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Common Theology » Blog Archive » Home Truths – The Sanctity of Personal Space

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The Sanctity of Personal Space. He Australian discussion of the secrecy of confession has generally focused on whether priests can be exempted on religious grounds from the duty of disclosing to the authorities crimes revealed in confession. The inclusion of psychiatrists raises a larger and more important question: can the exemption of certain privileged conversations from the duty of disclosure be justified on the grounds of the public good? The space in which citizens. Reflect on their lives should be.

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Just a line to assure you that your magazine is very welcome in our house! It’s always refreshing and thoughtful and I’d hate to see it close. So please keep up your informative articles. With best wishes for future issues. Peter and Robyn Ashley-Brown. I do enjoy your magazine and pass it on to our son. I am also ‘aged’ but would love to continue if you do. I don’t know what to suggest as to role and content of. In the future. I like it just as it is. However, one of our OGS members edited. It might be ...

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Common Theology » Blog Archive » From the Editor

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T’s been a long time between editions. Your editor took on a year’s full-time study in 2012 and naively imagined Common Theology could be produced in the vacations. Needless to say, it didn’t work. Hopefully the riches of this edition will make up for the long wait. Psychology began to take the place of pastoral care in the last century, but these sometimes warring disciplines are now finding they have more in common than originally thought. Sarah Baker takes a professional look at the place of relig...

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Common Theology » Blog Archive » Gravitas of Grey Power for Peace

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Gravitas of Grey Power for Peace. The wisdom of age is priceless where all else fails. From behind-the-scenes advocacy to occasional blasts of indignation Sophie Grove. Examines what makes the Elders effective after observing them at work during their trip to South Sudan last year. He combined diplomatic super powers of ten global leaders known as The Elders, formed by Nelson Mandela and led by chairman Desmond Tutu, are taking on the world’s most complex problems. Ahtisaari is in formidable company....

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Common Theology » Blog Archive » The Dialects of Counselling — boundaries in faith and practice

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The Dialects of Counselling. Boundaries in faith and practice. Is currently completing her studies for an Advanced Diploma in Integrative Counselling at the Iron Mill Institute, Exeter, England. She considers the tensions of faith and counselling. S a trainee counsellor and a Christian, my pursuit of the interface between faith and therapy has been an essential part of my. As Scott observed, ‘there is a tendency in the psychotherapy and counselling worlds to give the. 3 and for all of us who straddle the...

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Common Theology » Blog Archive » The Jesus Driven Life

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An antithesis of violence. The Jesus Driven Life: Reconnecting Humanity with Jesus. Lancaster, PA: JDL Press, (2010), 318 pages, ISBN: 978-1-4507-0945-3. Reviewed by Roland Croucher. Hen well-read Christians list the most influential exponents of their faith the names include Paul, Augustine, Aquinas, Luther, Calvin, Barth, Bonhoeffer, Tillich, C S Lewis. All of which involves huge leaps of theo-logic, of course, and raises many questions. To take just one at this point: Are Hardin and Walter Wink, a...

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Common Theology » Blog Archive » Peacemaking is hard yakka

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Peacemaking is hard yakka. Urrently the word ‘treaty’ is like a spark to dry tinder in Australian public opinion. Even discussing treaty is political suicide for federal lawmakers. But small geographical entities, such as a local church and Aboriginal custodians, could conceivably manage a piece of land together with integrity, via treaty. Even so, there was anxiety on Stradbroke Island when news of this historic meeting leaked out. Restoration of unity was the only. Platform upon which estranged. Five m...

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Eureka Street is a publication of the Australian Jesuits. It existed as a monthly, and briefly bi-monthly, print magazine for 16 years, commencing in March 1991. Today it exists as a vibrant online journal of analysis, commentary and reflection on current issues in the worlds of politics, religion and culture. It aims to participate in public discussion and influence public opinion regarding the Things That Matter in Australia and the world. No 4 Winter 2013. Peacemaking is hard yakka. A Faith to Live By.

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Common Theology » Blog Archive » A faith to live by – by Roland Ashby

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A Faith to Live By: Conversations about faith with twenty-five of the world’s leading spiritual teachers. By Roland Ashby 2012, Mosaic Press, Preston. ISBN 9781743241431. Reviewed by David Patterson. There are more names readers will recognise in this collection Michael Leunig, John Polkinghorne, Joan Chittester, Morris West, and others. Philadelphia, and influenced by the work of Mother Teresa; or Professor Owen Gingerich, Emeritus Professor of Astronomy and History of Science at Harvard University, and...