Visitors to the Red Centre come looking for the real Australia, but find a place both beautiful and disturbing. There is wilderness, desire and an Aboriginal philosophy of home. But there is also the confusing countenance of the Australian frontier, a meeting place between black and white, ancient and modern. Songlines and Fault Lines explores the Red Centre through the eyes of those who have walked it, in six remarkable stories that have shaped our nation. It follows Aboriginal Dreamtime Ancestors along a songline, trudges with John McDouall Stuart as he crosses the continent, and walks the Finke River in the footsteps of anthropologist T.G.H. Strehlow. It keeps pace with conservationist Arthur Groom as he reimagines the country's heart as tourist playground, ponders a philosophy of walking with British travel writer Bruce Chatwin, and then strolls the grog-troubled streets of Alice Springs with Eleanor Hogan. Retracing time-worn pathways and stories of Australia's centre, Glenn Morrison finds fresh answers to age-old queries.

Songlines and Fault Lines: Epic Walks of the Red Centre

Politics & Social Sciences

Morrison, Glenn

Sociology

Melbourne University Publishing

Writing Home: Walking, Literature and Belonging in Australia’s Red Centre

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

For centuries, but especially under Heidegger's influence in the twentieth century, Christian theology has consistently approached its inquiry through the language of ontology and within the framework of Being. These attempts to find a rational way to articulate religious life and the mystery of God, making spiritual praxis secondary to theory, not only run the danger of reducing God to a set of propositions, but also risk condoning violent indifference to interhuman relations.
In response, Glenn Morrison suggests that Emmanuel Levinas's philosophical corpus, which puts into question Heidegger's fundamental ontology, can serve as a valuable resource for developing new theological language that unites theory and praxis. Building on previous attempts to appropriate Levinas to Christian thought, Morrison critiques thinkers such as Michael Purcell, David Ford, Michael Barnes, and Graham Ward for hesitating to go beyond ontotheology. A Theology of Alterity strives to more radically utilize Levinas's philosophical framework, bringing it into conversation with the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, to construct a post-ontotheological account of theology that coincides with ethical behavior. In looking at these two thinkers in relation to each other, Morrison brings out the drama of eros that is often hidden in Levinas's texts, and he points the way toward a less mystical, more ethical, and more metaphysically transformative reading of von Balthasar. In allowing Levinas's Judaism to challenge von Balthasar's Catholicism, Morrison develops a perspective that is both theologically rich and philosophically provocative.
Following Levinas's demand that we think Being 'otherwise,' Morrison explores the implications of alterity in both systematic and practical theological matters such as the paschal mystery, Christ's person and mission, pastoral care, mental health, forgiveness, prayer, and Jewish-Christian friendship. Reflecting on central articles of the Christian faith through the language of alterity, such as Christ's death and resurrection, he describes the work of an ethically grounded theology that inspires a 'trinitarian praxis'; wherein theology is driven by a kenotic, self-giving love, a radical gift of passivity, and the desire to encounter Christ in the face of the other person.

A Theology of Alterity: Levinas, von Balthasar, and Trinitarian Praxis

Philosophy

Duquesne Univ Pr

Racism and Discrimination: The Glen Morrison Story

Capricornus Enterprises

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