Author's Forum: The Praiseworthy One

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This interview was done through e mail. J.S.: Would you please tell us about your early childhood days and parentage? C.C.: My parents are British migrants and they and my older brother and sister, travelled to Australia after the Second World War. I was the first child born in Sydney. I had a very happy childhood. I had many cousins and we were always making up very imaginative games. We were ruffians and our parents left us alone all day to climb trees, make cubby houses and generally get into mischief. I loved to read and devoured books, which my little sister and I often acted out. I also started writing my own stories very young – my father helped this along when he gave me an old typewriter. My parents always gave us books as gifts and had brought lots of books from the UK so our house was a reader's paradise and the local library was very good too. I remain of the view that reading shaped my life and my future passion for being a writer.To paraphrase (George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons), we all live a thousand lives through the books we read and people who don't read live only one. Nothing charges the imagination more actively than a good book, with great characters and story line. I am grateful for my early introduction into the world of books and especially the young adult fiction by Australian writers like Ivan Southall, Nan Chauncy, and Ethel Turner who showed me how exciting my own country was. J.S.: You are multi-faceted. An academic, a prominent critic, reviewer, biographer, editor, fictionist, novelist and poet. How do you manage so many genres and streams? In conversation with Catherine Cole.Jaydeep Sarangi.

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Book reviewed:Biblical and Near Eastern Essays – Studies in Honour of Kevin J. Cathcart, Carmel McCarthy and John F. Healey (eds.), JSOTS Series 375, T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0-8264-6690-7), pp. xix + 376, Hb £75 Reviewed by Benjamin Bury University of BirminghamJesus Ascended: The Meaning of Christ's Continuing Incarnation, Gerrit Scott Dawson, T&T Clark, 2004 (0-567-08221-0), pp. xiii + 255, Pb £16.99 Reviewed by Philip McCosker Peterhouse, CambridgeChristianity at Corinth: The Quest for the Pauline Church, Edward Adams and David G. Horrell (eds), Westminster John Knox Press 2004 (0-664-22478-4), pp. xvi + 332, Pb $39.95 Reviewed by Anthony Bash University of DurhamThe Works of Mercy: The Heart of Catholicism, James F. Keenan, SJ, Rowman & Littlefield, 2005 (ISBN 0-7425-3220-8), pp. 118, pb $55.00 Reviewed by Bernadette McNary-Zak Rhodes CollegeThe Hermeneutics of Charity: Interpretation, Selfhood, and Post-modern Faith In Honor of James H. Olthuis, James K.A. Smith and Henry Isaac Venema, editors, Brazos Press, Grand Rapids, 2004, 272 pp. $34.99 Reviewed by Christopher Daniel-Smith Loyola Marymount UniversityPentecostal and Charismatic Studies: A Reader, Edited by William K. Kay and Anne Dyer, SCM Press 2004 (ISBN 0-334-02940-6), pp. xxxiii + 332, Pb £25.00 Reviewed by Robert Cornwall Santa Barbara, CAPoetics of Critique: The Interdisciplinarity of Textuality, Andrew W. Hass, Ashgate 2003 (0-7546-0868-9), pp. xii + 184, Hb £47.50/$94.95 Reviewed by Brannon Hancock University of GlasgowModern Judaism. An Oxford Guide, Edited by Nicholas de Lange and Miri Freud-Kandel, Oxford University Press 2005 (ISBN 0-19-926287-X), pp. ix + 459, Pb £22.95 Reviewed by Silviu Bunta Marquette UniversityAn Introduction to Christianity, Linda Woodhead, Cambridge University Press 2004 (Hb 0-521-45445-X, Pb 0-521-78655-X,), pp. viii + 439, Hb £45, Pb £16.99 Reviewed by Michael A. Chester The North East Oecumenical CourseAncient Rhetoric and Paul's Apology: The Compositional Unity of 2 Corinthians, Frederick J. Long, Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 131, Cambridge University Press 2004 (0-521-84233-6), pp. xix + 291, Hb £50/$80 Reviewed by Anthony Bash University of DurhamThe Mystery of Mary, Paul Haffner, Gracewing/Hillenbrand Books 2004 (UK 0-85244-650-0; US 1-59525-008-5), pp. xiv + 285, Pb £14.99 Reviewed by Peter Atkins Auckland, New ZealandTeresa of Avila: An Extraordinary Life, Shirley du Boulay, DLT 2004 (0-232-52589-7), pp. xi + 292, Pb £10.95 Reviewed by John Armson HerefordshireA Monastic Renaissance at St. Albans: Thomas Walsingham and his Circle c. 1350–1440, James A. Clark, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004, ISBN 0-19-927595-5, pp. xi + 316, Hb £55.00 Reviewed by David Lohr Hickory, North CarolinaThe Cambridge Companion to John Calvin, Donald McKim (ed), Cambridge University Press 2004 (0-521-01672-X), pp. xvii + 352, Pb £17.99/$24.99 Reviewed by Jason A. Fout St. Paul's Episcopal Church, St. Joseph, MichiganIn