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Item 1 Kings, 2 Kings(2020-01-01) Tasker, DavidItem A Biblical and Historical Reflection on the Theology of Ordination and Whether Women May be Ordained as Ministers in the Seventh-day Adventist Church(2015-01-01) Tasker, DavidThe Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church has tried on at least five previous occasions to resolve the issue of whether or not to ordain women ministers. Opposing sides use the same passages of Scripture, demonstrating convincingly that there are more layers to this issue than many care to admit. The chapter explores some of these layers, including historical roots for current practice, a review of the biblical practice of installing leaders, and how various models of Church determine ministry functions. Finally, an evaluation of the reasons given to prevent modern women from following in their steps.
Item A Biblical Theology of Ordination(2015-06-01) de Waal, KayleThis book chapter examines the New Testament evidence for or against ordination.
Item A Christian Aesthetic for the Arts(2013-01-01) Reynaud, DanielItem A Christian Aesthetic for the Arts(2013-01-01) Reynaud, DanielThe arts and modern Christianity, especially in its Evangelical Protestant forms, have often had an uneasy relationship. This chapter addresses a Christian aesthetic for the arts, proposing a biblical philosophical approach that helps give the arts their proper place in the Christian sphere.
Item A Church for the Twenty-First Century? A Case for Flexible Organizational Structures(2005-01-01) Oliver, BarryIn order to remain viable in the twenty-first century, the administrative structures of the global Seventh-day Adventist Church need to have an inherent flexibility which enables change. A study of those principles and factors which precipitated the organizational reform of 1901-1903 in the light of contemporary contextual realities reveals that such flexibility and the possibility of change was never precluded by the architects of that process. A healthy church is a church which can subject itself to scrutiny and be flexible enough to change when necessary.
Item A Message to Teens about Domestic Violence(2013-01-01) Bogacs, Paul; Fischer, Trafford ArthurIn this resource, Trafford Fischer interviews Paul Bogacs, a marriage and family therapist in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Paul is also a school counselor and has a keen interest in keeping young people heading in the right direction when it comes to relationships.
Item A Pocket Biography of Each Contributing Soldier(2018-01-01) Forbes, Marcia; Reynaud, DanielThis chapter gives a brief outline of each soldier whose diaries and letters were referenced in the book, excluding those whose letters were accessed via contemporary newspapers.
Item A Reflection on the Principal Findings of This Study(2017-12-01) McIver, RobEllen G. White and the other pioneers of Adventist Education in Australia were very clear on their vision for the schools they established. White insisted that “The great aim of the [Avondale] school is to lead the students to God” (White 1897), that education “is the harmonious development of the physical mental, and the spiritual powers” (White 1903: 13). For White and those around her that tried to put these and other principles into practice as they built their ideal school at Cooranbong. For them, true education developed the whole person, and paid especial attention to the spiritual needs of students.
The differences in Adventist Schools in Australia and the Solomon Islands between 1897 and 2017 are stark. There are differences in numbers, funding arrangements, and societal and Church expectations. The Seventh-day Adventist Church is also very different in 2017 to what it was in 1897. It has grown in numbers, it has a much better educated clergy and membership, and it has participated in the intellectual issues that have arisen in the last 120 years. It is hard to overstate the changes that have taken place in the church and society since 1897.
What has been the impact of all these changes on the perceptions of mission held by today’s teachers in Seventh-day Adventist schools Australia and the Solomon Islands? Furthermore, how congruent are these perceptions of mission with those of Ellen White and the other pioneers of Adventist education? The responses from the Australian teachers who chose, “Act in a manner which contributes to the physical, psychological, social and spiritual wellbeing of our students,” “Create an environment that makes it more likely that each student will accept Jesus Christ as their saviour and friend,” and the Solomon Island teachers who chose “Put into practice the teachings of the Adventist Church,” and “Lead students to join the Adventist Church and become baptized” among the main purposes for Adventist schools reveals that there is a very strong congruence between the perceptions of mission from today’s teachers and those of the pioneers who started the Adventist school system.
Item A Significant Shift in the Use of Resources in the 1960s and 1980s in the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia and the United States(2018-01-01) McIver, Robert K.I examine possible reasons for a dramatic stall in the growth rate of the number of ordained Seventh-day Adventist Church pastors in the 1960s and 1980s, despite growth in church membership and tithing.
Main outcomes: the number of pastors, teachers, churches, members, and other quantitative data from Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
I find that (1) growing disparity between potential and actual tithing (resulting in lower overall budget resources), and (2) internal church upheaval provide a ready explanation for the phenomena in the 1980s.
