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Perspectives 2013 Peter Corney Jim Reiher Paul 120 SPRING PERSPECTIVES 2013 PETER CORNEY JIM REIHER PAUL RICHARDSON IN THIS ISSUE... 2 Editorial 23 The Challenges of Cultural Gordon Preece Discipleship Richard J Mouw COLUMNS 26 Lincoln Directed by Steven Spielberg 4 Everyday Spirituality: Beyond the ballot box 27 Hear the Ancient Wisdom Alison Sampson Charles Ringma 5 Provocations: Politics: the bad news POETRY and the good news Paul Tyson 28 Chimes Carolyn Vimpani Death of Cold READINGS Jean Sietzema-Dickson 6 The future of Rain Reflection Xiaoli Yang democracy in a post Christian world ZADOK PERSPECTIVES is the quarterly journal of Ethos: EA Centre for Christianity and Society, Peter Corney PO Box 175, Box Hill 3128 PHONE: (03) 9890 0633 EMAIL: [email protected] WEB: www.ethos.org.au ETHOS MISSION STATEMENT: To help God’s Why do some scattered people live biblically in their personal, 11 working, community and political relationships Christians vote Green? through modelling civil engagement and informed Christian dialogue through publications and forums. Jim Reiher EDITORIAL POLICY: Views expressed in articles or ads are not necessarily the Ethos Centre’s. Use A revolution that failed of articles only with editor’s permission. Articles, 14 poetry, letters and reviews are welcomed by the editor. Authors and reviewers are encouraged to to take off obtain the updated Zadok Style Manual. Paul Richardson EDITORIAL BOARD: COMMISSIONING EDITOR: Gordon Preece [email protected] COORDINATING EDITOR: Janet Down, Mick Pope (reviews), Darren Cronshaw. REVIEWS ETHOS BOARD: CHAIR: Andre Van Eymeren, VICE CHAIR: Brian Edgar, Di Brown, Gordon Preece, Lindsay Gale, Denise Cooper-Clarke. Politics with Purpose 15 ZADOK Lindsay Tanner DESIGN: Redfish Bluefish [Creative] PRINT: Openbook Howden The End of Evangelicalism? ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS (incl GST): Perspectives 120 SPRING 2013 19 and Papers $70 p.a. or add Ethos’ Equip magazine David E Fitch for an additional $50 p.a. Zadok membership is now Ethos membership $275 p.a. Perspectives and Papers for library & reference use $130 p.a. To Change the World For non-reference institutions see www.ethos.org.au. 20 ISSN 0810-9796 Print Post appr. 100005614 James Davison Hunter ABN 17 344 821 411 2 EDITORIAL The Choice: Rudd’s Bonhoeffer Bonfire or Abbott’s Amnesia About Catholic Social Thought? Gordon Preece critique of Lutheran Two Kingdoms key parts (albeit coerced by Gillard and theology with its split between the Swan), became his albatross. Here he personal life of faith in the spiritual makes the famous statement about hen self-proclaimed Kingdom and the political life of the climate change as ‘the fundamental ‘God-botherer’ worldly Kingdom. Rather than focusing ethical challenge of our time’, which politicians publicly on privatised issues, Bonhoeffer wanted has become a political football: the nail their colours to a Church engaged ‘in the middle of carbon tax was temporarily shelved; the Christian mast, the village’. Implicit in this is the then Gillard promised not to have Wthey’re almost inevitably hoisted on problem of how Christian politicians one; now Rudd has advanced carbon their own petard. So it gives me no or citizens theologically engage the trading by one year. It is still the great pleasure to examine PM Kevin Rudd’s village marketplace or agora, à la Paul in moral issue of our time, demanding current policies in the light of his boldly Athens, when the market has mastered a courageous, long-term, sacrificial, Luther-esque ‘Here I Stand’ 2006 article and muzzled the conversations of town prudential and bipartisan approach, on Bonhoeffer, now found in my and Ian hall, cathedral and philosophers’ stoa. the equivalent of the World War II Packer’s edited Bonhoeffer Downunder Rudd next sets Bonhoeffer in emergency – but without the violence. (www.atfpress.com). Christian history, with the early (My friend Mark Nation’s new book Rudd’s title, ‘Faith in Politics’, is persecuted church of oppressed shows that Bonhoeffer, was not party to a revealingly unintended double- outsiders before, under Emporer the assassination of Hitler – something entendre. Is it the role of relatively Constantine, they often became Rudd’s new rules re Labor keeping its independent faith in politics, or is it faith persecuting insiders. He sees the church elected leaders has ensured will not in politics itself, politics as pseudo-faith returning to its minority status in the happen again to him). or religion? When planning the 2006 past 200+ years of rising secularism. Guy Rundle, like Robert Manne, once Bonhoeffer centenary conference in This is the natural, default setting for keen on Rudd’s Bonhoeffer platform, Melbourne, I’d seen a line from Rudd Christians, with the prophets; the Jesus rightly said that ‘the degree to which claiming Bonhoeffer as his hero, along who challenged hypocritical religious Bonhoeffer has become someone with his photo in the Zadok office as part leaders; with Bonhoeffer, ‘the Thomas to quote back at Rudd has been of our public servants network. The new More of