Search of the Catholic Spirit: Methodists and Roman Catholics in dialogue, David M. Chapman, Epworth Press 2004 (0-7162-0588-2), pp. xviii + 312, Pb £19.99 Reviewed by Rev Dr Adrian Burdon Chester le Street, County DurhamKing, Priest and Prophet: A Trinitarian Theology of Atonement, Robert Sherman, Theology for the Twenty-first Century, T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0-567-02560-8) xi + 291, Pb £22 Reviewed by John Armson HerefordshireThe Next Reformation: Why Evangelicals Must Embrace Postmodernity, Carl Raschke, Baker Academic 2004 (0-8010-2751-9), pp. 215, Pb $18.99 Reviewed by Borden Painter Trinity College (Connecticut)A.J. Tomlinson: Plainfolk Modernist, Religion in America Series, R.G. Robins, New York, Oxford University P 2004 (0-19-516591-8), pp. x + 316, Hb £27.50/$45.00 Reviewed by D.E. ‘Gene’ Mills Jr. Florida State UniversityEmerging Evangelism, John Finney, Darton, Longman and Todd, 2004 (0-232-52496-3), pp. 178, Pb £10.95 Reviewed by Ken Alan Jung Los Angeles, CaliforniaTractarians and the ‘Condition of England’: The Social and Political Thought of the Oxford Movement, S.A. Skinner, Oxford, Oxford University Press 2004 (0-19-927323-5), pp. x + 330, Hb £55 Reviewed by Denis Paz University of North TexasA Different World Is Possible, Luiz Carlos Susin, Jon Sobrino, and Felix Wilfred, eds., London: SCM Press, 2004 (0-334-03081-1), pp. 140, Pb £10.50 Reviewed by Ken Alan Jung Los Angeles, CaliforniaThe Hare Krishna Movement: The Postcharismatic Fate of a Religious Transplant, Edwin Bryant and Maria Ekstrand (eds), Columbia UP 2004 (0 231 12256 X), pp. 448, Pb. $49.50 Reviewed by Gerald Vinten International Professional Managers AssociationRethinking Religion: A Concise Introduction, Will Deming, Oxford University Press, 2005, (ISBN 0-19-516981-6), pp. xi + 157, Pb £12.99 Reviewed by Jane Compson University of Central FloridaChurch, State and Civil Society, David Fergusson, Cambridge University Press, 2004 (Hb 0-521-82239-4, Pb 0-521-52959-X), pp. vii + 213, Hb £40/$70, Pb £16.99/ $24.99 Reviewed by David Grumett ExeterThe Spiritual Revolution: Why Religion is Giving Way to Spirituality, Paul Heelas and Linda Woodhead, Blackwell 2005 (Hb 1-4051-1958-6, Pb 1-4051-12959-4), pp. xii + 204, Hb £50, Pb £15.99 Reviewed by John Armson HerefordshireThe Transformative Imagination: Rethinking Intercultural Theology, George Newlands, Ashgate 2004 (0-7546-3827-8), pp. ix + 195, Hb £45 Reviewed by David Grumett ExeterMissions, Nationalism, and the End of Empire, Brian Stanley (ed), Studies in the History of Christian Missions, Eerdmans 2004 (0-8028-2116-2), pp. 313, Hb £32.99/$45 Reviewed by Gerald Vinten Paris Graduate Management SchoolFood for the Soul, Elizabeth Maxwell and Susan Shapiro (eds.), Seabury Books 2004 (ISBN 1-59627-001-2), pp. xxv + 242, Pb $18.00 Reviewed by Gaye W. Ortiz Augusta State UniversityGay Unions In the Light of Scripture, Tradition, and Reason, Gray Temple, Church Publishing 2004 (ISBN 0-89869-457-4), pp. 174, Pb $20.00 Reviewed by Randall Woodard Silver Spring, MDA Brief History of Death, Douglas J. Davies, Blackwell 2005 (Pb 1-4051-0183-0, Hb 1-4051-0182-2), pp. xi + 184, Pb £12.99, Hb £40 Reviewed by Adam Hood The Queen's Foundation, BirminghamA Fitting End: Making the Most of a Funeral, Hugh James, Canterbury Press Norwich 2004 (ISBN 1-85311-602-5), pp. xi + 179, Pb £12.99 Reviewed by MaryEllen O’Brien Loyola University ChicagoMy Life and My Death: A Priest Confronts His Cancer, Jeffrey T. Simmons, New York: Church Publishing 2004 (ISBN 0-89869-445-0), pp. 17 + 140, pb $14.00 Reviewed by MaryEllen O’Brien Loyola University ChicagoIn Praise of Wisdom: Literary and Theological Reflections on Faith and Reason, Kim Paffenroth, Continuum 2004 (0-8264-1603-9), pp. xvi + 160, Hb £22 Reviewed by Peter Atkins Auckland. New ZealandWalter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics, S. Brent Plate, Routledge 2005 (0-415-96992-1), pp. xv + 171, Pb £14.99 Reviewed by Gaye Ortiz Augusta State UniversityScience and Theology since Copernicus: The Search for Understanding, Peter Barrett, T & T Clark 2004, A Continuum Imprint (0-567-08970-3), pp. 208, Pb £12.99 Reviewed by Alessandro Giostra Accademia Georgica, Treia, ItalyWilliam James and a Science of Religions: Reexperiencing The Varieties of Religious Experience, Wayne Proudfoot (ed.), Columbia University Press 2004 (0-231-13204-2), pp. vii + 138, Hb £22.50/$34.50 The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, William James, Centenary Edition, Routledge 2004 (0-415-27809-0), pp. lxiii + 415, Hb £16.99/$18.95 Reviewed by Owen Anderson Arizona State UniversityDiscovering Girard, Michael Kirwan, Darton, Longman, and Todd 2004 (0-232-52526-9), pp. 137, Pb £10.95 Reviewed by Craig Hovey University of Cambridge

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