It also appears likely that some financial resources were moved from supporting ordained pastors to school teachers in Adventist schools. If this is the case, then the current age- and education-demographics of churches with attached denominational schools demonstrate that this has proved to be a very wise investment in the future of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Item A Sound Map of Revelation 8:7-12 and the Implications for Ancient Hearers(2018-11-06) de Waal, KayleA sound map of Rev. 8:7-12 is developed to uncover fresh meaning-making potential from this passage. Revelation 8:7-12 is acknowledged as a unit of text that symbolically depicts the blowing of the first four trumpets. The sound map will assist in identifying the organic structure of this unit of text in the wider trumpet series and minimize the complexity of understanding the imagery. The research unfolds from the perspective of the ancient hearers. The sound map highlights significant words and phrases from an aural perspective that assist the interpreter in the exegetical endeavour.
Item A Typology of Child Sponsorship Activity(2014-01-01) Watson, BradFraming the debate over child sponsorship in terms of legitimacy and changing perceptions of credible international humanitarian interventions, this chapter takes exception to the tendency of child sponsorship critics to assume that sponsorship funded activity is much the same everywhere and similar today when compared to sponsorship practice in the past. Mindful of ongoing critique of child sponsorship, this chapter seeks to position those international non-governmental organisations that utilise child sponsorship to fund interventions, in a landscape of contested ideas. It argues that informed critique of child sponsorship is best achieved through a typology of funded interventions. Four key types of sponsorship funded activity are identified as emerging over time, some of which are currently deemed to be less legitimate in terms of poverty reduction and are best seen as welfare measures aimed at individual children rather than community development or advocacy activities.
Item A Wider Angle: Australia's War Films of the New Millennium(2021-04-01) Reynaud, DanielAbstract
Australian war films have rarely been studied as a genre, though there is an implicit study of the Anzac war movie subgenre, which until the 21st Century has represented the bulk of Australian war film-making. This chapter first offers an overview of Australian war film genres from 1914-2000 and a summary of attempts at war film genre definitions, largely drawn from American studies. It then explores the ways in which post-2000 Australian war films fit, expand, modify and rupture existing war genre descriptions, creating a space which Australian war film productions can inhabit and can intermix both with other Australian genres and with international war film genres. Australian war cinema is part of a wider intertextual representation, and many of these characteristics and trends are shared with Australian television productions on war themes. The subgenre of Anzac movies continues, but with a shift from the relatively simplistic themes of the 1980s to more nuanced representations of Anzac encompassing more than just the First World War. An expanded palette of themes, settings, tropes, iconography and industrial conditions also emerges from other war films. Recent war films frequently cross genre boundaries, are more likely to participate in international collaborations and offer representations of war beyond the purely Australian.
Item Adventist Worship in the Making(2000-01-01) Oliver, BarryIt seemed to me that the way worship was being conducted in my home town in the 1950s was the way it must have been conducted in the Adventist Church since the year dot. But that is just not the way it was.
Item Against the Odds: The Fight to Free Lindy Chamberlain(2009-01-01) Young, Norman H.This book brings together the judgements, the most famous and insightful essays on the Lindy Chamberlain case, and new material reflecting upon the significance of these events which gripped the nation in the 1980s.
The most important of these is Lindy's own reflections, 25 years later, which reminds us that this case is about that saddest human experience, the death of a child.
Item Alexandrian School and the Trinitarian Problem(2014-01-01) Jankiewicz, DariusItem An Adventist Perspective on Tongues(1995-01-01) Roennfeldt, Ray C.Item Authority of the Christian Leader(2015-01-01) Jankiewicz, DariusItem Authority of the Christian Leader(2015-01-01) Jankiewicz, DariusItem 'Because Cowards Get Cancer Too’: Autopathography and First-Person Profiling in John Diamond’s Columns for The Times(2015-01-01) Rickett, CarolynThe UK journalist and broadcaster John Diamond chronicled his diagnosis and treatment of throat cancer over a period of almost four years in regular columns for The Times newspaper. His revelations did not employ the traditional tropes of ‘fighting’ and ‘battling’ cancer, and he actively resisted wearing any mantle of valorised courage. In fact, he requested that The Times change the original title of his entries which they had called ‘Diary of Courage’.
In his first-person confessions, Diamond’s embodied sense of an abject and mortal self indexes one of the central threats that illness poses because it potentially represents the antithesis of what society traditionally values: productivity and active participation. Instead of his body enacting the utilitarian story of efficiency and continuity, Diamond’s illness narratives typically portrayed disruption and disorientation. Ironically for a former broadcaster on BBC radio, the progression of cancer saw the removal of his tongue, heightening the performative role writing played in voicing his candid thoughts to an engaged public audience.
As sociologist Arthur Frank notes in his influential text The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness, and Ethics: ‘The illness story begins in wreckage, having lost its map and destination’ (1995: 164). Publishing regular newspaper columns did not ultimately offer Diamond the opportunity to defy physical death through the act of writing, but the profiling of his disease enabled an insight into the value of narrating the ‘wrecked’ self while dying.