Zadok Catalogue 2007

Australian Spirituality

William Wilberforce, the Clapham Cabinet and liberating the captives in Australia
Associate Professor Stuart Piggin
Zadok Perspectives 95, Winter 2007
"Dear citizens of Sydney Town in the Colony of NSW, permit me, in this the year of our Lord, 1894, to introduce myself. My name is James Stephen. My father, also James, was one of Mr William Wilberforce''s best friends." A lecture given by Stuart Piggin at the Anti-slavery Conference, Sydney, March 2007.

Tim Winton's faith.
Tim Winton, in interview with Rachel Kuhn
Zadok Perspectives 86, Autumn 2005
It's a strange conundrum; we live on perhaps the most religious continent, and traditionally we've had the most irreligious society.

Nurturing Australia: an interview with Hugh Evans.
Dave Collis
Zadok Perspectives 84, Spring 2004
Hugh Evans is the founder of the Oak Tree Foundation, a movement of young Australians seeking to empower and equip children and youth in the developing world. The Oak Tree is Australia's first entirely youth-driven aid and development organisation, and in 2004 Hugh Evans won the "Young Australian of the Year" award.

Colonies of Heaven: Celtic Models for Today's Australian Church
By Darren Cronshaw
Zadok Paper S133, Spring 2004
One of the ways contemporary seekers are connecting with spirituality inside and outside the church is through Celtic spirituality. A number of Christian writers have started to explore the relevance of Cletic themes for the mission of the chuirch in the West. This paper applies some of their initial explorations to what is appropriate to the church in Australian culture and society. Early Celtic missionaries like Saint Patrick embraced Celtic culture wherever they could, which is a challenge facing the church in Australia as we search for identity (as a church and as a nation). Celtic church life valued communal expression, teamwork, and hospitality; virtues respected in our egalitarian, party-going Aussie culture. The Celts are perceived as being at home with nature and everyday spirituality, which suits many Australians llking for a relevant and holistic, rather than other-worldly faith. The diversity of Celtic worship recognising God's awesomeness and intimacy, and using informal gatherings, formal liturgies and numerous means of expression, offers a refreshing challenge to much contemporary Australian worship. Celtic tradition invites risk-taking in a journey of exploring new ways of doing church for today in Australia.

A response to an ancient land: being a new patriot of Australia.
Brenda Holt
Zadok Perspectives 84, Spring 2004
Texan-born, Brenda Holt reflects on the experience of becoming an Australian citizen, and the nature of patriotism in this country and her country of birth which she has recently visitied.

Baptism: An Australian sea change.
Brian Richards
Zadok Perspectives 79, Winter 2003
Baptism is an important part of the gospel. When we dive into the waters of baptism, we share with Jesus in his death and ressurection: life after drowning. A significant thing about the ocean is that it is unsettling and unsafe, it is always changing; we can understand the gospel in an Australian setting as a sea change that enables us to make waves.

Ned Kelly: “Such is Life” Towards a Ned Kelly based Christology,
Darren Cronshaw
Zadok Perspectives 78, Autumn 2003
Attention to the Kelly themes that are significant aspects of the life and ministry of Christ could help strengthen Aussie evangelism.

Reflections on an Anzac Day Service.
Doug Hynd
Zadok Perspectives 72, Spring 2001
The claim to the benefits of sacrifice is powerful.

Art with Heart: Exploring Australian Spirituality.
Jennie Teasdale
Zadok Perspectives 71, Winter 2001
It seems that most Australians are searching for a spirituality that is uniquely Australian and that is grounded in where they are now and why they are in that context.

What is the Soul of Zadok?
Jim Barr
Zadok Perspectives 69, Summer 2000
What difference could a thousand thinking Christians make in Australia? At one level (you might think) not too much – but then Jesus seemed to do alright with only twelve.

Football Hopes.
John Harms
Zadok Perspectives 68, Spring 2000
Intrigued by the passion that football generates, sports author John Harms’ research shows that footy alerts us to the existence of the inner being and inner life. What is it about Australian rules football? Why does it get into the soul?

Olympic Armageddon?
Rob Hess
Zadok Perspectives 68, Spring 2000
Criticism of sport in Australia is often seen as ‘un-Australian’ and there is little reflection in the media on the cultural significance of sport. Rob Hess analyses some of the issues facing the 2000 Olympic Games as the IOC tries to control an event of monstrous proportions.

