Theological and Hermeneutical Explorations from Australia

Jione Havea is native Methodist pastor (Tonga) and research fellow with Trinity Theological College (Aotearoa) and with the Public and Contextual Theology Research Centre of Charles Sturt University (Australia).

• List of FiguresPrefaceAcknowledgment1Bloody (con)TextsJione HaveaPart 1: Roots2.Postcolonial Colonialism and its Multiple Contexts of SolidarityMark G. Brett3.A Kaleidoscopic Vessel Sailing a Kyriarchal Ocean: The Third Wave Feminist Theologies of Women-Church (1987–2007)Anita J. Monro4.The Reason We Do Not Hear: Theology Struggling with its Colonial LocationChris Budden5.Multiculturalism as Theology and Policy: The Challenges and PossibilitiesJohn G. FlettPart 2: Wounds6.Grace and Disgraced: Child Sexual Abuse and the Holy Roman Catholic Australian ChurchCristina Lledo Gomez7.When Easter Dawns and All is Not Well: A Pastoral Encounter with DisappointmentCathryn McKinney8.Faithfulness or Betrayal? Tradition in “Geriatric Assemblies”Stephen BurnsPart 3: Shifts9.Images of Jesus and Masculinity in the Work of the Artist Reg MombassaRod Pattenden10.Climate as ContextAnne Elvey11.Reframing the Way We Read the Glorified (Veiled) Moses at Sin

"Settlers" in a culture more than forty thousand years old now engaging their faith traditions may well ask: To whom might we listen? Where might we look? From whom might we learn and why? With whom might we talk? How do we celebrate? How might we grace one another in our life together? Searching for theologies catholic enough to address such questions – and many more, the writers in this collection of essays provoke the willingness to contribute to the regeneration of how the ‘home’ we all share with a multiplicity of other creatures may become richly hospitable to one and all. Much to be done. Begin here!