Zadok Perspectives Issue 93

An eye on the Earth by Peter Crabb

Who is Jesus Christ for us today: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Centenary by Gordon Preece

Voices from Tegel Prison 1943-44 by Peter Hynd

Jesus in AUstralia: some reflections on Peter Jensen's 2005 Boyer Lectures by Ian Barns

Miami Vice
Review by Darren Mitchell

Compassionate Community Work: an introductory course for Christians.
Review by Lin-Hatfield Dodds

Simply Christian
Review by Mick Pope

Waterwise House & Garden
Review by Mick Pope

Church and civil society: a theology of engagement
Review by Darren Cronshaw

God down under: theology in the Antipodes
Review by Darren Cronshaw

S150 Who is Bonhoeffer for us Today?
By John W de Gruchy
Summer 2006
Understanding and interpreting Bonhoeffer is an ongoing project both in terms of his own development and in relation to our different and ever changing local and global contexts. Through his witness to Christ, Bonhoeffer helps us to see things from the perspective of those who suffer enabling us to move from phraseology to reality in our discipleship. Faithfulness to his legacy is not parroting his words or trying to emulate his deeds, important as they may be, but following more faithfully the One to whom he ponted.

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S151 Dietrich Bonhoeffer and a theological ethic of initiative.
By Michael Duncan
Summer 2006
For Bonhoeffer, Christian discipleship was not a call to choice-less obedience but to responsible freedom to think, choose, decide and act. To be a disciple is to be free. To follow Jesus is an invitation to live. To serve God is to use one's will, imagination and initiative.