So Long Souths
Graeme Cole
Zadok Perspectives 68, Spring 2000
Graeme Cole reflects on the death of the South Sydney Rugby Club. Souths have won more premierships than any other Club, provided more Rugby League international players and had always paid its way. Yet this counted for nothing

The Song of Tracks that Wind Back.
Cavan Brown
Zadok Perspectives 63, Autumn 1999
The last article in Zadok’s series on the spirituality of the Australian land reflects on the track of Henry Lawson’s Drover’s Wife.

The Song of the Emu.
Cavan Brown
Zadok Perspectives 62, Spring/Summer 1998/1999.
This third article in our series on themes in Australian spirituality is the song of the bird with the odd feather.

The Song of the Desert.
Cavan Brown
Zadok Perspectives 61, Winter 1999
Reflections on the other side of silence. This is the second article in series on themes in Australian spirituality.

Towards an Australian Spirituality.
Veronica Brady
Zadok Paper S93, Summer 1998
The stereotypical non-Aboriginal Australian is not a deeply religious person. Along with the loss of heritage from the home country has come a certain stubborn resilience and an aversion to formal religion. According to Veronica Brady, however, that is not the end of the story. In the first place, true spirituality is quite different from religiosity. Ironically, some of the very elements of our turning away from things religious may open the door to the blossoming of a genuine Australian spirituality. Our familiar armour of self-reliance and materialism is looking less sturdy. Vulnerability in the face of a vast and arid land has always lurked not far beneath our cheerful surface. We may even be ready at last to face the history of our cruel dispossession of the original inhabitants of this country.

The Magpie's Songlines: Creation's Songs of the Red Earth.
Cavan Brown
Zadok Perspectives 60, Autumn 1998
To know the songlines of the land is to know the world in its dimensions of matter and spirit.

Australian Culture: a review of the culture of the majority of Australians
Ruth Sturmey
Zadok paper S40, 1988
A particularly insightful and though provoking review of the culture of the majority of Australians - that is, the European based or western-based culture which is, in one form or another, the possession of the majority of Australians.

Meaning in Life and the Role of Religion, Beliefs and Practices Study: preliminary observations
Philip Hughes
Zadok Paper S29, 1986
This paper takes us to a very basic level of the meaning of religion in Australia, examining some of the Christian Research Association's early data.

Sinfulness and Cultural Patterns: Theological reflections on the relationship between religion and values
Philip Hughes
Zadok Paper S28, 1986
Hughes reflects theologically on his findings from the Australian Values Study Survey and shows how our social context determines much of our common values and behaviour. He discusses these results in terms of the relationship between Christianity and culture.

Going public: reflections on Zadok's role in Australian society
Ian Barns
Zadok Paper S86, Autumn 1997
This paper was first presented at the Zadok Going Public Conference, May 1996. Ian Barns looks at current cultural and philosophical trends in Australia and searches for a theology of gospel and kingdom which has the potential to adequately respond to these trends. He suggests that the familiar individualistic evangelical approach will not suffice. Some radical reframing will be required if Zadok is to find an effective public voice in our society.

Report from the Australian Values Study Survey
Philip Hughes
Zadok Paper S25, 1985
A discussion of the AVSS data which reveals that Christians do not differ significantly in their values from the rest of the community.

Australian Christianity
Jim Stebbins
Zadok Paper R3, 1984
A brief survey of the history of Australian Christianity and an annotated guide to the most significant literature.

Ways of Seeing Australian Society
David Hickman
Zadok Paper S3, 1982
A fascinating description of Australian Society, outlining the key features and protagonists of six social ideologies from Radicalism to Spartan Conservatism, plus an overview of recent Australian social history.

Historical Models for Christianity in Australia
Jim Stebbins
Zadok Paper S19, 1982
The models used are the Anglican Church in early Sydney, the Catholic Church's move towards an Irish identity, and the growth of the Methodist Churches during and after the gold rushes.

Christianity in Australian Society
David Millikan
Zadok Paper S12, 1980
David Millikan believes a reason for the current decline of mainline Christianity is its alien cultural form in Australia. He explores the way the Church may indigenize the Gospel.

Demographic Trends and the Place of Religion in Australia - A Brief Survey
Robin Pryor
Zadok Paper S13, 1980
Australia's demographic patterns have changed dramatically in the last thirty years. Robin Pryor surveys the relationship between these changing patterns and
religious belief.

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