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Keywords: Enlightenment

  • RELIGION

    The emerging patterns of Benedict's papacy

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 12 June 2006

    John Paul II’s world was the post-Reformation Church, seen from a Polish perspective. Benedict XVI is rooted in the Catholic Church before the Reformation, reflecting the subjects of his academic dissertations - Bonaventure and Augustine - who were masters in the exploration of symbols.

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  • RELIGION

    Religious freedom

    • Juliette Hughes
    • 22 May 2006
    1 Comment

    Juliette Hughes interviews Fr Joseph Nguyen Cong Doan SJ.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Nathan Kensey, Daniel Marti, Aaron Martin, Beth Doherty
    • 14 May 2006

    Reviews of the books: Who did this to our Bali?; Off Course: From Public Place to Marketplace at Melbourne University; Dark Dreams, Australian refugee stories by young writers; A history of the devil:  From the Middle Ages to the present.

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  • RELIGION

    Are we asleep at the wheel?

    • Frank Brennan
    • 14 May 2006

    In this edited extract from the 2006 Manning Clark Lecture, ‘5 R’s for the Enlargers: Race, Religion, Respect, Rights and the Republic’, Frank Brennan focuses on respect.  

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  • RELIGION

    Today’s religion

    • James McEvoy
    • 11 May 2006

    What shape is modern Western culture in today?

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Irish dignity

    • Gary Pearce
    • 11 May 2006

    Gary Pearce reviews Lady Gregory’s Toothbrush by Colm Tóibín.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    With true love showers

    • Kirsty Sangster
    • 10 May 2006

    Kirsty Sangster reviews Christine Balint’s Ophelia’s fan: A story about dreams, Shakespeare and love.  

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Things that go bump in the night

    • Brian Matthews
    • 08 May 2006

    Between 1 January and 1 October this year I slept in at least 19 different beds.

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  • EDUCATION

    On human leadership

    • Marilyn Warren
    • 30 April 2006

    As I reflect upon leadership and my human experience, one of my first thoughts is that leadership has to be for something. It is not a goal in itself.

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  • ENVIRONMENT

    Galileo’s legacy

    • Tim Thwaites
    • 30 April 2006

    An irony about scientists’ traditional lack of interest in politics is that science is profoundly socially disturbing—especially for ideologues with a conservative point of view.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Book reviews

    • Luke O’Callaghan, Andrew Hamilton, Michele M. Gierck
    • 29 April 2006

    Reviews of the books After the Fireworks: A life of David Ballantyne; When faiths collide; Classical literature: A concise history and In the shadow of ‘Just Wars’: Violence,politics and humanitarian action.

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  • RELIGION

    Cultural consolidation

    • Andrew Hamilton
    • 27 April 2006

    It is a happy accident that brings together in 2005 the anniversaries of three Jesuits who worked in German: Peter Canisius, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Rahner.

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