Protestantism’; and with Labor remarkable’. He did it himself, saying Labor opposition leader, appointed at icon Ben Chifley and his biblical ‘Light that Rudd on Afghanistan was more Billy least partly to neutralise John Howard’s on the Hill’ image. Hughes than Bonhoeffer, the people stranglehold over much of the 10% or The broad brush of Rudd paints smuggler (http://tinyurl.com/luth3t7/). so Christian vote, was a shoo-in as after- Bonhoeffer alongside the Roman Rundle’s Arena colleague, Geoff Sharp, dinner speaker. This speech became Catholic social tradition, (the one Tony asked prophetically in ‘Christian values Rudd’s influential Monthly article in Abbott has amnesia about), balancing and Kevin Rudd’s wedge’, (Arena October 2006 charting an alternative the rights of labor and capital, rather Magazine, Feb. 2007), ‘Can Rudd’s Bonhoefferian and Christian Socialist than just being concerned with a narrow ethics survive the day-to-day demands politics ‘from below’. set of mainly sexual, moral issues of politics?’ i.e. the 24/7 news cycle, For ‘Bonhoeffer is the man I admire and family values (the one Abbott the 24/7 Kevin mythology and the dire most in the 20th century. He was a man remembers). For Bonhoeffer, the Gospel electoral position he’s inherited. of faith … a man of reason … a man is both spiritual and political, inspiring Even I couldn’t resist using Bon- of letters. He was never a nationalist, a comprehensively inclusive socio- hoeffer to measure Rudd’s policies, but always an internationalist’. The economic polity and vision. trying to apply both sides of Bonhoeffer, affinities are obvious, but I’ll focus on For Rudd this leads to a values compared to some one-sided Christian measuring his policies by this original conflict between the progressive social reactions to gay marriage. ‘Rudd might Bonhoeffer platform, not joining Rudd’s democratic vision of Bonhoeffer plus the also ask regarding gay marriage, WWBD? pop-psychoanalyists. (Not only Labor Christian Socialism of his other Christian i.e., “What would Bonhoeffer do?”, faction leaders and cabinet character hero, British Labor founder, Keir Hardie, Rudd could take his bearings from assassinators, but more thoughtful versus the ‘neo-liberal’ individualist Bonhoeffer’s biblically based ‘view commentators: first, journalist David values of Margaret Thatcher and John from below’ – the perspective of those ZADOK Marr’s ‘Power Trip: The Political Journey Howard. The former, Rudd says, seeks who suffer; like the Jews, and gays, in of Kevin Rudd’, which helped bring Rudd to identify with those from below and, Germany. Rudd is therefore right to down. This ‘ “thin-slicing” of one aspect redistributing from rich to poor; the seek to minimise gay suffering, and his 120 SPRING 2013 of his interpersonal experience with latter doing the opposite. government did so with my and most Rudd to confirm a purported broader Rudd speaks for the voiceless: the Christians’ support (including ACL) by pattern’ was well critiqued by Mark planet, workers, next generations, eliminating discriminatory legislation. Bahnisch: http://tinyurl.com/lo6lygf/. Indigenous people, asylum seekers. But Bonhoeffer also clearly upheld (Cf. http://tinyurl.com/kodpnwv/). This moral vision propelled him into Scripture’s prohibition of homosexual Rudd then outlines Bonhoeffer’s office but, upon his backtracking from practice. He saw our embodied EDITORIAL 3 humanity, expressed as male and mums, shifted to or stuck on the paltry be evaluated by the Catholic ethical female, as something not simply subject New Start (or Dead End) are treated as tradition. This includes the broadly to the social re/constructions of ‘man surplus or nothing. progressive Catholic Social tradition come of age’. Instead it is an expression Not only would the internationalist and the more conservative personal, of God’s trans-cultural creation mandate and ‘people smuggler’ Bonhoeffer sexual and bioethical tradition. Abbott’s for all (http://tinyurl.com/lfwprjt)/. (For condemn this but so also has Rudd conservative endorsement of the latter an alternative view see http://tinyurl. confidante and Jesuit refugee advocate, and his continued opposition to gay com/ma8wkw4/. However, I agree with Frank Brennan. Rudd could reply that marriage will comfort conservatives, Rudd that we need greater church- he still takes Bonhoeffer’s ‘view from whether orange or green. I respected state separation on marriage. Secular below’, this time that of drowning the more principled Abbott when health town hall marriages and sacred church/ refugees exploited by heartless people- minister. Yet there is great difficulty mosque etc marriages after.) smugglers. In announcing the Regional implementing Christian bioethics in a Again applying his Bonhoeffer ‘from Settlement Arrangement with Papua pluralist society. Abbott’s opposition to below’ mandate to refugees, Rudd said New Guinea, Rudd said: ‘Australians abortion and the morning after pill have in 2006: ‘Another great challenge of have had enough of seeing people been linked to his ‘misogyny’, in ex-PM our age is asylum seekers.
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