Seeing Christ in Australia Since 1850

Kerrie Handasyde is Academic Dean and Associate Professor History of Christianity at Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity, Australia.Sean Winter is Head of College and Associate Professor of New Testament at Pilgrim Theological College, University of Divinity, Australia.

• Ch 1 Seeing Christ in Australia: Introduction.- Part I Enduring Visions.- Ch 2 Christ as Lost Innocent: Lost Faith, Fickle Providence, and the Land’s Sacrificial Demands.- Ch 3 Christ as Bushranger: Ned Kelly as a Secular Christ.- Ch 4 Christ as Storyteller: Seeing Christ in the Lands Now Called Australia.- Ch 5 Christ as Anzac: How Is ‘Sacrifice’ Understood in Australian Educational Contexts?.- Ch 6 Christ as Work/er?: Labour and Redemption in Kylie Tennant’s Foveaux.- Part II Contemporary Sightings.- Ch 7 Christ as Princess of Pop.- Ch 8 Christ as Friend Betrayed: Queer Christology and the Catholic Imagination of Justin O’Brien.- Ch 9 Christ as Strange(r): The Elusiveness of Jesus in the Work of Nick Cave and Julie Dowling.- Ch 10 Christ as Prophet: Redemption and Prophecy in the Novels of Patrick White, Tim Winton and Alexis Wright.- Ch 11 Christ as Son and Brother: Jesus in Christos Tsiolkas’ Damascus.- Ch 12 Christ as Saviour of the West.