S123 Islam and Christianity in Indonesia.
By Daniel Johnson
Autumn 2003
Muslim-Christian relations in Indonesia have been strained since the attempted communist coup of 1965. Muslim political interests have been pushing far and slowly gaining more power, They have managed to limit (but not totally restrict) Christian influence in the country. Christian missionaries have had their visas revoked and there have been reports of violence, church-burning, (and mosque burning) and persecution of Christians in Muslim majority areas. Most Indonesians hope for religious harmony, but Indonesia’s future stability is uncertain, especially after the Bali bombings. This history has changed Christian mission practice. Missionaries and some Indonesian churches are seeking to make their message and worship forms more relevant to their context, while carefully avoiding the syncretism so common in Indonesia.

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S124 Bioethics and the Threat to the Human.
By Graham Cole
Autumn 2003
This paper addresses key issues raised by a particular threat to human life that arises from our human inability to name who we are and why we matter in the scheme of things – reducing human life to having only instrumental value. This threat is compounded by the power of technological innovation and application, and its associated profits. Developments in biomedical science exemplify this power for example, the human genome project with all it portends for good (the treatment of disease) or ill (ideologically driven eugenics).

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