Zadok Perspectives Issue 82

Clash of Civilisations? by Gorson Preece

The idol of empire by James Wellman

Trust and Terror: Biblical concepts of peace by Mark Brett

The Trinity, Western decadence and Islam by Rowan Gill

Slogans, solidarity, spirituality by David & Sue Lyon

A life worth living by Fred McArdle

The Passion of the Christ
Review by Spender Drew

You've never seen everything
Review by John Rees

Choosing against war
Review by Doug Hynd

Operation Spirit: the music of live
Review by Mick Pope

Escape from Kabul
Review by Deborah Storie

Crowned with glory and honor: Human rights in the biblical tradition
Review by Doug Hynd

Islam in Australia
Review by Mark Durie

S130 Ecotourism as Tentmaking and Development: A case study in innovative mission.
By Daniel Johnson
Autumn 2004
Tentmakers are described in this paper as Christians who use their work to support their Christian witness. The support may be with finances, access to another culture, and/or a context for service. Witness may be by evangelism, mercy, and/or justice. One option is for a a tentmaking entrepreneur to start a business, minister through its contacts, and operate it with ministry and service goals. Ecotourism is particularly appropriate for Christian entrepreneurs because they can help people enjoy God's creation of Indonesia's diverse environmental and cultural beauty. They could facilitate employment generation, training, advocacy, and a more just and sustainable industry. Furthermore, their business could bring people to Indonesia on cultural exchange tours for learning and community service.

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S131 Christian Engagement in Public Issues: a Missionary Challenge.
By Ian Barns
Autumn 2004
Christian engagement with public issues should be understood as a missionary task. Rather than engaging with public issues as an ethical task involving the application of general ethical principles, we need to articulate the gospel, not just as a message of personal salvation, or even as an abstract world view, but as an interpretive framework which can equip Christians to be more fiathful wintess of the Lordship of Christ in the public domain. This kind of engagmeent will reframe issues, to contest the taken for granted enlightenment notions of human autonomy, and re-vision them in terms of the alternative vision of God's Kingdom.