Eureka Street

Keywords: Divine

ARTS AND CULTURE

Her words' worth
- Morag Fraser
- 02 July 2008
10 Comments
When we began Eureka Street in 1991, it was a given that we'd publish a cryptic crossword. I like to believe it was divinely ordained that it should be Joan, only and always, who'd keep us gridded, intellectually tempered and clued up.
READ MORE
ARTS AND CULTURE

French war drama's slack grip on story
- Tim Kroenert
- 22 May 2008
2 Comments
Hannah's tragic choices are underscored by her desire to neither deny nor conceal her Jewish roots. The questions regarding cultural identity, matrimonial propriety and parental instincts that pervade Un Secret are interesting, but are not articulated concisely.
READ MORE
ARTS AND CULTURE

Denying the divine
- Adrian Gibb
- 23 April 2008
11 Comments
Through a scientific imbalance, I, and about ten percent of my world's populace, am unable to experience anything beyond normal human intellectual capacity. We became mediators, lecturers, scientists and editors — anything which required a complete lack of spiritual moral parameters.
READ MORE
RELIGION

How to find God in ordinary human hope
- Andrew Hamilton
- 12 December 2007
2 Comments
Pope Benedict's encyclical Spe Salvi assumes the fragmentation of hope in today's world will not be addressed simply by the secular world adding God to its limited hopes. Instead it involves the nurturing of a Christian imagination that overcomes the breach between divine and human.
READ MORE
RELIGION

Why militant anti-theism is a God-send
- Scott Stephens
- 18 May 2007
26 Comments
The term “atheist” seems too respectable for the position occupied by commentators such as Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins. They are anti-theists, opposed in principle to every last attachment to the divine, leading many to accuse them of a kind of inverted fundamentalism that lacks the core modern virtue of tolerance or respect for others.
READ MORE
RELIGION

Chaplains, values and Australia's providential destiny
- Andrew Hamilton
- 27 February 2007
9 Comments
When Australians have spoken about national providence, they associate it with a sense of mission. Mission and providence belong together. A God who played favourites would be subdivine. So God’s blessing must be given for all.
READ MORE
RELIGION

The Anglican division: God's love lost?
- Charles Sherlock
- 10 July 2006
'The Anglican Church' is dividing, according to recent media statements. Some Anglicans seem to be taking such extreme stances, at the risk of turning communion as divine gift into communion as reward for holding certain stances on lifestyle. What difference does all this make to the life of an Australian Anglican diocese or parish?
READ MORE